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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1912
Page
7
In San Francisco on February 17 the second trial of Dr. O C Jonsen for betrayal, brought by Beth Williams, was adjourned by Judge Lawler until February 28.
Fragmented OCR lists various food items and prices including pork coffee tea bread scones raisins figs prunes and honey in a general market notice with unreadable sections and several misspellings.
An ad touts the Western Washington town of Tolt as a booming new community with graded streets, rising buildings, and rail service to rich valleys. It claims wealth from three surrounding valleys and urges readers to buy city lots and garden tracts at rock bottom prices on easy terms. The copy emphasizes national backing and asserts the town is being built by the country, not promoters.
A scrambled OCR passage lists locations and rates for readers services. It mentions Ballard Avenue, a telephone contact, and a mention of receipts and dates, but the text is garbled and unreadable in key parts. The fragment suggests agency offices and price terms without coherent context.
Promoters tout TOLT as a level, clean townsite with vast opportunity for all investors. They urge visitors to see the area by rail or auto, promising a glimpse of fine state countryside and a town in the making.
Multiple rental items describe furnished and unfurnished flats with rooms, baths, and utilities. Includes addresses Pike Main 2641 and 7233, nearby amenities, and terms. Also mentions 10 acre tracts in a valley with good railroad and telephone service near a town and post office.
Help wanted notices seek female telephone operators at 1108 av and 1520 i7 bay. Also piano lessons offered and a cooking position for a middle aged Austrian woman in Monroe Washington. Background ads for employment and services appear in local classified pages.
Advertisements seek women as dressmakers and seamstresses earning $1.60 daily plus day jobs, and men to learn barber trade with paid on-the-job training. Several institutes advertise courses in sewing, tailoring, railway telegraphy, and barbering with instruction for beginners and guaranteed placement.
A stream of real estate ads describes 120 acres of beet bottom land with houses and a creek, 320 acres dairy land with living water, waterfront 5-acre parcels on Hood Canal, logged-off lands with cattle proximity, and smaller holdings near Olalla and Rainier. Terms include cash down payments and monthly options. multiple agents listed.
A brief homestead notice highlights properties in Central Oregon near a mine with ample water and timber. Rail access and sawmills are mentioned, inviting inquiries through the contact listed as Main.
Readable fragments describe property including houses, orchards, stock and tools, and improvements with terms and cash payments. Mentions locations near Kent and 1010 Alaska Building with values and conditions, indicating a sale with listed acreages and payment terms.
A described property near Lake Washington offers a quarter mile from Will’s chicken ranch site with level soil and view. Investment potential cited with room for thousands of chickens, asking price around 1256 dollars with terms 75 down and 10 dollars monthly through Walter Hillgen at the county ferry dock Madison Park.
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