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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1916
Page
9
A listing details the sale of the Wrestling Lyric Theatre located at 264 Dec aL AVR PF BK James Granite. The notice outlines ownership transfer and contact details for interested bidders.
Resolution Nos 4823 4897 and 1008 propose amendments to Seattle Beattie city charter sections on elections wards and civil service. They set dates for municipal elections in March 1916 1914 and 1916 and outline candidacy declarations ballot formats voting methods and canvassing procedures.
A notice requests information about a missing pig described as Baldy’s Express in the Northeast area near Second and King, with a reward offered. The report mentions a location at 5215 Leary Ave and includes a contact name initial J. for inquiries.
A confusing notice describes a male seeking work to bake pastries at a hotel, offering room and board in exchange. The fragment mentions mornings and evenings shifts and an address listed as A-2 Mtar. The readable details are sparse and unclear.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Lyric Theatre at 104 Occidental Ave and incomplete references to government entities and months, leaving no clear event or person to summarize. No verifiable details for a concrete news item.
A malformed OCR fragment outlines a municipal election with positions for Mayor and Council. It lists first, second, and third choice prompts but contains unreadable names and garbled text. It appears to request candidate entries for a single mayor and multiple council seats.
Classified items show help wanted ads for boys and live hustling workers, barber trade schools with wages, and various sales and services. The page mentions a ranch college promising training and lifetime membership, plus numerous personal services from massage and manicuring to midwifery and maternity care.
The page lists rental offers and land ads with prices and terms, plus an application notice for a cabinet shop addition at 1680 W 50th Ave. The protest deadline for building permits is February 28, 1916, filed by Christian Jensen.
Fragmentary classified notice offers acreage for sale in a town near Madison. Mentions property transaction terms and a possible rent revision note. Limited legible details include a Wisconsin location and street references.
A 20 acre White River Valley ranch adjoining Auburn city limits offers cleared land with a brick house and barn, orchard potential, and spring-ready improvements. Asking price is 16 100 dollars with a 1800 dollar mortgage at 6 percent. seller may take city property for the balance. Opportunity advertised by A H Reid & Co and Poverty Ole Hanson & Co, 314 New York Block.
Two thirds under plow, fenced, good barn, fruit trees on main county road near Beatty. Price 1 860 cash, balance terms. Clifford and Van Arsdale list 46 acres at 500 per acre, adjoining 26 acres at 160 per acre. Also property with house, city water, walk to school stores church, near Everett. cash price 3100, terms easy.
Describes a cul tivation property with plastered bath fireplace free wood for cutting and fenced grounds. Highlights 36 bearing fruit trees, berries, wool, and a plan to keep several hundred chickens. Water, electric lights and phone available. Asks £100 cash and a $12.56 monthly balance. Located in New York area.
Five contenders for corporation counsel spoke to the Taxpayers League Federated Improvement Clubs and the Legislative Federation of King County on Wednesday afternoon. Each candidate touted reforms in the legislature and city offices, with emphasis on appraisers, fiscal efficiency, and tax policy.
The board will compel the county commissioners to repay 1617 dollars claimed as due school funds. The money was denied through timber sales in forest reserves and alleged to have been misused for road construction. Head The Rose Garden Husband.
Six Pittsburgers will travel by airplane into interior Colombia to locate oil fields. The party includes B. McCormick Pittsburg University chancellor and Ledyard Blair New York banker. They start from Barranquilla and fly about 300 miles up the Magdalena River.
Warrant service set for Thursday on four Seattle firms for alleged violation of the state pure food laws. Named individuals and firms include T. J. Williams of 1528 Westlake Ave. R. B. Corliss. Mutual Creamery Co.. John Layton & Co.. and George O. Brehm of 805 Western Ave. Read The Rose Garden Mushand.
Sheriff Hodge assigns fifty unserved warrants from 1913 14 to deputies with orders to apprehend the suspects. The notice warns that anyone who did anything to be ashamed of in those years could be targeted.
A bustling market listing from South End and Pike Place stalls features prices on meats, seafood, produce, dairy, baking goods, and staples. Highlights include halibut 19¢ per lb, salmon trot 19¢, fresh eggs 2 dozen for 25¢, and sugar 1.00 per 10? lbs, plus various fruit, flour, and butter deals across stalls 14, 24-36, 68, and 102.
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