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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1919
Page
4
A wartime classified page shows numerous veterans and former service members seeking employment. Listings include truck drivers, machinists, electricians, salesmen, clerks, porters, and helpers, with references and contact notes across Seattle and Fort Worth.
The page advertises TR Williams Co and Du Barry Piano Co with hotbed sash greenhouse glass and roofing products. It lists used pianos, safes, and hunting for buyers, plus car ads from Seattle area dealers and a mix of poultry and pet stock listings.
An ad lists Alto Spring Repairing with first class workmen and a guarantee from Huene Mossbach Automobile Company at 616-618 file Phone Boat 2651. Also advertised is a MadrOnea S-room bungalow for 3 650 with hall entrance living room dining room kitchen two bedrooms bath full basement laundry furnace lawn and rose bushes paving and assessments paid.
About one percent acres of rich land with a large, well built chicken house, storage shed, root house, a fine well and spring on the property. Bearing fruit varieties in an orchard. Improvements completed with home in mind. Cow and chickens may be had at a reasonable price. Convenient for town workers. Price 92,000 with easy terms. Starke & Farrar, 203 New York Hileck.
Seattle area real estate listings offer 500 feet lake frontage with cleared 100-tree orchard and a 5-room house, plus 7 to 10 acre parcels near Kent and Kirkland. Prices range from 550 cash plus 10 monthly to 2,800 and 4,250 with various terms. advertisements note proximity to interurban, highway, schools, and town centers. Sold by Rupert Maltby Co and Three Lakes Lumber Co with multiple locations in Kent, Kirkland, and Birdseview areas.
Close in apartment house on market offered by Elmer Investment Co. Tenants include 10 rooms fully furnished with modern heating. Rent only 3.50 per room. Located at 14 Seaboard Building and 14 Seaboard Midge Wil 2200 area with fixtures, cheap rent.
Established vulcanizing shop generating from $4,000 to $6,000 monthly with net income $600 to $1,500 a month. Rent $115, sublets part of building for $40, two year lease, good equipment, owner willing to train buyer. Price $3,600 with about $1,500 invested. offers steady income from small investment.
Owner in poor health seeks quick sale of a 46 apartment complex with 20 rooms rented at 5.00 weekly and 1.50 weekly for smaller rooms. Large owner’s room and 20 car monthly parking boost income about 98. Net about 60, with 1-year lease, three mechanics employed. Sale includes a waiting list, gross income around 1,260 monthly. Special information available.
In Keokuk Iowa on February 17 the corpse of Mrs John Kaiser was found in her farm house with a near severed head from an ax nearby. Her husband was found hanging lifeless in a barn. Investigators cite family troubles as the likely cause of the Sunday night deaths.
Martin Berg, 24, of Sweden, was arrested at Broadway and Madison by Officer T. E. Kughbaum. Berg allegedly boasted of pride in being an I. W. W. and said he planned to return to Sweden at once. He is detained temporarily in the city jail.
Olympia February 17 a senate vote of 33 to 7 approves a legislative investigation into the management of Mountain View tuberculosis sanitarium at Lakeview. No formal charges yet but rumors say county politics have handicapped the institution.
Olympia reports the senate voted 22 to 19 to build an armory at Colfax and Wenatchee despite warnings that the National Guard may be abolished.
Oakland California Feb 17 report shows 2 000 Bethlehem shipyard workers returned to work while 1 000 were kept away by yard conditions. Five hundred riveters outside the yard refused to work and were sent to the police. Oakland local voted by acclamation to continue the strike following MeGuire's press on revoking the charter. employers expect full crews by Wednesday.
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