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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1919
Page
2
A miscropped OCR page shows classified fragments listing jobs and services. Items include ads for English school in Washington Ridge, civil service labor positions, railway and fireman roles, transportation routes, and veterans seeking work. Also mentions home repair, catering, and travel sales, with contact cues and dates.
Local classified offers include used safes from Purcell Safe Co Main 647 at Fourth Ave, piano buyers for Du Barry Piano Co with multiple stores, and various home goods. Advertisements promote Pianos and phonographs with easy terms, rental, and trade options, plus lumber and building materials from Provine Lumber Co.
Seattle ads tout used Maxwell and Chevrolet cars with low prices and easy terms at Used Car Emporium and similar lots. A Nation Am Advertising piece argues truck ads add overhead. Gersix trucks claim built in value with no national advertising overhead.
Schuck Cycle Co at 2122 West Lake Main 6078 lists standard motorcycles bicycles and accessories with expert repair service. The readable entry emphasizes sales and maintenance options from a local shop.
Multiple real estate and business opportunity notices. Listings include hotels with 22 rooms in Ferndale Washington, 6 acres garden land near Spokane for Seattle property, suburban acres 2% miles north of Cowen Park, and a 1 3 acre chicken ranch near Foster. Prices range from 475 to 6 000 with easy terms and trades for property including near Seattle and Port Orchard.
A jumble of real estate ads describes tracts near North Wort Washington with fruit trees and timber, several farms for sale or trade in Seattle and Yakima areas, and open land for homesteads. Offers include payments, rail access, and trade options with brokers like ARCURITIER INVESTMENT CO and AKIMA RIVER FARME CO.
Notice to shareholders announces machinery purchase and startup by March first with an invitation to work at the main office in Seattle. Free booklets available at 202 Hinckley Ride, office open evenings, plus offers to buy thrift and war savings stamps and Liberty Bonds at market price or loan at seven percent interest.
Liberty bonds and Canadian Victory War bonds are bought and sold at current New York quotes. The firm quotes cash prices for Liberty Hondas and other securities, offers to buy and sell various bonds, and advertises long established operations with 20 years in business.
A collage of ads and notices including real estate for $2,500 with $1,000 cash, a medical health ad promising life vitality, jewelers paying high prices, private sanitarium, tobacco cure offer, therapeutic miss PIERPONT, beauty services, switches and curls shop, farm loan applications, abstracts at reduced rates and loan listings. Includes addresses in Tacoma Seattle and mentions of 9 to 16 bedroom rooms and lodging.
In London on February 4 Premier Lloyd George planned to open a busy week in the labor crisis by introducing a bill to create a commission to probe miners demands including mine nationalization. Miners' executives and Labor leaders were to confer on the bill as well.
President Wilson learns his daughter Mrs Francis B Sayre has a newborn grandson. The infant, born at Jefferson Hospital at midnight Sunday, is reported in good health. The birth was wirelessed to the president and confirmed in Philadelphia.
Voters will decide on three 20 year bonds totaling 2 150 000 at 6 percent for Civic Hospital 500 000 Went Waterway bridge 900 000 and Montlake bridge 760 000 Also measures limit health commissioner term to three years set salaries for councilmen 4400 election franchise for National Telegraph Co pension funding shared by employees and civil service candidates for city council amid three incumbents and three labor opponents.
Not only will Seattle hear the lead in Methodism during the world program conference March 4 at the Viret church but two leading speakers will next Sunday hold two meetings at the University church. Dr Christian F Heisner, famed for church advertising, Dr Reisner and Dr W Brown will attend. Reisner has organized 560 000 Methodist minute men and works with the Associated Ad Clubs. He helped organize the 600 000 program of the centenary and is touring the country for the church cause.
The world's first police patrol plane arrives in Indianapolis carrying Dayton officer John Templin to arrest embezzlement suspect Robert Templin. The flight also carries Dayton police inspector F. Yendia and pilot B. L. Whelan.
Three federal charges stem from an early morning raid on the Hotel Lason known as The Bucket of Blood. Thomas Whalen faces counts under a five miles from a military post law and liquor sales without a license. Laura Him and Margaret Anderson are charged with selling liquor after 2 AM without licenses. G A Richardson travels to New York to study transportation facilities for the Puget Sound Traction Light and Power Co. Senate committee backs Williams for another term as comptroller of the currency with four Republicans opposing. The Joan of Arc club to hold a dance at the Knights of Columbus hall on Wednesday February 26 starting at 9 PM.
Police under Chief J Warren ticket four offenders for parking violations in Seattle. Dentist P Austin aged 59 merchant J A Mey 45 and two others were fined two dollars each after being collected by special detail squads roaming the city streets.
Friday’s issue reported F. W. Beeman a juror in the Ruth W. W versus Puget Sound case filed an affidavit alleging fraud in the jury room. The review finds no charge against the Electric company. Beeman’s claim is supported by affidavits from C. Bagley E. H. Ahrens and H. Owens.
Orillia rally to honor returning soldiers with supper and entertainment at Grange hall hosted by the Orillia Red Cross and council of patriotic service next Saturday. The town notes 26 soldiers and nine returns so far, including Charles Anderson of the 126th Infantry, 32nd division, a local native who brings battle tales of his regiment.
Division No 12 plans a welcome home gathering at the Hiawatha field house on Tuesday at 8 p m to honor soldiers and sailors returning from service. Final preparations are to be completed at the meeting.
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