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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
10
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A large sale listing furniture including buffet china closet dining chairs couches and tables, plus piano, phonograph, hardware, textiles, and kitchen items. Auctioneer Beattie & Son promotes early start and large assortment at 2004-410 Broom Ave with Main 2949. Also small ads for jewelry, watches, and repairs.
Market stalls list prices for fresh local ranch eggs 5 6 doZ and butter 64c to 95c per lb, cream and canned goods. Several stalls feature dried beef jam olives margarine bread and seasonal produce with multiple items priced per pound quart or bottle. Shoppers can buy onions turnips beans cereals and pantry staples with bulk discounts and delivered produce available from select stalls.
Stall 110 lists creamettes skake Uneeda biscuits 2 for 1 Del Monte tomatoes 16c Crisco 4c sugar peas 12c can. Stall 102 features butter 5c lb fresh ground peanut butter 16c lb eggs 40c dozen. Stall 7 onions 10c 10 lbs. Stall 116 beef cuts and veal with several prices. Stall 1509 knackebrod 20c. Pike Street cut flowers and plants advertised in Seattle.
Fresh crabs and oysters offered with 2 for 25 and 40 cent deals. Items include codfish, cheese, milk, fruit, vegetables, and pantry staples. Weekly specials feature canned goods, cereals, pasta, and household goods with multiple stall references.
At Camp Lewis a large cook and baker school trains 400 recruits at a time under Capt T B De Young. The program serves as the official employment office for mess sergeants and ensures kitchens feed soldiers properly. Instructors number 47 with 180 cooks in probationary terms.
Hosten Holman longtime door man at the Arctic Club dies Wednesday morning from pneumonia. He served as the club’s oldest employee since its organization and worked there for many years.
Edwin C Wing former prosecuting attorney joins city legal department. William J Steinert, a Seattle lawyer since 1910, will succeed him. Steinert departs private practice to join the city staff.
Olympia news confirms Lov. Lister received from Secretary of State Robert Lansing a certified copy of the national dry resolution passed by Congress. He is asked to present it to the next session of the state legislature. For effect the resolution must be ratified by 36 state legislatures.
Annie Sherwood Hawks author of the hymn I Need Thee Every Hour died at her Bennington home today. Also listed are local grocery prices: two cans tomatoes 26c and Not-a-Seed raisins 15c.
Listing of stall numbers with items and prices including cod, red snapper, soy beans, prunes, soda, cocoa, flour, butter, eggs, milk, raisins, toilet paper, soap, peas, potatoes, cookies, bread, pies, cranberries, Brussels sprouts, onions. Shows a busy market with per pound and per unit pricing.
A fragmented South End listing shows canned foods and staples with discounted prices. Items include salmon, French prunes, Quaker oats, almonds, hot dogs, pot roast, cream cheese, ranch eggs, bread, and cookies, with prices and stall numbers indicating a market-style display.
A fragmentary inventory from Pike Place stalls shows items like salmon red snapper ling cod and sole at various prices, plus milk cream onions apples and bread. Other entries mention butter margarine coffee and baking supplies with assorted price marks.
The A. Hambach company, wholesalers in plumbers supplies, was transferred to the Walworth Manufacturing company of Boston. Mr. A Hambach retires from active business on doctors orders and will not enter new ventures. Thomas Nickerson, formerly with General Electric, will manage the Seattle branch.
London reports that the government has commandeered all stocks of castor oil for the army.
In the Red Cross campaign for boys and girls 657 new members were added. Juanita Nickels of 134 23rd Ave 8 earned a pony for her efforts and placed second overall. Rheta Larson of 521 Fifth Ave won first prize, a six cylinder Buick, with 795 new members. Others winning prizes include Wealey Eldridge Robert Stone Alfred Hagelberg Mamond ring and Alvin Eckholm with various awards.
A new army mobile kitchen named Sammy is designed to feed 12 000 soldiers with three hot meals daily. Mounted on a four ton truck, it replaces 20 standard field kitchens and travels with two cooks and a driver. It uses a 10 horsepower boiler, heats two 50 gallon coffee urns and two large kettles, and takes six minutes to boil water from 62 to 212 degrees.
Rome reports aerial bombardment targets two hospitals at Castlefrance and Veneto on Tuesday night. Seventeen or more patients were killed according to the official statement.
The nominating committee announced candidates to be voted on January 19. President A. J. Rhodes, Vice President J. W. Spangler, and trustees for three-year terms include Geo. W. Allen Frederick Bausman J. B. Brace Robt. B. Boyne O. D. Fisher A. S. Haines James D. Hoge W. B. Nettleton Reginald Parsons Frederick K. Struve C. J. Smith J. A. Swalwell C. S. Wills D. C. Wagner and David Whitcomb. Former trustees listed were Allen Bausman Struve Wagner Whitcomb and Hoge.
Vienna dispatches report Emperor Karl of Austria Hungary approved forming an autonomous Hun army. Ora I. Detchan, ex Everett Daily Tribune reporter and former Great Falls Daily Leader city editor, passed Seattle aviation school admission medical.
At a weekly meeting the Caterers association voted to stand together in observance of the regulations issued by the United States food administration board.
Capt. Carl Thuestad of the Norwegian steamer Key West hosted a luncheon for a dozen old friends at the New Washington hotel in Vancouver British Columbia on Wednesday afternoon.
At the sugar inquiry in Washington, Chairman Reed charges Herbert Hoover with usurping authority under the food law to fix wheat prices. Hoover defends that actions were approved by the president and tied to wartime emergency. He cites stabilization of wheat and a price drop in flour for consumers.
A wood Samaritan drove Bessie Roll of 612 Madison and C. H. Stanley along Jackson street Thursday morning. About 1:30 a m. the wet road caused the mail truck to skid and crash into a telephone pole. Bessie suffered a cut that required eight stitches and does not know the driver's name.
A pair of robberies occurred near Interlake avenue and Ward Keeney's home, yielding just 2 cents in one incident. The other victim, H. Harwood, watched as a highwayman stole an Ingersoll watch and a gold chain from Keeney nearby on 53rd street.
Miss Clara A. Hill daughter of the late J. J. Hill married FE. C. Lindsey general counsel and director of the Great Northern railroad which her father built in St Paul on January 3.
In San Francisco on January 3 a judge heard T. C. Knight an A. S. A. to sue for divorce after his 27 day bride asked that he be sent to France so she could collect his friend. The wording reflects a quirky, fragmentary report from a court scene.
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