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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1917
Page
6
A brief, unclear notice from a recent arrival at 1634 19th Ave East Madison requests a meeting with a refined, quiet young lady for possible matrimony. The ad mentions private halls and teachers and names Rex A-LI7 as a contact in a terse, period voice.
At the Miler House the wedding of Guy Turner of the city and Mise Mihetally drew many friends, making the affair elaborate. The family thanks the many attendees and expresses gratitude for support after the loss of their husband and father.
Start the year right with an independent commercial training in cosmetic chemistry and beauty culture. Learn practical branches for independent freedom and a lucrative future. For information, write Zamora C Cauffman at 1401 First Ave, Seattle, Wash.
A blurred ad promotes Madam Lesslie a spiritual medium and clairvoyant offering readings to reveal love matches marriages divorces health and business fortunes. It claims strict confidentiality, satisfaction guaranteed, and lists contact locations and hours with oblique promises of guidance.
An advertisement announces Madam Huth, an Egyptian phrenologist, arriving in Beattle at Hotel Green corner Fearth and Pike. She offers readings on love marriage business and family affairs, claiming to reveal past life and future, with guaranteed satisfaction and low charges.
Multiple lay readings advertise phrenologist and palmist services for life events love health and finances. Readings guaranteed satisfactory or no fee, with sessions at motels hotels and various rooms twice weekly and on Sundays, featuring several practitioners and addresses.
The ad copy advertises numerous real estate opportunities near Seattle, Lake Washington, and surrounding towns. It highlights 2 to 20 acre plots, partly cleared or cleared lots, farm friendly land, sea and lake proximity, and monthly term options. Listings come from real estate brokers with varied prices and down payments.
Anna Ames and Dixie Manon, witnesses in the Baden case against H Fuhrberg operator of the Baden case, were arrested after leaving the witness stand on vagrancy charges. Deputy Summers tried to compel further testimony from the women but the court blocked it. Grand jury members Silliman Fernandes testified they sought the witnesses at the Baden, but the women withdrew as they walked toward the stairs.
The Variety Iron Works in Seattle, a longtime part of local manufacturing since 1889, has been purchased by Skinner & Eddy Corporation to bolster their shipbuilding industry. George James, president, announced the transfer.
An OCR fragment lists stalls with meats such as fresh salmon halibut and bacon, plus staples like butter, cheese, flour, coffee, and canned goods. Prices, weights, and item names appear in a dense shopping list style reflecting a busy East Coast market scene.
Two men enticed 11-year-old James Tease ly of Riverside with a roll of bills at a dance hall. They rode a street car, assaulted him near Firatave and Cedar, then robbed him of $19 and a railway ticket to North Yakima. Teasely alerted a street car starter who notified police. officers chased and captured the suspects, who admitted the robbery at headquarters.
Five dozen hundred dollars in losses as Brigham Motor Car Company on East Pike street fights a Wednesday blaze. Fifteen autos destroyed while Eric Jarvis, a mechanic, suffers facial burns not considered serious. Fire starts from an auto backfiring igniting gasoline in a pipe leading to the tank. Flames spread through the service department then are halted before reaching lower stored cars. Insurance coverage partly offsets the total damage.
Urban Hart a nine year old boy died at Swedish hospital from injuries suffered after a car struck him at Ninth avenue and Stewart street. Dr Everett Jones of Cobb Building drove east on Stewart and was involved in the accident. Mrs Mary Hart, widow and owner of a rooming house at 1810 Ninth avenue, sobbed upon learning of her son's death.
A. W. Blanchet denied Wednesday any involvement in the murder of C. D. Armor near Las Vegas New Mexico. He attempted suicide here by shooting himself in the neck and is recovering from the wound.
University of Washington alumni urged to back President Suzzallo in a fight for a principle as they support the educational survey report. Fifty alumni met at the Butler and pledged aid as the state negotiates policy to end duplication between the university and Washington State College at Pullman.
F. J. Dusky faces an information filing by Prosecutor Lundin for complicity in the Bothell State Bank robbery. He is charged with robbing Citizens' Bank of Renton on October 1, 1915, of 1400 dollars.
Walter Worth and William Carter, guests of J. Saxon, were arrested in Jalil county after jailer Litney observed them passing a burned opium package to Saxon, alleging involvement in illegal drug activity.
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