Lot Naming Confusion Fires Up Auction Record
A fragment shows successive renaming of a property lot from Lot 1 to Lot 2 to Lot 3, reflecting ongoing changes in the auction listing and parcel designation. Details remain unclear due to truncated text.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1915
Page
7
A fragment shows successive renaming of a property lot from Lot 1 to Lot 2 to Lot 3, reflecting ongoing changes in the auction listing and parcel designation. Details remain unclear due to truncated text.
Heavy laced style practical shoe for hard wear priced at $2.00 previously. Women’s Goodyear Glove Rubbers in all sizes regularly 76c now 49c. Boys and girls rubbers reduced from Tic values to 39c. Men’s Storm Rubbers first quality $1.00 and $1.25 rubbers now 68c or 75c.
The Northern Pacific Dining Car Department presented a 30 inch two deck cake to David Warfield Monday night. Warfield and the cast of The Auctioneer ate the cake during the dinner scene in the play. The cake was baked specially for him by the diner department.
London 1915 report compares World War I fatalities to the American Civil War, noting five months of hostilities claim tens of thousands of lives. It cites British losses of 84,000, French losses of 100,000 killed, 400,000 wounded or ill, and 90,000 prisoners as the conflict escalates.
A historical comparison lists Crimean Civil Boer Russo-German and Spanish American conflicts with totals of days lost lives and monetary costs. It contrasts these with World War I battles near Ypres Masurian Lakes and the casualties at First Bull Run Shiloh Gettysburg including Union and Confederate losses. The piece argues the massive death tolls dwarf visible figures.
The Berkeley 1915 Eugenic Club led by Mrs. Helen Schuyler Crane proposes scientific matchmaking for physically perfect couples aiming at marriage and offspring. The plan includes financial aid during stress, a dues funded fund, and rewards for parents of perfect babies, with residency and character recommendations.
Chicago report states Ludwig Anderson, a saloon keeper, lost 400 dollars to thieves and offered a bet that the culprits would be punished. The robbers were arrested the next day and sentenced to one to ten years each, though the $400 remained unrecovered, the saloon keeper’s bet was settled.
In Phoenix a 15 year old boy ventured into a chicken yard and swallowed four glass nest eggs. He then crawled through a knothole into another nest and swallowed a second set of the same eggs, becoming trapped by the resulting effects.
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