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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1914
Page
6
The notice states new pricing effective January 1 for word ad rates at one cent per word per day and counts for multiple insertions. It lists per insertion costs, monthly totals, and line rates for tract notices and other classifieds with specified per line charges.
A fragmented ad page lists stock and bond activity for Korenbaum, real estate offerings including a 14 room hoarding house on Second and Pine with a 26 by 40 lot in Hazelwood Addition priced at 2606, plus various financing and land deals. Also includes a well located saw mill proposition near Skagit county farm and Mt Vernon requests for funding and partnership.
Two bay ponies found near Second and Third streets. A lost purse containing $1985 was reported on Vike between Second and Third. A pocketbook with 40a in it was found at the offices of Metropolitan Insurance Company. Return items to Valdermer Hotel for reward.
A fragmented listing shows female labor ads for cooks waitresses chambermaids and housemaids alongside apartment rentals and furnished rooms. It references Seattle area employment offices and pages listing diverse help wanted and housing notices with scattered contact details.
A collage of job notices and ads from 1908 listing positions and services. Includes positions such as office helper at Cedar Street, advertising sales on commission, barber training with pay while learning, and a tailor shop offering employment. Also notes protective association employment bureau and various local business ads.
Classified notice seeks railway mail clerk exams and education offers from Franklin Institute and Joshua Green Ride. Includes ad for barber trade training paid while learning, electrical wiring jobs, and a sober steady man seeking inside work with references. Printed contact lines reference Rochester and Seattle listings.
Fresh churned butter five hundred seventy six pounds ten pounds sugar beans two cans kidney beans eight new salmon two hundred sixty nine hundred laundry soap five hundred one can shad ten two packs. Standard corn flakes one bottle pork and beans three cans standard corn and tomatoes three cans two pounds Jap rice four pounds ghee large can cleanser seven glasses beef jelly two hundred eighty coffee two hundred sixty the enataup seventy cents one and a half pounds chocolate five? legs lamb one? pounds
If no record is found this year, the fault is not Rev. W. E. B. Cox of Madison Street Methodist Church. He gathers his congregation each Sunday and asks worshipers to raise their hands so he can see who registered and who did not.
The notice urges readers to consider homeowner insurance after a family’s house and contents burned while they were away. It argues fires are common in cities and asks if readers would be insured and reimbursed. The ad offers affordable rates and a representative visit by F. M. Jordan Co. from 647 Main St.
Two council measures by Councilman Wardall come up this afternoon in Seattle. The gas bill seeks to abolish combination gas and electric fixtures to reduce accidents and deaths. A sister bill to a recent tax measure targets suspensions and revocations for chauffeurs convicted of driving while intoxicated.
Nathan Straus and his two sons plan a large-scale project to modernize Palestine with sanitation water supply and health bureaus. They will base commercial and philanthropic efforts in New York and in Palestine. Straus stresses nonsectarian aid and shared benefits for Jewish and Muslim communities.
A formal dedication of the municipally owned fishermen's dock at Salmon Bay opposite Ballard drew a 200-boat parade from trolling to halibut boats and schooners. The procession, two miles long, sailed past Magnolia bluff at 1 pm, with cheers from crowds as the parade entered the bay and dock floats. Speeches followed on the pier by Mayor Cottert Ole Hanson Daniel Landon Robert Bridges Gen Chittenden and C E Remsberg with Rev G H Lee presiding.
Two suspects jailed as police chase a lone bandit who robbed a mail car on a Southern Pacific train bound for San Francisco. The theft occurred after the train left Los Angeles arcade station and the robber fled near Tropico with under $100.
Sam Irwin of Three Rivers Michigan is described as Americas largest man engaged in active work. He is 44 years old, forty four feet tall and weighs four hundred eighty pounds. He drives a
The subject transfers buses and makes about 14 trains daily, plus 30 private calls. Over 18 years no sick days. Body measurements listed include waist 70 inches chest 67 inches thigh 32 inches biceps 22 inches. Shoe size 18, hat size 10. Tailor uses 614 yards per suit. He is married.
The Seattle Home Consumers' league shifts its mass meeting to the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night to allow "Washington-made" refreshments. Mrs. L. J. Shute presides with speakers W. J. Bernard A. G. Foster and Albert Piler Mrs. Z. C. Cauffman. songs by Mrs. FS. Lang Miss Lola Hanson and recitation by Mrs. J. J. Rogardus aged 87. public invited.
In Rickreal Oregon on January 12 Frank Kerslake conducted an autopsy after a prize pig he owned foundered a mystery hoof injury. The animal reportedly had swallowed a gold watch he had lost the day before, and the watch was still running.
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