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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1916
Page
6
Includes lonely hearts ads seeking marriage with promises of wealth and status, random personal notices, matrimony offers, and various rental and real estate listings interspersed with business directory items and service ads. Several named locales and streets appear alongside Uncle Sam era style contact lines.
A dense list of staple prices and goods from a public market including mutton, sausages, bacon, cheese, butter, eggs, fish, fruit, vegetables, flour, and household items. Entries mention brands and quantities like 2 pounds, 20 pounds, and 36 cent per dozen in a bustling, run-on catalog style.
The Star offers want ads to reach more households with ads in Seattle. Promote goods services or job offerings to a broad local audience through the daily paper.
A string of obituaries and public notices lists residents and relatives by name with ages and hospital or address details. The entries include Beattie Knobert L ridges Olive May Carter Auburn Vernon Go Wella Kate fem melhaack Huckley Waeh Haewerd Paul Hamilton May Eisie Hroek Riverton Waeh Mirth Mre Mr. John Marroh and spouses at various addresses, with dates in January and December.
During the first 15 days under the new dry law 697 liquor permits were issued. The first week yielded 179 permits and the second week 418 permits.
Frank Waterhouse president said Monday the firm chartered two more ships to run between Seattle and Vladivostok. The vessels will load in March and April, expanding the fleet serving the route. Pittsburg capitalists weigh a steel plant for Puget Sound.
Local Puget Sound steamers operate all routes with departures from Colman Dock foot of Marion Street. Schedules show frequent connections to Port Townsend Port Angeles Tacoma Olympia Anacortes Bellingham and Whatcom with limited calls to Victoria Everett and Port Town. Timetables list daily and weekend services including two hour cycles and evening departures with several exceptions and partial calls.
In Olympia on January 16, John G. Gillies former claim agent for the Industrial Insurance Commission faced forgery and grand larceny charges in a case tied to the looting of about $15 000 from the state fund. The trial opened with jury selection as prosecutors move to cement charges against Gillies and co defendants Frank Stone and E W Kearns while Gillies threatened to reveal state turmoil.
Two ounces of chloroform failed to kill Carl Craig age 25 after he told his mother he would "wake up and find him dead in bed." He is out of work and in despondent condition and is not considered seriously ill.
President Wilson will undertake a real stumping tour in behalf of his preparedness program. The itinerary has not been fixed.
In Christiania on January 17 the Bergen blaze left two dead and 2000 homeless after consuming a third of the port city’s 90 000 residents. It is the nation’s worst fire on record.
Deputy sheriffs search for suspects who cut high power transmission wires feeding the Seattle Renton South railway at Farlington Sunday morning. Trains were delayed about thirty minutes. Similar cuts on the Seattle Tacoma interurban line have occurred several times recently, delaying traffic.
H. C. Dore of Ida egg farm Marysville Wash mails a dozen eggs by parcel post to the editor. They arrive uncracked and he offers prepaid shipments to Seattle customers at 44 cents a dozen or 85 cents for two dozen. Customers should mail back cases five at a time with postage prepaid for next orders.
Six American soldiers are reported dead with the French army's foreign legion. Frederick W. Boyer of Tacoma was killed in January, while five others died at Givenchy on June 17. The five named are Russell Kelly of New York Harman H. Hall of Chicago John E K Fike of Wooster Kenneth Week and Henry Farnsworth of Boston.
Prosecutor Lundin filed a first degree forgery charge Monday against W P Freund a German born American and soldier of fortune who was brought back here Saturday after enlisting at Vancouver B C for overseas service Freund is the subject of the case and his return is noted in the report.
A Spokane woman identifying herself as Mrs. A BR Allen was arrested Saturday on shoplifting charges. Police say she worked as a dressmaker and had access to department store items on Second Avenue.
President Wilson starts mobilization planning with rail and resource readiness as a $2,000,000 memorial fund for Booker Washington is proposed. The Columbia River remains blocked by ice floes. Spokane produce man F W Shields fined for false billing of apple shipments.
Rome Jan 17 Pope Benedict plans to appoint an impartial commission to investigate Belgian atrocities after Cardinal Mercier met the pope. German churchmen favor an evenhanded inquiry, arguing neutral nations seek fairness and that charges of German cruelty are unfounded. Mercier submitted documents alleging attacks on women and children.
Francisco dispatch reports Yuan Shi Kai forces, 60,000 strong, defeated by republican revolutionists. The insurgents captured Tauchow and control the head of navigation on the Yantse river.
A meeting of the Preparedness League will be held in the Henry building assembly room at 8 p m on Monday. Capt. McNab U S A will speak on Markemanship and Capt. Blethen C A C W will discuss The Five Essentials. Future meetings are set for the first and third Mondays of each month.
Bishop EK Rowe of Alaska spoke at a noon luncheon honoring him. The event, hosted by the Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, took place Monday at the Arctic Club.
The Charity Organization Society of Seattle seeks William E. Scott. A letter with good news awaits him at 201 Central Building Seattle. Please contact to confirm his whereabouts and retrieve mail.
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