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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1908
Page
6
A garbled page shows Want Ads rates and local agency contacts in downtown Madison area zip lines, with names like Kennedy Drug Co Ballard Agency and Main Office details. It also mentions a Scandinavian voters meeting in the Ninth ward with committee members and a council candidate from Bl 33 P Main 4372.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a local wood and coal issue involving lead and fuel prices. Mentions stocks of dry slabs and perhaps a state or county meeting about fuel distribution. No clear names or places readable.
Seattle socialists announce free speech entertainment with a dance at Beans Hall Argodeiding Saturday night. A police court trial of socialists will be a feature. J J Citeholm of Tacoma was struck by a street car at Pitthav and Jackson at midnight and sent to Providence hospital with eight scalp wounds.
A garbled page lists housing deals and local services including tract sales, small homes, and rental options. It mentions payments from $25 down, monthly terms, and properties near parks and streets with notes on utilities, frontage, and nearby amenities. Also includes ads for patent attorneys and storage services.
A collage of loan offers from multiple firms advertising cash advances without security. Listings include Tolman 319 Walker Building, People's Savings Bank, Mutual Life and others offering salary, retail, teamster, and furniture loans at low rates with no security required.
Jack Spradie, a disabled man from Loyal Heights, HaTvard, after a spending spree, vanished following purchases of clothes and jewelry for children. Laborer J Dobbins reported $346 in gold and $185 in checks missing from his private bank. Police traced Spradie to Whitehead Montana via telegram in hopes of capture.
A meeting of Republican candidates for Ninth Ward councilman is set for tomorrow night at the Odd Fellows ball in Fremont. Local party officials invite supporters and voters to attend and hear campaign platforms.
A melee in the Kenneth hotel billiard room ended with R. Ritter jailed on assault with a deadly weapon after he slashed clerk William Apelt in the neck with a knife. Ritter’s companion and witness was detained, and a doctor treated Apelt’s neck wound.
Cut prices advertised on a Sound View offer. terms include $400 down and monthly balance payments. Details are unclear due to garbled text but indicate installment pricing with specified down payment and balance period.
John F. Miller, Republican mayoral candidate, speaks at King County Republican club rooms and in Ballard. He will address Thirteenth ward Republicans at Sypher's hall and then attend two university fraternity events. Additional stops include the A. O. U. W. hall and Queen Anne and Columbia City venues with Miller plus Hart and Grasse present.
W P Trimble denounces a revived city political ring at Junction hall Ballard urging residents to resist returning to past corruption. He accuses promoters of making empty promises and warns against allowing gamblers, race track interests, and law protected corruptionists to dictate Seattle’s fate.
Miss Devore heiress to a million and only daughter of Mrs. John of Chicago elopes to Robert W. Ofiniére in St Louis after a two year courtship sparked during rides in her father W A Gilmore’s car. Gilmore, president of Gilmore Advertising Co, notes the couple met while avoiding a collision. Family consent came despite age differences. the bride is 18.
John Joseph Rochfort, boatswain's mate on the naval receiving ship Hancock, and Gertrude Albers, niece of a North German Lloyd captain, obtained a marriage license in New York. Their romance began after a visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard where Rochfort guided Albers and friends aboard a battleship, and he later earned praise for dousing a burning ammunition-tug.
At the Chamber of Commerce meeting W. W. Heck offered Ravenna park for sale to the city for 100000 dollars. The matter was referred to the city affairs committee to report next Tuesday as a special order of business.
The Seattle Electric Co. pledges to haul all supplies for the Washington Children’s Home Society free of charge. Superintendent L J Covington said the offer will save at least a sum toward completing the home rebuilt after a recent fire. Miller Alaskan Club to organize in Alaska building rooms at 9 tonight.
In Clarksville Tennessee two dynamiters were killed and a third wounded while caught attempting to dynamite the Hayshx Sorg tobacco factory. The event is reported alongside a list of deaths and births registered today in various local hospitals and homes, including several individuals from Seattle and nearby areas.
Schuchard Optical Co promotes specialty eyewear at 1207 Secondary for brighter vision.
Poughkeepsie dated story notes Mrs. Marty Bogardus Tower files for separation from Albert Edward Tower. The article mentions Tower’s wealth and a forged backstory involving a former wife and marriage, with details tangled in court filing.
In Cincinnati on January 22 investigators disclosed a plot to wreck and possibly burn the five story Franklin building at Third and Plum, now in receivership. A candle in an oil can stopper and a fuse to dynamite would have destroyed the structure, police say, based on a report from a trust company employee.
Washington officials announced that the House Naval Affairs Committee will visit the Pacific coast early next summer. The trip will study the navy yard needs at Puget Sound Mare Island and inspect the site for a proposed drydock and navy yard at San Diego.
Spokane January 22 1908 F G Ragedale a well known saloonman was placed on trial for involuntary manslaughter of Dusty Dean in his saloon on October 1 1907. Ragedale struck Dean with his filet who fell and never recovered consciousness.
A garbled dispatch reports a January attempted holdup where a man confronted a woman on a city street and an officer or bystander intervened as a hat pin was used. Separate item notes Spokane city council refusing to repeal blue laws restricting Sunday activities.
Ex Senator John L. Wilson travels to Baltimore to undergo a noted surgeon’s operation after weeks in the hospital. He left his home in good health and spirits despite prior illness and a lengthy hospital stay.
Tokyo January 22 The vote in the Japanese parliament tomorrow is expected to yield only a small government majority against the Progressive and Yuko parties motion to censure the cabinet. Hayashi's immigration policy statement fails to reassure the dissidents who fear it implies Mikado approval of a broader investigation and binding bond on students heading to the United States.
Detectives linked six men to the Ramona steamer incident as lights were shed on the case involving Fred Nye and a missing or harmed person.
A partial OCR item records John Edich involved with a rifle and a hospital setting. Details are unclear due to damaged text but imply a firearm in a health care context.
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