Want Ads Telex: Employment and Notices
Fragmentary want ad notes telephone contact and private parties for employment and services. Mentions Maccabee Temple location and Friday timing with references to workmen and hiring, but details are unclear.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
6
Fragmentary want ad notes telephone contact and private parties for employment and services. Mentions Maccabee Temple location and Friday timing with references to workmen and hiring, but details are unclear.
Classified housing brief lists multiple rooms and suites for rent in Ballard and nearby avenues including furnished housekeeping rooms at $2.00 to $2.50 per week, cottages with furniture for sale at $59, and monthly rates. Includes ad for a widower seeking a wife and a farmer seeking a housekeeper or niece, with contact notes and newspaper file numbers.
A noisy mix of coal prices and domestic coal notes, wood and coal ads, and a flood of real estate listings. The notices promote properties for sale or rent near Wood, Beattie, and Lincoln with multiple detached cottages, farms, and lots, plus market chatter from brokers and firms like OPTIONAL Realty Co and AMERICAN BANK HIDE.
Promoters invite readers to a free excursion with shopping perks, promising easy terms and local transport to stores and sellers. Event meets at 14 and 15, with promises of a good time at Mageo Main.
An odd promotional fragment mentions a bank account offer tied to a parkland excursion labeled as a local event. References include Tecoma area access, stores and churches nearby, and a price note around 895. The text also notes an OPEN event at VON AE LAND CO with March timing and a Lake Washington area linkage.
A fragment notes race pia and fees with references to a fine and attendance. The readable text hints at penalties or charges but lacks clear context, names, or dates to determine a full event or outcome.
City Attorney De Brater reports 9191 cases filed in the police court in 1907 up from 5140 the year before and 4290 in 1905. Fines and forfeitures totaled 106164 dollars in 1907, up from 63104 in 1906 and 42892 in 1905, with no monthly fines for liquor violations except prostitution, challenging claims for revenue from lax enforcement.
Amateur company at the Grand Opera house presented King O Keefe or the Isle of Yap under the Beattie bank men. Cast included Inga Foss James Valientine J Russe Powell and others with lively dialogue music and witty antics drawing a crowded house and several encores.
An exclusive view credits President Theodore Roosevelt with strong Pacific coast influence. The piece asserts he shielded California from Southern Pacific power, rejected Perkins and Knowland in a Berkeley matter, and pursued naval fortifications and railroad regulation. It credits Roosevelts diplomacy on Japan and hints at sources from Wheeler and Heney.
The Oriental at 1413 Third Ave near Pike advertises a pool hall with twenty tables, claiming to be the largest pool room in the city.
A Trimble campaign meeting will be held tonight in Colman’s hall at North 64th Street and First Avenue. Wm. P. Trimble will speak, with George H. Walker and J. B. Woodworth addressing supporters for the Republican mayoralty nomination in the upcoming primary.
Washington report states Mr. Bryce the British ambassador will travel to Ottawa next week to discuss U S Great Britain negotiations touching Great Lakes water rights fisheries and boundary definitions with Canada in focus of the talks.
In Frankfort Indiana the body of Mrs. Samuel Dukes was found on a porch early morning. Bandages over the eyes and torn apron bandages suggest foul play or self harm. Police report the case remains unsolved with no clear motive or suspect at this time.
Mrs. L. J. Slocum Rae daughter of a wealthy Cleveland family, estranged by her marriage, died by self harm in the Cowles hotel where she registered under an assumed name. The body was found by the hotel keeper after morning. Her father, a Cleveland shoe man, has a Lake summer home.
A masked highwayman shot and killed a man during a bar room robbery at the National hotel in Cal. He took money from four others and fled on a waiting bicycle. Sheriff Taylor leads a posse in a manhunt as the wounded victim lies to die.
The Portland arrives from Seward with seven passengers and ore for the Tacoma smelter. The Saratoga sails for Valdes and Seward, and the Faralion will run to Alaska on February 1 in place of the Santa Clara. City of Seattle due tomorrow with halibut cargo as fish markets stay firm. Captain Spaulding requests a city docks inspector. Santa Clara under overhaul at Quartermaster Harbor. Bellerophon released from quarantine at Victoria. Meteor bound south with Calders marble. A submarine bell to sound on light vessel No 76 near Umatilla reef in foggy weather.
Chas McConaghey and Roscoe States, believed lost, are safe after the Fox wrecked on a reef near Five Fingers Nehthouse. The crew rode out 11 days at sea and limped into port with the deckhouse washed away.
Jefferson county deploys a special crew of deputy assessors in the field to survey vast timber resources. They are paid six dollars per day including Sundays and holidays. In contrast Pierce county pays one hundred dollars per day for twenty men, with Sundays and holidays excluded.
Fragmentary text mentions Chicago, January, Fleachmann and Tip O'Neil association, a 97 Western Baseball reference, a headless body in Lake Michigan, two women seeking a scar on a breast, and a caller identifying Jennie. Details are garbled and no clear event or outcome is stated.
Captain Mikkelsen explorer departs Nome while city theatrical manager hides amid a rate war in Walla Walla. A $1008 reward is offered for murderer W Thorneley of Tacoma. The French bark Fone arrives at Sydney after a 17 day voyage with its captain aboard.
Tomorrow evening B Oliphant will start a week's program of meetings at the Twenty third avenue church with Rev J Edgar Will the church.
The quarterly meeting of Queen Anne M B will be held this quarter with Rev Dr Wye, presiding elder of the district, to preside.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference ALHERT 11A and items including diamonds water and optical devices. Names, dates, or places not clearly readable. the garbled text limits precise summary.
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