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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1918
Page
7
Advertisements offer collateral loans at low rates on diamonds and jewelry, with other lenders advertising services and rates. Real estate listings include acreages for sale near Fort Lawton, Seattle, and nearby towns, plus rental hotel and apartment notices, with market prices, terms, and contact details.
Market listings show Andersons stalls with prunes tofu toilet paper oats beef butter and steak items. Harried items include maple syrup pancake flour bread coffee and sugar. Stall 26 features dairy milk soybeans corn meal navy beans hazelnuts tomatoes salmon and ginger root among others.
A fragmented inventory lists items like pure milk, peanut butter, comb honey, rib roast, round and sirloin steak, potatoes at 1.25 each, canned goods including salmon and corn, purified lard at 1.40, and Carnation milk priced at 95.80 per case. The tone mirrors a wartime or early mid century shop ledger with numerous OCR errors yet fixed prices and products.
A fragmentary ad lists items at Country Mall including Jersey butter 49 cents, fresh eggs, Armour margarine, cream cheese, Che tea, winecap apples at 1.00 per box, and Yakima components delivered at 1.70 per 100.
Capt. Jack Cudahy a millionaire meat packer from Omaha and now an officer at Camp Lewis is hospitalized here. He has been ill for about a week and hospital officials are reticent about the nature of his sickness. Cudahy led a national interest prosecution a few years ago.
I T Whiting, business agent of the Jitney union, swore out a complaint charging EBC Sears, a jitney driver, with assault. Whiting alleges a late night confrontation sparked by union disputes over bonded versus free buses, with two other drivers present but inactive. The deputy prosecutor issued a third degree assault complaint.
Seattle workers smashed a war work goal by raising $40,000 for the Y W C A in four days. Friday’s total reached $8,552.74, lifting the grand sum to $32,249.91. Miss Jane Neil Scott Northwest field executive announced a surprise $11,292 reserve as the drive closes.
The event invites farmers, chicken raisers, feed and mill men to hear Col. Clarence Ousley from Washington DC speak at the ress club Monday at 2:30 pm. The public is invited as Frank Gates of the King County defense council called the convention. Poultry owners will protest conditions they say hurt the industry and seek government intervention.
Deputies Matt Starwich and Ansa Lee met incoming No 1 at Northern Pacific station to intercept two trunks and a suitcase carrying whisky. The luggage, consigned from Butte Montana to fictitious Ravensdale parties, totaled 12 quarts plus two 10 gallon kegs. The driver abandoned the cargo upon seeing the deputies.
Portland January 26. Federal agents seek to determine whether Professor DeVell evaded registration. A complaint from Eugene residents prompted the inquiry. DeVell, who recently resigned from the University of Oregon, claims he was 31 last June.
United States District Judge Cushman granted fifteen naturalization applications in federal court on Saturday. Most applicants were natives of Sweden or Great Britain, with British subjects also including Canadians and Australians among the group.
Haig reported British troops took a few prisoners south of Cambrai during night patrols. In the Scarpe valley there was hostile artillery fire early in the day. A letter received by friends in the city notes Rev. Frank M. Silsley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Oakland, was given a six cylinder automobile by church members.
A vintage ad promotes Florence Upstairs Store at Second and Union urging shoppers to buy spring clothing and save on new suits coats and Denis items. The piece contrasts pessimistic outlooks with optimistic resolve, linking the sale to a positive mindset and a goal of CORA success.
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A state defense council backed report by B L Lambuth and the Seattle Real Estate Association argues rents are not high. Data cover about 90 percent of Seattle rentals and show varied changes, with most increases tied to upkeep costs and fuel.
Union leaders urge the U S to build homes for 2000 shipyard workers to curb extortionate rent hikes. They report 25 protest letters daily, with some increases as high as 100 percent. A division investigation aims to justify only fair rents as Dr Carleton H Parker joins the shipping board to study living costs.
Judge McCredie reviews Paddy Siglin as manager of the Pacific Coast International League team. The letter from Brother Walter says Siglin is in the first draft, prompting concern at Portland.
President K Tajima notes rapid rise in trade with the United States and says the Osaka Shosen Kaisha merchant fleet cannot handle current volume, prompting plans to expand the transpacific service.
Ole Hanson spoke at four open air crowds Saturday and planned two more gatherings as part of his campaign for mayor. He recalled early political work in Wisconsin and asserted his record supports economic and industrial justice, pledging to run a united and efficient Seattle government if elected.
Advertisement for Haynes repair services at Next Liberty theatre urging watch owners to seek repair.
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