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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1914
Page
2
A crowded old page lists varied notices from a harbor city, including real estate and service ads, job inquiries, and a missing person call. Names, addresses, and business signs appear alongside personal ads for employment, housekeeping, and matrimonial prospects. Detectable items include a missing body recovery notice, multiple shop and service promotions, and employment offers.
6 acres rich level land one mile to beach store dock post office and school. Terms ten dollars cash and sixteen monthly payments. 15 acres for 525 dollars with forty dollars cash and ten monthly payments. Easy to clear gravel and pea vines, near town and work. See KR Ubiin 1118 Americas Hank Hide.
A compact property north of Beattian about 1% miles to the railroad station and close to stores and schools. The fenced parcel includes emails houses a barn and a spring Thies to a snap. SCURCEDER 825 Liberty ids.
For sale acres offered at 46 dollars cash and 816 per month. Described as good for poultry, flute and garden use. Ferry access via Madison Park to Kirkland, Durke and Farrar, with an office on Ice.
Twenty acre parcel offered by Puget Sound farmer co op for 625 dollars down 25 cash and 310 monthly. Land described as rich level easily cleared with good water and near canneries creameries and produce firms. Delivery from eteres and contact A F via 466 Br4 Ave PUGET HOUND FARMER CO.
Fine large tract of land near maredam and new bungalow with bath on Anderson's wharf. Two chicken houses with 12% chickens. Four 2 acre tracts in Whagit county with price, terms. Contact C Nackworth, Madison Park office. or Young & Morebere Mallard 13. In Poulebo, writes Mark Kelley Fall City Washington.
Multiple real estate offers including 6.16 acres of soil rich land near a town of 1,600 with little work and losable loam soil, $76 down and $10 per month. Additional 0.5 acre home for sale with 1.5 acres cleared, fenced and crosefenced, chickens, fruit and berries. Waterfront land at $196. Exchanges and various real estate and loan services offered by Pacific Coast Mase Co and others.
South End Market lists stalls offering meat dairy and groceries. Prices include veal chops 1.00, bite size hams 0.50, round steak 0.60, shoulder roast veal 0.75, milk 0.25, canned goods, and cheeses at various 0.28 to 1.28 ranges. Market closes July 4 with extended Friday hours. stalls advertise home made sausages and cheeses and canned goods.
The notice lists sell by Friday evening at stall 128 Italian prunes beef and loaf prices. It notes various foods including home baked bread roman bread sugar lamb pork roast veal roast and cane milk and coffee. Prices appear in a scattered catalog style with several garbled terms.
A list of grocery prices and items sold by stalls including chick births, cheese types, berries, cherries, potatoes, mutton, pot roast, pork, shad, halibut, corned beef, Virginia bacon and rendered lard. Prices per pound or per item are given in cents, with weights and stalls noted.
A fragmented catalog of stalls and products including rice from Japan, pickles, lard, ripe peaches, cream cheese, home grown potatoes, pork, lamb, chocolates, peas, spring chickens and coffee with quoted prices and item counts. Entities include stalls numbers 260 919 164 126 369 296 129 368 11-12 222 244 217 and items like rice peaches lard cheese peas chickens and coffee.
The Home Consumers' league plans a monster mass meeting for members and friends in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium on July 10. A luncheon of Washington made goods will be supplied by Col. Hardt, head of the chamber exhibit department. The Camels will dance at their hall at 1616 Thirday this evening at 8:30. Retail clothing stores vote to stay open until 10 p m Friday and will be closed all day on the Fourth.
The entry list for the Fourth Annual Ketter Baby Show at Leech Park pavilion swelled toward 600 to 800 contestants before opening day. Babies are being registered at Panton's Secondary store with prizes donated by Seattle merchants including Standard Furniture for the best boy and The Star’s silver loving cup for the best all-around girl. The featured child is George Ernest Groppenbacher, two years old, son of Mr and Mrs George J Groppenbacher, noted for a past 35 pound weight at 10 months due to daily exercise.
In a pending case against 8. L. Balkwell for running a blind pig at Baring, officers report 12 1 2 barrels of beer seized, with five barrels missing. Judge Gordon will press the matter when the trial resumes on July 15 after a venue change from Brown's court.
Vienna dispatch reports William of Wied’s resignation as king of Albania is imminent. Rebels are said to be gaining ground everywhere against him, with Durazzo noting the situation.
A page six item asks whether a rich young man toys with a girl’s feelings or genuinely loves her, presenting speculation over motive and romance.
Freeport report says police tie dictagraph found in Dr Carman's office to the shooting of Mrs Louis Bailey of Hempstead. Witnesses describe a woman in white leaving the scene and a bullet scar pointing toward the doctor’s window. Carman and Bailey deny known enemies.
Baron Newton delivered a sharp rebuke in the House of Lords over the Lipton canteen scandal. He referenced the eight Lipton employees and army officers convicted for unlawful commissions on government canteen supplies.
Tacoma hosts its Montamara festo with auto races, street vaudeville, grand concerts, fireworks and stadium spectacles. North west visitors flood into the city for the event as speedway races are slated for Friday and Saturday.
Manager George J Mackenzie confirms the Fourth of July matinee of Strongheart at the Metropolitan will run at regular prices. The Rose of the Rancho will soon be staged by the Metropolitan players with Miss Malone. Tickets for William Hodge in The Road to Happiness opened at Moore Theatre with a possible repeat next week. Annette Kellermann, in Neptune's Daughter at Moore, is praised as a versatile performer and is currently in Paris studying voice.
Tacoma ad notes a seven passenger auto for races and return trips with a $5 rate. Phone Elliott 5300 and ask for Walter to arrange reservations.
Emma Johnson seeks divorce from Dr. Smith Johnson before Judge Mackintosh. The case reveals a dispute over drugs and medicines used for the sick, and notes of past marriages, fortune contributions, and alleged infidelity. Emma, a former nationally known entertainer, recalls supporting her third husband in Seattle in 1905 with $35,000 in securities and three residences.
Washington July 2. Jary of State Bryan notified that the senate appropriated 100 dollars for a government exhibit at the Panama exposition. West Seattle Fauntleroy subscribers urged to use The Star main office for all business. L C Read, former route and collector, is no longer connected.
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