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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1917
Page
3
Rates list the pricing per line or fraction for advertisements with multiple periods. Includes monthly and yearly options, special five line discounts, and add on cents for insertion, with variations for 12 month and weekly plans.
A collage of local advertisements shows M Hee Wo Chinese medicine providers offering cures for stomach and other ailments, plus dancing school promotions, furniture and hair goods sellers, a jeweler, phrenologist Madam Lesslie, and clairvoyants Madam Mellie and Madame Egyptian, all framed as business notices in Seattle.
An early 20th century classified item lists spiritual mediums offering palmistry and clairvoyant services. It notes daily readings by appointment, lectures at a stated address, and contact details with multiple practitioners and room numbers in the city.
Directory style listing shows multiple attorneys at law and related services including probate mortgage and collections. firms include Albrander Wille Pilcott Elun Durkee Gorin and others with office addresses and notes on consultations and fees. also mentions bicycle supplies chattel loans and Chinese medicine services in a compact vintage ad page format.
Primary stalls list a crowded public market with Westlake Atoll items 199 Be bars Ivory soap 06 Meeha Java coffee spinach tomatoes and fresh dairy. Vendors feature meats fish produce including halibut cod salmon butter eggs milk and canned goods across stalls 104 108 124 1633 Gentler notes note farm fresh items and price hints across multiple stalls.
Washington July 2 There is one chance and just one chance of winning the war quickly to blind the eyes of the German army airplanes are the eyes of the army without them the war would be a blind fight. The article notes planes supply battlefield observation destroy German artillery and cripple U boats and railway hubs. Howard Coffin chairman says the plan to add aircraft to Allied fleets will go to Congress soon with a large appropriation to dominate the air. Domination of the air could decide the war.
Aviator Arthur Davis based at Lake Washington issues a new price list for air travel, charging 50 cents per hour to ride in the air. The note contrasts aeroplaning with taxicab use by the wealthy, implying air travel is affordable.
Washington July 2 Senator Reed of Missouri spoke for over two hours today prompting administration representatives to file a petition seeking cloture to limit further debate.
Dean Arthur Sewall Haggett of the liberal arts college died Saturday from complications of la grippe. He mentored over a thousand students annually and was a trusted adviser and friend to many graduates and undergraduates at the University of Washington. His funeral was Monday at the University Congregational church.
National food conservation week is observed with clergy urging action against waste. W H Paulhamus leads a state conference of food preservers at the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club on July 6. Hoover to issue over 1,000,000 pledge cards to women to aid in kitchen conservation. more than 1,000 Seattle women have joined the Army Against Waste through The Star.
The Skinner & Eddy shipyard in Seattle launched the 8000-ton liner Jeanette Skinner, a 423 ft 9 in vessel built for Knute Knudsen Co. of Norway, just 78 working days after keel laying. The event drew 5000 spectators as Mrs. James G. Eddy broke the ceremonial flask.
Twenty one automobiles carrying striking laundry girls followed nonunion laundries on their routes Monday afternoon. The new picketing aimed to win public sympathy, with cow bells on the cars and copies of a special laundry edition of the Union Record distributed at homes where nonunion drivers delivered bundles.
Washington reports that soldiers now wear wrist watches to tell time and officers carry small swagger sticks as standard equipment in the modern U S Army. The trend shows growing adoption among young enlisted men and officers alike.
A coroners jury found Miss Elizabeth Davenport died from a criminal operation in Mrs Nellie Waughop’s sanatorium. Deputy Prosecutor Carmody says there is not sufficient evidence to file charges and Mrs Waughop will not be prosecuted.
Tacoma police report nearly 100 arrests in a bone-dry city debut, with 65 for drunkenness. Authorities plan to check liquor sales by drug stores amid a surge of physicians' prescriptions.
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