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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1917
Page
7
An advertisement promises a clairvoyant adviser who can reveal personal success in business and family life without questions. It asserts true love readings, speedy marriages, and protection from bad luck, with special readings offered for 40 cents for two weeks at Hotel Nerrin Beattie Hall room 43.
An advertisement offers psychic services by Madam Mellie for success in love marriage business and travel. It promises true advice, quick marriage, and happiness or no charge, with phrenology readings by a noted specialist at Antlers Motel in Union and Fourth.
A dense street advertisement lists numerous psychics including Madame Sonia Clairvoyant and Madame Bessitta offering palmistry, readings, and love guidance. It claims divorce advice, lover details, and guaranteed satisfaction with prices around 50 cents to a dollar, citing several addresses and venues for readings and circles.
Franchise publication sets a railway line promise within months for Great Northern Northern Pacific Milwaukee and Oregon Washington. Councilman Erickson with Port Commission Bridges sought common user and ownership clauses but failed. A temporary injunction was issued by Judge Smith after N. W. Huggins filed suit. Thursday will hear arguments.
John Hook of Portland aged 438 and Miss Effie Brown aged 34, his housekeeper, arrived to marry but separated while sightseeing on Market Street. Brown sought police aid leaving Hook's description. Hook later appeared at headquarters awaiting Brown's return.
Two unions, Iron Workers and Piledrivers, elected delegates to the Central Labor and Building Trades Council at a Monday night meeting. Also notices on creditors court proceedings against the German-American Mercantile Bank of Seattle and a bankruptcy meeting for H H Wells and Martha Wells. Creditors must file claims by specified dates with the State Bank Examiner and bankruptcy referee in Seattle.
Patterson MacDonald Co wins contracts to build a large shipyard on BE Marginal Way Seattle. Construction starts immediately with first keel due in 30 days. The yard covers 25 acres with 2500 feet of water frontage and six shipways for ten wooden vessels. United States army transport Crook sails from Anchorage with 1000 tons rails and 400000 feet of lumber. Data on merchant ships gathered by the emergency ship corporation may signal large scale government commandeering of the Pacific fleet.
Glenn Hoover of Seattle, a noted socialist and 1916 congressional candidate, has joined the army as a private in Company F, Second Infantry, Fort Shafter, Honolulu. He arrived June 13 from Fort McDonnell, says he is adapting to tropical life and reports a measles quarantine while enjoying bananas at 10 cents a dozen.
Private George May Huckin of La Grande Washington died after leaping from an auto he believed would collide with an interurban car in Vancouver British Columbia. His head struck the oncoming car, ending his life instantly.
A telegram reported to Senator Ashurst says copper miners in Gila county near Bisbee and Globe have escalated beyond local control with more than 5,000 on strike at Bisbee and 2,600 at Globe. The War Department is asked to send troops, amid allegations of German influence in Arizona and Colorado.
In Globe Arizona on July 3 authorities brace for more violence after a series of strike outbreaks. I W W members halted a passenger train near Lower Miami to search for strikebreakers, and 300 militants waited in Miami to bar detrainment. Deputies sworn in to curb violence, with I W W leaders predicting immediate sympathy strikes from Jerome mine workers.
The French admiralty reports to the French scientific mission that during the last week one German submarine was sunk and one captured by American and British vessels. The captive U-boat was towed to a British port with no further details released.
Robert Nicholson, a Clark-Nicholson mill employee, died instantly after falling from a burner top Monday afternoon and striking crates below.
Port of Seattle reported total collections for the fiscal year ending June 30 1917 of 1 730 224 89 exceeding the prior year by 600 000. The figures reflect improved revenue streams and tax receipts for the harbor district.
Three thousand miners in five counties walked out demanding an eight-hour workday union recognition and higher wages. Armed guards guard mining properties as tensions rise across the region. The report also notes a separate line about the Russian czar's former income.
No change in the situation was announced by the local headquarters of the electrical workers on Tuesday. The decision on a general Pacific coast telephone strike in support of Aberdeen operators will be made by the locals on the coast Thursday night.
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