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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
8
Real estate listing promotes a waterfront tract by Bremerton Navy Yard City along Paget Sound. The ad claims a large number of buyers visit daily and urges quick action to secure the parcels.
Fragment references exposing profit aims and a person named Trent. text is incomplete, offering no clear event or context to define a full news item or outcome. Further readable details are required to form a proper summary.
The notice promotes lots in Bremerton with terms four down and two dollars monthly. It advertises certified abstracts and city water paid for, home building on easy payments, and a last steamer run from Colman deck ten times daily. Also lists office at 106 Cherry Street and promotes various services from tailors to storage and signs.
Labor Council joins with the Central Labor Council to back the National Council of Women conference in Seattle. A mass meeting honors visiting Mrs. Provence Kelley on child labor reform at Plymouth Church. International delegates from the Toronto council arrive July 13 for the convention.
A young show business performer, Miss Millie Remey, becomes stranded in Everett and Seattle after a cousin dies and a new partner squandered her earnings. She stays at a Terrace street rooming house, aided by the landlady and city officials who arrange a train ticket to Minnesota, while Remey seeks funds to cover her travel and expenses. She can be reached at Terrace 1, rooming house or by phone Ind, X149.
Portland report says Allen Towne, division superintendent of the Great Northern, and a companion were arrested for attempting to hold up a grocery store. In Bremerton a boy loses his right ear after a firecracker accident. In Blaine an old resident, G D C Plunband, is mentioned in connection with a premature explosion at Bright’s discogne.
Four hundred delegates representing 60 percent of U S lumber manufacturers will assemble in Seattle next week for the National Lumber Manufacturers association convention. Sessions run Monday through Saturday with a public conservation session Wednesday, excursions to the navy yard Thursday, and events at the Pine Arts building and Washington State building.
Thomas Mullin a railroad construction worker staying at a Sixth Avenue lodging house shot himself in the right cheek while in a saloon under the house. The bullet passed through his mouth and exited below his car. He was taken to City Hospital and is not badly hurt. No reason is known though it is thought he was intoxicated.
Victor Anderson and Michael Hanley saloon keepers were arrested for selling whisky on Sunday June 27. Judge Brown in Justice Court imposed a $250 fine and costs on each defendant following deputy sheriff W. H. Meyer’s complaint.
A violent derailment attempt on a Spokane and railway passenger train near Harpole tunnel was foiled when a freight train cleared the route. A heavy chain was found on a rail on a sharp curve, causing derailment of the caboose and several cars, but no serious damage or injuries were reported. No crew members responsible for the wreckage have been located.
A three-masted Japanese sealing ship with deck-mounted machine guns was seen near the Shumajin Islands by Fox Islands keepers. Captain Blodgett says U S revenue cutters will fail against the vessel if trouble arises. A British ship from Victoria reportedly killed 20 otters and five cattle during a later incident, then loaded carcasses for offshore transport.
Postmaster Russell notes post office general delivery windows saw more than a doubling in daily mail calls since the fair opened. Mail is up from about 7,000 to 16,000 items daily, with over 11,000 applicants on Monday July 5.
The Commercial Club aims to position Seattle as the state’s information and aid hub. Colfax requests a vegetable cannery fruit and produce exchange a commercial creamery and a foundry for agricultural machinery. Secretary Ashley and Mr Mibley circulate inquiries to match needs with opportunities across the state.
Secretary Yandell received a reply from Superintendent Vatule of the postal department about expediting mail from the Philippines. Vatule notes that line-of-boats costs would not be funded by time savings and would refer the matter to Manila director general Cotterman for possible action.
A collection of photographs depicting Seattle and Puget Sound country, mounted in leather albums, will soon be placed in all observation cars on the North Coast Limited. The albums are produced by the A P and are another example of Chamber of Commerce photo efforts.
An Oxford undergraduate boasts to a friend that he asked his father for money to buy books but received the books instead. The exchange highlights a practical joke or bluff during the last term.
Reported arrivals of Epworth League delegates flood the city by noon with trains and boats bringing hundreds. By night expected total nears 5 000 and rising toward 10 000 as armory registration and lodging in private homes proceed. Mayors bishops and church leaders deliver welcomes while the opening session features addresses and a forthcoming oratorio.
Riplinger’s lawyer states no immunity is wanted and outlines arraignment delays. The case moves through firn tee and superior courts with no date set. Kiplinger plans to stay in Seattle at the Palace hotel before returning to Honduras to be with his family on Kiplinger farm grounds.
A Northwest band tournament with 20 to 50 bands and $6000 in prizes will be held on September 6 at the AYP arena. Bands are grouped by city size into three classes, with Directors L W Huckley and BEE Eltis leading the committee. An international tug of war with cash prizes is also planned for Seattle day at the Stadium.
In the Good Roads congress session the focus is on tarmac road material made from iron foundry slag. Mr Hooley is highlighted, and delegates plan an excursion on the steamer Chippewa to Victoria. A permanent organization is expected Friday as interest grows in adopting the new road-building substance.
The Fair hosts Women Suffrage Day with national delegates as guests and free admission. Attendees visit the Washington State Building and Educational Building lunches hosted by the domestic science club. Rev Anna Shaw presided at the Auditorium while speakers include Alice Paul Blackwell Florence Kelley Harriet Upton Ella Stewart Laura Clay and others.
Major Marion P. Mann, formerly at the San Francisco Presidio, is ordered to take command of the Department of the Columbia with headquarters at Vancouver Washington. The move places Mann in charge of regional operations and defense duties as directed by Washington.
A large area of southern France near the Mediterranean was hit by a strong earthquake this afternoon causing several seconds of shaking and significant property damage but no reported deaths.
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