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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1907
Page
5
A dense, ragged OCR listing contains classified ads for employment and services, including salesmen wanted, hotel and restaurant roles, female helpers, laundry and cleaning, and various trades. The page also lists loans and real estate, with stray notices for banks, auctions, and deaths, all in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper column style.
The National Education Association begins its fiftieth anniversary convention in Los Angeles with about 15 000 educators expected to attend and thousands more arriving. The opening session featured a prayer by Rev Frank Dewitt Talmage and the afternoon program includes welcome remarks by Rev Robert J Burdette and a response by Hon W T Harris.
Dr Jatine Thomas the millionaire amateur aernaut is believed dying after a midnight crash in New York. His auto struck a trolley pole, flinging him 36 feet and nearly severing his right leg. Two women passengers, Miss Frances Huan and Miss Alayle Welseman, were seriously hurt with potential amputations.
Birthe Navoola wife of Ontonia Na vonia 2119 Terry Ave July 6 a son. Kaufman wife of N F Kauf man 1614 Terry Ave July 7 a girl. Birney wife of Birney 1019 & Priest July 1 a son. Davie wife of N Davie 1411 Eleventh Ave a son. Barry wife of Robert KE Barry 132% Eighthay July 4 a girl.
A chaotic death record lists names and ages with scattered July 2 to July 6 dates. Entries include Granger 64, Vonderleith 23, Marah Jr. with months, Hamblet 37, infant Chesbro, Palata 36, Annie Clem, Hutchinson 6 months, Swanson 32, Duncan infant 7 months, Murphy 65, Larson 55, Kalneo 65, Geake 62, Davis 20, all tied to addresses or institutions such as Providence hospital and Tacoma locations.
Contractors sinking a trench near Lake Washington in Granday uncovered a vast spring. Water erupts from the earth through what looks like quicksand, washing sand away as a huge cave grows, with the water flowing into the opening and the cave extending beyond view.
The Woodmen of the World lodge plans a large initiation at Beattle during the Head Camp session. Seventy five candidates will be initiated with Harry L. Day of Portland and C. Burrows of Spokane directing. A public meeting is set for July 11.
The city council postpones West Seattle’s annexation for a week to allow a census and to establish its claim as the Fourteenth ward. West Seattle residents believe the suburb has about 7,000 people needed to form a separate ward.
Mayor Moore and Mrs. Moore depart at 10 20 p m on the Northern Pacific to Portland and the Union Pacific to Chicago for a trip toward Kentucky and Philadelphia for a national convention. HH Rowley is named as the local convention delegate.
Directory fragment lists establishments and locations including General Headquarters at 169-110 Arlington Hotel third floor, Fremont Drug Co at 401 Fremont Ave, Washington Trust Co, John Schram, M A and Y W CLA, J W Herbert Doig 2401 Tenth Ave, N Carl H Reeves 5247 Fourteenth Ave N, EB KE M Williams Broadway and Pine, High School Drug Co Broadway and Pine, Wm H Bartly Olive and Broadway.
Report notes three prospectors found in the North Yakima mountains presumed dead from cold. Everett’s populace size estimated at 26,920. Klienebur’s pioneers plan a reunion Saturday. Spokane aligns with Han company reform wave as Baker district parties move south.
D. Perkins & Co bankers on Cherry Street advertise fire and burglar proof vaults in a proof building with convenient modern deposit boxes. Boxes available from four dollars upward. Store silverware when away from home. Month not clear.
A garbled note hints at fee naming and refunds involving a grocer and Schillings. The text suggests prices or payments tied to satisfaction, with phrases about returning money if not liked and the grocer’s role in payments.
The engineer lists the lowest bidders for multiple street projects. Items include Thirty-third Ave grading Nor mile at 16,563 and Prefontaine Place cement walks 762.50, Pike St sewer 9,103.50, Third Ave sewer 20,036.05, Water main on 19th Ave north 5,999.26, Stone Way sewer 30,780.30, 5th Ave northwest grading 990,519.50, Woodward at 60th regrading 13,732.90, Melwett at grading 6,023, Wadaworth at newer ???
Juneau defeated Sideway 5 to 3 and Juneau beat Fort sen 6 to 3 at Skagway yesterday. A picked team will play next.
A violent incident on a Green Lake streetcar ends with a man beaten by several passengers after elbowing women and children from Woodland Park station. A baby in a mother’s arms is feared injured while the assailant is removed. Oliver C. Stewart, prominent prohibitionist, was among speakers at the nearby Christian Endeavor event.
The light station whistle is out of service until July 18 for repairs. During heavy weather, bell signaling will be done by hand as steamers approach.
This week the Chicago Jewelry Co displays the largest assortment of jeweled back combs in the city with special prices. Located at 1267 24th Avenue.
C. T. Towers, a railroad workman, was fined 160 dollars and costs for stealing from fellow workmen in Mrs. F. H. Pledgman's rooming house. He claimed the others were drunk and that he held the money to safeguard it until they sobered up. The Haywood-Moyer benefit excursion to Olympia on the Yosemite was a success with about 500 participants enjoying the Sound outing.
Estimates show costs for street and sewer works including East Denny Way Broad way Twenty first cement walks Nye Place Ninth av west and others with amounts ranging from five hundred to twenty one thousand two hundred. Advertisers push gasoline engines rifles and land sales citing 112 University Ave 1008 Fireay and Times block listings plus acre tract offers near Lake Washington Valley City Green Lake and King county areas with flexible term options and trades.
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