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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1916
Page
6
An assorted historic business directory fragment lists services including legal consultation, moving and storage, piano and household goods transport, optical department, and a Egyptian phrenologist offering head reading and life guidance. Several company names and addresses appear, with broad claims and contact lines.
An OCR fragment advertises Centre Storage Co at 105 White near Pine with services for fixtures and snow accessories. It lists testing and various storage offerings and mentions a crew led by L. Gomell at 144% Third Ave near Pine.
Classified notices solicit applicants for positions in architecture clerical and trade work. Listings include designates for men and women, houseboard arrangements, and local franchise sales. Offers mention commissions wages and room or board, with contact details and deadlines for applications.
A scattered notice page lists many personal ads seeking companionship or marriage across ages and means. Mentions young women and men in various cities with promises of references, mining property prospects, dancing lessons, and private arrangements.
A garbled classified page lists Madam Nina, Madame Victoria, Madam Reid, and Madam Heliahle as spiritual readers offering phrenology, clairvoyance, palmistry, and life readings. Locations include Union Street, Pike and Main streets, Owl Drug stores, with fees around 60 cents and guarantees. Many other ads promote rooms for rent, furnished and unfurnished, and miscellaneous services.
Six acre tract with good wire fencing, cleared meadow, barn for stock and outbuildings, a garden and a fine creek. Located six miles from Auburn Wheel on state road. On contract with $800 down and annual payments of $106. price $2,000 for interested buyers. Write HM Behulte Auburn Washington Packard route.
45 acres for sale with 24 acres cleared pasture 160 fruit trees 18 cows barn and all farm implements. Price 85050 half cash. Contact Ethan Yous 4&4 BhonKHS 2008 Vernon Place Whone Biatferd 12 ODPL PPE PIAA and.
Notice to creditors of J Narber and spouse and Charles Larson that first meetings of creditors will be held July 16 1916 at 2 08 PM and 1 60 PM respectively at the Referee in Bankruptcy office Beattie Washington. Creditors may prove claims appoint trustees examine debtors and conduct related business. Dated July 7 1916. A Hawkins Referee in Bankruptcy.
A compilation of land ads across Washington state including 1 to 2 acre plots near Kirkland and Napavine, large 40 acre to 51 acre farms, bearing orchards, dairy potential, and road access. Highlights include prices from 400 to 5 000 dollars, terms offered, and contacts in cities like Seattle Napavine and Sedro Woolley.
A series of small ads advertise properties and a manufacturing site. Listings include a 43 lot sale for 600 with monthly payments, a waterfront cottage on Lakeside Ave with leased ground, and a manufacturing site near the Seattle depot with a real valuation of 5000. Contact Pettit, Gor Third Ave to arrange viewings.
Real estate note offers several homes with features including two rooms and poultry structures near Mouth Park and Cloverdale. Property includes fruit trees and harvest potential with terms and contact details for Ellen Bristol at 9515 Bethany Avenue.
The Home Savings and Loan Association announces its regular annual shareholders meeting at the association office in the Commercial Building Seattle Washington at 1 oclock p m Monday July 21 1916 seven directors will be elected for the ensuing year and an adjournment as necessary Dated Beattie Washington July 1916 Attest A B Pienckh Secretary Eddy President On Wildwood park Sunday July Tip top music by a full 20 piece band for the dancing afternoon and evening Jerry Leech at Leech park every hour All welcome
Market stalls list prices for cane sugar, potatoes, canned goods, butter, cheese, salmon trout, lamb, pork, and chicken. Several stalls advertise creamery butter, meat cuts, eggs, flour, and canned fruits with per unit costs and bulk deals across vendors.
Saturday entries show stall numbers with varied goods including sugar, milk, butter, water, watermelons, red potatoes, peanut butter, veal, lamb, beef cuts, and home rendered fat. Prices listed per quantity or unit accompany each item in a dense catalog style.
Senator Borah charges the militia is unreliable and describes waste and theft in armament funding. He cites mobilization failures, undertrained units, and state politics delaying proper defense readiness. The senator warns mass Guard funding would create a pork barrel endangering national security.
Fragmented grocery listing shows items like veal cutters bacon soap Jello Mason jars strawberries and cucumbers with prices per pound or per dozen. The legible elements emphasize staples for home use in a South End Monday context.
London newspapers report England aided in framing the Russo Japanese treaty and approved the pact. They largely avoid discussing its impact on American interests.
Mrs. Ella A. Boole national vice president of the W. C. T. U. travels to Alaska by route through Seattle and will speak Sunday night at the First Methodist Church in the city.
The Scandia band of 20 musicians will give a niente ande dance in Wildwood park Sunday. The ferry for Wildwood leaves Leschi park every hour.
Col Winfield T Durbin former Indiana governor and Spanish War veteran now visiting Seattle predicts Charles E Hughes will win the majority of Indiana votes for president. Durbin served as governor from 1901 to 1905.
In Port Angeles on July 8 Danny Swegel aged 14 from Dungeness died after a shotgun misfire while the brothers hid the weapon in a cabin. John Swegel, the younger brother, fired or caused the discharge resulting in the fatal wound. authorities reported no foul play suspected.
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