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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1904
Page
6
A fragmented OCR of many business names and addresses shows drugstores, pharmacists, and contact lines across Seattle including Ballard, Fremont, Queen Anne, and University districts. It mixes shop names, street corners, and partial ads with real estate and service notices in dense, overlapping lines.
Fire Chief Cook will test the new fire alarm gong at the end of tonight’s council meeting. A test last Thursday was unsatisfactory but improvements may come after tone adjustments and raising the whistle higher on the Post street power plant stack.
A bustling markets column lists varied price shifts across meats produce and grains. Notable items include beef, pork, bacon, onions, rhubarb, asparagus, tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes and berries with numerous per unit or per case quotations from multiple suppliers and regions.
Franz L Linderman of Alameda married Fredericke Ansorge in a church ceremony after meeting two weeks earlier at a German club. The 90 year old groom and his bride, five years over the three score and ten limit, began a short country honeymoon before setting up housekeeping.
A comic vignette follows Ambrose strolling on Second Avenue who joins two women, Eunice and Dolly, for ice cream at a pricey shop near Madison Street. He flaunts wealth, pays with a tiny purse, and is rebuked by Eunice. Embarrassed, he slinks away and becomes a “woman hater” after the encounter.
Peter B. Hamil hauled in a thirty pound specimen of the tile fish, Pholopholus chameoleonticeps, a species once thought extinct. The Pacific deep water fish appeared among other catches and drew scientists to confirm its identity and discuss its mysterious prior disappearance.
Willis Harria, an 18 year old from near Dun Quoin Illinois, is described as the fattest boy on earth. He stands 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 598 pounds with a 71 inch waist and 67 inch chest. He required two chairs for seating and can only buy ready made clothing with collar buttons ties and handkerchiefs.
News from St. Petersburg on July 11 reports fear that cholera in Manchuria may reach European Russia this year as cases spread from the Far East and Persia. A Moscow Liaoyang correspondent notes a Japanese column appeared on the main road to Mukden. Police report several local thefts including J S&S Fagan arrested as a suspected tool thief and two jewelry losses in the city.
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