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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1917
Page
10
The notice lists promotional rates for want ads with cash advertising and monthly charges. It shows various price levels by duration including monthly and weekly terms, with figures in dollars and cents. Open space lines and spacing credits are described, along with special rates.
Classified notes show job leads at Pacific Steel and Moier Co Tacoma and domestic partnership friendly ads. Entries seek companions for matrimony, housework, or social introductions, with many ages, addresses, and contact cues listed among diverse services and goods like jewelry and tailoring.
Psychic and clairvoyant advertisements offer Madam Mellie Egypt ian, Mme Nona, and Rotentift phrenologist readings to reveal true love, marriage timing, business luck, and personal influence. They promise speedy marriage, separations healed, and guaranteed satisfaction or no charge with special rates.
A noisy ad page touts multiple palmists clairvoyants and mediums with varied claims and hours at University Ave and nearby streets. Names like Madame Tonta and Madam Kathryn appear among numerous service pitches and a weight loss product promotion by Right Drug Co.
A fragmented old directory page shows entries for attorneys at law patent agents physicians hotels loan firms and miscellaneous services. Names such as Wille Morendes Lola May livin and Fred P Gorin appear with firms like Lyon Mids Third and James and Burke Building, plus the New Grand Hotel corner First Ave and Pine.
Seattle port movements list arrivals and departures with multiple ships and times. Nippon from Orient, Admiral Watson from Tacoma, Prince Rupert from Skagway, Nome City from San Francisco, Portland from Tacoma. Departures include Queen to San Francisco and Barkentine OG Wilder to Port Ludlow among others. Alaska and Juneau entries show westbound and southbound sailings with times.
The King County Council of Patriotic Service was named Wednesday to coordinate war work with the State Council of Defense. Members include George Danworth, F. W. Brown, Lt. J. Proctor, Edwin A. Start, John Wooding, O. D. Fisher, C. W. Wiley, W. C. Weeks, Kk. M. McCullough, J. P. Todd, Mrs. Milo J. Loveless, Frank Gates, Councilman Reginald H. Thomson, Dr. J. S. Crichton, and Harold Preston, representing diverse sectors such as law, transportation, labor, food, farming, manufacturing, and public health.
State bank examiner opens bids for the Issaquah coal mines tied to the defunct Northern Bank & Trust Co. The American Savings Bank & Trust Co. offers 256000 dollars while Frank Waterhouse & Co. bids 266000 with 200000 to be paid within a year. Only two bids received.
An American liner arriving today reports a submarine attack on her last eastern voyage. On June 20 a torpedo passed within ten feet of the bow. American gunners fired three shots but may not have hit. The attack occurred at 11 p.m. with a forward porthole left open accidentally revealing the ship to the submarine. A lookout saw the torpedo wake and the engines were reversed to steer away.
Government officials and steel industry leaders met to outline a general steel price policy for war work. The aim is to adopt a policy more satisfactory to the government than current rates and to implement it before nightfall.
Horace M. Albright assistant director of the National Park Service was set to arrive in Seattle on Wednesday afternoon for a tour of the national parks. He planned to visit Mount Rainier National Park on Thursday.
The Stove Connectors union newly chartered by the American Federation of Labor met for its initial gathering at the Labor temple on Tuesday night.
A chaotic OCR listing details stalls and goods at public markets including coffee butter cheese eggs milk sugar beans tomatoes lettuce potatoes olives and meats with varied prices per pound and per item across stalls 7 8 15 26 33 51 57 111 120 1503 1506 1507 1511 and Westlake noting quantities units and promotions in a dense catalog format.
A fragmented shopper’s list details stalls 2 10 11 19 27 34 42 45 50 66 with items and prices ranging from green peas 4 lb at 5c to large salt herring 5c each. The inventory includes canned tuna oysters butter cheese coffee cocoa salmon pineapple and fruits, with several brands and pack sizes noted.
Mrs. Katherine Blackall of Seattle tours eastern districts urging better harvestor and picker conditions for fruit growers. The visit aims to awaken growers to improve wages housing and safety as the apple harvest approaches.
Negotiations for the sale of the two ships at Skinner and Eddy ship yard finished Tuesday. The Martha Washington and J. H. Fox, each 8800 tons, will be launched July and August and are about 76 percent complete. An Oriental firm, likely Mitsui and Co., is the buyer in a deal valued around 5 million dollars. Delivery is set for September.
A floating can of calcium carbide attached to a life buoy threatened to ignite oil pilings at the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co. Tuesday night. A guard at the plant fired a revolver, sinking the container. High tide kept the flame under the pilings near three submarines moored at the wharf. Officials say the device detached from a life buoy and was not apparently meant to set the ship plant on fire.
Footpads emerged from an alley between Occidental and Second avenues on Tuesday night and assaulted J. M. Stomgren of 424 Jefferson Jr. before taking $68. The incident is described in limited readable detail.
A Dance and Card Party by Hands Across the Seas will be held in their hall in the Lyon building at Third and James on Thursday night. George Palmer, a well known vocalist, will perform a selection of songs.
Meetings of fruit growers announce a major drive for fruit pickers starting this week. Field work begins next month and lasts for three months. Enrollment cards will be mailed to anyone who requests by telephone to Elliott 71 at the 630 Central Building office.
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