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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
6
A garbled legal notice list from Georgetown Seattle and surrounding areas mentions individuals such as Chanes Poster Terrell 2 percent and Sarah Lestee Rows 26 along with Ruth Whittier 24 and Kathleen V I Dunn 1 percent. The fragmentary text references Ninth Ave Leato Banning Dothay N and Evelys G Oscar Green 33 with others in Beattie and West Beattie, incomplete and unclear.
Fragmented death notices list several individuals with dates in July and ages, including Johnson infant and Brown, plus MBlane y and Hendrew J. Young. The legible items show city notices of deaths with scattered dates and ages amid garbled text.
Funeral services for Andrew J are listed with unclear chapel and burial details. The ad also lists contractors for trestle and bunkers at Beacon Hill Hawley Lane and notes contact information. Multiple small ads follow for carpentry, bicycles, chiropodists, clairvoyants, and real estate offering cheap acreage and ranch opportunities in the Beattie and Tacoma regions.
The Palouse Irrigation Power Co advertises new 10 acre tracts near Palouse Falls in Whitman County Washington. Prospective buyers are told water is abundant and railroad access exists with a low down payment of 910 per acre and easy long term terms. For full particulars write to the company at 414 Columbia Ave Beattie.
Mrs. Lamey writes that her mother is seriously injured and not expected to live. She requests efforts to locate her brother, George B.rden, last heard of in Seattle, as police Irving Ward records a note seeking information.
The Family Theatre at 608 Pike has leased the venue to Mesers, Byrnes and Newbill for a term and will be renamed the Synchrodome. It will feature a German invention projecting pictures along with audio, dance, and talk. Remodeling aims to make it one of the finest on the coast.
Fragmentary note mentions a venue Synchrodome Theatre and several unclear time references for a date in July, with times 7 30, 3 80, 4 30 and 7. The source text is damaged and lacks coherent details or named participants.
Overnight entries reveal a seven furlong second race selling for three year olds and up featuring Legal Worm Philaernumt Geo Kilborn Weatherford and Honaventure. Third race offers a mile and a quarter selling with Liberto Tetanum and Teen Row among entries. Fourth and fifth races present mile and 60 yard and mile and 50 yard sprints with multiple bidders and apprentice allowances.
Rainier Valley Improvement Club may bring mandamus proceedings to compel Seattle Electric and the Seattle, Renton and Southern street railways to interchange transfers on a single cent fare. Discussion occurred at Columbia meeting led by W. E. Holmes. James Fullerton, Republican candidate for county commissioner, urged widening Rainier Boulevard to 150 feet and extending to Renton, pledging effort if elected.
President Roosevelt appoints the U S government board of managers for the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition in Seattle. Members listed include J B Wilson Assistant Secretary of the Interior W de C Ravenel of the National Museum and W M Geddes from the Treasury Department as disbursing officer.
Posses sweep the Big Bar region as Adolph Julies, the Italian wanted for the murders of Antonio Liberatos and Giovanni Puccini at Camp No. 20 on the Western Pacific railroad 25 miles east of Oroville, roams unsettled hills terrorizing residents.
Grain prices show July wheat slightly up and September corn steady amid fluctuating trade in Chicago. Dr. McGregor resumes practice at the American Bank Building, 603, after a pause.
Mrs Sarah Whitehead of Pasadena appears to have swallowed her false teeth and died shortly after noon on Wednesday. A physician could not determine the cause in time and the case remains unresolved despite measures taken.
The Public Market advertises Logan berries at 6 boxes for 26 cents or 1 dollar per pound of Cream brick cheese. Also listed are lemon varieties, shoulder steak deals, peaches, cherries, potatoes, onions, cabbage, beets, lettuce, apples, pineapples, oranges, flowers, grapes, and various poultry and canned fruit items with assorted per unit or per pound pricing. Many items include multiple unit options and bulk quantities.
Local list shows prices for poultry butter eggs meat and produce in Weimar with rates for live hens dressed poultry eggs beef hogs veal and fruit vegetables Strawberries at 19 cents were quoted along with strawberries and other berries Cabbage lettuce onions potatoes and other items priced per pound per crate or ton The notice also advertises a performance at the See the pictures that and talk at the Theatre 508 Pike St on Saturday July 7 with admission ten cents.
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