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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1917
Page
10
A dense 1920s style classified page shows female help wanted, lodging, and farm labor ads, plus job seekers and marriage notices. Listings include employment prospects, board, room rentals, and investors offering chance to profit, with names and city references such as Puyallup Sumner and Spokane.
A chaotic ad page offers eyeglasses with spherical lenses at low prices and mentions optometrists. It also lists opportunities for companionship and matrimony ads, spiritual readings, clairvoyants, and used jewelry for sale, set around Seattle and nearby addresses.
Multiple practitioners advertise psychic readings promising business success, love matches, and rapid marriages. Madam Mellie, Mme Nona, and other soothsayers claim to reveal future spouses, separate couples, and remove bad luck, with hours listed at various hotels and offices.
An advert for a palmistry and clairvoyant reading service at 622 University near Sixth Ave. It promises life readings on business marriage divorce speculation and relationships and asks if you trust your partner. Special readings offered this week for a fee.
A jumble of professional ads and shop notices. Attorneys at law offer wills probate patents and general practice. Jewelry lenders bicycle supplies cameras opticians doctors and storage services advertise loans rentals and rooms. Locations include Main 27a Second Ave Fourth Ave Pine Ave and Barrington with various rates and free consultations.
The notice lists numerous低 priced items across stalls, including sugar cures, beef cuts, tea, coffee, canned goods, produce like cabbage and strawberries, dairy products, and staples. Prices are given per pound, can, or dozen, with many items marked in cents, reflecting a bustling public market environment.
A dated price list shows various meats and groceries with per unit costs. Items include steak 1 lb, veal roast 14e lb, hamburgers, sausage meat, catsup 20¢ per bottle, olives 20¢ pt, fresh halibut and salmon 12 to 16? lb, butter 40¢ lb, eggs 40¢ dozen, and bulk coffee prices. The list reflects a general mid century urban market catalog with several priced perishables and staples.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce and shipping interests push against an international pool proposed by diplomats from the United States England Russia France and Japan. They warn any arrangement reducing Pacific Coast control would hurt American commerce and Vladivostok trade. The chamber acts after Japan balked at pool terms, favoring continued independent trade while supporting a balanced compromise.
Enrollment cards pledging Seattle women to Herbert Hoover's food conservation campaign poured in at the Women's Service League headquarters on Third Ave and Madison St. Across the city pledge booths issue cards to a quiet, determined army of women serving the country by fighting waste. The first applicant at Third and Madison was Horace F. Hardy for his wife. The booth leaders knit between duties, pausing only for other business.
Subjects of Great Britain in Seattle and vicinity aged 18 to 45 are asked to register at the British consulate Room 301 Lowman building Seattle. Registrations requested at once. This does not imply enforced military service. Listing follows a recent U S act permitting voluntary British military recruitment in the United States.
Francisco Gomez son of former Gov. Gomez of Guas Ecuador now Seattle denies a newspaper dispatch claiming Ecuador is unfriendly to the United States and the allies. He denounces the idea that Gen. Concha backed by sympathies. Conchas he calls another Villa seeking revolution for 16 years to become president.
Lieut Don W Evans 1912 U W track captain and Phi Gamma Delta member married Lucile Eba after war delayed plans. He recruited in Seattle then wed at a courthouse with Rev A B Greene. The couple began a honeymoon to Vancouver and his friends at American Lake send congratulations.
Police and detectives hunted for a man after he accosted Mrs. Ellen Millio on 33rd Ave North near Madison Street. Frank Vance aided by pursuing the suspect into the woods as dawn broke. A large search by officers and volunteers followed, but the assailant vanished.
United States Interior Department official Herbert A. Meyer leaves Washington to inspect the government railway in Alaska and to examine the coal situation as part of a forthcoming review.
Olympia heard the traction company petition to be relieved of most city franchise obligations. Corporation Counsel Caldwell and assistant Walter Meier appeared before the Public Service Commission. The filing has dragged since December 1916 and echoes a Tacoma ruling limiting state power to release first class city contracts.
Lingering heavy humidity kept crowds down at Alki Beach on Sunday while parks drew steady patrons though beach attendance fell short of normal.
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