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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1918
Page
3
The notice lists Sash and Doors products and prices, plus numerous ads for furniture, pianos, phonographs, guitars, and home goods. Items include a Columbia Grafonola, Estey piano, standard upright piano, and various chairs tables ranges. Multiple Seattle addresses and contact details are provided for buying or renting.
The Star announces a $5.90 cash prize for the household advertising the greatest number of For Sale articles in its classified columns over seven days from Monday July 15 to Monday July 22. Ads include furniture, instruments, silverware, homes or autos. Call Main 690 for help and placing ads. ties share the prize.
Real estate ad offers a 6 room modern house at 2698 Wale nut near Admiral Way Seattle. Two blocks to California Ave and one to Wait at with cement sidewalks shade trees and front side porches. 15 minutes by car to shipyards in an exclusive neighborhood. Also listed: a 4 room modern bungalow near park for 2450 with no mortgage and easy terms. A-5T3 W. Stith St and Valentine Place offer semi modern 5 and 4 room homes with furnished options and set prices.
A sensational advertisement promotes half acre plots and larger tracts for sale near Lake Hurlen and Lake Darien, with low down payments, monthly terms, and proximity to shipyards. It touts independence from rent, various parcel sizes from 0.5 to 40 acres, and names several agents and offices including Elliott, Weaver, Eastman, and Douglas-Morse Co.
Burwell Morford offers a $2 659 T room house on a corner lot with full cement basement and quick possession. Upper Co lists two S room bungalows at $2 600 and $2 500 with cement basements and good condition. A Seattle housing appeal urges workers to buy now against looming winter rent and coal shortages, promoting easy payments.
Sound view lots priced at 250 to 280 with 404 and 100 foot depths on Beacon Hill near Jefferson Park and golf grounds. Nearby Waits offer water, planked sidewalks, and easy terms. other listings include close in Sound view plots near Seattle with city services, terms from 19 cash and monthly payments. Also cottage listing Holmes Haring offers a modern 4 room home at 2100 near Ravenna car line. Listings promoted by BETRENS BURWELL & MORFORD Main 2455.
Fragmented OCR lists numerous stalls with prices for fish meat dairy produce and groceries including cod herring salmon milk butter beans rice oats raisins sardines in oil coconut jelly and cleaning products. Highlights include fresh black cod at various stalls and 10c per quart milk with several canned goods and staples priced per can jar or box.
The capture of 12 towns northwest of Chateau Thierry by American troops marks a major first offensive drive. The move strengthens Allied defenses along the Marne while forcing Von Hindenburg to rethink his plans.
The stock market rose sharply on wartime news. United States Steel advanced 3 percent to 107, Reading rose 1 percent to 89, Maine preferred closed at 98 up 1, and Anaconda gained 1 percent to 69.
Secretary of War Baker announced a major counter offensive on the Marne Aisne front with whole divisions of Americans in action. Gen Pershing reports confirm United Press details that the drive continues with about 27 500 men per division as the onrush advances.
A Serbian government report that prisoners captured by Austrians and Germans are inoculated with tuberculosis and other diseases is being daily verified by escaped Serbian prisoners.
19 acres mostly cleared with fine water and good S-room house cow barn and orchard. Bottom land with milk route and R. F.1d on county road adjoining other dairy ranches. For a short time only price 2000 dollars 2300 cash balance monthly 407 Leary Road Main 2202. Also logs land for sale low prices easy terms Lib erty bonds accepted as first payment. Steady work in camp and mill for steady men.
Premier Lloyd George sent a cablegram to Col. Theodore Roosevelt expressing sorrow over the death of his son who died fighting for a noble cause. He adds sympathetic regards and notes protection measures for Versailles and nearby monuments in the Seine et Oise district.
Dammed stream site offers garden space and gravity feed utilities. Includes furniture, tools, splendid range and dishes. Located near downtown in a good neighborhood. Price 1550 dollars with 250 cash and 15 monthly balance. Inquire at 203 New York Dk.
A fragmented pricing list shows stall numbers 18 25 12 14 and 102 offering food items like cereal coffee golf oils cheese eggs fresh fish meats and canned goods. Prices range from 10 cents to 43 cents with items including Del Monte ketchup stuffed olives Midget pickles and Jernaey butter.
A dense catalog of seafood produce and staples with prices per item listed in a historical setting. Items include Chinook salmon halibut cheeks sturgeon celery green corn fresh beans lemons potatoes and various canned goods and household products. The tally shows unit prices and crate quantities for stalls and vendors.
The United Press flashed news to the White House as the Franco-American offensive developed. President Wilson, back from golf at noon, studied the reports eagerly and remained in close telephone contact with developments throughout the afternoon.
United Press Chicago New York dispatches report a major wartime breakthrough with rapid nationwide celebration. Markets react with gains as news spreads from coast to coast. Dow Jones notes a strong upturn following the announcement.
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