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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1916
Page
6
A dense page of ads lists marriage seekers and personal services. It includes notices for widowers seeking housekeepers, amateur lyric requests, mining engineer hopes for a wife, and several clairvoyant and medium listings. Lots of age ranges, locations, and contact details appear, with several requests to respond by mail.
Five acre ranch for sale close to Seattle public market with a wood frame six room house and bottom land. Level acreage, good soil, minimal waste land, well and view in good condition. Terms $75 cash, balance like rent. Also 8 acres with rich land near market, £550 listed. Clifford & Van Arsdale Inc. 1019 Third Ave, 101 Washington Bt, open evenings.
A jumble of 10 acre and 1 acre tract ads offers rich soil near Beattie across the bay with terms from cash to monthly payments. Nearby notices list deaths ages 17 to 66 and marriage licenses from Beattie and surrounding towns, plus Beattie residents in Port Orchard and Seattle.
A fragmented OCR list shows items across markets including milk, tomatoes, beans, spaghetti, macaroni, butter, cheese, meats, vegetables, fruit, and household goods with varied prices per unit or weight. The text references stalls and regional names, reflecting a bustling daily market scene with numerous produce lines and canned goods.
Daughters and sons born to multiple local families including Con dell on Taylor Avenue Richards at 106th and Meridian and Delavoy at KE Denny Way. Other births listed for Woolliscroft Nordquiet Morrison Stoves Riehe Potwy and more. Divorce petitions include Moody Allen McDonald and Sarah Eleanor Sanford versus Charles with abandonment noted.
A Duwamish Valley citizens committee protested to Prosecutor Lundin on Wednesday against frequent arrests of Duwamish Valley Transportation Co drivers. Drivers CC. A. Clemana and Earl Stump were jailed last week for not delivering mail while their buses carried passengers, sparked by the Traction Co's concerns.
Local steamer routes from Colman Dock list departures to Victoria Port Townsend Port Angeles and other Puget Sound points. Notes include timetable details, fare rules, passenger limits, and office hours for Puget Sound Navigation Co. tickets sold at Colman Dock.
Lieut Col Cavanaugh U S engineer says Seattle must replace old Stone Ave and Fremont bridges to allow deepening work on Salmon Bay to Lake Union canal. Channel work starts August 1 96 days to completion with Latona bridge replacement delaying Lake Washington passage into spring. North bank cementing by September 1 and water level reached by December.
Public safety committee rejected the similar ordinance last week. Councilman Hanna prepares a measure modeled on Cleveland's law that would hold any notified person liable for fire suppression costs.
Huge swarms of salmon entered the Columbia River at Astoria and along the Oregon and Washington shores, signaling what may be one of the biggest runs in history. Cannery stations were overloaded with catches as packing demands rose and extra workers were recruited to meet capacity day and night despite a season that had run 60 percent below normal.
Columbus New Mexico July 19 Villa recovered enough to discard crutches and ride at the head of a column advancing on Minaca eighty three miles west of Chihuahua City Mexican sources report there is no official confirmation of the move
Senator Oliver of Pennsylvania lost 17 to 51 in a move to remove from the naval bill the government armor plate plant provision. Bremerton repair work ends. the U S cruiser St Louis set to sail for Honolulu as submarine tender to the Pacific fleet.
From High Tower they watch Washington reg iment drill at Calexico as 800 Carranzistas and 500 regulars observe from near the border. Wig Wag signals pass to camps, while heat, dust, and alfalfa fields frame daily routine.
A bag is snatched from Mrs. Marguerite Majewski at her Washington state home Tuesday night. Battery A members pledge recruits to wartime strength as Justice Albertson halts a bank name dispute. A Tacoma coroner clears Officer Dowling of killing longshoreman Laidlaw in what is ruled self defense.
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