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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1904
Page
6
A light column notes a city group named Don’t Worry Club formed by readers who place classified ads. The piece playfully suggests most neighbors are members, highlighting the newspaper’s classified section as the joining element.
A chaotic mix of hiring wants real estate and goods for sale. Listings include work offers like music teachers sales clerks and foremen plus many housing rooms for rent and sale of furniture, horses, wagons, and farm items. Several business names and addresses appear with contact details.
Real estate ad touts lakeside lots near Seattle area with easy transit access. Offers low down payments and monthly terms, city water, cleared sites, gardens, sidewalks, and views. Mentions Rainier Beach Land Co and various agents and contact points.
A longOCR filled notice advertises clairvoyant Palmistry expert Wallace at 4 Pike Street offering love guidance, marriages, treasure location and business success. The item promises head reading and nerve advice, with location near hotel area and a price plan.
Fragmentary OCR listing mixed business names and services including photography, printing, hospital items, bookbinding, storage, and repair shops. Contains scattered addresses and phone hints with unclear dates or events.
Real estate ads offer multiple home choices including a $2.1- choice new room house on Kenton Hill with laundry and view, a 6.0 modern furnished house on first hill with hot water heat, and an income property near Madison and Fifteenth. Additional notices advertise irrigated farms, improved lots, and terms from Brelder Lebold & Cox at Bass Lumber Exchange. Account shows property sale or trade options within Wenatchee district and surrounding areas.
Property features 25 acres under plow with a bearing orchard a large house a good barn 11 cows one team of horses 200 chickens and all farming equipment included.
Moot, July 20. The lavish generosity of Benator WA Clark toward Anna La Chapelle’s family has long sparked commentary. Arthur La Chapelle, a wealthy figure connected by marriage, funded schooling and a Park Street home after aiding Anna’s widowed mother and siblings. A single night at a club netted him $1,000 as Mallette’s fortune faltered, and his antics included pawning diamonds and throwing a champagne bottle through a mirror leading to jail.
The tale follows Arthur La Chapelle once an elevator boy earning $15 weekly, now entangled with Senator Clark’s money and social set. Clark fears losing control of the spendthrift youth while arranging bets and debts to pull him from costly scrapes.
A sensational poster distribution in New Westminster British Columbia announced a public meeting at Armstrong Mall on July 6. The poster urged a vigilance committee to act against a gang of snobs thieves and bloodsuckers and claimed perjury is now a virtue while the courts are corrupted.
In Spokane on July 20 a parrot in H. N. Cockrell’s kitchen cried fire in the night waking the family. The home burned to ashes with the bird killed, but the mistress and master escaped. The parrot had been a mascot for local firemen who trained it to cry fire on sight of flames.
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