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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1906
Page
6
Local column lists FOR RENT options including furnished and unfurnished rooms and a pasture rental. Numerous items show real estate sales, farm land, cottages, waterfront plots, and varied household goods trades. Ads mention Columbus, Green Lake, and nearby streets with prices and terms.
An advertisement for Daween's additions at Green Lake, with details on a desirable heated listing, payments, and terms. The notice promotes early purchase before price increases and mentions professional services, office contact, and neighborhood details.
A damaged advert discusses land lots for sale around Lake Weehteen and near Southeast Meatt, with terms offering monthly payments and city water. It mentions Mountain View Station, Green Lake station, and access to a street car line to the university, urging quick contact for price and terms. It also references P F Fay & Co and Mt. View Station details.
fragmented adverts show buyers horse trading land near Newton Beattie and Fremont along car lines near Lake Washington. properties include waterfront tracts cottage lots and farm land with payments and terms offered by several agencies and brokers in 1910s Seattle.
A tale recounts Henry Phipps who, as a young man, invested 25 cents in a Situation Wanted ad. An inquiry from a firm dealing in iron prices led him from office boy to bookkeeper and finally to partnership. The piece extols cheap ads in The Star and urges sending a message tomorrow.
A fragmented OCR excerpt mentions scones, pinatas, fruit trees, poultry and a general fair atmosphere. It references locations near a county road one mile from a street, with unclear names and stray phrases like Seren, Ot oett. The passage reads as a rough inventory of fair foods and displays without coherent events.
A corner of Fourth Avenue faces a monthly ban in the district as residents report increased traffic restrictions. Local officials did not immediately release further details.
At a Manufacturers' association meeting Senator Piles discussed securing a seat for a Northwest representative on the Interstate Commerce Commission. He noted California’s Franklin K. Lane blocks another Western appointee, and that a committee of Oliver T. Mrickson and Colvin will gather data on railroad discrimination to forward to Washington, D. C.
The national encampment of the OO A Hh will convene in Minneapolis on August 12. A special train is planned to transport Washington members attending. Department commander Dunsing asks all eligible members to notify him as soon as possible.
Two companies of the Third regiment departed Ft. Gibbon Alaska aboard the Jeff Devise and the leon to the Tanana river and St Michaels to await transport Buford for Beattie. Arrival at Beattie expected about August.
The street committee yesterday afternoon examined the petition of the property owner on Thirty between West Way and Union for widening the thoroughfare to 84 feet. Petitioners spoke on the matter and the proposal was taken under advisement.
The Eleventh Ward Direct Primary League will meet tonight at the office of Green and Hil near Green Lake station to elect delegates for the state direct primary convention. The convention is set for tomorrow at Little’s Hall on Madison Street.
General Adolphus W. Greeley, division commander of fan Fran chem, will inspect Ft. Wright near Ppekane next Tuesday. He will arrive in Seattle Wednesday and visit Forte Verden Casey and Flagler, then depart Thursday for Tacoma and Amer deen Lake maneuvers.
Humphrey McLaughlin filed a claim with the county for 15000 damages after a broken leg suffered last March in an accident at Wagon Apert near Auburn caused by a defect in a county road.
Peter Lofiie of the Bremerton shipyards was dismissed from Beattie after two hours to return to Bremerton when authorities could not prove he was a vagrant. The man had saved 38 which he carried at the time of the incident.
Street markets display abundant fruits and vegetables with turnips 73 cents to 1.25 per sack and turkeys 20 to 22 cents per pound. Peas, corn, apples, lemons, cantaloupe, and buttered dairy items are listed with varying prices amid active trading and no early carload shipments. Live poultry and fish prices noted, alongside feedstuffs and construction materials such as cement and lime.
The fragment shows a playful exchange between Mascher and Bummers with a line about love as pure as a lake and a playful compliment. The source text is a brief dialogue fragment lacking broader context or events.
Higgins, secretary of the association, was struck from behind in the cabin of the steamer Athion near Measant Head on a Wednesday evening while returning from a grocers' picnic. Robbery is suspected as the motive according to witnesses William Williams and others aboard.
The office reports total gold received this year at 14,190,068.41 dollars, second only to 1901 with 21,707,169.97 dollars. The year 1906 surpasses all years except 1901, marking the finest year beside the historic 1901 total.
A preliminary meeting to organize a Massachusetts Society will be held in room 04 at the American Hank building corner Second and Pike next Monday evening at o'clock. Massachusettes residents are asked to send their names to Frank J. Merrick of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.
A lively gathering at the wood park yesterday featured a gala day with visitors and multiple activities. Attendees included Mike and others, with a white van seen nearby and races drawing crowds. Dr. Lee Haker and W. C. Lynch were noted participants. Jack Hodges supervised the event arrangements.
John Glover of 1626 Minot Street reports frightening a burglar who entered around 10 o clock. The intruder fled the scene without taking anything, Glover stated.
Unclear report states Tom Angelo involved in a shouting incident at the docks. Judge Gordon finds all cab drivers equally guilty amid the disturbance.
George Cook of Centralia owner of the Cook barn died Wednesday from typhoid pneumonia. He leaves a child and his wife, who died recently. The couple resided at Centralia and faced a recent loss.
Bradshaw eludes authorities as Governor Mead claims no admission of the Oscar Bradshaw killing of Officer Peter Nelson. The event centers on August 25, 1902 and follows tense pursuit through the state capital.
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