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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1917
Page
10
A dense vintage classifieds page lists marriage ads and spiritual services. Offers include matrimony aims, companionship, ministerial and psychic readings with various practitioners, contact details, and hours, crowded with names and locations.
A garbled late era advertisement list offers palm readings and clairvoyant services from numerous practitioners. It promotes life readings including love marriage health and business with various locations and prices. The text features numerous clairvoyants names addresses and appointment details in a dense directory style.
Multiple lawyer and professional ads outline services in wills probate mortgages notes collections and general practice. Entries list firms and addresses including Lyon Street James Street Oriental Building and Second Avenue with free consultations and broad legal capabilities.
Chattel loans advertise quick confidential amounts from ten to one hundred pounds or dollars for furniture, plance, live stock and storage. Local services list storage facilities, junk company, and car dealer offerings alongside a corner hotel with modern rooms and elevator service inviting inspection.
Seventeen hundred ninety two members of the Cloud City Mine Mill and Smelter Men's union walked out in Leadville today. Pickets stood at 37 mines while non union pump men kept pumps running to avert flooding. No trouble reported.
The American Exhibitors association, a dissident group within the Motion Picture Exhibitors League, will meet in Detroit next year. Members will convene in Boston in late July 1918. Kentucky Mississippi and Florida joined the insurgents after bolting the National group over officer elections.
Army work spurs changes along the American Lake line with Murray creating a new town at Murray station renamed from American Lake. Dupont station becomes American Lake. A new draft army cantonment rises at American Lake with Murray named as the 18th Engineers headquarter. The regiment may sail for France early next month and needs several skilled workers to reach full war strength.
A Teamsters union official demands a 10 hour day and wage increases as express drivers strike. Police report two near riots on business streets with rock throwing at Second Ave and Union and at Second Ave S and Main. A bystander and a youth were detained briefly, and a laborer, Albert Paentierm, 43, was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Paris July 21 American army aviators must take a post graduate course in aerial fighting in France before front attachment. Training will be conducted under the direction of French and British officers with knowledge of current battle conditions.
Governor Lister ordered 12 000 stands of rifles and ammunition seized last year aboard the schooner Annie Larson moved from Grays Harbor to American Lake. The transfer aims to offset potential mob violence raids.
London July 21 Samuel Samuels M P announced the British government will pursue reprisals in response to German air raids. He said the policy aims to deter further attacks and safeguard national security, outlining planned measures to come from Parliament.
A vivid pageant at Theodora Home features a little Italian girl waving Old Glory as youngsters enact historical figures from Pocahontas to Betsy Ross. The event underscores the home’s mission of sheltering mothers and children while underpinning education and self-support within a nurturing community.
Public markets listing items and prices at stalls 48 60 and 66 include beef liver sausage Jersey butter full cream cheese Del Monte pumpkin cocoa cockles salmon sable fish and other groceries with prices per pound can and dozen units. Various stalls display milk toilet paper cream of wheat and rubber jar items in a dense inventory format.
A chaotic catalog of stall numbers and items with prices across dairy, butter, milk, sugar, soap, coffee, bread, flour, rice, pasta, cereals, margarine, peanut butter, and meats. Includes multiple stalls such as 17 18 66 81 102 and corner Saturday notes with items like cherries beet butter lard substitute beef round steak and corn flakes. Highlights bold prices per pound or each and large can milk with various name-brand goods.
A garbled listing shows stalls 236 to 25 offering everyday grocery items with prices noted per unit. Items include sugar, cleanser, soap, flour, milk, pork roasts, veal chops, and cheese, reflecting a busy market scene with varied specials and quantities.
Gen. Goethals has offered to resign as general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation after a long dispute with Shipping Board Chairman Denman. He sent a letter to President Wilson stating he will quit if it helps, while the president weighs whether to adopt a program from either side or a plan he develops.
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