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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1905
Page
6
A dense mixed page listing businesses for sale rental notices furniture and real estate ads. Includes drug stores offices hotels lodging and various classified items plus legal and professional listings with multiple addresses and phone references.
Scattered 1900s business notices list banks doctors and suppliers in Seattle area. Items mention Peoples Savings Bank, Washington Institute of Otis, and Anderson Supply Co along with real estate and rental listings, equipment ads, and professional services with addresses like Cherry Street and Arcade. Multiple names and locations reflect catalog of local commerce and services.
Foreseeing a better opportunity, Woodlawn Terrace advertises quick home purchases. It touts a park within a park idea with four donated small parks and a “Beautiful Woodland Park” setting. Prospective buyers are urged to act now as prices range from 1f 1% on own terms with office hours and contact details provided.
Seaside area listings advertise small cottages and modern homes near streetcar lines with owner financing and low down payments. Prices show Lake Washington access at about 1.29 or 1.19 down, plus weekly terms and proximity to schools, churches, and transit. multiple structures, 9 lots, and garden spaces noted.
Listing describes a farm and land for sale near a landing with pear apple walnut trees, berries and grape vines, plus a 5 room house, large barn and chicken house. Also camping sites by Washington riverfront access with boat and fishing, and a Griffin store with rooms. Call for more details and viewing.
Monday’s Western avenue opening drew a big rush yet arrivals lagged normal pace. A California orchard car and Wenatchee cantaloupes and apples arrived on commission row. Fancy Wenatchee apples praised. white grapes, black berries, beans, greens and citrus priced with variety noted from per sack to per crate.
A Readable list outlines varied prices for fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat, and grains from Washington and Oregon markets. Items include apples, oranges, pears, grapes, berries, melons, tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, beans, butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, fish, and grains with unit prices and case or per ton figures.
Dutch expedition against the prince of Bont in Celebea Malay archipelago reports success on July 28. Seven warships bombarded Badju capital and landed troops, followed by a fierce land battle. Rebels left 266 dead. Dutch losses were three killed and 26 wounded.
Paris dispatch links Grand Duke Boris to the suicide of Mile. Anastasia Mazouroff, famed as Kazan’s fairest daughter. Details, suppressed by Russian authorities, appear in Paris papers after months of anxious withdrawal.
Reports from Sakhalin show Japanese forces advancing, controlling over two thirds of the island as Russian troops fall back daily. In St Petersburg, officials anticipate a major engagement and affirm the war party's dominance amid public opposition to any peace. The czar pledges to avoid a shameful peace.
Wreck at Santa Fe line near Chicago on Sunday after a broken axle left the California special derailed or damaged. No injuries reported though service disrupted as crews cleared wreckage and inspected the axle.
A night incident killed John Grugerie of Sunnyside Utah and fatally injured four others including William MacVeagh of Joliet Illinois H L Moody of Cleveland Oklahoma An unidentified Italian laborer and Ancrottt Grob banni were also severely injured as more than twenty suffered bruises and cuts from flying glass.
A powerful storm hit New York on Sunday with five people killed and nine seriously injured at Coney Island Park Way Baths as 50 others were prostrated and burned. Gravesend Beach also saw one man killed and three injured under a sheltering tree. A Brooklyn store burned and a Manhattan streetcar caught fire but occupants escaped.
A young woman identified as Mile. Mazouroff died by suicide in her room after a garden party hosted by the city governor. A bullet wound to the temple and a toy revolver lay nearby. an autographed portrait of Grand Duke Boris and a letter to Grand Duke Vladimir's son were found, prompting the Mazouroff family to flee Kazan as grand ducal pressure mounts.
William Piedeman of South Seattle fell about 20 feet at the Alki Point natatorium on Sunday afternoon while going down a chute standing up. He fractured four ribs and was taken to Providence hospital. Dr. Wiltsie reports his condition not as bad as first thought. Piedeman has a wife and two children and works at the West Seattle steel works.
In La Crosse Wisconsin on July 31 a jury found August Bryske not guilty of shooting into a crowd of boys and wounding William Miller. The defense argued the boys’ singing of Alexander provoked the act and a metal piece in Miller’s pocket stopped the bullet, saving his life.
Announcement of new buffet grill service on the Northern Pacific line between Seattle and Spokane with daily first class service leaving Seattle at 2 p m. Also advertising clothing store H Lewis Co offering shirt assortment and two piece suits at sale prices.
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