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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
3
A dense catalog of stalls lists various foods and prices including gooseberries olives sauerkraut mixed pickles and canned goods. Fresh Jersey Wisconsin cheeses halibut Chinook salmon and various hams are noted with per unit prices and pack sizes.
Market notes list hothouse tomatoes at 115, Bing cherries 25c per pound, cream cheese 20c, New York 2 product at 55c, home made mayonnaise dressing 30c per pound, and potato salad prices shown in a dated price panel.
A compact catalog lists several staples and prices including sauerkraut celery chowchow fresh creamery butter peanut butter cottage cheese grape juice pancake flour coffee peas string beans pork and beans shrimps oysters vermicelli prunes and toilet paper with unit costs across items. Prices shown mostly in cents per unit or per pound.
A 16 item sale list shows lamb chops at 15 cents per pound veal cutlets at 15 cents per pound leg of mutton at 12 mrt veal roasts at 12 cents per pound rolled oats 7 pounds for 25 cents head rice 4 pounds for 25 cents Fels Naptha soap six bars for 25 cents navy
Grocery list shows items with prices including beans four pounds fifty cents, cocoa, butter, cheese, eggs two dozen, cod and strawberries two boxes twenty five cents, cucumbers ten cents each, sour pickles one quart, bread three loaves twenty five cents, doughnuts dozen. Indicates a small-town shop weekly ad featuring dairy produce and produce specials.
Listing of stalls with prices for sugar 2c per unit milk 6c or 3c per pint flour $1.60 sack coffee 45? can cottage cheese 10? mustard 5c bottle ironing boards 30c to 45c best milk large can laundry soap 3c cherries 10c lb asparagus 19c lb apricots 5c per dozen blackberries 5c box corn starch 21c per 6 pack butter 30c per lb eggs 2c per dozen T-bone steaks 15c lb hamburger sausage 10c lb.
Stall 429 sells best ranch eggs at 28c per dozen, two-dozen at 55c. Domestic Swiss cheese 23c per pound. Strawberries 4 boxes 26c, blackberries 2 boxes 1c, seedless grapefruit 4 for 10c. Other stalls feature hot house tomatoes 25c per lb, homegrown cauliflower 20-26c, asparagus 1b, and assorted canned goods and condiments.
Chicago bookmakers named Theodore Roosevelt the favorite for the presidential nomination with even money odds. Local gambler Jim O'Leary endorsed the colonel, noting onlooker bets and a $750 against $3,000 stake in Roosevelt securing the nomination and victory. Hughes was listed as second choice at 6 to 5, with Root and Burton among other contenders at 6 to 1 or 7 to 1.
Frank E. Hammond republican candidate for congress in the First district will speak to the YMCA citizenship class on the legislative branch of government at the YMCA Wednesday at 7 p. m.
Fourteen bands totaling more than 450 musicians will perform patriotic airs for nearly 40 000 marchers in Seattle on Saturday as preparations pick up. Committeemen seek final counts of out of town marchers and will direct outside arrivals to parade headquarters in the Stewart building. Women’s contingents are led by Mrs Winfield Smith with other groups from Bothell unions and multiple Seattle firms joining the procession.
Mrs Lola Murray a Beattle resident of 17 years died at her home 1412 Bellevue Tuesday afternoon following a recent operation. She is survived by two daughters and a son.
Jostling crowds on Michigan Avenue and hotel lobbies greet opening day of the Republican and Progressive national conventions. Delegates in badges fill the Coliseum as Charles D. Hillebrand calls the Republican session to order. Fires begin tomorrow with keynote speeches while committees start hearings to draft platforms.
A historical note extols spineless cactus juice for cattle feed and superior medicinal use. California Cactus Juice Compound blends cactus juice with herbs for blood liver and kidney relief. Bartell Drug Stores sell it. a company representative at Store No 3 offers more information.
Daphne Pollard, famed Seattle comedian, will spice the Saturday matinee of The Passing Show of 1916 at the Moore by performing early laughs before taking her Columbia role in The Star parade float. Manager Haskell plans a half show and a 11 a.m. start, with John McDermott coordinating the pageant and Lois Goldberg joining as a flower girl with Wilkes players at the Orpheum next week.
Jurors in Judge Jurey court received copies of Might Is Right a booklet denouncing Seattle lawyers published by E Stubley during the insanity trial Stubley faces. He claims he was railroaded to the penitentiary years ago by a lawyers trust and robbed of 4000 dollars while incarcerated.
Oscar Wold a city fireman faces arson charges in Judge Frater's court on a Wednesday trial. Prosecutors allege he set fire to property owned by Peter Putt on Jonius Street at 6338 14th Ave last September.
W. H. Cottle age 20 was arrested by detectives Wednesday on charges he stole a safety deposit box from Fischer Bros wholesale grocers. He allegedly kept $35, kept a diamond and two turquoise rings, and destroyed papers by the Spokane street bridge. Lillian Risedorth's box reportedly contained money jewels and papers. Cottle confessed.
Petrograd officials report nearly 30,000 prisoners taken with cannon and small arms. The czar reportedly has over 1,000,000 troops massed from the Pripet marshes to Pruth in Bessarabia, while Austrian forces are believed to number about half that.
In June 1912 Justice Hughes rejected any movement to name him as a compromise candidate in the Taft Roosevelt feud. A friend relayed Hughes’s message that such a push would be without his authority and contrary to his explicit wishes. He has issued similar disclaimers over the past year.
Miss Catherine Major of Seattle was elected head of the Washington State Nurses Association at a convention in Bellingham yesterday. A frame building at 14th Ave. N. W. and W. 65th St. burned Tuesday causing about 1000 dollars in losses. Three hundred Seattle nurses attending the state meeting at Chehalis Wednesday plan to travel to the Portland Rose festival.
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