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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
9
A scanned classified section lists attorneys and legal services, storage and moving firms, optical and pharmaceutical entries, and assorted help wanted and personal ads. The jumble includes references to Rieshut Farrest, patent lawyers, Canadian connections, and various local service providers with scattered contact details.
An assortment of late 19th and early 20th century ads promises vigor vitality for drugs and nerve cures. Includes Universal Vitality Co pamphlet offers and a Norwegian midwife contact. A friendship club targets lonely women while an ad hawks jewelry with credit options and a watch claim.
A battered classifieds list touts phrenologists clairvoyants and palm readers with varying rates and locations from Pike to Pine to Third Street. Names include Madame Victoria Madame Elizabethin Cyprienne and others offering readings spellwork and fortune telling with prices around 59 cents to 105 percent. The ad promises satisfaction or no charge and includes rental listings for a new unfurnished apartment at 8954 Alki Beach.
Advertisement describes a modern hotel with renovated rooms, elevator service, telephones in all rooms, private baths, and furnished one room apartments. Promotion invites inspection and notes rate of $1, highlighting first-class accommodations and updated facilities.
The Cushman Indian School invites bids for merchantable timber on multiple tracts in the Mkokhomigh and nearby sections in Washington. Tracts list sizes and species with minimum prices per thousand feet and per linear foot for piles. bids due by July 7, 1916.
Century old listing describes a half mile from Lake Washington with a dock and improved two room house, fronting county road, papered interior and well. Terms show 80 cash or 19 monthly. Also another note reads 1,400,000 fir and 1,200 pulled, 1 1/2 miles from water harbor for booming haul at 1.00 per thousand with office in Kirkland.
The estate of the late Wolf offers personal property at 1614 East Columbia to the highest bidder. Sale is on Wednesday, June 7, with viewing on Monday from 2 to 4 PM. M. Gottstein Investment Co, 419 California Building, Seattle, Wash.
A historical sketch traces Warren G. Harding from a fired cub reporter in Marion Ohio to multiple political offices. It notes his early plug hat speech against Grover Cleveland, later editorial work at the Evening Star, and his ascent through state governor and U S senator, culminating in involvement with the Republican National Convention and a wary stance on presidential bid.
A list for citizens wishing to enroll in the summer cruise of the militia opens Thursday at noon at the naval recruiting station. The notice invites eligible volunteers to join and participate in training activities and maritime duties.
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