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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1916
Page
9
A dense page lists general practice ads on insurance and storage services, job seekers and matrimonial notes, and various classifieds. Personal ads seek marriage, companionship, or financial help, while business listings include moving and warehousing, hotel rooms, piano sales, and real estate offers.
A collage of advertisements for loans, sash and doors, jewelry, clothing and auction goods, nerve treatment, wigs and eye care, dancing lessons, matchmaking notices, and miscellaneous services. Includes sale notices, “Big 1916 catalogue” requests, and local business promotions from various merchants and clubs.
Classified items show job requests and offers for men women and girls with wages references to barber college and restaurants. Personal ad offers marriage prospects with high sums and photos, urging responses via Valley Nebraska address.
For rent or sale list shows furnished PTROOM PURNISHED COTTAGE at 704 W. Tard, $13 monthly. another ALKIL furnished cottage with gas range and electricity at Fant 6489, $10 monthly. a modern bungalow with city view available. two acres at SOUTH PARK with T-room house, barn, chicken houses, fruit trees and living potential. ALLEN BRISTOL listing at 215 Seventh Ave. and a Real Estate Loans notice offering 13,000 to loan at 7 percent from North 207.
Notice describes a news room cottage for rent with a terrazzo tub, concrete basement, lawn, gas, furnace, and modern rooms. Located at Ward Street near Take sard area, near Providence Hospital. Lease terms listed with monthly rent of 15 dollars 2510 KH. Ward.
The 46 Homesteads co LLB announces a retirement drawing for about 600000 acres of fruit farm and dairy land on an Indian reservation in Washington. Civil or Spanish War veterans or their widows may register by an agent. Postpaid maps and descriptions available by sending for blank forms from SMITH & McCABA Spokane.
In Peka Kansas on June 10 Thomas J Hurley kicked a suspected scrap from a sidewalk. It turned out to be dynamite which exploded and shattered his leg. Authorities report the incident as an accidental blast.
Bankruptcy sale notice List of timber and mining locations in Alaska Gold Exploration and Development Company assets offered for sealed bid with 10 percent cash deposit. Sale set by Judge in Beattie Washington. bids due June 26 1916. deposits forfeited on failure to complete sale. timber details include Douglas fir volumes and per thousand foot prices.
A readable fragment lists prices and items from stalls at a public market on Saturday. Items include granulated sugar 62 cents per pound, fresh pasteurized milk, patent flour $1.25, new potatoes 7 per?, butter and sirloin steak prices, homemade bread 20 cents, coffee 46 3-1B, and various produce and meats. Also mentions sanitary Saturday sale with selections like potatoes seedless grapefruit and strawberries.
A dense list of meat, fish, dairy and produce items with quantities and unit prices appears as a local shopping tally. Items include veal cutlets, lamb chops, bacon, canned goods, fish varieties, butter, cream, pickles, cakes, bread, tomatoes, turnips, beets and carrots with assorted weights and prices.
In Findlay Ohio on June 10 a 14 year old girl identified as Mrs. Rolland Chain was divorced from her 17 year old husband after less than a year of marriage. She had reportedly eloped from a detention home.
Washington June 10. Charles E. Russell criticizes the U S Ordnance Board calling it a grand old body as useful as a wart on the hand. He notes its offices in the Union Trust building, monthly meetings, annual report, and a history since 1888, while recounting its role in protecting defense funds and stifling civilian inventions.
In Toledo Ohio on June 10 Mrs Bertram Bellows was killed by an electric lamp that fell into her bathtub as she tried to remove it.
Washington report details letters showing how the Louisville and Nashville railroad issued free passes to influence courts and legislators. Examples cite judges, jurors, and politicians seeking favors, with passes requested for relatives and allies during 1913 investigations.
Mrs. E. M. Rhodes of Seattle wept with joy as Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for president by progressives at the Abe Hurwitz Auditorium in Chicago. Delegates from Washington split votes across ballots with Hughes, Roosevelt, Root, Fairbanks, Weeks and others listed in sequence.
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