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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1915
Page
6
An advertisement from Geo. W. Rodwell of Colquits Victoria promotes a free catalogue of repeat order articles. It invites readers to send for the catalogue and mentions Star Wants Ads as a result source.
Classified ads describe multiple hotels and boarding houses with weekly and monthly rates. Listings include furnished rooms with private kitchens, steam heat, hot water, phones, and walking-distance locations near 8th Avenue, Beacons and Fire Avenue. Also mentions real estate offering Cath Cart land tracts 90 minutes northeast with attractive prices and easy terms.
Classified rental notice for multiple listings including 2 and 1 room furnished and unfurnished units with gas, light and phone. Mentions seven room apartments within walking distance and monthly rates around 12 to 14 dollars. Includes addresses 1007 Weller, 1733 Hel mont and contact notes.
Property listed near Kirkland with water, telephone, and electricity. Includes plastered house, barn, chicken house for about 1006 birds, and outbuildings on fertile soil. price about 4800 dollars with terms to reliable party, cash and monthly balance. Also a 60 acre tract with dairy potential priced at 800 dollars with terms. 160 acres clay soil land suitable for hogs and alfalfa. all entries include contact for J Marsh & Co at 1209 3Rd Ave.
Pastor Bertha Nelson will speak Sunday evening at 7 30 about the topic I Shall Not Die But Live and Declare the Works of the Lord in a local setting. The notice also includes unrelated business and loan data from Bellevue and Portland lighthouse affairs written in a garbled 1950s style.
Small notice seeks a loan offering ten percent interest for either of two years. Interest paid in advance with months’ interest. Promises good collateral security. Address given as £ 45 Star.
A dense price list from South End Saturday markets shows varied meats and produce. Highlights include veal at 14% per pound, lamb at 14 cents, ham and lard products, codfish, oysters, condensed milk, and multiple fruit and vegetable offers such as cherries, cantaloupes, green beans, grapefruits, bananas, oranges, and fresh salmon. The note also references a Sanitary Saturday sale with extensive cane sugar and baking goods, and several stall numbers with assorted staples and staples discounts.
City Council debates sealing of Cedar River dam. Councilman Dale criticizes Public Works delays and calls for an expert review. Finance committee advances a resolution to speed the dam report while the engineer Dimock may resign if council blocks necessary repairs.
Seven people were injured when two Los Angeles Railway cars collided at 11th and Malinata. Former mayor A. C. Harper suffered broken ribs. Ambulance and patrol units rushed to the scene as police struggled to control a mob.
Mrs Anna E Sather of Woodland Park and her 15 year old daughter Marie were seen walking with a packed suitcase when Deputy Sheriff Wiley removed the child on a warrant and placed her with the Y W C A Otto Sather is seeking a divorce and asked that the child be kept from her until the case is settled.
Memorial services for the late Judges Langley and Humphries were held in Judge Mackintosh's department. Judge Albertson presided and papers were read before the Seattle Bar Association and the superior court. Courts were closed all day.
A fragment from a market page lists items and prices at stalls including fresh milk butter pineapple lemons cucumbers cottage cheese and re soles for shoes. Prices show bulk and per unit quotes such as 2 for 25 cents and 6 for 10 cents with various quantities and stall numbers noted.
A list of marriage licenses and births recorded. Names include Hansen True Fielder Wood Neustadt Johnson Hultta Ball Britain Batley Oteuhmaru Pickenhaugh Field Johnson Sitko Friedrickson Olberg Strand MacVicar Sil Nelson Nelseon Middeton Jurn Willard Burton Crown Emerson Feurt Gallatin Rogerson Johnson Griley Schmidt Behumma Powell Wilhelm and others. Divorces granted and requested are noted for multiple couples in this Seattle area register.
In Ganta Roba California Justice Marvin T. Vaughn urged naming a county prize fighter to deal with abusive husbands. He spoke after three women appeared in court with black eyes from their husbands, arguing a trained boxer could deter domestic violence.
Los Angeles June 1. Attorneys Horace Apnel and Le compte Davis withdraw from defense of M. A. Schmidt and Davis Caplan, accused of complicity in the Los Angeles Times bombing. Insufficient defense funds led to their replacement by Fred V. Moore and Attorney Farrell. Caplan and Schmidt face a September murder trial.
Berlin reports Gen. Von Lingsingen’s forces recaptured Zaravno from Russian control after driving them from the bridgehead and across the Dnelster. The German war office confirms the Russian claim of repulsing Austro German forces along the Dneister was not as extensive as thought.
George Meyers of Hobart, 24 miles from Seattle, arrested for operating a blind pig says at the county jail he had never before seen the city.
Judge Tallman dismissed the state medical board action for unprofessional conduct against M. F. Knox, a mental healer, granting him license reinstatement. The board previously denied Knox in 190%. He appealed to the superior court, won license, then the supreme court affirmed. The board later revoked again on grounds of unprofessional conduct.
Relief that Irwin, 43, son of Warren Holton of Port Angeles, is kidnapped by people now in Seattle. Holton came here Saturday to seek aid of Sheriff Hodge. He left the boy with Mr and Mrs Charles Richards of Port Angeles after renting his home. Holton returned to Port Angeles on Friday to find they had left, taking furniture and the child.
Ray Cave aged 22 and Frank Williams aged 24 are jailed charged with beating and robbing G. W. Brandenburg 59 at Carson and Duwamish avenues Friday night. Brandenburg is recovering from severe scalp wounds.
A brief ad asks shoppers if they tried an Ice Cream Soda this week at the Hollywood Land Fountain. It notes the price as 5c and marks all flavors as available. The promotional tone mirrors a local penny-pincher offer from the era.
At a Labor Temple meeting the Building Trades Council adjourned for two weeks and appointed a committee to go to Tacoma next Friday to aid in reforming the Tacoma Building Trades Council. The committee members are Frank Gates R. P. Duncan and C. G. Clise with many delegates traveling by auto train and boat to join festivities.
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