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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
10
Property ad offers a Beattie area estate probate listing with 40 bearing trees, grape vines, a large family garden, multiple outbuildings, lawn, bee hedges, and a spacious yard. Nearby bargains include farm land for sale, city lots, and rental-lease options in Seattle area with easy terms and near shipyards.
A dense schedule of market stalls details prices for seafood meats produce and household goods. Stalls 14 through 65 list items from sturgeon chinook salmon and ling cod to butter coffee sugar flour and soaps with varied prices per pound can and ounce and specials on milk eggs and beans. Several stalls note fresh Washington products and local dairy.
Two shipyard workers are in Seattle General hospital after falls Monday. Claude Lambuth, 91, Skinner and Eddy employee, fell from a 50 foot scaffold into Kilcott Bay. John Hobloff, 95, of 417 12th Ave, dropped 10 feet and suffers a concussion.
Capt. H. 8. Throckmorton chief instructor of navigation at the Merchant Marine Training School University of Washington sails from Seattle Wednesday to Mare Island navy yard to report as lieutenant commander in the naval reserves. Throckmorton a graduate of several marine training schools of repute.
In Victoria British Columbia on June 18 a whale meat cannery reports a daily capacity of 500 cases. Steam whalers from Kyuquot have harpooned 75 whales so far, with expectations of breaking all packing records in the 1918 season.
Washington reports sixteen steel ships delivered to the Shipping Board in the first two weeks of June. Total tonnage reaches 91,162. Five were direct contract, with Great Lakes yards turning out eight ships at 26,362 tons, Pacific coast yards five ships at 45,700 tons, and Atlantic coast yards three ships at 17,100 tons.
Beattie will soon host two new facilities on the Iwamish waterway. An engine and foundry plant will complement a ship spar company, signaling expanded shipbuilding activity in the area.
The free port issue affecting Seattle will be taken up by the free port committee of the industrial bureau of the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning. Isidor Pappaport of Manchester England will describe free port advantages. he heads a firm with offices in India, Europe, and Southern Asia. A report to Washington is under consideration.
Seattle boosts the Pacific Northwest with Todd Dry Docks Inc as largest drydock and repair plant. Capitalized at $1,000,000, the site on Harbor Island rushes to completion with plans to move existing facilities from Skinner & Eddy to the new Olympia location by July 15.
Vancouver report says the sunken steamer Admiral Fans will be floated by June 20, per Capt. Logan of the British Columbia Salvage Association. The salvage plan aims to refloat the vessel and resume operations after the incident.
On June 18 in St Paul Samuel Gompers appears to stand unopposed for reelection as president of the Federation of Labor. Minor officer races are rumored and elections will likely occur Thursday before the annual convention adjourns. A reorganization proposal to transfer union members without losing seniority rights was rejected 17 736 to 7 676. Delegates urged curtailment of print paper exports due to domestic shortages threatening printer livelihoods amid concerns of German propaganda in Mexican newspapers.
Mrs. Catherine Mauss testified in her divorce suit against Joseph Mauss, Northwest manager of Russell & Erwin, alleging cruelty and nonsupport. The case revealed a thread of personal conflict as Mrs O Hara questioned her daughter's modesty after a honeymoon remark about washing a blouse.
District 10 miners convention in the Labor Temple weighs Mayor Han non’s claim that Seattle and state people lack confidence in the coal price fixed by the fuel administration. William Short, president of the State Federation of Labor, spoke, recounting front-line experiences and urging unity as Allied manpower and railway ingenuity shape the war effort.
A fragmented OCR list of market goods with prices and items including peas grap fruit mackerel salmon anchovies sugar cured beef veal tomatoes onions cantaloupes grapes rhubarb beans macaroni and tea. Entries show prices per unit or per quantity and several misspellings or garbled words.
A garbled OCR list shows assorted grocery brands including Albers and Carnation milk, Cream of Narley, Mount Vernon and Federal milks, Post Toasties, Washington macaroni, Good Taste beans, Log Cabin syrup and Ivory soap with scattered prices and abbreviations.
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