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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
6
A garbled Beattie page shows help wanted notices for male IT and merchandising work with various salaries and contact hints, plus housing rooms for rent, furniture ads, loans, and local services. Entries mix job leads, room rentals, and goods for sale with scattered contact details and addresses.
Local notices advertise waterfront plots near Bremerton and Palouse selling cheap with cash terms. Sellers claim rapid value gains and urge quick action to secure oceanfront or military-area parcels. Listings include acreage near Navy Yard and Columba Street with staged payments and low down payments.
A fragmented OCR item mentions a $25 cash and $10 a month level, a 400-foot tote, and references to blocks and water view. The readable text is garbled and lacks complete context or clear event, place, or organization details.
Advertises large tracts of fertile soil in King County with joining tracts. Mentions price terms including down payment and monthly installments. Describes soil as finest and invites quick purchase. Contains several unclear phrases and misspellings from OCR.
These genuine snaps offer seaside villa like properties near Riverton with five acre plots and one acre options. Listings note monthly payments around 98 dollars and short drives to town. Properties emphasize value and investment potential in a developing area.
The list shows overnight entries for races featuring two year olds and up with purses and seller conditions. Notable entries include Hidden Hand, Nelle of Iroquoia, Kokomo, Royal Queen, Brookleaf, River Lame, St Elmwood, and Lord of the Forest among others with various weights and times.
Honts operates 10 daily round trips from Pier 2 at the foot of Yealer Way. The Atlantic yard scene includes the battleship Rhode Island in drydock as part of the harbor activity.
A fragmented racing card lists horse names and codes such as Stargantha Bem LMA and May Amelia among 3yearolds and up racing entries with performance figures like 107 1614 8719. No full results or contexts provided.
The Alaska Steamship Company reports Northwestern arrived at Nome. The Victoria sailed to Seattle with treasure estimated between 800000 and 1000000 dollars. The Bonanza Cape area lies 100 miles south of Nome. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company steamer Bewater will depart for Seattle this afternoon.
Col Hamilton Young veteran newspaper executive of the Western Union died today at his son's home in Chicago from heart trouble. He was a longtime operator in the newspaper business and a prominent figure in the industry.
United Press reports six companies of the 22nd Infantry under Captain Halstead depart the Presidio for San Francisco to embark tonight for Alaska and be distributed among northern army posts from Fort Berthold south. A banquet is planned in San Francisco, and a recital at the Madrona M E Church features Mrs. Gillen, Blossom Hurd, Alice Bchuetter, and Play Sprague Barwick.
Eighteen candidates seek endorsement for a vacant superior court seat ahead of a bar primary. Judge Arthur Griffin remains the lone incumbent not up for reflection as contests mount among hopefuls. Democrats Frank Brown and Wil Watson split their factions toward John S. Jury, while KH George and Kenneth Macks teams claim pledged votes and quiet confidence in favorable results.
In New York, racing interests seek a court injunction to block enforcement of Hughes track gambling laws. Justice Bischof scheduled a hearing, with prominent figures expected to appear on behalf of the track owners. The case tests constitutional grounds amid a June dispute at a major racetrack.
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