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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1919
Page
5
Tursdale will give an expose of the banking system and financial question at the Hall 201 Labor Temple on Sunday June 22 at 7 30. Bankers invited. Admission free.
Directory listing of attorneys physicians and services in Seattle with names such as TP Rall BeTARLishep Fred Po Gorin Mason Penwick Lawrence and more. Includes addresses phone references to Remington Typewriter Co Western Rubber Co Olympic Foundry Co. Also notes Turkish Baths and a storage warehouse.
David S Barry of Michigan builds a 30 year career from senate page to sergeant at arms. He serves as stenographer for congressmen and a newspaper correspondent and becomes an authority on senate customs and usages.
Clarence H Mackay, president of the Commercial Cable Postal Telegraph System, forecast a second Pacific cable if traffic warrants it and announced rate reductions effective September 1 from San Francisco to China at 0.5 per word and to Japan at 0.5 per word. Manila toll drops to 0.5 per word. Delays on Pacific cables are easing as conditions normalize.
H. F. Alexander, president of the Pacific steamship company, will depart for Washington and Philadelphia to meet five leading shipping men and determine the future of the shipping board fleet. He aims to align on policy and fleet plans.
Maritime notices list vessels seen near the Cape with names such as Admiral Farragut Ossining Lomon Stewart and City of Beattie along routes from Tacoma San Francisco and Victoria B C. Additional arrivals and departures include Le Princess Alice Ketchikan and Canadian Volunteer at Vancouver and Victoria with harbor movements noted June 10 through June 26.
Chicago June 21. Governor Frank O Lowden of Illinois will be urged for the Republican nomination for president in 1920 as the Hamilton Club of Chicago fosters a boom.
Reports from Juneau say three miners, Mrs J G Peterson and her two daughters, are extracting bullion with a small prospect mill. They process about three tons of sorted ore daily and earn strong miners wages through the summer while continuing development work.
Portland Ore June 21. The 36th annual trap shooting tournament of the Sportsmen's Association of the Northwest is being conducted here today by the Portland Gun Club. Top shooters from the region compete for honors and trophies.
Honolulu report says Captain D. P. Wall and seven crewmen aboard the schooner Luka are 40 days overdue from Buva Fiji Islands after being stranded near Flint Inland. Strong winds and tides prevent aid as fires signal from the island but no vessels can reach them. The reef is perilous and a raft may be the only chance for survival.
The steamship Glyndon, third of the weasel fleet, will arrive here Thursday after launching at Albina shipyards in Portland. Matson renews the Seattle Honolulu service interrupted by the war, with a 10 day schedule and the Wallingford to arrive later in the month.
Reginald H. Parsons, president of the Northwest Chamber of Commerce, announced on Friday that W. Rfr. Robinson of Northwest Trading Co J J Connell former American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai president and T B Lippy port commissioner will represent Seattle at the free port conference in New York beginning June
The auxiliary schooner Mount Hamilton will begin loading in Bellingham in the latter part of next week according to an announcement by the Universal Shipping and Trading Company issued Friday.
Money markets in New York report a slight rise in the dollar price of silver and a steady demand for sterling pound with the rate near $4.10 to $4.11. Market observers note continued calm in trading and cautious investor sentiment amid uncertain conditions.
Market notes show mixed figures including prices and percentages such as 1.76 and 1.40 alongside percentage values and index-like data. The readable content lists several numeric entries without a clear coherent event or outcome. The fragment hints at stock or commodity quotes but lacks a complete narrative or names.
A crowded marketplace display lists stalls and items including pure fresh milk at low price, Carnation milk, Good Taste beans, barley, Norway herring, King Salmon, red snapper, shad, ling cod and other fish. Various prices are shown for milk, butter, sugar, peanut butter, peas, and canned goods.
Stall 36 offers 8 Ma fine cane sugar and fresh Kristoferson milk. Lic qt cream cottage cheese, sweet cherries and Bellevue strawberries. Large cantaloupes, cucumbers, lettuce, walnuts and Halliburton cheeks. Fresh Chinook salmon shad and black cod available.
OCR snippet lists stall numbers and items for sale including milk cheese coffee chocolate and canned milk. Items mentioned include whole cream cheese cream brick cheese bulk coffee Guittard ground chocolate home cooked roast beef pork bacon grease Crystal White soap Carnation milk and margarine with various prices.
A fragmented OCR list shows stall details across shops and aisles. Items include milk and cream, ice cream in 45 qt, soft drinks, Golden Wheat coffee and canned goods. Brand mentions include Lux soap Ivory flakes Lipton tea Libby’s soup and Dooth’s sardines.
A fragmented listing shows item names and stall numbers at Westlake Market. Items include beef steaks veal stew tea marmalade orange, baking powder and luncheon butter, fish halls apricots rhubarb Lipton tea and M. J. B. coffee with varying prices and stall references.
The page lists local asparagus cabbage carrot cauliflower and related produce prices by variety and source. It also notes a June 22 schedule change for Northern Pacific Railroad trains No. 42 and No. 41 between Kansas City and Missouri River points with altered departure and arrival times and a through sleeper service from Seattle to Walla Walla.
Readable figures list Portland clearing balances with several large totals such as five million five hundred thirty eight thousand six hundred sixty nine and other amounts including one million three hundred seven thousand four hundred fifty four, four million five hundred ninety four thousand four hundred thirty four, one million one hundred fifty nine thousand nine hundred, six hundred forty thousand two hundred and ninety thousand five hundred three dollars.
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