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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
7
Real Estate notice sells or rents space on a well built street with cement sidewalks and a line of properties. One fawn flower room and three other rooms available in rear for $1,000. Terms include completion after minimal down payment and installments. Property listed by CHAR SOMERS COMPANY offering several rooms and a rear hall with overhead access.
A column accuses The Meadows owners Van de Vanter and MacElroy of colluding with bookies to skim gate receipts. It depicts passes for prostitution-linked activities and a trend of lavish spending funded by gamblers, touts, and underworld figures, draining funds from workers and families.
A fragmented note mentions sending a key to college next year and installing a new kitchen range. It references a modest fund and warns against being consumed by human sharks at The Meadows, implying caution about financial and safety concerns.
A. and Kerry Gray and Mr and Mrs JL H Gray returned Friday from a Portland road trip. They traveled south slowly and drove 146 miles to Tacoma in a day. Mr Gray called the journey delightful and praised the road conditions. In Chicago seven people were overcome by gas in a Strand Street boarding house. Michael Marcovich and Martha Marian are reported to die.
FP Wright, visiting his aunt at 4230 Sixth Avenue Northeast, was robbed of 37 dollars by three highwaymen after 10 p.m. near Latona. One thief grabbed his heels and toppled him, another searched his clothes, and the trio escaped toward Latona. Wright, bruised but unhurt, saw three men, one tall, and police were notified but quiet on details.
The advertisement promotes popular drinks and custom mixtures made by expert dispensers available only at Lang's. It highlights wholesome creams ices sherbets and seasonal fruits and promises attentive service for unique requests. It ends with a sales pitch that it pays to deal at Lang's.
Spinning's Satisfactory Store advertises summer bargains valid through June and July while stock lasts. Offers include a two foot folding wheel and heavy tread tires with prices listed, plus a note to call for a copy if not received and to leave name and address for future mailings.
McWay Bolcom Lumber buys 300 by 300 foot Ballard plot near baseball grounds for 15000 dollars. plans a planning mill and yard space. A mysterious buyer of block facing Shilshole avenue vanishes. Also notes on local events including a dog and animal show, electric light talks, harbor dredging contracts, and a Ballard school graduation of 21.
St Mark's at Madison and Broadway led by Rev J P D Llwyd with morning and evening services and Sunday school. First Presbyterian at First and Spring under Rev M A Matthews with morning sermon titled The Substance there than the Form and evening talk The Skeletons of Society. Foster Station hosts weekly preaching at Foster Hall with W O Hardin as pastor. First Free Methodist at Pine and Terry led by C B McKinsey offers Sunday school at 10 and sermons at 11 with class at noon. Second Presbyterian at Seventh near Pike with Rev W B Simonds preaching on Revelations of God. Immanuel's Lutheran at Union and Olive with H A Stub presents 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. services. Norwegian preaching by Rev O Bjorke of Bellingham. English Y P A meets Wednesday evening. Seattle Ladies Aid in church basement Thursday. Arcade Building hosts 11 a.m. service with Saunders' orchestra and municipal government talk. Evening ferries to Alki Point depart from Flyer dock 6:05, 6:26, 7:30, 8:00, 8:39 p.m.. return at 9:30, 10:20, 11:30 p.m.
A dense listing details sermons and masses at multiple churches including Trinity Parish on Eighth and James, Morning services at 7:30 and 11, evening at 7:40. First Church at Sixth and between Marion and Columbia with 11 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. offerings. Units cover Unitarian, North Baptist, Westminster, Fremont Swedish M E B Church, Foster Station, Free Methodist Roy Richards, Catholic parishes, and special meetings with lectures by May E Stevenson of Stockholm.
E N Brooke Co advertises newest styles at one and one half dollars each. Prof Knox presents third lecture at Pera Hall titled How to Select a Postner.
To the man that wants a dress suit for $10.00 we place on sale today 100 black clay worsted silk lined hand tailored garments. These suits are easily worth $17.50. Come around and ask to see them KH. Lewis & Co. Medium Priced Clothiers 700 First Ave Cor Cherry.
The program lists lectures at Beattle lodge and Queen City Theosophical Society including The Different Planes The True Meaning of Adam and Eve The Secret Doctrine and The End of Personality with speakers Jno HM Wilson and J J Shelium. Study classes and public sessions run at 7 pm and 8 pm with return times from Alki Point stations.
Advertises Good White Lead at 33.80 per 40 ft, Cotton Hoe prices 25 ft 2.60 and 64 ft 4.00, various tools including Busy Sprinklers and wheelbarrows, plus washing machines offered at 10 dollars with 2 dollars down and 1 dollar per day rental. Bundles prices and payment terms shown.
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