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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1907
Page
4
Fragmentary ad-like text lists telephone areas and numbers in a city, with rates for weekly delivery and subscriptions. Mentions an agency and address placeholders, and scattered names and streets, giving a vague notice of services and fees.
The Seattle Star marks nine years in operation after eight-year rapid growth. It reports a staff of ninety plus newsboys and carriers, exclusive access to Newspaper Enterprise Association material, and a weekly $2,000 spend on illustrated news. The paper limits itself to eight pages to improve quality, not quantity, and plans a double decker Potter press to print up to 60,000 papers per hour, forecasting further expansion to meet rising demand.
A jumble of snippets shows patient Jad en in the money with Prank while handling postmaster Nlow. A New Haven man advertises for a wife and receives over 106 replies. Several quick, humorous exchanges follow about marriages, shaving, and a lodging offer of bed and bath for 16 cents.
In Washington, D.C. readers discuss how to correctly pronounce President Roosevelt’s name. The piece notes many mispronunciations such as Rossefelt and Rosevelt, and explains the preferred form is RO-PE- Vel t, two words, per the president’s own authority.
A cat hidden beneath a sidewalk grate at Yealer way and the A. Bartorte resort basement resisted two hours of search by Officer Clark and the resort owner. Despite lighted candies and persistent calls, the feline remained beneath the pavement as tenants endured a heartrending scene.
At the Republican city convention Postmaster Busse was nominated for mayor. The platform urges adoption of ordinances to confer franchises and related measures to support redevelopment and growth in the city.
The health and sanitation committee will report a new meat inspection bill for passage Monday night. It would require inspection of all city meat and force packing houses to meet federal standards. The bill aims to elevate city inspectors to federal-qualification levels for all city meat inspectors.
Mr. and Mrs. Durham, married 14 years with five children, face divorce after Mrs. Ida Durham allegedly told George Durham to keep a fast pace and the husband claims she refused him food, threatened to kill the children, and beat him on occasion according to the complaint filed in court.
Realty A B Newell reports the sale of 100 acres on Mercer Island to Mr. Swain for 26000, with plans to plot city lots. Also 200 acres near Seattle sold at 275 per acre in six and ten acre parcels. Sparkman & MclLean log multiple Seattle area transfers including parcels in D T Denny's addition for 9000 to Mark Graves. Additional Oregon and local Seattle transactions listed with buyers and prices.
The notice lists multiple transfers including James Mitchell to Veronique Marsan for 1200 at a Ballard Avenue intersection, Veronique Marsan to Beate for Geome A. Shaw, J A Homan to Beyen for 2000 on Washington Boulevard, and 2500 on Thirty second Avenue North. The northwest corner of Beconday and Cedar Street sold for 56000 to Laura S. G. Yerkes, with F N Leon selling interest. George A. Virtue & Co. enters real estate alongside former Great Northern official.
President Roosevelt nominates Maj. George W. Goethers as chief engineer of the Panama Canal and promotes Col Alfred Markley and Col Charles Hall to brigadier general in the active service.
Report details unclear wreck of the schooner K with fears that all hands were lost. The note urges affected sailors to discard clothes and have them cleaned, offering a Pontavoml number and Main 1048 for contact.
Seterant passenger and traffic manager Ussher of the Canadian Pacific railway sails to Seattle for his first inspection trip in the territory since his appointment. He previously served as general agent for the road with headquarters in Montreal and controlled eastern lines. now he will oversee traffic west of the Great Lakes.
A. Melvin, grand exalted ruler of the Order of, will arrive in Seattle March on his way home from a trip of inspection to eastern lodges. He will be entertained locally with a social reception led by R. Ingersoll and assisted by L. L. Moore and others. After Seattle he plans to visit Portland before returning to Oakland.
Mr A G Mechanan of the Gar vey Duchenan company reports on interest in the Alesha Yukon Pacific Exposition while in St Paul on the way home. He notes a Minnesota legislative bill appropriating 196000 dollars for the exposition and St Paul as a wholesale shipping point shows rising Beatties purchases in volume each year.
Bergt Lynn Patterson of Troop B Fourth Cavalry Fort Overton Philippine Islands surrendered to Fort Lawton authorities. He deserted from Fort Overton in November intending to reach Australia via General Francisce Joe Everett and Beattle.
The new post office bill raises clerks and carriers pay. Rates climb to 100 dollars annually after one year in position. Clerks now earning 1600 will be raised to 606. The new unit for clerks and carriers is 1200, up from 1000.
Washington March 2 The House began its longest day of the session convening at 11 and will adjourn permanently at Noon on Monday after extending through until 11 o'clock Monday night and again until noon Monday.
The Chamber of Commerce convention committee will meet Monday evening with Christian Endeavor representatives to lay plans for entertaining the delegates.
Estimates filed with the board of public works list Mast James street segment from 36th to 17th with a tug job at 3,550 dollars. A system of water mains covers 1st agricultural avenue from Stacey Street to Hanford Street and adjacent streets for 80,500 dollars. Greenwood Avenue from North 60th Street to Kilbourne Avenue and other thoroughfares are graded for 60,006 dollars.
Two new directors were elected to fill vacancies on the Commercial club board. W. W. Wilson, former state senator, and J. O. McMullen, city passenger agent for the Northern Pacific, assumed their posts.
Judge Albertson ordered Jannigre Ryk sent to Btellacoom asylum this morning. The two year old mother of a child and married wife was committed. M. Anderson was also ordered to be committed for violent insanity and required a straight jacket while awaiting transfer.
A journalist recalls a Yokohama murder where a foreign woman allegedly poisoned a man with arsenic through a wine glass after a veranda encounter. The dying man named the killer before dying. the suspect confessed after the journalist pressed her, then died suddenly the next day.
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