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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
6
Short ad listings include want ads with rates a penny a word and minimums, contractor notices for expositions Fisher and Mines Lie Alaska exposition, help wanted male, lost and found items including a bracelet, personal notices, and furniture and miscellaneous sale items. Read as a rapid-fire catalog of services and personals.
Fragmented OCR text mentions Beattie Co and Met xewes Machines Singer Wheeler New Home and a sum around $272.5 with references to main street and Belew. Limited readable items suggest a local business notice or vendor listing without clear context or dates.
Auction notice for Fr iday March 10 10:30 am at 2338 First Avenue selling oak bed sets dressers chairs tables and desks and other furnishings. G Bickerton is the auctioneer listing a wide range of home furniture pieces and appliances for sale.
A jumble of loan offers from The Stan Loan Co and other lenders promises salary advances with low rates and no security for wage earners, plus multiple business and real estate pitches. Restaurant prospects and realty listings from Kellogg Realty and others urge readers to inquire, with blurred contact details and ads for furniture, millinery, and services.
The notice promotes suburban home tracts for sale with low monthly payments. It references locations near Gatewood Station and outlines financing terms. The edition highlights new homes and property listings available through local agents and sideway gateways.
The fragment notes effects on cultural products and water depth near a main line. It mentions ash trees, abundance of water, and a two year projection. Lead investigator Wenatehee fruit growers is referenced amid vague phrases and misread terms.
A father asks police to locate his son J A Chin listed as 18 years old in Evergreen Idaho after he wrote he was ill and broke in Seattle. He disappeared following money sent. a 1908 notary statement is also referenced in the text.
Real estate notices describe one and two room cottages with prices and terms. Listings refer to Woodland Park properties in Moundview Nerth and nearby areas, noting land lots, meters, and monthly payments. The ad mentions development plans and employment implications, guiding readers to the Bremerton development offices in the American Bank Building.
Amid cluttered copy a Bremerton market flurry shows demand for water front acreages and urban lots. Listings tout prices from 1 400 to 1 600, half cash, monthly balances, and nearby navy yard access with potential jobs and growth.
Fragmentary listing describes a property with an unobstructed view near Pioneer General area. Mentions price around 650 and a contact D B Thompson at Oriental Hide Mein 698.
Real estate firm offers one half acre parcels within a short walk of two streets. Properties feature good soil and low city access, advertised as among the strongest lots in the addition. Each tract priced at four hundred dollars below nearby options, with limited supply and time-sensitive buyer interest.
No 1 land six acres priced at 75 dollars cash or 76 dollars in six months payment plan. South of Geed road with good neighbors selling by Winship Bro. at 200 Colman Ride.
Evansville March 6 The Cumberland Presbyterian church seeks amalgamation with the Presbyterian church causing widespread church door keeping and injunctions as courts weigh property rights in over 200 southern cities. The dispute involves 150,000 to 200,000 members and Nashville publishing houses as the case heads to higher courts.
A Cincinnati man wrote a frank appeal to the “To the Prettiest Girl Louisville Ky” addressed missive. A post office committee sent the letter to Miss Nellie Manefield a revenue office clerk. She is not seeking marriage and shows no romantic interest.
A lone highwayman with face hidden by a handkerchief robbed the Fisherman's Headquarters saloon at Elliott av and Wall st at 1 o'clock this morning. He took $60 from a patron, $2 from the barkeeper, and a gold watch, then vanished. None of the victims could describe him. Funeral notices follow for several individuals with services and burials at Mount Pleasant and Lake View cemeteries.
Claude M Farrell 16 died at 272 Harvard Ave North March 4 body at Collinge Bros undertakers. John Olson 70 died at Seattle General Hospital March 3 father of Mrs John Abeliser body at Johnson Hamilton undertakers. Tadao Kubo 2 months died at 522 Jackson St March 4. Rita Marie Duff 23 died at West Seattle residence March 4 remains at Bonney Watson parlors. Irne Arecodaus 16 months 20 days died of typhoid fever March 2 in the city. Irene Purington 3 died at York Station remains at Tonhey Watson undertakers.
In Warsaw Indiana on March 24 the Suffering Papa club was inaugurated led by Master Suffering Papa W F Walsh. Members pledge to refuse kitchen help during daughters parties stop smoking cigars and pipes in front of company call daughters beaux down hard when they are gay and cut gossip. Also noted a report on the steamer Santa Clara showing minor damage during a return voyage to Seattle en route to Valdez and Seward.
Six seal hunters including one white man and five natives are stranded on drifting floe near St. Michael Alaska and face being swept into the Pacific if wind does not shift. The party was traveling with a wind and current when their floe broke away and left them adrift.
Thomas 8. Foster and W. A. Glover headed U S secret service operations that led to the arrest of two counterfeiters at the Flyer dock, with $326 in counterfeit $6 gold pieces found on Burdick. Additional members of the crowd are expected to be captured within days as authorities tighten the probe into a babbit metal coin production dated 1941.
J H Jahn shot and killed Jesse H Price of Pittsburg Gold Mountain Mining at the company property near Darrington yesterday. Authorities say financial disputes sparked the attack. three shots fired with Price reportedly contesting a legal defeat.
London reports the lord great chamberlain keeps a royal snappy post with duties only on openings of parliament and coronations. His $22,500 annual pay covers ceremonial master of ceremonies while gatekeeping requires his signature for entry. The Marquis of Cholmondeley stands as the 21st holder of this historic snap.
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