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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1916
Page
9
A garbled mix of job postings and property notices appears, including 21 Female Help Wanted positions, a widow seeking a city housekeeper, and numerous real estate bargains. Listings mention storage, furnished flats, land near Seattle, and farms or ranches with prices, terms, and contact details amid various business notices and public notices.
A dense OCR of market stalls lists numerous groceries with prices and weights. Items include sugar, milk, butter, oranges, salmon, hams, beef, pork, eggs, cheese, tea, coffee, oats, oats, macaroni, cake, and canned goods. Multiple stalls and prices indicate a bustling marketplace catalog.
Miss Anna Koski, an Alaska resident, was awarded $20,000 in two verdicts by Judge Mackintosh against Charles Larson, a wealthy Northern mining man. Koski testified Larson promised marriage in Nome in 1912 and took her to Seattle and Tacoma where the couple’s child was born before Larson refused to marry. Her attorney, George Rh Olson, sought $385,000, noting Larson’s alleged net worth near $100,000 largely from Alaska mining property.
San Francisco March 7 Agnes Regan a board of education member urges mothers to keep children young and avoid overdressing overfeeding and over entertainment during Baby Week at the auditorium. She warns against sending older people to cinema and favors reading over picture plays and early bedtimes.
The Linnea Social club plans a card party at the Odd Fellows temple at 10th and Pine on Tenday evening March 7. The event invites members to attend for social gathering and games.
London March. Lord Robert Cecil the new blockade minister says Britain will notify American shippers before they leave U S ports whether they may pass the blockade. The plan reduces seizures and long disputes and follows Cecil’s elevation to cabinet. Britain may publish a new contraband list soon and respond to the U S note within days.
Port District voters will decide March 7 1916 on three propositions from Port Commission resolution 298. Proposition One seeks 286 000 for Belt Line railway construction and equipment from net income or taxes. Proposition Two asks 26 000 to fund North Lake Union shore area slips wharves and stores with serial bonds. Proposition Three proposes 15 000 for further waterfront improvements. Polls open Seattle city 8 am to 8 pm, and outside Seattle 1 pm to 8 pm. Port Commission of the Port of Seattle president Robert Bridges secretary C F Remsberg certify the notice dated February 16 1916.
Modestino Mastrogioranni vanni of 3710 Grand Bird Chicago faced a federal bankruptcy filing when a bomb wrecked his house causing 25000 in damage. He and three children escaped injury. A letter threatening violence led police to arrest Mrs Pecola who admitted writing it but denied involvement in the bombing.
Portland March 7. George T. Whitstel alias Melville R Moore a former Oxford graduate and Latin professor at several American institutions was arrested by deputy sheriffs this morning after a string of daring robberies in leading hotels from Canada to the Maine line.
The body of an infant was found beneath the W. Seventh street bridge in Cal by a wanderer named C. Jacobs. The infant appeared to have died within 24 hours and was wrapped in a flour sack inside a box about two feet long.
Mrs. Phoebe Van der Lohe of Los Angeles sues her husband John Hemp for 10000 dollars claiming he moved her first husband's remains from one grave to another. The action centers on alleged desecration of family graves and misappropriation of remains.
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