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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1909
Page
7
Classified notice lists farm lands in multiple counties with irrigation rights and farm houses. Property includes irrigated tracts near Yakima valley, several five-acre and larger parcels, and payment plans with monthly or down payments. Mentions banks and real estate firms as liaisons.
Fragmented notice describes waterfront lots 200 feet long offered for sale near a navy facility. It mentions new homes rising in a developing city area and a potential commission or office near the Navy site. Details are unclear and scattered in the OCR fragment.
Ads offer five room frame Madrona properties with eight new modern homes and six room homes near three streetcar lines. Prices range around 2 1/2 thousand with cash and terms available. Also five and ten acre tracts and chicken ranches listed by Math 442 Ted 1184 5 Rosrobes Roxrober.
Reads like a real estate notice listing several parcels for sale in Sea View Park and Pera Mill Addition with prices shown. Mentions Lowman Drive and Lincoln Beach and a Park area with a three week timeline.
Four room modern house in city limits offers two clear lines, water service and near downtown. Asking price $3 506 409 with terms. Owner contact at 407 to dass.
Advertises two through five room cottages with prices from 509 to 180 per month terms. Mentions furnace and modern features. Notes location on Sarma 902100 and block near alley with two blocks to permit.
Fragmentary notice lists rental offers including a cottage and room shares in Santee area. Details are unclear due to transcription gaps but indicate multiple listings and pricing hints. Further readable elements mention McAlieter and Green entities linked to the listings.
Old classified notices show multiple house and land offers near city lines. Items include a four room house near an alley, two acres in Maple Leaf Addition near a reservoir, and three lots on a street corner with water and light. Listings include contact hints and prices in the hundreds to thousands.
Bandits dynamited the cash register at the Mile House road house near Ban Mateo county, near the county line. A running revolver battle with pursuing officers followed as the robbers fled with several hundred dollars. Dana the proprietor and his bartender repelled the first attack and took refuge inside. a sheriff posse and Butchertown police are pursuing the assailants.
City finance committees decided not to provide extra funding for policemen to guard the A Y P grounds. Exposition security will rely on regular city force unless the decision changes next Wednesday morning. A laborer, Harry Williams, was arrested after approaching people on Washington Street asking for loans. Police sentenced Socialist Will to 30 days in the chain gang. Dr G A R Steiner of Ballard to lecture Sunday at Arcade hall on The Last Days of the Legislature with music and a 5 cent admission.
A vintage ad notes a local shop introducing new stock for men including overcoats, trousers, suits and cape items. It mentions a 24 foot center display, a sales value around 2000, and a six year business history as it moves into a new era under Ton Vnv Corp Ltd.
Classified ad fragment offering business opportunities in Los Angeles including a hotel venture and various trades. Mentions capital needs, manufacturing interests, and several listings such as a restaurant, paint shop, and real estate.
Fragmented classified line items show a meat market for sale at 46th Avenue with contact options, a grocery store item with living rooms and price details, and various garbled entries including an annex and lot descriptions. Names, numbers, and addresses are partially legible but uncertain.
Readable fragments describe a sale event at Century Realty involving trees and berries half a block from a street corner. It mentions contact numbers and a local owner but details are obscured by OCR errors. The fragment references a 1015 address and a 401 area code with a phone number.
Corte Madera California March 20. Gossip swirls as Helen Gladys Emery daughter of Archdeacon Emery faces engagement to Japanese suitor Gungive Aoki. Mrs Emery withholds location of the suitor while planning a Japan visit to study his people. Public tensions rise over white and Oriental unions.
Milwaukee officials report passenger through service in the first week and freight in three months, with construction one month ahead of schedule. Fast trains and heavy freights may be limited until the line is seasoned. only a few thousand feet of track remain, mainly east of the state line. Exact Seattle to Tacoma start date not announced yet.
In Cleveland, six people were injured in a panic at the Majestic Theatre after plaster fell from the ceiling. A false shout of fire sparked a crowd rush, with three seriously hurt as patrons jammed toward exits while "The Man From Shanley" continued cast members performed despite the chaos.
A garbled dialogue section shows misquoted questions about a wife and hat, followed by a remark on a preacher and a farmer inviting a visitor inside. A cautious colored man speaks of a barking dog, and an ad offers a wood range free, all in a rural newspaper fragment with multiple stray phrases.
Phillip Capita naive to penitentiary for forcing Harriet Garton to steal 260 dollars from Clark O'Brien. A local real estate dealer received hard labor term not less than one nor more than 14 years. Judge Morrin rebuked him for perjury and grand larceny findings.
The first edition of the Pacific Aerogram is published in Seattle. Frank Delg edits the magazine to be a daily and monthly digest for Northwest readers. United Wireless has a station on the University of Washington campus and the venture is a locally made publication.
Under the Washington College of Music auspices the Vic torin mate choir of Victoria B C will give a concert in Arcade hall this evening at 8 16 o clock A L Curtis presides at the organ and W S Warwicker provides piano accompaniment
Evansville report says forty miners were entombed by a blast at 3 pm in a Boonville area mine. Some injured have been rescued but officials fear heavy deaths. Local authorities mobilize rescue efforts as details remain uncertain.
East Lake City reports the legislature will adjourn with local option measures stalled. Central American news says salt will be made for peace. Palermo mourns detective Joseph Petro swine killed by the Black Hand as his coffin sails to New York. Los Angeles notes a single secret grand jury indictment. Woman's Musical Club holds its regular meeting on March 22 with Mrs. A B Stewart reading a paper at 2:90 PM.
J C Stubble traffic director for the Harriman system testified at a hearing on dissolving a railroad alliance that Harriman controls the Union Pacific Southern Pacific Canadian Pacific and Panama railroads. He said American lines receive most traffic and Canadian routes are favored with rate differentials of 10 to 30 cents on the New York scale. The initial agreement among Union Pacific Canadian Pacific Panama railroad and Southern Pacific Steamship dated to 1897 with renewals through 1902.
Seattle Chamber of Commerce letters from petty officers of the Nebraska tell of their desire for a Teddy Bear mascot after the original bear jumped overboard near Tacoma. Secretary of the Navy barred the Nebraska coast visit, ending sailors’ hopes for a second Teddy Bear.
A note found in the mayor’s mall claims a 7 female moose is for sale to the city for park purposes. The seller asks 500 dollars, Edmonton, and mentions Seattle contact. The mayor referred the matter to the park board for action.
Mrs. Katherine D. McCormick petitioned the Santa Barbara Superior Court alleging her husband Stanley McCormick is mentally incompetent. She seeks guardians to manage his $10,000,000 estate, referencing his father Cyrun McCormick, head of the reaper trust.
Deputy Sheriff William Zimmerman secured a confession implicating four others in a forged check swindle tied to Maple Valley Lumber. The group forged checks for $20 each using victims’ names after luring them with a note book trick and forged signatures.
The Eastlake Improvement club scored Councilman Revelle for opposing Boullion streetcar reforms. Members formed a four person committee to push ward division for better North End representation and adopted a resolution to discuss extending the Seattle Renton and Southern Railway line from Priest north into Eastlake to create an independent competing street railway system.
Miss Laila Burch starred as the Faery Child in The Land of Heart's Desire, captivating audiences in a Washington University gym presentation. Mine Therean Preeton impressed as Maire Bruin, while Frank M. Foulsers offered the Exposition play The of 1999. Several performances showed uneven pacing and heavy monologues, though Don Truebioed and Prince Hal scenes drew praise for coaching Shakespearean parts.
Mrs. Frank Thompson filed for divorce on cruelty grounds. Her husband, the late Robert Thompson, a Portland capitalist, left an estate valued at 8,000,000 with an undivided one eighth owned by his son. The Thompsons resided in 1891 and later moved to Los Angeles.
In Oakland California Mrs Mary Walker a confectioner was found battered and unconscious outside her shop. She named her cousin John Gray as the attacker claiming he struck her with a hammer on the head. Gray is arrested and held. he denies the charge. Gray supposedly brooded over wrongs and had recently sought to reclaim a deed to land Walker had lent him.
The Countess of Granard formerly Miss Beatrice Mills of New York and California joined London society and politics after a dinner she hosted for Premier Asquith and a gathering of Irish and American statesmen and diplomats.
Rain Tonn and Sunday with warmer temperatures tonight. Expect high south winds and continued unsettled conditions as a weather system moves through.
A bill introduced in the House by Representative Bisson of Minstow proposes a $2 tax on every weapon manufactured and sold within the United States including plates knives and brass knuckles. The measure aims to raise revenue and is reported from Je ngton dated March 20.
Comanche Oklahoma March 26 John Campbell former cashier at First National Bank fled with over 6000 dollars but sent a Denver letter saying intoxication caused the act and he would repay the balance soon. Bank officials drop prosecution and withdraw reward for his arrest.
Daily banking totals show Seattle clearings of 1,624,080.07 with balances 269,271.20. Tacoma clears 679,157.00 with balance 25,601.00. Portland clears 918,085.00 with balance 175,562.00.
The Josey of San Francisco has appropriated 16 000 dollars to promote Frisco 48 as a business center. Funds will be spent this summer at the A P B, mainly for booklets with pictures of the largest buildings erected since the fire.
Secretary Ballinger buys Roswell a strong bay horse formerly owned and ridden by President Roosevelt for his ceremonial use in Washington. He rode the horse publicly yesterday, drawing notable attention. President Taft arrived in Washington at 7 2 from New York without incident.
Saturday dance event at Lesch Park pavilion invites gentlemen and ladies, free admission for all. attendees urged to arrive ready for an evening of social dancing and music.
Journalists in Seattle exchange notes on securing the American Humorists convention for Seattle this year. A.Y.P. pin is urged for distribution to journalistic clubs as part of the effort.
The Chenowith family of Dewa lost their home to a recent fire. Neighbors report they have provided limited help but seek clothing and monetary aid for the needy family to support them during recovery.
The Portland made a rapid northbound voyage arriving Valdez on March 18 then Seward and Seattle. The Governor sailed from San Francisco with general cargo and passengers bound for Seattle where transshipment will occur. The French steamer Admiral Seville delivered lumber to Port Townsend and arrived safely after a smooth voyage.
John Burns of the Fish company was arrested by Patrolmen Bell Crandall and Farley in the waterfront warehouse last night. Several prior thefts from the same place have been reported. Burns is held at the city jail on a burglary charge.
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