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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
6
Classified items show demand for rooming houses and loans. Listings include boarding rooms low rent with steam heat, pocket loans on salaries, and established tea and coffee store routes. Multiple lenders advertise quick cash, furniture or piano loans, and real estate opportunities near Juneau area with acreage for homes and land parcels for sale.
A fragmentary item describes a waterfront land area sold or designated along a shore. The text mentions a mile of shore and an agent, with unclear dates or parties.
Listings describe numerous small farms and empty tracts with houses, chickens, cows, and milk cattle for sale. Offers include cheap half acre blocks, 18 bay hens and 4 ducks, rent terms by month, and several waterfront or near town parcels. Prices and terms vary across Alaska and nearby blocks.
Property ad notes multiple 5 to 20 acre tracts in Alaska and near Seattle with features including level bottom lands, cleared fields, barns, chicken houses, and near rail lines. Listings promise easy terms, proximity to towns, schools, and interurban access. Names listed include Robert Maltry, Charles Somers Company, Slettenoeren & Arnelis, and Beat Maltry.
Real estate ads describe numerous cottages and lots near car lines and the lake, with payments as low as small down payments and monthly terms. Listings include modern two and three room cottages, hilltop views, Ridge and Madrona properties, and a public notice for land sales. Multiple firms advertise, including Hillman, Rand & Co, Nebraska Realty, and Calhoun Denny & Ewing Co, Seattle area properties near Ballard and Renton car lines.
A Seattle advertising page promotes Lilly's Best Sweet Pea Seeds free with each 26 cent Lilly's Flower Food package on a Saturday. The notices also list real estate and property sales including waterfront lots, cottages, and hotel properties offered by local firms.
Real estate listing for "EARLING ACRES" describes a native garden and land near the Tacoma Interurban station. Agent offers to accompany buyers to view the land and urges calling the office to see the plat and current prices.
Classified notes offer cash deals on brand new modern homes on Queen Anne Hill and nearby areas. Listings describe large corner lots, waterfront or near-lake access, and promising acreage south of the city with strong cash options and monthly payments.
Listing describes a cony house in a fine residence district with a cement walk around the house and a beamed dining room ceiling. It notes a paved street and improvements including tinted pavement. Price mentioned is 2000 dollars.
Students plan a Saturday program at the university honoring Benjamin Franklin with physics demonstrations and a tower illumination. Electricians prepared a spectacular light display visible across the city. The Physics Department received new German electrical instruments to be used in the experiments.
Fire swept the heart of Santa Rosa California early today destroying several frame buildings on Fourth Street. The blasonic temple armory and cry hall were threatened. Greening's stables with five horses Iron's shoe shop and Mitchell poultry store were destroyed. Mr and Mrs Iron were rescued from the rear of a building after a collapse blocked escape. City hall records were moved to safety. total loss estimated around 5000 dollars.
Some members of the Young Men's Republican club fear State Senator Van de Vanter or supporters may pull wires to influence the April 11 officer election. The push to elect Ralph Nichols president aims to aid Nichols' bid for the Thirty‑first district senate nomination, prompting concerns Van de Vanter might intervene indirectly despite not being a member.
Willie Fitzgerald cannot attend the bout due to a burned arm. Johnnie Reed informed W. R. Dalley of the replacement, with Bobby Landie stepping in. The match will be drawn near Bremerton and Pleasant Beach for training headquarters under the Occidental Athletic club of Seattle.
Police chase leads from a telegram naming Romer and a man believed to be her husband Human Retoer in San Francisco. Other notes report theft of salt clothes and gloves from J. Inson’s room, a stray shepherd dog named Little Boy, forged check gambling debt case, a cattle strike near Van Am selt, and a couple, Frank Phipps and Miss S Martin, marrying in New Westminster BC.
In Washington March the House committee, bowing to labor union pressure, will examine the anti injunction bill rather than pursue eight hour labor reform. President Roosevelt intends to personally oversee the labor issue.
Stirrat and Goetz purchase Seattle theater site at northeast corner Fourth Avenue and Cherry Street for 227000. Mary Ler had acquired it from J. D. Lowman two days earlier for 190000, netting 27000 profit in five days. Behrens and Honey arrange Behrens firm sells Ferguson property at Third and Spring with ten day option and 115000 price.
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