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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1904
Page
6
A dense clustered page shows numerous classified items from real estate to employment and services. It lists pharmacies and drugstores by name and address, then various job ads, sale notices, rental offers, land plots, and real estate opportunities around Seattle and suburbs with prices, terms, and contact cues.
Classified notices show land for sale near Riverside and Seattle area tracts from $0 to $96 per acre with easy terms. Listings include vacant lots, garden parcels, and farm land. rentals note 1 acre plots, a carriage house, water systems, and a number of rooming houses for sale. Also job ads seek a man with finance skill and a woman to handle a show ticket sales role.
Classified fragments advertise acreage near water and rail lines, farm and garden land, and homes for sale with terms. Listings mention Fort Lawton, Puget Sound, and various avenues in Seattle with details on acreage, price, and contact points. Also notes apartments, rental inquiries, and business property opportunities.
Burglars entered a Seventh Avenue South and Dearborn Street grocery last night and at 1% and 166 Washington Street houses were broken into. Little money was taken. Detective Corbett was assigned to the case this morning. Beattie Improvement Clubs plan a Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday at 4 PM.
Washington reports Capt Peyton C March among observers in the Russo-Japan war assignment. An instructor in tactics at the general service and staff college, he serves in the artillery corps and hails from Pennsylvania. A note on Bucklen's Arnica Salve crowns the piece as a product plug.
A fragmented historic passage recounts William, needy and cheerful, seeking work after his family starves and a town lies closed. He finds a farm task, endures abuse while fending wolves rumors, and faces swift punishment as he learns harsh lessons about trust and labor.
A government scientist notes coin microbes linger about two days and a whale’s shin can be two feet thick leaving its beauty about 24 inches deep. The average person carries clothes full of microbes from weekend to Monday.
News briefs from Kokomo and ports report proclamations rejected on the Chinese wall and post no bill notices. Admiral Rozhestvensky and Admiral Vitiahtsoff figures appear with troops and funds while Russia expands war aims with Easter crews. The Mikado opens a medical college to recruit generals as battles loom.
Josh Wise, a resident of the American house in Paris, remains in his room and declines to march in the previous day’s parade. He told the reporter it was a regrettable disappointment that he did not take part.
A comic braided poem about two cats fighting in a moonlit scene with exaggerated blows and gruesome imagery, followed by a poet struggling to craft spring verses. The piece ends with garbled lines about May and crocuses reflecting the poet’s missteps and grammar corrections.
The clipping shows a broad list of market prices for meats produce fruit and dairy. Entries include beef veal pork mutton ham bacon and various fish poultry and eggs with per pound per ton and per box rates. Prices for apples pears oranges lemons dates and other fruits are given alongside hay grain and feed costs.
Notice to subscribers: if the Star is late, call Sunset Main 1050 or Independent 1136 to have a copy sent by messenger. Also an invitation to dine in Seattle at Maison Barberis Second and James with Sauternes or Burgundy every evening for one dollar.
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