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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1919
Page
5
For two lots 40x100 near business center Teetown. Corner location with easy terms. Building lot 100x169 with 650 down, modern 3-room home and other amenities. Lot 60x near Beacon Ave, fruit trees, improved street, close to post office Georgetown.
Real estate ads describe numerous 2 to 10 acre tracts near Shelton, Elma, Edmonds, and Kitsap with houses, barns, fruit trees, water access, and farm improvements. Prices range from 1 200 to 5 000 dollars with cash and installment options. notes list acreage, water, fruit, and road access. Listings mention Cass, Ward, and local brokers. railroad and interurban proximity noted.
Multiple ads describe 6 acre dairy ranch with good soil near Enumclaw, a 6066 acre southwest Washington land for settlers with easy terms, and rental garden plots in Georgetown area. Also notes about timber and land sales, with property prices, payments, and leasing terms.
Directory listing for attorneys and professionals in Seattle including law firms Mason, Fenwick, Lawrence. Red PF Gorin-Toi Central Ride. Remington Typewriter Co references. locksmiths, chiropractors, furniture repair, chattel loans, and various notices. Includes addresses such as Burke Midg, 906 Second Ave Main and 215 Burke Midg.
Wholesale buyers list prices for vegetables fruits and dairy including carrots cauliflower celery and onions with per crate per ton per bunch rates. Entries cover Washington Oregon and California sources with numerous items such as lettuce cabbage potatoes pumpkins tomatoes apples and veal showing varied grade prices and regional supply terms.
Auction or sale notice outlines an acre for sale in city limits with garden use and electric utility mentions. Mentions rent-like balance and reference to a place at Ed Bunday, with ELL MORFORD at 676 Colman Building as contact.
In the celebrated Skagit Valley of Washington farms are advertised for sale. Prospective buyers are invited to call or write Schirman & Co at Mt Vernon for details on available plots and terms.
Legal notice announces an April 8 1919 special election in Tukwila Washington. Voters decide whether the town should borrow 7000 for street improvements with 6 percent bonds payable May 1 1919 through 1946 and 1937 1939 maturities. Ballot asks bonds yes or no with a two option format. The oath of the clerk Attest Tate Clerk.
Liberty bond prices in New York on March 29 show increases across several issues with 3 percent at 99.06 up .02, first 4s at 94.44 up .02, second 4s at 93.70 up .06, first 4 1/4s at 94.60 up .10, second 4 1/4s at 94.94, third 4s at 95.28 up .08, and fourth 4s at 93.70 unchanged.
Seattle realtors report a fast moving market with rising demand for city property mainly for industrial and investment use. Notable trades include the 1908 MeGhraw building sale for 40000 to J H Fox and HL Jenking, a 100000 transaction for a Southeast Seventh and Republican corner site, and multiple warehouses docks and factory plans by East Marginal Way and Westlake Ave. Deals total over 100000 with construction to begin within 60 days.
Washington reports a shift in export patterns with explorers to Europe replaced by foodstuffs as a major daily commodity. Foodstuffs partly or wholly manufactured total about 4 million dollars daily, while total manufactured exports reach about 13.6 million dollars per day.
At Corker stalls shoppers find fresh peanut butter 20 cents, Jersey butter 60 cents, mild full cream cheese 35 cents, limburger 48 cents, two tall cans milk 20 cents, pure cane sugar 77 cents, Nut-Via wet and Nucoa margarine 35 cents each, 3 pounds for one dollar. Also listed are Teeco pancake flour 26 cents and Chinook salmon in a can.
In a vintage listing, prices appear for milk at 10 cents per can or 12 cents for others, tomatoes at 20 cents per can, prunes at 36 cents, cereals at 25 cents, citrus powder at 34 cents, Crystal White soap at 30 cents, with a total of 961.80 mentioned as a sum. The ad references brands Borden’s Carnation or Federal milk and lists assorted household staples.
A garbled inventory lists stalls and goods including pasteurized milk, ice cream, cheese, sugar, soap, Borden’s milk, Bob White and Lenox bars, No-Rub polish, Ivory products, Red Seal items, chili sauce, tomato and corn panes, lima beans, matches, canned fish, Columbia River smelts, and various prices. It appears as a market or fair product display fragment from Pine Street with multiple retailers and items.
A dented fragment lists stalls with sugar 8 pounds 17 cents and milk 1 quart 7 cents, condensed milk 12 tall corn starch 9 cents, catsup 32 cents per bottle.
Local market stalls list milk quart price and assorted food items including Quaker cracked wheat and green split peas with small price figures. blueing noted in hatchery area. This fragmentary listing appears to document a market setup and price tags.
The ad lists stalls 106 108 and 130 offering Campbell’s products, soup, beans, soap, onions, seed potatoes Early Rose at 2.00 per 100, tea Blue Bon, macaroni, M. J. B. coffee 45c and oats. A varied array with unit prices and item counts.
Fuel administration offices nationwide shut down simultaneously Monday per W. W. Miller state fuel administrator who may retain his title until the peace treaty is signed.
Seattle retailers snap up California green stuff amid improving boat news after a shipyard strike. A boat from California due Monday afternoon is welcomed by local jobbers. Rhubarb brings 12% cents, spud market steady, butter market seen easing, New York up 4% cents, cheese scarce with expected trade influx.
Washington reports coal production for the week of March 22 at the lowest level on record for weekly output. Both anthracite and bituminous coal declined, totaling about 648,000 tons, down from the same week last year.
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