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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1915
Page
6
A city directory advertises firms offering urgent, guaranteed service. It lists a shop at 227 Occidental Ave corner Main selling new and second hand coats, pants, watches, jewelry, trunks, and more with low prices. other items include hats, shoes, and silver goods.
Market pages list prices for produce meats and groceries with cantankerous OCR, noting items such as geranium plants, sugar, coffee, tomatoes, dried peaches, milk, and sausages. Additional entries show beef roasts, onions, pickles, fruit preserves, and canned goods with unit prices and discount offers. Delivered market hours and station listings appear amid shopper notices and vendor lines.
A Monday market rundown lists white beans asparagus Alaska herring cucumbers and fresh produce like strawberries radishes and lettuce. It notes prices per bunch or unit and features items such as cottage cheese bread cookies and breakfast bacon alongside staple vegetables and fruits.
A list of marriage licenses granted with multiple names, followed by deaths with ages and locations, then divorces granted and divorces asked. Entries include Beattie, May, and April dates with hospitals, hotels, and streets in Beattie and surrounding areas. Notable names include Homer DPD Whittier Beattie Margarete, and Mary Kelley.
A farmer dictates a will to leave all property to his wife if she remarries within a year. The lawyer, puzzled, asks why. The reply: he wants someone to be sorry he died, ensuring the widow finds closure and new happiness.
The article outlines Alaska's vast forests with 20 million acres of tall merchantable trees and 80 million acres of woodlands. It notes 75 billion feet of merchantable timber in coast forests, currently cut at 27 million board feet annually, and predicts railroad expansion from Seward to Fairbanks will boost Kenai peninsula lumber extraction. Seward already hosts several large sawmills.
Prosecuting Attorney Lundin filed a state suit in superior court to condemn a strip of shore land 24 inches wide around Salmon Bay and along the Lake Washington canal to the lake. The action targets flood rights tied to canal enlargement. 450 defendants named.
Large deposits of sulphur have been located in Southern Texas and will be developed similarly to the Louisiana sulphur fields.
Mrs. Loca Cross of 2317 9 45th Ave North told a divorce court she forgave her husband Frank Howard Crows after he forged her name on two notes for 2000 and 500 dollars. He left and never returned after promising to come back to Seattle. She raised their son Fred and maintained the family home.
Mrs May Halah Johnstone, former Edmon ton YWCA matron, testifies that Archibald Johnstone was a good man though unable to support his sister and brother. She says they never lived together in the same house while she was in Edmon ton and that he did not ask her to return after moving to Washington.
A sensational case, Ber that Mae Kott versus John C. Kott, centers on social column exposure. Mrs Kott cites marital strain from John C Kott’s public social life and financial concerns. The daughter Eleanor was moved for health reasons and custody was awarded to Mae Kott by Judge Frater after scrutiny of family finances and publicity.
Just Pretends Before Father Arthur P Morin foreman for the Washington Shoe Co testified in a Massachusetts divorce case that he and Marion I Morin agreed to separate as soon as her father died. He said they lived in the same house but did not agree and notes their separation followed his father-in-law’s death. He claimed only for his sake they appeared happy. After the father died Morin left and deeded all their property to his wife.
Harry E. Tyrrell, sent as an emergency telegraph operator after a wreck in North Dakota, returns to find his wife Mayme Gertrude Tyrrell in an unspecified condition at home.
R J Elliott, a Cedar River district dairyman supplying Pure Milk, refused Friday to allow Dr Smith, city milk inspector, to tuberculin test his cows after initially signing an agreement. Smith tested 93 cows Friday and planned further tests in Renton Saturday. E Thompson of Cedar Grove dairy applied for testing, with 22 cows to be tested.
The Renton scandal case involving the Wilson and Steele families returns to superior court after Judge Frater grants a new trial for Robert W. Wilson. The former conviction for assault with a deadly weapon against John Steele is under scrutiny due to procedural concerns over testimony by Mary J. Wilson. Wilson claims Steele enticed Mrs. Wilson away and that she hid at the Steele home when the incident occurred.
Mrs Mollie Barden writes to The Star criticizing the city health officer for not tackling fly problems systematically. She reports three weeks of overflowing garbage cans since moving here, ineffective service, and delayed pickups despite prior complaints and visits.
Dr. T. J. Pierce of Portland Seattle and San Francisco did not appear in federal court today on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Judge Pooling declared his $2,000 bail forfeited. The bond was posted by his wife Evelyn and F A Paulson of Portland. Pierce was arrested in Portland last year and arraigned in November. His case has repeatedly been set forward.
The Elbert Motor company formed in Seattle last fall reports strong progress at its San Francisco headquarters. After securing a Sunnyvale factory a few months ago the firm designed and built its first cars in this city.
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