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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1916
Page
2
A dense strip of classified notices lists phonograph supplies and exchanges, money lending and jewelry remodeling offers, matrimony and companionship ads, adoption notices, professional services, and psychic readers. It includes employment offers, dating lines, and real estate finance pitches, with multiple names, addresses, and contact hints intertwined.
Slew WILT BEY markets acres of first class land near Seattle and Tacoma at $10 and 85 monthly payments. Puget Sound Farms Co outlines lands handy to mills and camps with contact through the Land Dept at 1701 1. Smith Building SEATTLE. You deal with them direct. Three Lakes Lumber Co is also involved.
Over 100 fruit trees and several hundred berry bushes, air trellised and spring planted. Five acres moved to another locality with a four room house, outbuildings, and fences on a main county road near markets. Price $1,280. terms $100 cash and $12.49 monthly. Call 203 New York Block.
The Finnish BSpecial Club hosts a grand picnic at Fortuna Park on May 7 with all day dancing and sports. Tickets priced at 6.06 are available. all are invited for a day of entertainment and fun.
Mrs. A. Cochrane of St Joseph Missouri, weighing 550 pounds, was arrested on bootlegging charges and jailed but could not pass through the cell door, requiring officers to return her home.
A dense pricing notice lists numerous grocery items and stalls at Stong's market. Items include flour, cocoa, beans, rice, shrimp, sauerkraut, salmon, soap, lamb, sugar, potatoes, eggs, milk, butter, lard, pork, beef, and various canned goods with per-unit or per-sack prices and stall numbers. The text reads as a scanned ad of daily specials and market stalls.
American soldiers learn long road distances within Mexico with figures showing Brownsville to Laredo 225 miles Laredo to Del Rio 150 miles Del Rio to El Paso 350 miles El Paso to Bisbee 225 miles and Bisbee to Yuma 300 miles.
Charles Kurz president of the Philadelphia Shipping Co announced a new line of steamers from New York to Pacific coast ports by November 1. A plan for a Puget Sound or Portland to Vladivostok service is under consideration.
May 5 report: Twenty houses carried away as a 20000 acre flood results from a levee break twelve miles downstream. Residents abandon homes while hundreds race to save South Muscatine from rising waters. The levee from three miles below the city to the pumping station is doomed.
United Press reports General Pershing telegram indicates Francisco Villa is definitively located by Gen. Funston headquarters. The insurgent leader’s location was suppressed in El Paso, May 5, as officers confirm the finding based on Pershing’s message.
Officials say the postponement of the French liner Chicago from Bordeaux to New York and the New Amsterdam from Rotterdam was not caused by the diplomatic crisis. The Scandia band of 30 will hold its first picnic and dance next Sunday at Wildwood Park with a May pole and a festively decorated pavilion.
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