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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1921
Page
3
A local dealer promotes a complete used car stock with eminently fair prices and assurance of customer satisfaction. The ad highlights a wide selection from Nash Motors and emphasizes reliability and value.
Three room concrete dwelling on half an acre two blocks from streetcar line and cement highway just outside city limits. Price quoted as $100 down and $15 per month.
Classified section highlights diverse real estate offers and services. Listings describe 1 to 6 room bungalows and cottages with modern features, furnished homes, and rent or purchase options around Seattle areas including Rainier Valley Ballard and Beacon Hill. Buyers are urged to inspect properties, with terms and down payments noted. Local firms like J P Gall and Frederick P Gorin provide legal and patent services alongside listings.
Classified notice lists a downtown apartment house with 99 rooms in prime condition earning $800 monthly, offered for $3,000 down and rest on payments. Includes other real estate and business opportunities with details on financing and locations. Also mentions a sawmill venture, plumbing and timing business, and various stock and personal notices.
Tabasco Mexico May 7 Banana shipments rise as five American buyers plan 2 000 000 bunches this year and 5 000 000 for 1922. H B Marshall, once of Winchester VA, now runs a banana machinery business and offers land at 25 dollars per acre plus 25 dollars to clear and plant. An acre yields 40 bunches monthly. annual gross about 21 600 dollars with profits around 40 percent in year one, after costs.
Mrs Helen Turzewska sold a feather bed for 10 dollars to feed her husband and 11 children. Later that night she broke into the purchaser’s home and stole the bed back. A judge allowed her to keep the bed if she repays the 10 dollars. In Chicago a man is accused of selling his wife to a neighbor and others for a vacant lot valued at 500 dollars.
Ernest Fox Nichols, newly named president of the Massa Boston laboratory, outlines a balance between pure science and application. He notes a candle heat device demonstrates measuring stellar heat and explains long distant communication hinges on such discoveries. Nichols, 51, has studied at multiple universities and led Dartmouth from 1909 to 1916.
Fourteen families of a Lynn landlord presented him with a purse of gold in Boston on May 7 to mark his golden wedding anniversary to Mrs Dana B. Durgin. The tenants praised his five year rent abstention while others raised rents.
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