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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
3
A report notes a regrade event and a meeting at Rainens Hall during Ballinger's evening. It lists bids from five companies for supplying forage and bedding for horses en route to the Philippines, with W. W. Robinson named as the lowest bidder among bidders.
Mrs Frederick R Burch on an extended trip pauses in Los Angeles after a week's journey. The party stays at the Grand Hotel while visiting local sights and planning further travel.
Posner stock offered at tremendous reductions for men with new spring styles. A Bridge & Co. advertises the sale at 1415 1417 Second Street.
Passenger fare offer from Northern Pacific: $76.19 to Winona Lake Indiana and return. Tickets available May 13 only. Contact N. P. Ticket Office for details.
The Star announces a 10 vote coupon feature for the statewide contest to pick five most popular school teachers. Ballot coupons appear weekly in The Star until the end of the contest, with leading candidates including Miss McMillan Ballard and Miss Nichols Rainier.
The city faces a sparrow invasion as hundreds of noisy birds nest in office and residence districts. Rathbun the state’s top ornithologist urges extermination to protect song birds, noting sparrows multiply and threaten welfare, buildings, and livelihoods.
Fragmentary text notes a schoolboy stealing lunch near a berry patch and then discusses the English sparrow. It claims the sparrow was imported to Boston in 1868 to control caterpillars, but the birds multiplied and spread across the country to Seattle and possibly Vancouver by 1897.
May 11 Butte. Rev Bie derwulf of the Chapman evangelists denounces Tacoma as at the gates of hell and says Butte stands inside. Locals react with a show of support yet the preacher insists that Butte is farther inside Satanic territory than described.
A compact program review notes an emotional stage drawing by an old school performer. Audience finds the vaudeville bill polite and well worth seeing.
John L Sullivan will headline next week at the popular playhouse with a performance featuring a famed athletic partner and a company of notable athletes. The exhibition emphasizes no brutality while offering fans a chance to see Sullivan in action. A bioscope will show moving pictures of the Madison Square Garden Corbett McCoy fight, alongside strong local programming including Woman Against Woman and the extended Uncle Tom's Cabin season with an augmented cast.
Citizens in the Ninth ward circulate a protest against using the water fund to raise city employee salaries. The council may discuss the issue Thursday and again Monday. officials note prior promises of a 25 percent rate cut, with debate over whether a reduction is prudent now. O’Miller will speak on money and frenzied finance at Acme Business College Thursday night.
The U S secretary of the interior provisionally set aside 2 6 million for the Minidoka irrigation project in southern Idaho The plan realigns 190 000 acres along the Snake River with a 60 foot high diversion dam 650 feet long and canals totaling about 1 000 cfs and 806 cfs for gravity and pumping to reach higher lands The project aims to develop power and pump water onto gravity and pumping sections benefiting government land and homestead claims within townsites The soil is sandy loam free from alkali and sage brush covers the area around the river and its terraces.
The advertisement promotes a wide stock from Chicker ing Hobart M Cable Kimball Had dock Pease to Lakeside Pianos and Kimball Reed Organs. It lists Vocalion Clough Warren church organs Simplex Piano Players Krell Autogrand Piano 44 note and full compass electric pianos with coin slots, Victor Edison talking machines, and small instruments. Prices and terms are offered on application.
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