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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1906
Page
6
Classifieds list loans and cash advances with trust names, furniture buys, and real estate barker lines. Notices include Western Ave shop frames, Deer Frames, sash and door offerings, loan ads, and furniture buyback offers with prices and terms across multiple blocks and streets.
A land opportunity near Riverton offers a high soil acreage with monthly payments of eight dollars. Details are unclear due to fragmented text but indicate a financial arrangement for rich land unaffordable in full.
Property listings describe multiple tracts around Meadowdale near Lake Washington. Items include land per acre pricing, cleared and improved acreage, fruit trees and berries, cottages, and garden space. Terms vary, with references to installments and balances due, plus delivery of house and farm improvements.
An assortment of real estate ads highlights lakefront and river bottom lands, woodlands, and city lots in Tacoma and surrounding districts. Listings include price terms, installments, and descriptions of homes, orchards, and water frontage with references to developers, brokers, and interurban access.
The readable parts describe a stray fragment about farmyard animals including chickens and a pig, with mentions of an operator and bearings. The text is too broken to extract a coherent event or entities.
Dated notes describe property parcels in Rainier Beach with figures like 95Ups, 10 down and 6 partially, hints of home values doubling within a year. Mentions Washington Street and an office contact, plus owner and tract details.
Fragmentary notice outlines a plan at Green Lake offering monthly payments for a new room modernization and concrete walk improvements. It mentions pricing terms and local business involvement with CORKE and Arvade entities.
Real estate column details building corner lot at the intersection of Pourth Ave and University with plans for modern fire protection and rising property values. Also lists various rentals and residences including three cottages, a 10 room residence, and multiple flats in Valley and Broadway areas with rents and features noted.
In Olympia on May 20 Jesse Ferguson, a 10 year old, was attacked by a mad bull near a pasture. He was found in a buggy in a barn bleeding and nearly unconscious, taken to St Peter's hospital in critical condition. In Ellensburg on May 26 Albert Welty, a local dairyman, was gored by a bull and is in critical condition.
Special bargains on 6.4 to 4 room modern houses near Queen Anne Hill Green Lake Wallingford and Mercer Island. Listings show marine views, water frontage, near Foster station and Capitol Hill with prices from low to mid range plus several lots ready for building. Cash offers welcome and quick closings urged by agency Gale Real Estate.
Property listing offers 200 down and 15 per month with furniture and shades included. Adjacent features include water, garden, and a referenced address on Radator Boulevard near Medison. Contact Charles Dinsmann at Bailey Tite for details and appointment.
A brief, garbled OCR fragment notes a corner and Saaren Still with unclear context. The readable words suggest a local item or column note, but key names, dates, and places are unreadable. The item remains a fragmentary sightseeing or street reference with no clear event or outcome.
City delays in purchasing property for stables and a garbage crematory have raised costs by at least $60,000. In March Secretary Howley moved on a suitable site but delays from the council expired short-term options, leaving the price inflated. A three member committee led by City Engineer Thomson and including Water Commissioner Youngs and Chairman Mullen was authorized to complete the purchases.
In frigid San Francisco a patrolman nicknamed the law cements a dim gutter scene where a girl and her brother hoard a bag of wood fragments from a Daily News building site. The officer winks at crime as bystanders and three well dressed men watch. the wood is returned by the end, revealing a satire of authority and poverty.
Navigation details from Skagway report Lake Atlin season opening with the Gleaner making first Atlin district trip and the Casca bound for Dawson from Whitehorse Friday. Ice flow shifts push LeBarge with southerly wind. Selkirk, Whitehorse, and Dawson trips planned Saturday through Tuesday. About 360 passengers await departures at Whitehorse as Seattle steamers add to interior transit.
A Richmond Burnett company reports more than $50,000 in fire sale property over the last three weeks. Sales include Chico apartments on Eighthay between Marion and Madinonsta. Herbert V. Perry buys from KR Hi Bayle lot in block 17, Bors en plat for $26,000. HM BR Ash buys from H Peterson in block 4, Sarah A Bell addition for $24,000. Property measures 60 by 120 and sits on the east side of Beventhav.
At a special meeting yesterday the library commission awarded the interior wall tinting contract for the new library building to Charles Weissenborn. The price is 2350 dollars and completion is anticipated within 75 days.
A proposed noise ordinance introduced by Dr Crichton will be taken up by the health and sanitation committee at a meeting on Thursday.
Oliver W. Stewart of Chicago, national prohibition committee, will deliver an address in Christen sen's Arcade hall on Tuesday evening June 6.
Maj Rosseier, one of the district officials, arrives in Seattle by the lighthouse steamer Columbine after a first northern voyage with Capt Richardson. The ship, four weeks in eastern waters, visited Sitka and lighthouse stations en route. Further plans were set and beacons placed to aid navigation. He will depart this afternoon for land to establish headquarters.
In a noon-hour collection at the United States customs office, workers raised 225 for fellow inspector Walter Smediey, who has been ill. The main doctor advised travel to a drier climate for possible recovery, and funds were gathered to aid his care. The effort reflects concern within the office for Smediey’s health and future relief.
The Diamond Ice company at Union Street and Railroad Avenue began a new bore about two weeks ago. The artesian well reaches 420 feet and is expected to tap another underground reservoir of fresh water some feet deeper.
Members of the First Presbyterian church will hold a reception for officers and announce duties tonight at 8 o clock. The event is at the Pioneer building, 418 Pioneer, with details on the monthly balance and home duties.
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