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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1904
Page
6
Classified real estate notice promoting Spe Hay Land between Seattle and Everett. Offers ten acre gasmeden tracts at Meadow Dale Beach with interurban access. Highlights Great Northern train service, various tract prices, and payment plans. Promotes Stewart Stewart & Co and other agents for sales.
A fragmented directory page lists abstractors, law offices, and service providers in Seattle. Notable items include OMHorne Trempri Co Tnc, Seattle Abstract Co, Beattie Paul Flury, Speewn an d Jownbon Attorneys, and various banks and professional services with addresses and brief descriptions.
The passage describes observers noting small, practical signs in a couple's conduct at a Meill company event. It contrasts a seasoned, capable woman with a young matron who speculates that a delicate brush of a fiancé's coat lapel using fingers signals romance.
The chaperon lectures on four types of girls based on romance and behavior, describing sentimental, athletic, coquette, and ambitious stereotypes. The bevy listens intently as the lesson ends with a curtain rise and chatter over chocolates in the audience.
Peter Faure a Frenchman living in Walla Walla killed himself Wednesday night after despondence over divorce from his wife and their young daughter. He left behind considerable property, money, and life insurance.
The steamer Hertha of the Alaska Commercial company departed Juneau last night for Seattle with a large crowd of miners returning to the estates from the Copper River valley. The vessel carried a cargo of ore from Latouche mines and gold valued in the thousands, shipped by trappers and trading posts.
George Hall of Kansas City was arrested on a charge of obtaining fees from about 200 laborers for promised Alaska jobs with a contracting company. Authorities say Hall used mail fraud to collect payments and misled workers who had traveled to Seattle months earlier, many returning home without work. A. J. Cockrage and agent Burke supplied information leading to the case and the seizure of evidence.
An ad from The Herald Tailor at 1429 2nd and The Store at 714 First Avenue markets a ten percent money back discount on certain offerings. It promises refunds on unsatisfactory items and urges customers to see Sunday papers for details.
A report outlines an upcoming ordinance by City Comptroller Riplinger to repeal and consolidate all current license laws. It aims to print a clear pamphlet for public use, noting prior rules are chaotic, inconsistently enforced, and often changed to please breweries and other interests.
The longtime Chicago laundryman known as Chicago Jim sold his Sixth avenue wash house to his 20 year old son Chin Sing in a formal transfer one month ago. Jim, planning to return to China for a wife, left the business to Chin Sing who now runs the operation with cautious pride and a keen business sense.
M. Delsasse, French minister of foreign affairs, urged an arbitration approach to settle the North Sea incident, seeking a peaceful resolution through neutral mediation and formal accord.
Harry Wakefield, 22, a Hansen's grocery clerk on Pike Street, confessed after arrest by Chief Delaney and Detective Wappenstein for pilfering groceries. He led police to his room at 1805 Fourth Avenue where he stored canned goods and other items. He used his store key to loot at night after hours and hid money from a place known to the employer. He faces likely petty larceny charges.
The group voted for issuing bonds to build a new city hall and to buy additional property. A plan to later erect a combined city hall and courthouse was endorsed. Bond support for a new jail passed, while opposition to the city hall bond centered on funding the municipal lighting expansion.
Minnie Williams an Indian woman living on the sandspit in the lower city was arrested last evening by Patrolmen Keefe and Peterson. She was so intoxicated she did not care what befell her.
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