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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1906
Page
4
The Seattle Star offers daily delivery except Sundays through Ballard Agency Ballard Ave. Subscriptions billed weekly or monthly with price details. Renewals and expiration dates noted on each issue. failure to prepay may result in removal from mail list.
A Victorian style essay argues that rising insanity figures reflect better reporting and disease notes. Sir James Browne predicts half a century of sanitary progress may save 200000 English lives annually and reduce crime as health improves.
The article recounts Sam Lewis of London a notorious money lender who grew rich by exploiting the poor and lending to aristocrats. It notes royal dealings with King Edward and compares him to Robin Hood while highlighting his charitable endowments and the contested fate of his fortune after his widow's death.
Prize details and contest call for yarn submissions with brief entries. The text also includes scattered dialogue and local color about clerical retirement, sermon impact, and small town quips, reflecting a newspaper feature style.
A jokey exchange centers on a woman’s expression when told she looks young for her age. A clerk quips about shoe sizes and coins, suggesting the trouble lies in wearing shoes too large. A senator proclaims his terms are always enough.
The Pacific Coast Lumbermen's association will petition the Board of Railroad Commissioners to stop Northern Pacific discrimination against state lumbermen. They plan to use the railroad's own annual report to show lumber traffic accounts for half of freight and a third of passenger traffic in the state.
President Hert of the Pacific Coast Baseball league confirms Beattie finished second in the recently concluded season and asks local residents whether their city will support the league’s activities.
Fixed rates for November December and January due and payable at city hall from 1st to 10th of November inclusive. Become delinquent December 1. District comprises part of city lying between Aston and West Galer and East Galer. Meter due dates for each month begin on the first and are delinquent on the sixth.
The verse recalls Misther Roger Sullivan on a Father’s Day whim to help the Sullivan family. Letters arrive addressed to Sullivan kin from Micky to Jeremiah with gifts and sustenance. He muses that giving away all his earnings may be misfortune for Roger Sullivan, who remains hard at work.
The city will pay about 992 000 for October payroll with 1 204 warrants issued. Allocations include Lighting 10 641.56 Water 62 26 Parks 1 131.69 Library 2 208.33 General 71 411.33. T Dieveia de l Archerie opened a six lecture series on French history at the Lincoln hotel tea room.
Construction on the Crane company's new building at Bee and Ay, south, and King streets is awarded to T. Ryan. The 108 by 115 feet brick and reinforced concrete structure will rise seven stories high and cost $146,000.
Architecta Saunders and Lawton report M. Holcomb Co has received a carload of heavy draft horses to be sold at their auction stables located at 1112 Western Ave. The horses are described as suitable for general con traction use and farming tasks.
The evangelical ministers held their regular monthly meeting yesterday. W. A. Spaulding reported progress on the Puget Sound Assembly work for the purchase of property at Three Tree Point. Rev. F. J. Van Horn delivered a study talk on Macbeth.
The civil service commission will hold an examination on Thursday for computers and draftsmen. Thirty two applicants have registered for the test.
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