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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1918
Page
2
Classified ads offer six insertions for five with reduced rates and early deadline. Phone Main 600 for the largest Northwest readership and place wants before the final afternoon edition run.
11 female positions offered with pay while learning at Pacific Telephone. Training schedule 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM Pacific time, then permanent central office assignments near home. Apply at 4th Ave and between Seneca and Spring. many listings mention training schools and salon services.
Classified column shows real estate offers near Foster and West Seattle, several ready-to-occupy homes, acreage bargains, building lots, and rentals. Also advertises used cars and auto services with contact details for Stanwood and Seattle dealers.
Casual ad offers 120 acres in cultivation and 10 acres timber with a spring fed by a creek, a large barn and 7 feet deep wells. Includes 10 cows 6 horses chickens pigs farm tools a new finished house and abundant outbuildings. Located half a mile from Woasmes and rail stations near salt water with easy seller terms $7500 total $4500 cash $2000 in terms 6 percent interest.
Notices seek diamonds gold jewelry old jewelry old silver watches false teeth and watches with high value. Urgent requests include present addresses of Thomas Denman J W Corr earner address David Bamacleon and Luna Cook. Ads offer high prices, home addresses, and professional services with contact numbers and locations such as 410 Beth Mid 4th Loop Capitol Hill and 108 Cherry.
Listing shows LAOLA MAY LINN as attorney in general practice with free consultation. Includes address 714 Lowman Building and 215 Hurke Building with contact numbers Main 7108 905 Becond Ave and other firms such as Admunds, Praser-Paterson Co. and Hons 714 Lowman Building.
Herbert Quick, member of the federal farm loan board, says the postwar world will face widespread shortages of meat, wool, cotton, textiles, lumber, seeds, and machinery. He predicts the United States will be called on to supply Europe and to provide work for all men and many women as global reconstruction begins.
The engagement of Mile Therese Clemenceau, daughter of French premier Clemenceau, to Jule Jung of the Paris legal fraternity is broken after his name appears on casualty lists, signaling a fatal outcome for the betrothal.
Frank Hall a special assistant to the U S attorney general with San Francisco offices is in Seattle as a leading authority on land statutes. He will try the United States v Puget Sound Traction Light Power Co over land on the Nooksack river Skagit county claimed for a $2 000 000 powerhouse for mining use. Judge Neterer ruled the traction company prevailed on September 5 and the case goes to the second court of appeals in San Francisco.
A dense fragment lists assorted goods and prices from a public market including Ivory Oe Lenox items, milk 1 and 2 percent, olives, cheese, honey, prunes, matches, wheat products, corn, cream, butter, and butter products. Mentions include Del Monte corn and Swift's Premium oleo with various price notes and quantities.
The notice lists misc grocery items and prices including tuna flan lemon peel orange peel fresh salmon and smoked herring. Items mention stalls numbers and several brandlike terms suggesting a market catalog from a historic page.
Promotion announced for Seattle servicemen including Lieut J D Roberts to captain of infantry and second lieutenants O B Bruna J W Van Horne J Fitegerald C L Young T B Green in various corps. Also Dr F L A Sly and K Rasmus listed. Green noted as ambulance driver in French army.
Im Here president of Westinghouse Electric outlines postwar demand for electrical apparatus and the shortage of wiring amid a nationwide power shortage. He cites a $175 million need for machinery and suggests exports will rise to absorb skilled labor across industries.
Quick argues wartime equipment changes will create jobs for former war workers and trigger a broad shift to farm and rural work. He foresees good prices for crops, lower farm machinery costs, and a continued demand for American goods as cities supply needs for both domestic and foreign markets. He urges a gradual transition with suburban gardening as a bridge to farming.
Major General Hunter Liggett rose from a Philippine insurrection ad hoc leader to command the first American army corps in France. His career featured stormbound troops, War College mastery, and rapid promotions. Known as a soldier first, he blends diplomacy with readiness.
The department of agriculture announces a new wartime effort using 1,000 feet of film weekly from its lab to promote larger crop yields. The program aims to mobilize the film industry to boost U S food production during the war.
Nov 9 report describes American officers encountering mined streets and timing devices in towns held by retreating German forces. Engineers disabled powder caches in chateaus and a German sword was found stuck near a road as a mine blew a ten foot hole in the roadway.
An American intelligence officer near Fere-en-Tardenois captured a German pigeon that had deserted. It carried a metal tube with a message dated July 19 stating the situation had changed in the past hour. The officer later learned two traitors were captured and their families would soon be involved.
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