General Election in Port District of Seattle December 1 1917
Notice to qualified voters of the Port District of Seattle announces a general election on December 1 1917 to elect one commissioner for a three year term beginning January 8 1918. It also presents two propositions from Resolution No 347 regarding free ferry service and issuing bonds for harbor improvements.
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Port OF Seattle
Port Commission OF the
Port Commission
Lake Washington
Elliott Bay
Seattle
Bell Street
Honda
Jiscal
State of Washington
City of
New York
Anid
Eaid Commission
Ronert Pripans
Ite
Pacific fast steamers to be transported for war use
Washington dispatch says the shipping board plans to draft American pacific steamers into transport service. Likely candidates include Oceanic lines Sonoma Ventura and Sierra, Ban Pacific Portland Company Leaver Rose City, China Mail China, and Admiral liners President and Governor.
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United Preas
San Francisco
Pacific
American Transport Services
Shipping Board
Washington
Oceanic Steamship Co
Sonoma
Ventura
Sierra
Ban Franciscee Portland Company
Leaver
Rose City
China Mail
China
Admiral
Waterfront Notes ICE AT COOK INLET
United Press Leased Wire reports from Seward that heavy run in Cook Inlet drew the steamer Skagway back Wednesday after a failed attempt to reach Anchorage. The steamer Mariposa also returned to Seward and will discharge its cargo there.
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United Preas
Seward
Cook Inlet
Skagway
Anchorage
Mariposa Ales
Conscientious Objector Violent Pin Incident Lands Man and Actress in Court
In Los Angeles on November 1, Gevorke Messner jabbed a woman with a scarf pin during a dispute over pacifist objections. The confrontation escalated as hats, feet, and insults flew until police arrested both parties. Messner was sentenced to 20 days in jail. Actress Mies Tana Howard was involved and gave the name Howard.
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Los Angeles
Cgevorke Messner
Messner
Mies Tana Howard
Labor Groups Back Clean-Up Drive at Convention
The Seattle Central Labor Council endorsed a referendum for electing national officers and voted to report the action to James Dunn at the Buffalo AFL convention. A labor committee will join Rotary and Municipal League panels to study the vice cleanup campaign begun two weeks earlier.
Soldiers Nabbed For Cashing Bad Checks In Tacoma
Staff Correspondent Camp Lewis November 15 Soldiers Sergi Fr White and Private Douglas Proud of Truck Company No 5 are in the guard house awaiting court martial over cashing about 700 in bad checks last night A cashier in Tacoma spotted a discolored fingernail and alerted her employer The men from Truck Company No 5 are set to leave camp today A third man using the name Clark and in an officer uniform was arrested in Montana He passed a 150 check in North Yakima posing as a returned French officer.
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Camp
Lewis
Sergi Fr. White
Douglas Proud
Truck Company No. 5
White
Tacoma
Clark
Montana
North
Yakima
France
Local Market Prices List Items and Prices
A historical market page lists daily grocery items with prices including silver emelts and fancy comb honey, Washington creamery butter at 56 per pound, freeh ground peanut butter, Mutterewp margarine at 3 cents per pound, Sears products, corn and tomatoes in cans, pean and potatoes priced per can or bag, and Lighthouse cleanser among items sold by Ames telegrams and regional grocers.
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rIe Et. Hillett Wish Ce
Washington Creamery
Ames
Marketplace stalls list grocery items and prices
A crowded stall row lists various goods with prices including milk cream steak veal and roasts. Staples such as potatoes onions cooking apples and fruit sacks, along with cereals and cleaning goods, fill stalls 17 29 59 12 1626 1503 and 36 with canned and fresh items priced per unit or sack.
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Rike
the. Walt
Local Store Flyer Highlights Inexpensive Groceries
South End Andersons advertises stock fish at 25 cents per pound and Van Camp kidney beans at two cans for a nickel. Other items include corn, cream cheese, breakfast bacon, Jersey butter, cereal, rolled oats, jelly roll, gingersnaps, and oats priced with small coin figures.
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South End
Anderson's
van Camp
Market Goods List From Stalls and Prices
The passage lists assorted groceries with stall designations and prices. Items include fish such as fresh herring and rock cod, crabs, and codfish. staples like flour, macaroni, pancake mix, molasses, peanut butter, mincemeat, hominy, and cheese. produce including cranberries onions turnips cooking apples and potatoes. margarine and sugar. and various per stall price details such as 26c for herring and 25c for molasses.
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Burbank
Fresh Market Prices Show Oysters and Produce Listings
A readable grocery market list details stalls with varied goods. Items include eastern oysters at 40 cents per pint, salmon, herring, apples, turnips, celery, tomatoes, and sausages with prices per pound or per sack.
Market Prices From Corner Stalls
Corner Stall 14 offers fresh halibut 20¢ per Ib and salmon 150 Ib while stall 110 lists solid pack tomatoes and butter price 62¢ per Ib. Other items include beef mince 36e per pk, pancake flour 2ke, and canned milk price 102, with hamburger steak at stall 116 2 lbs two shillings.
Local Market Bargains From stalls 16 to 64
A garbled list of pricing and items from a market, noting stalls for butter cream cheese bread honey coffee cakes and vegetables. Mentions oleomargarine red peppers lettuce and soy beans with prices in cents per pound or per item.
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Washington Creamery
Draft fixers plead guilty in federal case
Dr Max Gorham and Rose Lesh pleaded guilty before Judge Neterer after being arrested by federal agents for attempting to extort money for treatment to exempt drafted men. Gorham posed as a physician to impair speech briefly. Lesh, Austrian, sought to sell the service to Joe Gottstein, who alerted authorities. Bentence will be pronounced Monday.
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Neterer
Bentence
Gorham
Rose Leshin
Austria
Joe Gottstein
Alaska Coal Field Development Urged by Delegation
Alaska delegates from all districts met with the Alaska bureau Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club committee and urged coal field development. W C Edes president of the Alaska engineering commission spoke on government railroad progress saying the line could be completed in two years under normal conditions. P C McCormick of the Alaska legislature argued that development waits on voter given legislative power. Other speakers urged early coal field development.
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Alaska Coal Field Development
Wedneday
Alaska Bureau
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club
W. C. Edes
Alaska Engineering Commission
Government
P. C. McCormick
Alaska
Wireless outfit found on Camano Island identified
A wireless set found in a tree on Camano Island by Sheriff McCulloch was confessed by Ed ward Christensen of Ballard. Christensen said he used the equipment for pleasure and could receive messages up to 1000 miles away, while living with his mother on the island.
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United Press
Everett
Sheriff McCulloch
Camano Island
Edward Christensen
Ballard
Christensen
Dancing to Death Alleges Indian Dance Tragedy
Fort Yates North Dakota November 15 The death of Mrs Red Tomahawk on Standing Rock Indian Reservation after an overexerted Indian dance highlights that such pleasures can be fatal She was about sixty years old and was married to the Indian policeman who killed Chief Sitting Bull.
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Fort Yates
N. D
Red Tomahawk
Standing Rock
R. Tomahawk
Sitting Bull
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