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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1904
Page
6
A dense compilation of business ads and employment notices from a Star page. Listings include pharmacies and drug stores, various merchants, and multiple employment inquiries for maids, janitors, cooks, and laborers with addresses in Ballard and nearby areas. The aggregation preserves names, streets, and business references amid fragmented OCR text.
No coherent event found. Advertisements report a mix of land offerings near transit lines, farm tracts, and houses for sale or rent with scattered details on acreage, improvements, and prices. Some entries mention meadows, fruit trees, chickens, barns, and access to interurban lines, all presented in fragmented listing style.
The National Grange opens its eighth annual convention in Portland with 300 to 400 delegates and 3000 visitors. Governor Chamberlain and Mayor Williams greet attendees as 28 states are represented. Debates focus on postal system reforms, parcel rates, wagon-road funding, postal savings banks, and a Great Lakes to Mississippi river canal plan.
Ballard council reviewed Louis V. Brewer franchise to erect poles along alleys and streets for electric lighting with 60 year term and city not liable for accidents. The matter waits on city attorney. Also social and sports notices from Bay City include meetings of Merman Daughters and Shilshele lodge with Bay City lodge guests. Tigers of St Ann play West Seattle in first outside game at parish house next Saturday.
The Post reports that due to the Japanese loan's success large contracts will be awarded to English and American firms as Japanese arsenals struggle to meet demand for military materiel. In St Louis on November 16 Vice President-elect Charles W. Fairbanks was the guest of honor at the world’s fair, greeted by cheers as he toured with President Francia and exposition officials before departing for the east.
The Neill company presents Because She Loved Him 80 at Seattle featuring James Neill and Edythe Chapman as an elderly couple who pretend a quarrel to warn a newly married pair. The comedy ranks among the troupe’s best. plus His Wayward Son drawing good crowds this week.
Mason and Mason dominate Third Avenue performances in the clever Dutch dialect farce Frits and Snitz. Audiences convulse as the duo delivers rapid wit, lively timing, and humorous cultural quips, making it a standout in Se art theatre this season.
The inquest into George Gilley of New Westminster B C ended with an accidental death verdict. Relatives plan private probes, and police faced criticism for alleged duty lapses. Meanwhile in Butte Mont a masked trio robbed Copper State saloon of 195 40 and a gold watch. A heavy Oregon coast storm washed away about half a mile of the Columbia river jetty. The Lola Williams robbery case was dismissed for lack of evidence after a trial began yesterday morning.
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