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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1919
Page
3
The ad notes rent pressures forcing closure with 26 days to clear stock. A sale offers 40 percent savings on clean, high grade house furniture and delivery within reach as long as customers can reach the stock before it’s gone.
Classified style notices show multiple items for sale or exchange. Eckmann Furnitures Co advertises location near Times Square and exchange options for a grand piano. Red Front Furniture lists furniture and stoves with prices. Poultry and small animals advertise chicks rabbits and fur farming manuals. Automobiles include a 1918 Ford Sedan listed at 259 cash and an Overland five passenger with owner contact details.
A collection of compact 20th century real estate ads for homes and cottages in urban neighborhoods. Listings note features such as modern bungalows, new homes, baths, gardens, sheds, and proximity to city services, with prices around 5000 and drive-by viewings planned on weekends. Concrete addresses and telephone contacts included.
Multiple real estate notices describe purchasable properties in West Seattle with immediate possession and owner financing options. Listings include a large lot with garden, near car line, gas range, and near Spokane acreage, plus rooms and homes for sale with monthly payments and down payments. Contacts include Weet 671 mornings evenings, 206 Pantages Bldg, and Downtown agencies.
Two parcels offered: 3 acres with a fine creek and terms of cash and monthly payments. 7 acres with beaver loam soil, creek, on Leake Halliinger Boulevard, priced at 300 per acre with 200 cash and 15 monthly installments at 6 percent.
Multiple Seattle real estate notices describe furnished bungalows for $3250 and $3150 with 5 rooms, fireplaces, cement basements, and garages. Also offered is a semi modern 3 room cottage on a half acre near California Ave with terms including $30 monthly payments, plus other Park and West Seattle listings.
4 room cottage with bath and two 60x113 Lake Washington view lots six blocks from Oak priced at 1950 easy terms on Green Lake boulevard concrete basement and walk in laundry trays piped for heat large lawn flowers and fruit trees nearby. Also a 4 room bungalow on a corner lot southeast exposure near Columbia Avenue built in features and ready for occupancy priced for quick sale from Northern MORTGAGE COMPANY 803 Third Ave Elliott 2264. Also rental or sale signs offered by Munday Sign Company Main.
An old newspaper market column promotes oil stocks and investment opportunities in Oklahoma Kansas and Texas oil fields. It advertises free issues of the National Press and a colored map, inviting readers to invest small sums for potential fortunes while promising truthful oil land reporting. It also lists broker connections and a Seattle business sale for a profitable location.
A fragmented local advertisement listing Liberty Bonds values, fuel and oil products, and auto parts. It notes vouchers and receipts bought, loan terms, and a business address at 917 American Bank Bldg with contact Main 4586, near Beyond and Madison.
Officers H Aasland and G W Wilson caught two Black men in the act of burglarizing a soft drink shop at 503 King Street early Saturday. Warner Lee 24 and George Gabbin 35 are in city jail awaiting a formal complaint.
John McCullough sues J Ocami in superior court for 17000 alleging his four year old daughter Blanche was struck by an automobile on June 8 at Genesee and Railroad Aves. The child suffered internal injuries and hospitalization followed.
Tsangchow report details bands looting market towns and villages across thousands of square miles. With an unpaid army and bankrupt treasury, the government can offer little resistance as brigands seize crops, livestock and cash and abduct people for ransom. Cholera and famine worsen the crisis as locals fear worse in 1923.
A free public concert by the Frederick and Nelson choral organization led by Claude Madden is planned for Monday night November 24 at the Masonic temple. Emilia McConnan will sing, with Arville Belletad as plantar, as the choir performs pieces including Parker Holmes and Dies.
New York reports a film portraying a U-boat commander sinking Allied merchant ships. The film, obtained from the British admiralty, shows the Parkgate being torpedoed and sunk, crew evacuated, the captain captured, and officers erasing the sunk vessel from the Marine Register.
Walter W. Clark reports a Hoop violin valued at 300 stolen from his barber shop at 623 Pike Street. Clark said the back door was barred and the front door locked when he opened the shop, and he believes a passerby used a pass key to enter early Saturday morning.
Alfonso Peret, Peru's first ambassador to the United States, reached New York today aboard the liner Santa Luisa, which departed Santiago on November 4. The report notes an era milestone in diplomatic ties between Peru and the United States.
The article notes global wartime disruptions with European trade paralysis and describes a Japanese emigration movement in October 1918 forming a union backed by 4,000,000 yen. It highlights agents in America acquiring sugar cash crops and rubber plants, and mentions a Tokyo emigration office sending thousands to provinces in Sao Paulo to cultivate coffee and sugar for Japan.
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