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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1906
Page
4
The Seattle Star lists address and contact lines for newspaper offices and agencies. It explains subscription expiration dates, renewal methods, and delivery terms, warning that overdue accounts may shift the label date and trigger renewal actions.
The article blames a sharp rise in cheap soft coal for Seattle soot and grime, urging residents to switch to wood or gas. It cites higher coal costs, dirtier emissions, and warns that unless authorities tighten smoke rules and people change fuel habits, the city will resemble Pittsburgh in pollution.
Readers are invited to send short yarns for a Star Dust contest with first prize two dollars and second prize one dollar. The notice appears alongside quirky quips and light humor about engagements, degrees, and a shell game.
Returns from 25 counties show large defeats for two constitutional amendments. Water rights amendment trails by about 6400 votes and the logging road amendment by about 6,407 votes. King County not yet listed among returns.
A historic Great Lakes gale caused a violent storm sinking twelve vessels with twenty three men losing their lives. Boats clung to moorings as rescuers fought high waves and raging winds.
Manager Join Cort received a Milan telegram confirming the engagement and that Calve will tour 40 concerts starting in New York next October. Calve plans to perform despite marriage rumors and will return to Beattie in June 1908.
Storms on the Great Lakes cause multiple vessel losses and missing crews. A list names small craft lost or stranded including the Resolute Athena Hurlburt C B Hill Puritan Comfort Conemaugh Pratt Pere Marquette No 16 Paige Taylor and others. Panama beached near Ontonagon with crew missing and rudder gone.
A letter from Major T. Clarkson, A Y P exposition special commissioner, says Gov Warfield of Maryland will back the exposition with a large legislative appropriation. J Rabb of the Birmingham Vulcan Club indicates the statue may be loaned to the exposition.
Patrolman F. H. Risley, patrolling near Becond avenue and Kosten street, exchanged gunfire with two well dressed highwaymen who mistook him for a pedestrian. One shot narrowly missed Risley, who fired back, driving the assailants away as neighbors awoke in alarm. Police plan searches for the suspects in the morning.
Frisco is visited by a massive blaze as the Barber Asphalt plant burns. The adjacent Standard warehouse faces danger but is saved by rapid fire department work. Winds at 40 miles per hour heighten the risk. Whittier Coburn losses reach 200000 with total damages about 400000.
The lighting committee will urge the next council meeting to grant the business houses on section day the use of Los Angeles style cluster lights between Pike and Yester. An ordinance will be drafted to authorize the installation and cost.
Bartell’s Hed Croes Drug Store advertises a week long sale on Magic Cold Tablets 26c boxes for 16c Quinine Capsules 10c per der n White Pine Cough Syrup half pint for ic Pierce’s Wine of Cod Liver Oil 1.26 bottles for The. Prices valid for this week only.
A plan to create a new lighting district along Beconday proposes installing street lights with installation costs assessed to abutting properties. The proposal outlines the funding method and geographic scope for the district.
About 50 couples waltzed to Wagner's band at a ball given by the Women's Union Labor League in the Labor Temple last night.
A short promotional line invites customers to call and learn how simple a service or product is to use. The message emphasizes ease and accessibility.
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