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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1916
Page
6
Fragmentary ad copy offers Raymerd Remedy-4 for delayed periods with price 61 or two boxes. Mentions guaranteed cure and a shop located at Motel Aptiers Fourth ena Talon.
Readable fragments show a wide array of market goods with prices and quantities. Items include meats like round end sirloin steaks and beef, baking staples such as baking soda, sugar cured bacon, and chocolate, plus pantry items like maple syrup honey peanut butter and coffee. The list resembles a local market inventory with assorted weights and unit prices.
At teng s 106 can beet milk with any 26 purchase lib can baking powder free with each sack flour can coffee she can beans 10 she can of peas corn of tomatoes 16¢ the bottle marmalade Japan her She Ihe beat head rice 100 sacks salt 100 the can of pumpkin 4 Ibs split peas 2b bottle catsup 460 coffee $1.06 Mtalis 20 41 choice steer steaks 10c pot roast pork rosmat lamb 20¢ ib Belgian hares fresh bread chickens pure leaf lard 12½ Ib sack buckwheat flour 16 white soap 7 bare fire and lemon peel 230 Ib lager raisins 16e very best mincemeat lamb chops 16 ¢ Ib shoulders lamb 46¢ dot bert Jersey butter 3 Ibs matches Blue Ribbon tea 44¢ ib fresh codfish fresh herring 2 Ibs herdback 2 ite fbe German sweet rye bread lve loaf tomatoes pears dry onions Grapefruit be each grapes 16e Ib.
Local ad lists Beall 46 full patent flour at 1.95 per sack lemon or orange peel items 23 Ih new cutrent peel and Gate brand products. Also notes beet milk 64 omer two phe cure rents two cans tomatoes best milk ketchup and toilet paper rolls. Store located 1522 First Ave offers new boiled cider in 260 and dt bottle.
A fragmented price list shows items like soap, coffee, baking powder, eggs, milk, peanut butter, sirloin, sweet potatoes, and produce. Several prices and unit notes appear, including items such as Crystal White soap, washing powder, emery butter, and cranberries.
Birth notices list numerous couples with baby girls and boys at various addresses including Clark Nishimura Yamauchi Shimizu Uyehara Knott Craig Sperry Beall Mortenson Mitchbell Taylor Dolm Martin Farup Manders Kingston Keneally Wienes Harbenan Kubo and more. Marriage entries include Edward Morgan and Hel i Piland Carl Jones and May Chester Richard Frasier and Dorothy Mullally George Gregersen and Augusta Johnson Ralph Strand and Lydia Johnson Fred Reolfene and Elvina Ericksen Charlie Oleen Harriet Jones John Frederic and Erna Krakenberger Severino Rio and Mary Suittt among others.
The merchant and miner line steamship Powhattan, bound from Boston to Newport News, caught fire early today off Block Island. Coast guard cutters rushed to aid and by 9 15 p.m. managers reported the blaze under control. The ship carried 16 passengers and 46 crew with general merchandise.
Final arrangements for the logged-off land conference at the state university campus were completed by a Seattle Commercial Club committee. Topics include reforestation creating a state forest, county agriculture districts to aid land clearing, and new legislation. F1, Seixas will arrange a dinner for attending men.
John W. Troy, editor of the Alaska Empire in Juneau, says Alaska may need several laws to achieve complete prohibition. He notes 60 percent favor prohibition but questions the referendum’s legality in a territory and suggests Congress may have to step in from Washington.
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