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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1903
Page
6
The page lists numerous Fremont area druggists and stores with addresses including 321 Ballard Ave and 234 Jackson, plus minor public notices. It also includes obituaries and births with family names and ages, and assorted help wanted class inquiries across Seattle and nearby towns. States several job ads for housekeepers, linemen, and craftsmen with locations along Ballard, Fremont, and nearby avenues.
Classifieds describe various rental rooms and furnished apartments near Pike and Ballard, plus vacant lots on Queer Anne bill and near Yesler. Listings include 4-room houses on 10th avenue, 11.0 4-room cottages, and ads for carpenters, furniture stores, and pawn-like exchanges. Local buyers seek affordable housing near streetcar lines with cash offers and payment terms.
Fragmented ad notes a marriage directory free to all with pay to marry details and address for more information. A lost item entry mentions J L Gibb Sneide and a reward for return, with instructions to return to a specified address. The passage includes stray notes on a kiss contest and miscellaneous financial remarks.
Nicely fitted barber shop with two baths and four chairs currently on the market. Inspection invited and applications requested via Box W. Star. Agents may apply at once. sale details unclear and location referenced as Virginia context.
For sale real estate notes a large mix of properties near Ravenna Park and Lake Washington. Includes a 40-5 room cottage near two-car streets, new houses with modern fixtures, and multiple lots with water views. Also lists rentals and loan ads, with agents Goodfellow & Bon and J Goftelowitz & Son among others.
A notice states rates of 7 cents per line per day or three lines three times for 15 cents. The text appears garbled but indicates a price schedule or line-rate instruction likely from a telegraph or newspaper listing.
A single Seattle public school examination complaint surfaces as eleven applicants are found to have faked teaching credentials. Superintendent Cooper notes the new estate law imposes hardship, as exam prep time conflicts with regular duties, risking discharge for inability to answer unrelated questions.
Seattle ad promotes large cleared tracts near Hillman City with lake views, water, and low financing. Offers $85 per tract with $15 down and $5 monthly, claims income potential for the unemployed. Locations include Hillman City and Garden station with sixteen salesmen on grounds and free abstracts.
H Wirt Steel of the local Charity Organization society warns Seattle will face tenement house evils unless remedial laws pass. He cites Chicago and New York reforms, notes deplorable dwellings south of Yesler Way, unsafe sanitation, and trash dumps as breeding grounds for disease and fires.
Building Inspector Place today admitted many lodging houses below Westin way are unsanitary due to crowding but said health board must act. He cited pre 1901 ordinances and noted the Clancys lodging house and revival of restrictions as key issues. The city weighs air ventilation and lot area limits for tenements and lodging houses under new controls.
Washington mourns as Secretary Shaw learns his brother D Shaw, a Manila Iowa banker, has died. He departed at 10 AM to attend the funeral after receiving the telegram this morning.
He Wo Chinese Medicine Co offers remedies using herbs roots and vegetables to cure rheumatism asthma catarrh stomach liver kidney and female weakness with a free consultation. Located at 210a Washington St Seattle the ad urges those with hopeless cases to seek advice and try these remedies.
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