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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1903
Page
6
Classified ads list drugstores and pharmacies with addresses in Seattle and nearby areas. Also included are obituaries and birth notices with names, ages, and locations, plus requests for help wanted and housework positions. The page mixes job ads, personal notices, and store listings in dense, era-typical shorthand.
Property listings show 4- to 6-room cottages on Harvard and Premont avenues with cash sales, new baths, and car access. prices around 1.84 and 1.26. Rentals include furnished and unfurnished rooms near Pike and Seventh, with hot water, electricity, and weekly rates. Also noted are furniture sales, schooner request, a hotel stay option, and a veterinary ad, reflecting a mixed Everett classifieds catalog.
Partially clear 0 to 9 room cottages near Lake and transit. Properties boast large lots, new cottages, bay views, and affordable down payments. Several sites in city blocks offer wooded or waterfront access, some with monthly terms and potential income. Owner selling sacrifice, near railroad and church areas. Continuous tempting offers.
Ads must be sent to the office or telephoned in with charges applied for ads left at agencies. Phone Sunset Main togo, Ind. 1138.
The notice promotes a service offering one line per day or three lines three times, with a charge of 15 cents, and states that the policy continues until further notice.
Advertisements describe land tracts for sale near rail lines and Interurban routes, variable acreages with improvements or uncultivated, and multiple rooming houses or rental properties. Names include Robert Maltby and A Goodfellow & Bon, with references to Washington Street and New York blocks, plus depots, schools, and farms within reach of city services.
Superintendent Cooper notes the new estate law causes hardship as one Seattle public school principal fails the recent examinations while eleven others who also failed are county teachers. The teacher may be competent but cannot answer unrelated queries, leading to dismissal.
Real estate ad describes cleared acre tracts near car lines in Seattle with access to schools churches and stores. Priced from 85 dollars per tract with 15 dollars down and five dollars a month, offers view of Lake Washington and water on Hillman City. Eight salesmen on grounds, free abstracts and perfect titles, downtown Downs block and Renton car route details.
H Wirt Steel secretary of Seattle Charity Organization society warns tenement house reform is coming to Seattle. He cites Chicago and New York as examples and calls for municipal garbage collection and better sewer and housing conditions south of Yesler Way. He notes cramped, dark rooms, basements, and outbreaks of disease and urges action before fires or tuberculosis epidemics spread.
A corrupted health inquiry reveals lodgings below Wester way are unsanitary due to crowding. Inspector Place cites preexisting 1961 ordinances, notes few new buildings, and calls for ventilation mandates while detailing specific zoning limits on floor area and separate street entrances.
Secretary Shaw learned of his brother D. Shaw's death in Manila Iowa where he was a prominent banker. He departed for Iowa at 10 o'clock to attend the funeral.
He Wo Chinese Medicine Co. maintains an office at 21044 Washington Street in Seattle, listed as a local business location. The entry notes the company’s presence in the city and provides the street address for visitors and clients.
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