Diamond Watcher and Jewelry Ad Seeks Reliable Credit
A vintage classified style note lists a jeweler, Peter Michary formerly at 1204 Second Ave, with liabilities and paid-in capital figures, including a total of 3,120,273.59 and various balances such as 106,000 capital stock and 310,073.54 profits, plus certified checks and notes. The fragmentary item shows business finance terms and an emphasis on reliability.
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Chattel
Sanders & CO
L. C. Smith
Provident Loan Society
Toa
Seneca
Marton Pectamle
Jmerican Jewelry CO
Adanford CO
Cherry
Eopakens
Ati
Thre
Conte & Roll Jacobs, P.-L
Minska Junk Co
First Ave
el- Hott
A. Mil
Hyandard
Pine St Phares
Hrington
Wenatcher-Ephrata
Adrian
Finxon, Maxwell
Jenne M. Hart
Wapatg
Aioe
Diamonda Watcher
JeWwelry
Second Ave
Hetle Cost
Ramble
Teddle
Helio
New Jerk City
Peivate
Halie
Steven
Dancine
Ass'n
Smith Jewelry
Smith Aldo
Gurre
Ena University
Bibiote
Kavanaugws
Denver
Proples Bavings Bank
Seattle
State of Washington
Seattle Residents Urged to Vote This Saturday
The notice calls on every Seattle resident to participate in the upcoming election on Saturday and cast a ballot to support industrial and social welfare initiatives.
Free Ferries Promise Self Sustaining Transit
Increased tax revenues from higher land values would finance ferries, making them self supporting. Encouraging working men to own plots for gardens and livestock could reduce industrial strife by improving housing and access to cheaper land near Seattle. Free ferries would not burden the county, with higher land values providing enough tax to cover costs.
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Seattle
Public Markets Mall Prices for Groceries Listed
A market list shows various stalls offering granulated sugar two cents a pound, fresh Jersey creamery butter eighty five cents, Good Lark margarine two for a price, fresh mackerel and salmon trout, potatoes and apples priced per unit, and numerous canned goods, baking supplies, and dairy items with unit prices and stall numbers. The document reads like a vendor showcase from a public market with diverse goods and daily pricing.
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Reoveny Mall
Carnation Ik
Jersey
Market Prices and Goods List From Local Stall Record
A scanned market stall ledger lists varied goods with prices including flour at $2.58 and $2.44, sugar and cane products, beans, tomatoes, oats, potatoes, and bread items. It also notes items like Quaker Oats, Alaska turnips, and Uneda crackers with cents-per-unit figures mixed with brand names and stall numbers. The fragment reads like a trader's inventory and price snapshot.
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M. J. B. Coffer
Lighthouse
Alaska
Burbank
Uneeda
Troops Won't Get Xmas Off
Special dispatch from Washington reports there will be no general Christmas furlough for troops in cantonment and training camps. The War Department rejects a broad holiday exodus to avoid disrupting troop schedules and movements to France. Commanders may grant limited leisure and local leave for homes near camps to celebrate.
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Harry BB. Hunt
Washington
France
Huns Try Hard to Hold Lines Near Cambrai
British forces countered a major German assault on the Cambrai front near Gennelieu eight miles from Cambrai. The attack aimed to stem the Allied gains as Byng pursues a closing arc around Cambrai. Heavy artillery and barrage fire preceded the German push.
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United Press
France
Cambrai
Gennelieu
Lawa
Hbyng
Rupprecht
Lavieh
Restaurateur Harry Stahl Defends Patriotism Over Letter
Larry Stahl, owner of a Fourth Ave restaurant, denounces a pro German sympathizer who accused him of unpatriotism after he subscribed $600 to the Liberty Loan. The unsigned letter claimed the US cannot be a successful government due to many nationalities, which Stahl rejects.
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Larry Stahl
Fourth Ave
Thoreby
Liberty Loan
Stahl
United States
Hell Fire Battalion Prepares to Fight Fire With Fire
The Thirtieth Engineers Gas and Flame known as the Hell Fire Battalion trains at the American University camp under an English military expert. Tests aim to learn tricks of the trade to beat German flame projectors, though many details remain secret.
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Dy United Preas
Washington
American University
Dog leaps from theatre roof unharmed in Warsaw
Walter Busing, a Warsaw building contractor, watched his dog jump from the three story theatre roof to the sidewalk below. The animal, after following its master to the top, leaped over the side wall and landed safely, appearing unhurt.
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Warsaw
Ind
Walter Busing
Food Prices and Market Goods Listing Feature
A fragmented inventory lists prices for staples and groceries including flour at 2.69 per case, milk at 5.79, beans, oats, coffee, sugar and canned fruits. Items include Hersey chocolate, pumpkin, walnuts, orange and lemon peel and various household products with varied cents and dollar amounts.
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Atalia
Crinen
Hershey
M. J
Try This on Your Clothesline War Job
A vivid description of a quiet wartime assignment for dirigible crews. A technician crawls along the outrigging on light steel and wire to inspect and repair engine mechanisms. The job requires nerve and may involve hanging high above the ground.
Farmer E. M. Farmer presses port rate plan in campaign
E M Farmer candidate for port commissioners issues a statement urging port properties to become self supporting. He notes the port commission raised wharfage and storage rates by up to 40 percent and calls for better ferry schedules and quicker loading and unloading of ships.
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FE. M. Parmer
Port Commissioners
Robert T. Bridges
Port Commission
E. M. Farmer
Dry squad arrests two men on Thursday night
D. B. Irwin of 108 26th Ave South and W. Coleman, a laborer of 715 Sixth Ave, were arrested by the dry squad on Thursday night.
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D. B. Irwin
26Th Ave. S
W. Coleman
Sixth Ave
Dry Squad
Thanksgiving Serenade for Wounded Yankee Troops
American infantry band played at a base hospital yard in France as a sick major general issued orders from his bed. The tunes included My Old Kentucky Home Swanee River and jazz songs in a Thanksgiving serenade. Troops feared for dinner supplies but showed no signs of loneliness.
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France
Kentucky
Swanee River
Lima Woman Runs Matrimony Gamut
Lima Ohio Nov 30 Mrs Ada Hooker 26 has a divorce, a marriage and a name change all in one week. She won a divorce Oct 12 on cruelty grounds. Her maiden name Pearl Aliguire was restored Friday. She married Henry Robinson 24 a Lima salesman.
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Lima
Ohio
Ada. Hooker
Pearl Aliguire
Pooling Seen as Cure for Coal Shortage in U S
Fuel Administrator Harry Garfield says pooling coal cars is the solution to the coal famine caused by slow railway transport. An Ohio study shows a coal car took 23 days to travel from a Jefferson county mine to Cleveland and back, with pooling reducing delays by eliminating cross switching and reconsignment and speeding loading and delivery.
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Washington, D. C
Harry Garfield
Garefield
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Jefferson County
Cleveland
Guernsey County
Garfield
Ole Hanson Back After Auto Smash
Ole Hanson senior partner of Ole Hanson & Son realty was crushed between two cars at Fourth Ave and Cherry. He is much improved and returns to his office. An X ray will be done Friday afternoon. Edward Shaw 13 is reported missing since Tuesday by his mother Mrs. M W Shaw 127 19th Ave.
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Ole Hanson
Ole Hanson & Son
Fourth Ave
J. Lh Forbes
Edward Shaw
M. W. Shaw
19Th Ave
Ambulance and street car collision in Seattle causes damage
A collision between a city ambulance and a Seattle & Southern street car at Fourth and University inflicted 300 dollars in damage to the ambulance on Thursday.
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Seattle & Southern
Fourth and University
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Pacific Telephone & Telegraph CO
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