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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1916
Page
6
A jumble of 19th century style ads shows help wanted notices, remedies, scams and personal solicitations. Listings include diamond sales, remodeling offers, medicines for delayed periods, clairvoyant or witchcraft claims, piano lessons, home goods, and dubious services with scattered contact details and addresses.
Several practitioners, including Madam Mellie and a phrenologist clairvoyant, offer palmistry, astrology, and life readings for a fee. They promise insights into love, health, business, and future events, with locations listed on University and Pike avenues and hotel rooms.
Real estate notice offers acreage for sale near Clinton two miles southwest of Whidby Island. Includes a small house chicken coop wire corral and scratch shed with a never dry well water supply. Terms reasonably priced. Apply to Geo W Morris Manette, Washington.
Land listing advertises 45 acres with a house and bee income, noting good oil prospects. Terms include $50 rash and balanced monthly payments to the owner. Location references to 107 New York Block.
A chaotic garble of short notices lists multiple clairvoyants and card readers with prices and addresses. Madam Nina, clairvoyant and phrenologist, claims to foretell past and future life and advise on business, family, and love, at 114% Union between Second and Third. Other ads tout permanent clairvoyants, tarot readings, and spirit cards at various streets and hotels, with prices from 6 cents to 6 dollars.
New York on October 1 cotton futures surged by 60 to 80 points after the bulletin showed damage to the Middle East crop area. This sharp move reflected trader reaction to the latest assessment and market uncertainty.
Puget Sound steamers leave from Colman Dock at foot of Marion Street for local routes. Sailings include Townsend and Dungeness via Tacoma with connections to Olympic and Rialto areas. Service operates roughly every two hours with single and round trips, including early evening departures.
A dense market inventory lists eggs cheese butter meats and canned goods with many item names and prices. shoppers could buy items like fresh eggs cheese butter pork beans sardines oysters and jams at multiple stalls and sacks priced by the pound or by the container.
Manager Reiter submitted affidavits in Judge Jurey’s court showing the Orpheum Theatre and Realty Co is attempting to comply with a superior court ruling to stop using the Orpheum name. Reiter was cited to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. He said staff delays in changing signs at the Alhambra theatre hinder full compliance.
Beginning Thursday Kirk land residents will host a garden products and better baby show showcasing local vendors and small display booths.
The extension division invites registrations for practical business and housekeeping classes in downtown Seattle. Programs include salesmanship advertising accountancy real estate and property management commercial law and more with in person sessions at the Henry building and correspondence options for distant students.
SHORT NEWS items note Rev. W L Fisher of the First Christian church traveling to Des Moines Iowa for a convention of Christian churches. Samuel Rosenberg a longtime Seattle resident and large property owner died recently near Medford Oregon of pneumonia on a fruit ranch. About 150 university students held a junior campus day and cleaned the athletic field. Boeing helped establish a research lab in aerodynamics at the state university. King Coal Mining Co began operations at Issaquah. Flora Gray of Enumclaw won the title of champion girl sewer after defeating 24 other girls at the North Yakima fair. The Women’s King County Republican club meets Tuesday at 2 pm in room 624 Alaska building. County liquor permits issued in September total 18 104, down 1 000 from August. Isidore Hershfield spoke at Bikur Cholum synagogue on Jewish suffering in Poland. Frank Lasimastro, 10, lost two fingers from dynamite cap explosion at home. Forest Supervisor Fromme proposes delaying hunting season in the Olympics to October 1 due to fires blamed on careless hunters. W M Rasmus will direct a two day Pythian conclave in Seattle around December 15. One hundred Seattle citizens will form the Boy Scouts council and meet at a Butler hotel banquet next Friday. College of Mines enrollment reaches 48 students this semester. Y M C A night classes begin Monday. Socialist Allan L Benson says he will speak in Seattle October 9 during his national tour.
San Francisco reports the discovery of liquid rubber for waterproofing insulation wood preserving and rust prevention after tests by Mrs. Anne Gibert Cox wife of Dr H Barringer Cox inventor of the dry cell battery and wireless subterranean telephone The liquid rubber can be brushed on and used at any desired consistency for effective waterproofing according to witnesses.
Twelve girls enter a contest to be named the tithe of homeliest girl in New York. The winner will dance with the handsomest man at a forthcoming ball.
James M. Clarke, long presumed dead by Martha Clarke of Seattle, surfaced in the Paulson Building and was held on a charge of family desertion. Detective Ben Cornelson detained him while Mrs. Anna L. Clarke of Vancouver, Wash., verified he was alive, ending two years of presumed widowhood for the Clarke family.
John Clancy admits guilt after attorney Vanderveer notes jurors. He faces sentencing later this week for possessing 298 quarts of beer and three quarts of whisky at a road near the Meadows during an August 25 raid.
Mrs Thomas R Marshall wife of the vice president showed marked improvement today after a bout of ptomaine poisoning yesterday. She will stay in her room at the Jefferson hotel. Mrs Marshall recovered in Chicago after eating oysters there Saturday.
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