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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1904
Page
6
A columnist notes that a sharp editor can elevate a paper beyond its small classified ads even as the best editor cannot solve every challenge. The piece weighs the craft of editing against the appeal of content and readers’ interest.
A collage of classified snippets lists drug stores, pharmacies, and carpet services in Seattle districts. It references businesses on Ballard Avenue, Madison Street, University Way, and Broadway with names such as Graham's Home Bakery and Little's Pharmacy, plus numerous help wanted ads and rental notices.
An amateur ad lists 4 acres of rich soil with a small house near a spring creek and nearby garden features. It promotes cheap prices, multiple farm implements, livestock, and fruit trees, plus a lakefront parcel option and a mix of utilities, with owner contact at 619% lat ave.
Auction-like notice lists multiple farm and ranch parcels with acreage ranging from 5 to 80 acres. Properties feature river bottoms, cleared land, buildings, orchards, and proximity to towns such as Beattie Tacoma Auburn and White River valley. Names include A NEWELS CHAS BB ADAMS McCURDY & Keawell and agents advertise bargains and full desert details.
Notice to stockholders of Snoqualmie Falls and White River Power Company calling a stockholders meeting in Seattle on October 20, 1904 to decide on increasing capital from 7,000,000 to 3,500,000 and dividing into preferred and common stock with redefined priorities and by laws.
Wholesale price list covering fresh meats vegetables fruits and grains with regional specifics. Includes cow beef veal pork mutton fresh hams bacon and produce like potatoes carrots cabbages radishes cucumbers apples peaches grapes cranberries oranges lemons dates and berries. Also lists hay grain feed flour cereals and beach items with per ton per barrel and per box figures.
In Olympia Washington an error in the capitol annex construction leaves electric generators underpowered to feed the hot air heating system for the legislative hall. With no maintenance funds to pay engineers or janitors the outlook is a chilly season. The capitol commission plans a meeting soon to seek solutions.
Superior Judge Richardson yesterday overruled the county's demurrer to an alternative writ of mandate secured recently by residents. The ruling advances a legal challenge seeking official action, setting a pivotal procedural step in the case.
Citizens in a district near Huenna push to compel a vote on annexing their territory to Pierce County. A merits hearing is set to occur soon before Superior Judge Hell.
A large corps of surveyors operates north of Davenport as promoters plan a railway from Fort Spokane to Spokane via Davenport. In Everett, Hethania high school's opening and a new Norwegian educational institution will begin Monday at the Lutheran church. F Berger, jailed in Coupville for forging school warrants, is bound over to the superior court. Jesse B. Button, president of Puget Sound Savings Bank, died at 76 from heart disease.
A white Chantilly lace dinner gown features canary taffeta with a bolero of white silk and canary satin ribbon trim. The skirt repeats the same trimming and is adorned with quaint lace medallions, completing the elegant ensemble.
The article describes medallions made from canary satin covered buttons with Valenciennes lace in a daisy motif. Buttons in three sizes create a graduated effect and a fine decorative result is noted. Separately, Mrs. Ella May Morrison obtained a restraining order against her husband Joseph Morrison in superior court over fears of violence at their home. Clyde Brownfield’s burglary trial began in superior court and was continued to Monday after the jury was impaneled.
An advertisement for Munsing Union Suite underwear promotes medium priced Union underwear for men. The ad lists EB N rooks & Co at 1831 2nd Ave a04 as the seller or distributor.
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