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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1905
Page
6
Classified notice seeking agency services with offices listed at Bagley s Drug on Second Avenue and contact Theos Harris at Postoffice Ren for advertisement needs.
Classified style notice reveals lawyers and banks advertising services including free consultations, mortgage and loan offerings, and property listings. Prominent mentions include Emil J. Brandt, Roseman Johnson, Baxter & Wilson, and Scandinavian American Bank with multiple property parcels, farms, plots, and acreage near Rainier Planked Boulevard and Vashon Island.
A Chicago woman purchases land tracts in Georgetown near Drencer Square on the New Renton line. The cultivation land offers a good site for a home, with tracts priced from R upwards and payments with interest at a stated rate.
Eco 4 1 on 1th avenue north and 17th avenue north plus 1th and 14th avenues north CL on Kent Garfield offer good buys with fine views. L. J Sprengs Arcade Phones teks 11S.
Charles Cook of Seattle Lighting Company was thrown from a frightened horse as it dashed through Union and Second streets and into a Clark delivery wagon near the Lighting office. Cook, injured likely internally, was carried home in precarious condition. The runaway horse was captured on First Avenue after wrecking the Clark wagon. Separately, The Copper Exchange Bank in New York closed its doors with Geo F Knapp as cashier after his recent fatal fall from a window.
For sale in Atlantic City a real estate dealer promotes suburban acres near Lake Washington. Advertises low prices and easy terms with tickets and streetcar access. Twenty salesmen at the Atlantic City store push lots as the shop owner pledges honesty and long term benefits to buyers.
A flood of varied property ads for sale and rent at Seattle area spots including Lake Washington vicinity. Listings cover farms, 4 by 3 foot driveway tracts, 7 lens down and monthly terms, 3 and 4 room houses, furnished housekeeping apartments, hotels, and acreages near electric car lines. Most notices include contact details like Dunlap at 712 Piret Ave room 4 and C N Gill with car routes to Southeast Seattle.
Mayor Ballinger urges replacing the patrol wagon with auto-patrols to cut costs and speed crime transport. He seeks 24 000 more for police, 40 extra patrolmen, 10 mounted officers, six sergeants, four detectives, a clerk and stenographer, plus new stations at Lincoln Park and near the armory.
The case centers on Roy Croker son of M D Croker proprietor of the American Paint company. Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh declined to issue a warrant for his arrest on forgery charges. The youth allegedly used his father s name to obtain money with a woman of the underworld. His father says he cannot explain the strange conduct.
A troubled Grand Opera House manager D G Inverarity consoles a small boy who ran away to see Jesus in the Hurt company production. The boy desires to be part of the actors but fears his father finding out, and is persuaded to return home after a brief exchange.
Bert Connor and W A McQuillan charged with obtaining property under false pretenses and by fake tokens. They cannot raise 4000 ball money and remain in county jail as victims grow. Chief Deputy John Miller expects to bring the pair to justice. Evidence suggests operations spanned years with December 1904 frauds cited and confederates implicated.
The British embassy will not open until late October. Sir Mortimer Durand remains in the Berkshires as part of the colonial visit while Secretary Cortelyou enjoys Berkshire resorts following weeks of entertainment.
A steamer arrived October 10 bringing 2,000 crates of grapes. The notice itemizes numerous market prices for vegetables fruits and staples including beans onions peppers tomatoes cabbage potatoes and various fruit varieties with per unit and per sack figures and several butter cheese and sugar prices.
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