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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1917
Page
10
Farm lands for sale advertised by M. Campbell of Goldbar Washington. Listing notes a poultry plant nearby with new buildings ready to move in and ample water supply. Includes mention of price 900 dollars and location on Third Avenue.
The owner offers land and outbuildings once bought years ago, now returning to the east of the mountains. Asking 1900 dollars with easy terms of 100 down and 10 monthly. Property includes bearing fruit trees, level land, near a state station, with school and grocery access 40 minutes to Third Ave and Pike. Call 202 New York Mack.
A dense page collage lists numerous business ads and personal services from Seattle area, including massage and bath houses, hotel room rentals, dancing and entertainment, and psychic readings. It mentions locations like Third Avenue, University, Pike Street, and various hotels. references to massages, baths, private rooms, and escort-like services appear amid other classifieds and notices.
An advertisement proclaims a fortune telling service by Madam Lesslie Heyptian offering business and family guidance, courtship and marriage forecasts, and love matches. It promises truthful advice, mood luck, and guaranteed satisfaction with readings for 50 cents during a limited two week period at Hotel Normia, room 1.
A dubious advertisement touts Madam Mellie a renowned clairvoyant and medium offering readings on love health and luck. It promises to reveal future spouses, business luck, locations for success, and remedies for unhappiness with guaranteed satisfaction or no charge. Located at Neotel Flk Hoom 4 1531 Hecond Ave corner Pine et daily and Monday.
A phrenologist and medium advertises readings on life events business marriage and love using head reading to reveal marriages health and assets. Special weekly readings with guaranteed satisfaction and confidential consultations at rooms in hotels.
A dense list of market stalls and goods including cornmeal, roast beef, sausages, bacon, sauerkraut, peanut butter, salads, salmon, cod, milk, pancake flour, Cream of Wheat, cocoa, maple sugar, vegetables, fruits, and groceries with various prices and quantities. The messy OCR enumerates stalls, brands, and items such as crackers, soap, coffee, oysters, beans, jam, and paper goods.
A fragmented mall bulletin lists various produce and grocery items with prices including brisket corned beef steak macaroni and spaghetti cream corn coffee cheese jam potatoes onions beets apples sweet potatoes crabapples butter eggs hamburger steak head cheese pancake flour soap pineapple and canned goods from multiple stalls with scattered prices and amounts. The text shows stall numbers and vendor names though many words are garbled.
Secretary Franklin K. Lane of the Interior department will not travel to Seattle to speak for the Liberty loan. A telegram to local committeemen says Route Lane to points with no cabinet speaker. A naval ensign commission has been received by Frank Brownell of New York and Seattle.
An advertisement promises fast relief from gas heartburn belching and fullness after meals with J O T O. It urges readers to send name and address to receive a free sample package and try the remedy before paying.
Bruce Short for shipyard employers testified before the wage adjustment board that the proposed 27.8 percent wage increase would raise construction costs to about 15 dollars per ton. He argued labor's share of operating costs and soaring material prices, including freight, threaten project feasibility. W. Whiley of Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Co. said skilled labor is scarce and costly, noting losses over 1.25 million dollars and no ability to meet wage hikes. Merchants and a real estate dealer testified rising costs of goods and rents reflect inflation, with overalls up from one to one fifty, fabrics and furniture prices climbing, and rents on cottages and cheap meat increasing.
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