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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1904
Page
6
A pasted page of classified notices lists many businesses and services. It includes multiple drug stores, pharmacies, a carpet cleaning service, carpentry, furniture listings, and employment ads for men and women. It also mentions social events, dances, and real estate offerings around Seattle, with addresses and providers like Graham's Home Bakery, University Drug Store, and Beattie Home Seekers Co. for job and housing ads.
Classified listings describe extensive land tracts near waterways and towns, small chicken ranches, and modern homes in Seattle area. Offers include cash discounts, low monthly payments, acreage with water, orchards, and proximity to car lines and schools. Some ads promise government homestead prospects and urban lots with clear titles and easy terms.
Colfax widow Ada Sudweek reports her son Glen Sudweek badly burned in a noon mishap. recovery deemed impossible and she faces watchful authorities over a threatened act. Alfred Mansfield in Everett remains out of touch with wealthy relatives, tied to an estate. surveillance by a Kansas City lawyer and English solicitor. Hold up men target New Westminster. Moens loses 75 dollars, Mrs Newmans 50 dollars. A Northern brakeman Russell injured on a Wellington train, hospitalized in Everett with a hip injury. Mrs James Card of Chelan Falls reports killing ten rattlesnakes on the Chelan butte. Photographers’ Supplies and printing services advertise in a garbled block with shipbuilders Moran Bros. Co. details.
Upright and Max Hansen tell police that Kid White and John Hildebrand, both Tacoma saloon operators, are the pair behind several holdups including the Conway’s saloon robbery on September 16. White and Hildebrand allegedly planned and attempted the daytime hold up, while Hansen and others link the pair to a string of highway robberies and a shooting on Pike Street.
A new fall shirt shows a unique pleated front with tiny box pleats and center buttons. The shirt uses a white ground with a woven stripe and pin head dot. A new outing cap sports eight seams radiating from the top center.
County Superintendent of Schools Hartranft faced a busy day denying parents the right to withdraw children from school. Over twenty parents sought permits claiming concern for their children’s health, but questioning revealed many children would be put to work or would be beyond the age limit next fall.
A lengthy markets column lists wholesale prices for fresh meat produce dairy eggs and poultry plus grains and groceries. Items include cow beef steer beef veal pork mutton potatoes carrots cucumbers green onions cauliflowers grapes cranberries hay oats barley wheat flour and more with multiple regional prices and box or barrel unit references. The piece also notes a Young Women's club opening with a talk on life duties and a brief ad for bicycle repairs at Spinning's.
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