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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1905
Page
6
A classified notice lists Star Want Ad and agencies seeking office services at Bagley's Drug on Second Avenue and at Fremont Avenue. It notes availability for local advertisers and office contacts for placement.
A dense OCR of property ads near Seattle touts dozens of acreages and parcels for sale. Listings describe cleared fields, timber, pastures, houses, barns, and outbuildings with notes on frontage, river bottoms, and proximity to interurban lines. Agents such as M Jondan and Robert Maltry promote five acre tracts near Everett and Rainier Avenue, with terms and cash prices.
Chief Ralph Cook and assistant chiefs Latham and Clark will receive gold and bronze badges signifying their positions. The council appropriated $190 to secure the insignia from a local jeweler who is nearly finished. The ornamental badges aid identification when not in uniform.
The notice describes an old tract on Interurban near Ratner Boulevard with a parcel priced around 1.4 dollars per acre and mentions a corner lot with a house and fruit trees. Bredes, Lebold & Cox of 1019 2021 Alaska Building handle the listing.
A 4 acre tract with fertile bottom land and balance in cultivated fields and young orchard between two towns. Includes house barn hay shed cattle and poultry facilities, mower, rake plow cultivator wagon harness cream separator cider mill and creamery access. Asking price 1000 per acre with two year financing at percent.
Fort Worth Texas reports Gov Hogg remains in critical condition and has consented to an operation as of October 17. City officials and medical staff monitor his status while awaiting results from the procedure.
The Snoqualmie fireboat will depart service Thursday morning and remain inactive for at least three months. A new boiler overhaul costing 20000 dollars will extend its life by about ten years, while extra water front fire apparatus will be deployed for emergencies. The Mars schooner reports gales off Cape Flattery hindered open sea work and a fleet return to Seattle within two days with a haul of 1000 pounds of halibut.
An assortment of property ads including an 8% land parcel with a small house on Madison Street near the car line and a 82 room home on Mth Avenue with modest cash and monthly payments. Also listed are a large groom house with flexible terms, an elegant home on 2th Avenue near Yealer cable, and a 92 401 acres farm and timber land in the dairying region near the railroad. Trade possible for Seattle property. Zach F. Hickman & Co, 48 New York Block, Matin 2283, Ind. 1964.
Cheyenne Wyoming October 17 twenty were injured and three fatally when the northbound Colorado Southern derailed 35 miles north of the city. Two passenger coaches plunged down an embankment.
A steamship arrival brought a large fruit and vegetable shipment with prices for beans beets squash and more. The report covers wheat corn oats pork and poultry quotes from Chicago Board of Trade and stock quotations from New York markets with total trading by noon.
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