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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
6
Rates for classified advertisements shown with 18 word base text priced at 26 cents. Additional space costs extra per line. Includes a brief note about “Situations Wanted” advertisements and how to extend text beyond the base wording.
Help wanted and all classified ads. Ballard Agency P H Mullen at 5409 Pallard Ave opposite City Hall. Phone Ballard 806. Main office on Seventh Ave between Union and University. Phones Main 1060 Ind 441.
A fragmented page lists railway time table guidance and various notices. It mentions contacting King Street Station Information Bureau in Sunset Main 2740 for departure and arrival times. The page also contains birth notices, death notices, funeral director ads, and classified briefs including lost and found, help wanted male, and situation wanted male sections with scattered names and addresses.
A mixed page lists a variety of real estate ads and auction notices. Properties include a four room cottage with modern features near PuceLn Lane and mountains, plus multiple rental details and prices. An upcoming auction by Bickerton Auctioneers highlights pine furniture and bric a brac, with a North Bend sale by Maloney.
A collage of mid century property notices details sale of 7 two and three acre tracts, near Tacoma interurban lines. Listings mention Alderwood timber tracts, price ranges from 460 to 700 dollars per tract, down payments and favorable terms. Includes references to a sawmill, shingle mill, and nearby farms with cattle, potatoes, and fruit trees. Multiple names and contact points appear for prospective settlers and buyers.
Unclear readable text fragments describe a trip offer to California with uncertain details about water climate and pricing. The readable parts suggest a promotional tone but lack concrete names or dates.
In Bloomington Illinois October 22 a bride, widow of John Wolgamot, receives ten thousand dollars from her groom Mr Race under an antenuptial agreement. The bridegroom has vast farm land holdings in Kansas and the widow previously lived in Spokane.
Ohio Safe Save Herrick reports a letter from Count Leo Tolstoy thanking friends for birthday wishes. The note mentions Taft support in Ohio based on polls across the state, with former Governor M. Herrick claiming indications favor the native son.
Incomplete OCR text provides few readable facts about people or places. No identifiable events or dates stated.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a SICE owner in a hospital context and a forced sacrifice of a tract or cottage with a balance of money. The garbled lines reference a March office and a possible public outcome, but details are unclear.
A jumble of real estate ads and property notes describe parcels near Greenwood Park and the bay, water access, and waterfront tracts. Offers include monthly payments, down payments, and broker commissions with references to Seattle area markets and street corners.
Nicely furnished modern cottage rooms near the car with a fine mountain view. Owner seeks cash payment of 400 dollars. monthly rate 25 dollars. Includes lot features and a pleasant small home setting.
Readable text notes a cottage rental at twenty five dollars per month. It mentions a modern room setting and possible telegraphic or typographic errors in the listing.
A fragment describes a property near Macedam Road with a main road access 28 minutes from downtown. It advertises a building suitable for a store plus six living rooms, asking 61000 with flexible cash terms and balance arranged. The contact line mentions Daunt & Mwino and a phone reference.
George H. Mayer aged about 60 a former banker from Pine Grove California committed suicide in his room by swallowing two ounces of cyanide of potassium. The body bore papers revealing his identity and 60 cents. A letter from his wife mentioned a money order Mayer had sent. He had been in Spokane briefly and worked in photography.
Madame Hester Merrill an English woman recently from Portland and Seattle tried to kill herself by drinking laudanum. She was found in time and taken to Emergency hospital where she said she had nothing to live for and would try again at the first opportunity.
A body identified as John Mattison was found in a shack on a county road near Aberdeen. Charles Neeson reported a blanket covered corpse after inspecting land, and police suspect a fatal blow possibly from tramps, with investigation ongoing.
William Gienn a steamship purser tried to kill himself at his Monticello apartment 715 Seventh Ave last night his wife stopped him by knocking a bottle of carbolic acid from his lips. Gienn suffered facial burns and his wife a burned arm after the incident following a quarrel minutes earlier.
Mrs. George T. Stone of Lemhi county Idaho recovered her 6year old son in Yakima Washington after a search spanning Idaho Washington Montana and Oregon. A superior court granted custody to Mrs Stone in Idaho on grounds of desertion about a year ago.
J C Livingstone lies in hospital seriously injured by a bullet wound from a 22 rifle received yesterday afternoon while hunting at Pass lake. He was with a boy named George Bowers when the bullet entered behind the knee and lodged in the hip. The incident occurred in Anacortes amid a hunting trip.
Spokane experts report city books reveal shortages: water department 3400 dollars, police court 614 dollars, other departments 600 dollars, and street department 33500 dollars due to old uncollected bills. Deputy treasurer C B Horton is under arrest for the water department shortage.
In Jahn murder case defense calls Mra Jahn who alleges persecution by the Prices and notes his mind broke after a train incident leading to attempts to kill her and himself. Witness adds his grandmother committed suicide and his mother is in an insane asylum.
Mrs Minnie Meyers, matron of the Washington Children's Home Society receiving home, rushed into a burning Mortimer near Riverton residence on January 24 and saved nineteen children. The Carnegie Hero Commission awarded her a silver medal and $1,000. The incident prompted praise from officials and local supporters.
Nozawa Nozawa, a 23 year old Japanese hotel employee at the Sunrise on Main Street, severely burned his right arm after a boiler was left heating while he washed dishes. He reportedly filled the boiler with water and returned to find his arm badly scalded, doctors fear possible amputation. He was taken to Providence Hospital for treatment.
The War Department orders the removal of tresties blocking the Lake Washington canal entrance by March 1 1910. Rail and streetcar lines must replace trestles over Salmon de Fremont and University with overhead bridges to permit canal ships. Delays in canal action draw mixed reactions.
John Oakes a Portland migrant and butcher died after a fall from a street car Monday night. His body was found on the sidewalk at 13th Ave and Massachusetts St. A post mortem will determine the exact cause. Relatives believed in Portland.
Lieut. Gov. Miller of Indiana told President Roosevelt Taft will win Indiana, with Bryan reports centered in Indianapolis and the German vote seen for Taft despite temperance moves. A Chicago Record-Herald straw vote predicts Taft wins Michigan by 60 000 to 100 000 votes.
John Howe deputy sheriff of Lincoln County Nevada returned home to renew his hunt for Irwin W. Thompson who vanished from Searchlight Nevada on August 12 1906. A body would yield a fortune for relatives in Superior Wisconsin and may reveal suspects in the case. Thompson struck it rich in Horse Wash and disappeared between Searchlight and Huntington’s camp after staking claims.
William C. Pruyn today entered a plea of guilty to embezzling 61.55 from Dexter Horton Co bankers. In January Judge Frater deferred sentence. The bank charged total embezzlements of 2200 dollars.
A local Longshore meeting was officially canceled Tuesday night amid a prolonged strike along the front. Union members remained out of work as California unions faced uncertainty over ongoing labor actions.
A report from Louisville states Ada Gorman's husband, Magnus, was arrested on a desertion charge and held on 6 000 bond. Bonds and money were alleged to belong to Ada Gorman’s sister. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman linked the case to family matters in Washington.
Randolph Hearst reports Colliers Weekly story accusing Charles Stump of coordinating with Archbold letters used in a campaign. Stump denies knowing Stump and declares he will stand firm while in Indiana.
A court verdict requires E. E. Kroenning of St Louis County to pay Miss B Matherton $1,000 plus $205 in 1907 costs after a dispute over an attempted disrobing. The decision, reported by United Press from Chicago, cites the St Louis Tribune account.
Fragmented text references a race or event with unclear details. It mentions timing and scores but lacks clear names, places, or outcomes. Readers are left with partial data and no definite conclusion on participants.
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