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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1917
Page
3
An advertisement advises landlords to use Star Want Ads for rental listings. It highlights a broad circulation reaching thousands of Seattle homes and claims more tenants reach than through any other Seattle newspaper.
Public markets in the south end show a variety of食品 items and prices. Entries include butter, cheese, steak, mutton, cocoa, dried grapes, raisins, beans, matoes, rye bread, and milk bread with noted quantities and packing details.
Fragmentary OCR lists stalls and items such as honey, sauerkraut, peaches, and toilet paper. Mentions sellers like Ted Beal grocery and Stall 18 with quantities and prices. The readable text hints at a market lineup rather than a full article.
A fragmented listing shows various grocery items with prices and quantities. Items include meats such as steak and pork, canned goods like clams and tuna, produce like potatoes and cabbage, dairy including milk and butter, baking supplies such as flour and sugar, and miscellaneous staples with per unit prices.
Readable fragments show a market page listing foods and goods including sugar milk salmon jellies wines and fresh produce. Mentions prices quantities and store names in a busy retail snapshot from a historic page.
A fragmented shopping board lists items such as granulated sugar at 1¢, pure natural milk, corn flakes, large red beans, fresh mackerel, sardines, sauerkraut, navy beans, pink beans, lentils, butter, cream cheese, and brick cheese with scattered prices and descriptors for a local stalls market.
Fragmented ad style listing groceries with prices and items including baking powder coffee chocolate peanut butter cheese fish cakes crabs and corn meal. Readable terms mention Mtalle Moye Porter's and Pimento cheeses with scattered prices and quantities.
Rev. Metcalf, age 78, died Monday at his home in the University district. He had been active in church work and in the GOAR until three years ago and served as Secretary of the Borrowed Time club.
The Bolsheviks accuse Kerensky of plotting to surrender Petrograd to Germany and urge immediate defense measures. They call for a revolutionary staff to defend the capital and seek an armistice only as long as the war lasts, insisting they will not abandon Petrograd even if the government does.
About 600 landowners in Tecoma and Pierce counties prepare to elect an attorney to petition President Wilson over condemnation for an army post. They oppose $15 an acre offers on land valued at $40 and accuse local merchants of profiteering, warning they may defend homestead rights if needed.
Jeremiah D. Riordan, former court clerk and Camp Lewis standout, was discharged after 20 days due to throat illness requiring surgery. He praises the officers as conscientious and notes his unit raised Liberty Bond funds totaling 16,300 dollars. He says the food at the cantonment was nutritious and expresses regret at leaving the service.
A mass meeting of business, home and club women called for Thursday at 12:30 in the Good Rae cafeteria banquet room under the Big Sisters banner aims to unite Seattle women for service work. Judge Read White will speak with Mrs. Sarah Thornton addressing the gathering. Kean will preside.
Admission given in the House of Commons by Dr McNamara financial secretary to the admiralty states that the rate of building mercantile shipping is not greater than its destruction rate in the German submarine war. Alma Gluck to sing at Camp Lewis before 40 000 soldiers if weather allows.
Dr Moynihan told the American Medical association that bathing wounded soldiers in a bathtub for two weeks aids healing. He said tubs were used in French hospitals to keep wounds open and cleanse them, speeding recovery.
Advertisement for Next Liberty theatre urging readers to choose Slaynes for watch repair services placed in the local ad section.
A British observer swings from a balloon ascent and climbs to a tree branch when the parachute catches at the top. The incident ends with a safe, if awkward, descent as the observer avoids a ground landing.
Miss Ann Martin, chair of the legislative committee of the national Woman's Party, will discuss The Federal Suffrage Amendment at the Washington Annex hotel drawing room. The public meeting recounts her experiences as one of the first 16 women arrested for White House picketing.
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club set a Friday 1 00 p m meeting to discuss wartime price controls. William Brown chosen to represent the Plumbers union in politics. George Pallock from San Francisco arrives to inspect 3000 Washington Court shoes. A Beattie exhibit by Yasushi Tanaka and students draws critics. A Friday benefit at First Unitarian for Sunday school. Police recover E F Gunn car. J Stevens, 59, injured by a delivery truck. Casper Hendricks faces charges in Seaneateles New York for false pretenses.
Five thousand troops at Scholfield Barracks Honolulu crave letters from Seattle girls. G W Behner and Fred BC Austin of the Fourth Cavalry urge correspondence to be sent to Hawaii, noting the impact a single missive has on mail-starved soldiers and promising replies.
United Press dispatches report Germany is aiding Austria with a major offensive along the Italian front. German forces reportedly captured positions near Filth Tolmino and the northern Bainza plateau, a sector where General Cadorna had pushed Austrians back in August.
The West Coast Lumbermen's associations report an order from Great Britain for 8,000,000 feet of airplane lumber, in addition to 3,000,000 feet for the U S government. Italy also placed a 2,000,000 foot order with a San Francisco firm, raising questions about supply. If the California firm cannot meet the demand, the West Coast group may be asked to supply.
A Nazi type German speaking family faces internment after Aug 1. A brood of burglaries hits several homes including C B R Rose at Fauntleroy Park and H Wakefield on Edgar Street. Thomas Hynes found guilty in robber trial. Barnard Halloran missing. Red Cross supper planned at Mrs Macinais home. A Brit consul to toast at Trinity church.
Amy Rosenburg, 26, told police she fired at her husband Fred C. Rosenburg, 32, after he beat her and denied entry to a bathroom during a quarrel at their home 5218 Brandonst on September 22 1917. She faced a second degree murder trial as defense prepared to plead.
Chauncey Wright and others secured a $1 472.04 judgment against Seattle Grocery Co in Judge Ronald's court. The suit centered on a four carload flour order placed April 6 with a quoted price of 9 45 per unit. Delays and non delivery led Wright to claim the firm sold the flour elsewhere for 15 00, seeking damages for the difference between the quoted price and the eventual cost.
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