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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1915
Page
4
A collage of personal ads seeking husbands and wives, plus listings for mediums and clairvoyants. Notices claim confidential matches, marriage prospects, and spiritual guidance with addresses and prices for readings and consultations.
A partially cleared 20 acre improved ranch offers lake and mountain views with a ductile landscape. The property features 4 acres plowed, fully fenced fields, mature trees, and a county road frontage. Located near Kirkland and Beattie, priced at $1,800. Potential buyers invited to inspect in person.
Port of Seattle commissioners hold a hearing on proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan for the port district. The agenda includes changes to Unit No 14 and the addition of a new terminal belt line railroad system within the Port District. Public session occurred at the Kell Street Warehouse office in Beattie Washington.
The notice records marriage licenses for Teatore Levy and Lillian Antell. Beattie Herbert Stephens and Ingrid Soderstrom. Elisabeth D Hine and Beattie John Mooira. Mary Fink and W GO Lampher. Emma Woed and 19. plus numerous other couples with addresses in King County and local hospitals. Divorces include Sophia Stanhope from Wilburn Stanhope Amy A Martin from These Martin Tesson from Frances Rae Culver from Irene Culver Eunice Tucker from Vivian Tucker and Mary Ensiow v Ensiow among others, with complaints of non support cruelty and desertion.
A jumbled list of market items including flour, sugar, cranberries, pork, lamb, butter, salmon, canned goods, produce, eggs, potatoes, lard, and condiments. Prices are listed next to several items with references to delivery options and stall numbers.
A jumble of grocery items with prices and units appears, listing milk, peanut butter, pickles, coffee, cheese, ham, pork roasts, veal, crab, and canned goods. Prices are given per quart, pound, or can with various descriptors and shop names embedded.
The notice lists Puget Sound steamers serving multiple ports with daily schedules from Port Townsend and Victoria to Olympia, Anacortes, Bellingham, and other towns. It details timetables, connections at Tecoma, and routes to Powell River, Tacoma, and Seattle with occasional noon and evening sailings and exceptions for holidays and Sundays.
Port Warden Paysse orders strict watch to block 75 tons of nitroglycerine believed shipped from San Francisco for Vladivostok. He says the explosives will not enter Elliott Bay. The past fire on Pier 14 spurred heightened vigilance.
Mrs. Charlotte C. Rhodus president of the Woman's Party of Chicago leads a national campaign supported by Chicago club women for three cent electricity three cent gas and penny telephones as a social reform measure.
New York Oct 29 J P Morgan underwent an appendix operation at his home at noon today. The operation was successful and Morgan is resting comfortably at Gleneeve. Doctors expect a perfect recovery.
Mathias Shuster, 1, an Austrian, tried to kill himself Friday in his room at 2282 Sixth Ave by swallowing chloroform in whisky and slashing his left wrist artery. He said two brothers have been killed in the war and another is a prisoner in Russia, and that he lacked funds to return home.
Story notes walnuts bought from Klyece & Co in the Western area. Katz took sacks and resold them to Wise who sold to A Manol and another woman. The woman returned bad walnuts to the health department. Judge Gordon fined all parties ten dollars each on Friday.
The Masque issue of the Seattle Press Club 1915 features humorous exposes of town figures and a Seattle post office stamp ad. Editor Chas Eugen Banks leads the staff with Cai Thos Hunt Hurwitz and Jones. ball events and posters accompany the issue.
In Palo Alto on October 29 a gang of safe crackers fled a post office robbery as police fired revolvers, creating smoke that hid the bandits. Holes drilled and fuse ready scenes were described, but a window broke and the robbers escaped under cover of the smoke.
Anna Dailey, dying months ago, named Elizabeth Zurnstein a trained nurse who performed four operations on her shortly before death. Mrs. Julia Mae Goodrich faces manslaughter charges. the nurse was dismissed from guilt without a trial. The dying statement was given in Judge Tallan's court with doctors present.
The conference committee and county commissioners voted to combine heating plants in the city hall basement to heat the new court building. They plan to heat by electricity and steam supplied by Seattle Electric Co. Final decision rests with the commissioners. Fancy Burbank potatoes noted. South End Public Market Saturday first time in 18 years flour $17 sack.
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