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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
2
Classified notes describe a 43 lot sale near a navy yard with low prices and easy terms, plus a free-adjoining university bargain residence listing with payment options. Also included are bankruptcy notice items, sensational psychic ads, and a small grocery ad with varied prices and items.
A dense OCR style listing details prices and items across a public market, including sugar, milk, sorghum, pancake flour, corn meal, pickles, ketchup, various meats, flour, potatoes, cereals, crackers, beans, apples, soap, baking powder, pineapple, and tea. Numerous prices and unit references are listed for multiple stalls and items.
Property owned by a woman seeking a buyer with good hay storage, gravity water piping, and access to the public market. Improvements include cleared soil, hay shed, and adjoining improved plots. Easy terms to suitable party. location near Madison Park and Carl Anderson ticket offices for information.
A chaotic grocery list precedes a labor story as Northern Pacific Railway telegraphers in St Paul report a threatened strike may be averted after talks with officers. Keymen seek a 10 percent wage hike and shorter hours.
A classified notice claims a vacant Star Want Ade house will attract tenants quickly. The advert emphasizes fast leasing without listing specific terms or contact details.
Steamship lines from Port Townsend list calls to Victoria Seattle Anacortes Bellingham and San Juan Islands with daily and weekend sailings. Passenger rates include limited liability and boarding via Tacoma Olympia Shelton and Port Angeles links. tickets sold at office 6:40 am to midnight with frequent changes announced.
Dr Curtin a middle aged painter of Bainbridge Island is jailed on assault charges after he allegedly urged a woman with four children to leave her home and then brutalized her. The case linked to Mrs Colby wife of an Auburn engineer who fled to Portland with her infants, Curtis then followed to Seattle and attacked her at a Minor Street apartment. The husband intervened and the couple reconciled with Curtis to stand trial for assault.
Berlin reports Romania severed diplomatic relations with Bulgaria at 6 20 last night. Salonika reports Bulgaria declared war on Romania today in an official announcement.
A pedlar lecture in Madison Square Forum drew a crowd as a man offered a Mexican dollar note for payment. The speaker offered fifty cents and cashed the note, later discovering the bills were street-sold coin at five cents per bale, attracting a lunch-seeking crowd.
A. T. Allen of Standard Clothing, just back from Europe, reports that bread made from American flour is cheaper in warring nations than it is for Minneapolis consumers. He says this surprising price gap reflects wartime trade shifts affecting local shoppers.
W. R. Taylor reported finding three two cent postage stamps inside a chicken he bought for dinner in Huntington. The stamps remained undamaged apart from glue on their backs having disappeared.
Winchester Kentucky reports 16 year old Tilda Ann Clem wed 67 year old James Hisle. Hisle owns a small farm at Log Lick. The bride is described as small for her age and could be mistaken for her granddaughter.
Travelers from Constantinople arriving aboard the Ryndam report that the cheapest shoes in the Turkish capital cost 15 dollars a pair.
A Bellefontaine, Ohio couple caused a small riddle when the wife accused her husband of wearing her missing lower plate. He removed the teeth to reveal they belonged to his wife, while he continues to search for his own missing set.
Hercu les Androezzi, 88, once a sculptor for British royalty, lives in poverty selling plaster casts. Born in Florence he moved to England, married an heiress, and faded from honors to a hovel. He says he fears not death.
Information filed Friday charges J Murphy with first degree arson. Police say Murphy, an alleged strike sympathizer, was arrested on the waterfront two weeks ago after being seen discarding a phosphorus bottle onto a pier.
Kansas City Missouri September 1 Wm J Patterson of Pittsburg was elected common chief of the Grand Army of the public receiving 436 votes out of 670 cast.
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