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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1907
Page
6
For sale items include a Mallard water motor coat and a rowboat with accessories. Also advertised is farms and acreage with 1 to 2 and a half acres described as upland and rich alder area. Listings mention contact details and several names for inquiries.
An old classified ad from Burnett Company in Youngstown lists loan and investment offers. It mentions a $5 per month plan, a loan amount around $260, and cash town payments, with contact numbers 352-253 Empire Bt and Main 1237 Ind 2983. An accompanying line references email addresses and a person named Alesha.
Advert reads multiple small room cottages and a few 4 to 16 room homes near the lake and university. Listings mention prices around 40 to 16 thousand dollars with terms, modern conveniences, furnace, and ocean or water view. Several parcels include 10 to 16 rooms, paved approaches, and proximity to sound with parcels at 7 280 and 9 000 dollars.
Overnight entries list for Thursday’s Meadows program detailing five and one half furlong maidens and six and one half furlongs for three year olds and up. Names such as Star of Texan and Captain appear among listed horses with corresponding weights and previous race references.
In Connersville Indiana on September 4 a demented prisoner Harry Robinson enraged by water thrown in his face beat fellow inmates with an iron cuspider injuring several and killing Austin Ford before firefighters subdued him with a hose.
Chicago reports the government weather service again failed to provide reports from Canada and only a few from the Dakotas, with none received west of the Missouri River in Nebraska, leaving officials frustrated.
Street car men in several city districts were ready to walk out but lacked a leader to direct action. The trouble stemmed from what workers call improper protection against the strikers.
The Yucatan of Northwestern Steamship Company passed the cape at 6 30 this morning and will reach port early this evening. She carries a large cargo and a number of passengers from Valdes.
Council last night heard Corncilman Crichton request an appropriation to build a fence around the pest house to prevent patients from escaping the premises. Soap Lake cures described as relieving Coxema cases.
The Col El Drake armed in port today from San Francisco was ordered to stop at Port Town and underwent a water fidelity examination by quarantine officials.
The charter review commission was formed last night by ey Harnett, president of the com, with members Cornelimen Hi Gill Frank P Mull en J B Crichton Wiliam Murphy Arnold Zbinden plus ex officio Mayor Moore R H Thomson and Scott Calhoun. The Central Labor Council sent a representative to ensure labor input before amendments are presented. The chairman promised an official notice of the first meeting, with likely only one session before the December 31 report.
A white Japanese silk dainty dancing gown designed for a belle at a mountain resort hotel dances at summer hops. It features a trimmed overblouse and skirt with hand embroidered silk, a separate front width in the skirt, silk bands, pale blue satin girdle with rhinestone buttons, and shoulder straps with deep surplice revers. The Havland apartments on Helmont avenue were sold for $47,000 to KE W Craven.
The council approves a temporary corrugated iron market building on leased ground near the public market for the Vashon Fruit Growers Association. Tensions rise as Gill calls it an evasion of the ordinance, but Revelle and Mullen support the permit. The decision allows the market to operate with a roof, while a mayoral fine and further actions loom.
At a crowded Becond nv 8. and Washington st corner, five men assaulted W. Schurtz just after 1 am. Four attackers fled as Patrolmen Peterson and Nash arrested one suspect. Schurtz was left unconscious and taken home by his carriers. another man was later detained as a thug.
City council debated approving a permanent public market in Seattle. Councilman Revelle introduced a resolution binding the council to the plan. It was referred to the finance committee with related offers and details on purchase terms.
Sheriff Smith returned from Auburn this noon to investigate the Christopher Knickerbocker and Howard bank robbery. No clue to the robbers was found. The amount taken was 5616 dollars and 60 cents. The inner vault door may have been opened using Senator Knickerbocker’s missing key for two weeks.
Grich the composer died at his Bergen home in Norway on September 4, an official notice from Copenhagen confirms his death. The bereaved include family and colleagues in the music community mourning the loss of the notable composer.
In San Francisco on September 4 Harriman and a companion returned from a fishing and hunting trip. The famed road magnate had no conversation on any subject for the eastern trip.
A.W. Tide Merchants Exchange invites members to attend a gathering at the Rainier club to discuss exchange matters. The agenda includes topics on heating furnaces and related business interests.
Disjointed OCR readout hints at a historic customs tale mentioning a land, a notable woman, and a small entity involved in contraband. The garbled text suggests a late 1st century setting with references to trade, borders, and hidden goods. Neighboring clues point to a bustling port scene and a notable figure.
The Flue Punnel liner Antilochus leaves Tacoma today for the Orient carrying 3,000,000 feet of lumber 10,000 cases of salmon 20,000 barrels of flour and general merchandise totaling 12,000 tons. Owned by Alfred Holt & Co of Liverpool the voyage marks one of the largest cargoes shipped from the Sound.
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