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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1917
Page
3
The page lists numerous room rentals including single housekeeping rooms with bath and toilet near 170 Sint and Vester and ads for Western Union messenger and clerk positions. It also details city petitions, transportation, and various employment opportunities with pay rates and contact details.
An assorted page fragment lists street addresses and names with notices for items for sale and services. It includes piano listings, auctions, furniture wants, hotel and room ads, and various business notices with multiple street and avenue references. The legible items show a bustling market vibe with prices and contact points scattered across Second Avenue, Third Avenue, and nearby blocks.
Hoffmans at 1610 Westlake and Fourth features a new fall line of women’s and misses’ garments from leading manufacturers. Introductory sale includes coats in velour and broadcloth, dresses, suits, and fur trimmed pieces priced from 16.00 to 60.00 with samples and reproductions emphasized.
Advertises clairvoyant and phrenologist services offering guidance on business love health and family affairs. Claims to remove obstacles and help clients win desired partners with readings at 50 cents daily and Sunday. Hints years of Seattle experience and special 60 cent readings. Crowds gathering at 211 Union Street apartment and 306 Pike address with phone contact Elliott 3674.
An old classified style ad lists multiple clairvoyants and card readers offering palmistry, fortune telling, and business or domestic advice. It cites various offices and addresses such as 3106 Vike corner Melrose and rooms in hotels and motels with hours including daily from 10 am to 5 pm and evenings. The copy promotes spiritual services and mental laws for success and protection against worry.
Mie Callahan asserts Clark Callahan, the boy’s father, is behind the disappearance and had threatened to steal the child, shaping her suspicions around the case.
The Beattie School District No 1 in King County Washington estimates a 1917–1918 budget of 2 029 766 for instruction administration and capital improvements. A public meeting is set for 7 90 p m October 1 1917 at the Board Office 825 Central Building to hear taxpayers opinions and review the detailed levy plan on file with the district secretary. The document outlines expenses for administration instruction transportation maintenance salaries supplies and permanent improvements with income from state funds county funds and local taxes.
An OCR style market section lists hundreds of items with prices including corn starch Carnation milk beef cheese coffee sugar beans rice lard and more. It shows stalls named like Stalls 37-98 32-33 and Tokto Grocery Annex with varied per pound or per unit costs and multi item bundles.
Advertising fragment shows items like butter 48 lb at unknown price, coffee 18 cents per pound, ground peanut butter 15 cents per pound, milk 10 cents per quart, flour 60 lb for 2.40, tomatoes two cans, best Japan rice four pounds at 26 cents, Queen olives 3 cents.
A fragmented inventory lists stalls with items and prices including sugar at 8 cents, peaches in crates, flour and milk products, various vegetables and meats priced per pound or per crate. Entries cover stall numbers and items such as bacon, stewing beef, sweet potatoes, and baked goods with prices in cents or dollars.
Market stalls list various goods with unit prices and weights. Items include whey nuts, hominy, spinach, Jersey butter, fresh ranch eggs, Gravenstein apples, green peas, brown beans, soy beans, veal roast, shoulder mutton, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls. Prices range from 10c to 91.25 per box or pound.
In federal court Judge Neterer denied the motion to dismiss the case of Olof Berild and FE. Peterson charged with attempting to obstruct the draft law. Berild and Peterson pleaded not guilty after being arrested June 5 for distributing printed matter urging resistance to military service.
Samuel Gompers elected president of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy this morning in Minneapolis. Other officers named include Frank Morrison, Mrs. Gertrude Fuller, James Duncan, and R. Gill with a 20 member executive committee. The group pledges loyal labor support for democracy and calls unity essential amid pacifist enemies, with a five member committee to contact Russian democracy leaders.
In Oakland on September 7, Catherine Vickies, 28, shot Albert Williams, 36, then held another Williams worker at bay while she drank poison. She collapsed beside Williams's body in a bill posting firm wagon yard after waiting about forty minutes for his arrival.
Teiji Ishida president of Ocean Transport Co announced plans to open offices in San Francisco. The $20,000,000 firm has dispatched six freighters from Japan to American Pacific ports and will add six more under construction to serve soon. Manila will be a port of call.
The Senator of Pacific Steamship Co arrived Thursday from Honolulu with 61 000 cases of canned pineapple. After unloading she will proceed to Bellingham to load cargo for Singapore. The shipping board announced a general chartering board to set ocean freight rates and vessel charters. In Vancouver the J A Moffett reported steering trouble after bringing 80 000 barrels of oil and the Japanese Panama Mae Tu arrived with silk freight and 50 passengers for Kobe on its last trip to the South American trade.
An official statement reports Russian gunboats and torpedo boats convoyed steamships and floating defenses out of Riga before the German occupation. The ships remained in the Dvina mouth until the last moment, with enemy submarines appearing in Riga gulf earlier. It adds that beyond rear guard actions there was nothing material to report from around Riga.
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