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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1914
Page
6
A clipped item notes Fein Wasear Art novelties and street repair work. The brief mentions 170 percent third and hints at repair activity and a fast pace. Details are fragmented and uncertain.
A garbled OCR fragment lists multiple adult services and encounters at various addresses including Union St Apt E and Green Motel. It mentions tasteful massage alcohol rub pelvic treatments, a nurse confinement home, and a series of spiritualist readings, clairvoyants, and phrenologists with claimed accuracy and low fees. The document also references a matrimonial notice and personal ads seeking widows or maiden ladies for romance.
Fragmented notice listing multiple lenders and loan offers. Mentions Pacific Coast Mission Ca, Calhoun Denny Ewing Alaska, Masten Mock, Virtue Co, and Real Batterlo Loans. Indicates building loans on vacant or improved property with low rates and quick terms.
A dense listing of market stalls with varied produce and prices including bananas cantaloupes lemons peaches lamb bacon lard tomatoes salmon mackerel halibut beets carrots corn spinach pickling spices vinegar tomatoes beans cheese butter and other groceries. Prices include per pound and per item with numerous odd spellings and measurements.
A fragmentary catalog of stalls listing groceries and prices. Items include fancy potatoes at 81.46 per 100, tomatoes, corn, coffee and tea offers, beans, rice, prunes, milk, onions, cottage cheese, cakes, peas, peanut butter, oranges, lard, coffee amounts, beef and lamb options, and various quantities. The text shows multiple stalls with imprecise wording and odd characters but preserves the sense of a market price card.
A compact roundup reports veal prices edging higher, injuries from a 15 foot fall to be unhurt, and obituaries for Calvert and Wirth. It notes German kindness claims, Hadley visiting Seattle, Steinke predicting a German victory, Labor Day thefts with little loot taken, a suicide by W H Pickering, a burglary miss at Swenson’s home, and Seattle Brits sending monthly relief funds. Also mentions Engle speeding arrest and an upcoming bachelors dance on October 9.
In the matter of the petition of the Nadia Pacific Railway Company, Dominion of Canada, owner of the steamship Princess Victoria, for limitation of liability, before the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Northern Division.
Washington State Association of Assistant Postmasters met in Tacoma yesterday. C. J. Backus of Tacoma was elected president.
George O'Donnell of Los Angeles and Thomas Murphy of San Francisco attend a meeting of fire chiefs in Victoria last week and visit Seattle this afternoon returning south after the convention.
The new bill features the Three Mori Brothers as headliners at the Empress with Alice Hanson and Lee Rose and Catherine Moon delivering strong vaudeville acts. The Pantages presents Kingdom of Dreams with Lottie Perine, Barefoot dancing, and a brisk comedy sketch Smithy and the Kel. Acme Four sing, Gray and Peters cycle routine openers.
Report from Sickles county shows 58 salary grabbers in the clerk’s office took pay then 20 were absent to work at the polls. The invitation to “take a day off” aimed at county could not say for whom the county army served. The clerk’s and sheriff’s offices led absenteeism with the auditor’s office staying full.
Ed win Van Wart sues Collin Morrison in superior court for $10,000 claiming Morrison invaded his territory in a neighborhood near his nose, knocked off his glasses, knocked him unconscious and fractured a rib during a August 29 dispute.
A dispatch from Ostend says German army aviator Hirth, a well known flyer, was executed in Berlin Sunday for spying. He was accused of communicating with French aviators, but the report lacks independent confirmation.
In the heaviest rainstorm on record, two men and a woman died in Kansas City as floods displaced over 3,000 homes. Wires and drownings occurred in rural and suburban areas including Rosedale as Turkey Creek and the Blue River surged, with $1.5 million in damages from 6.94 inches of rain in 10 hours.
E. F. Engle, 18, Edmonds, was arrested on Westlake Boulevard by Motorcop Yoris for driving 60 mph. He appeared in police court after a night in jail, was sentenced to 16 more days in the city retainer and fined $100. Engle said he was pursuing violators as a deputy game warden. Yoris chased and taunted him. Engle did not appeal. Frank Scerman is building a $5,000 concrete garage at Ellensburg.
A new gas system for home heating heats homes with a switch and automatic thermostat. Radiators radiate warmth while combustion byproducts exit through ducts, keeping air clean. Seattle’s low gas rates make gas heating affordable for cooking and water heating as well. See this modern method before other heating plans.
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