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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1904
Page
2
The text urges regular savings, suggesting daily, weekly, or monthly deposits even small sums like four dollars. It emphasizes a 4 percent interest rate as a key factor in eventual returns and financial growth.
A brief notice reports that the union offers an interest rate of four percent. Names and affiliations appear in the fragmentary text.
Russell and Drew managers advertise Up Town Seattle with matinees at 10c and 20c and evening prices from 25c to 50c. Tonight and all week feature On the Bridge at Midnight. next week September 11 An Unexpected novelty and Side Tracked with Jule Walters as A New Tramp in Town. Work and Wages Sunday show My Uncle from New York with matinees 20c and evening 25c 10c 20c. Puget Sound Leads the World.
Seattle hosts a Labor Day celebration featuring the Greatest Display of Local Industries Ever Exhibited. Free acts daily include a Family Aerial Trapeze at 3:45 and a High Wire Act at 4:30. Slide for Life at 3:45? Admission is 10 cents.
Free attraction with watermelon eating contest by colored men and medal distribution on the queen's throne. Gates open daily from 1 PM to midnight next week with admission one cent. Confetti not sold or thrown on Sunday. Event runs tonight and every afternoon and evening.
We display 120 heating stoves priced from TS5e to $75 with every known make available. Some used items are well below new stove costs. Our stock includes new and second-hand ranges from Ohio Garland St. Clair Bridge Beach Star Estate Majestic Jewell and other brands plus Charter Oak Range as sole agents. Our department stores offer big bargains across lines. Remember the name and place.
The Phoenix Athletic club boxing tourney last night featured quick exchanges and decisive wins. Mussen defeated Brown after a sharp second round, Clark stopped Doyle, Rhodes beat Carstens, Merrifield outlasted Clark, Dooling beat Green, and White edged Taylor with a sharp solar plexus jab.
Reported results show San Francisco beating Oakland 4-3. Los Angeles defeating Portland 5-4. Brooklyn topping Boston 7-6 with Boston earning 2-1. Cincinnati over Pittsburgh. New York routed Philadelphia 9-1, then 84 runs listed for New York in that line. Pacific National League standings include Boise over Salt Lake 5-0 and Spokane 7-? over Butte. Detroit edged St Louis 3-2, Cleveland beat Chicago 6-3, Washington defeated Boston 8-2, Philadelphia split with New York 5-2 and 2-1.
Renton Hill Improvement club backed the proposed assessment method to fund the Rai nier avenue sewer. A committee report found the plan the most feasible option available.
Tiverton takes two heats in the Charter Oak stakes at Hartford in front of about 20 000, earning a share of 10 000. Dr Strong shocks by matching the fastest time 2 07 percent in heat two, while Sweet Marie fails to win the decisive heat. Purse distribution gives 2 000 per heat winner and smaller prizes to second and third place across heats.
Herman Chapin and fellow automobile club members pressed the streets committee for changes to the automobile ordinance. They won a higher speed limit of eight mph uphill four mph downhill and ten mph on level roads. They also removed provisions for arresting reckless motorists and pledged to aid police in enforcing the revised rules.
County Auditor Lamping and County Commissioner Baker traveled to Olympia to request a reduction of 7500,000 from Beattie's assessed value. They argue Beattie's real property is assessed at over 66 percent of actual value to fund local improvements, and that state taxes on King County should not rely on inflated valuations from the board of equalization.
Tenants of the Colman Deck building celebrate the start of trestle repairs between the structure and the Great Northern railroad. The old timbers were weakened by weather and ships docking in fog, risking collapse. workers replace piles with new ones to restore support and safety.
An advertisement claims the product by a drug company on Second Avenue and Yesler cures dyspepsia jaundice fever and constipation regardless of age, asserting it cuts off maladies even in old age.
The ad invites readers to purchase a piano or graphophone on easy payments with use of the instrument during the payment period. It emphasizes affordable bar gains and encourages those who own a piano but lack a player to browse the Simplex option and other small musical instruments carried by the store.
Burke based instrument dealer D S Johnston Co operates at 903 Second Ave in the Burke Building offering a range of musical instruments and related gear with telephone contact 260 for inquiries or orders.
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