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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1913
Page
8
A Seattle store promotes a complete housefurnishing service covering walls decor furniture upholsteries floor coverings dining room bric-a-brac and kitchen wares. It highlights in store selection, wide price ranges, unique quality items, and a competent sales force ready to assist with all home furnishing needs.
The Metropolitan asylums board reports cases of individuals alternating between poor houses and prison. The strategy aims for at least three months’ sentence to gain a $2.50 gratuity on discharge, then spend the funds on a brief holiday before returning to the cycle of conviction, prison and degradation.
Twenty thousand people lined the Bowery to witness the funeral for "Big Tim" Sullivan as his casket moved toward St. Patrick's Cathedral. A escorts of twenty congressmen marched beside the car while East Siders trailed behind and storefronts along Bowery and Mott Street wore mourning drapes.
A new arrival at the home of N. Goodwin on 20th Avenue West prompts Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co to install an extension line. Despite prior refusals and two signed contracts, Goodwin’s appeal to City Utilities superintendent Valentine led to the wiring project just before the baby’s birth, improving access in the outskirts within city limits.
The Mothers' congress of Seattle organized a milk contest with the city health department. Frank H. Bothel tested eighty samples from as many dairies, finding only three scores below 50 percent, all pasteurized milk. Certified milk scores included W.W.8 Robb 96.2 and J. D. Farrell 95.26 among others.
The catalog describes extensive bedroom and office furniture on the third and fourth floors. It markets complete suites and individual pieces in mahogany, walnut, enamel, maple, and oak, plus brass and iron beds, chests, and accessories. Office lines emphasize complete furnishing, desks, tables, chairs, bookcases, filing cabinets, and lettered pieces.
The display highlights fabrics for modest bungalows and elaborate decorative schemes. Floral and conventional designs in delicate tints suit ladies rooms, with bold futurist options for living and dining areas. Sun-proof materials in white ivory Egyptian ecru plus plain colors and craftsman patterns are shown. Top sources include tapestries velours brocades reps and damasks in cotton and jute.
One of the largest floor covering sections in the West invites you to explore a wide range of rugs and carpets. Over 500 patterns and colors of carpet-size rugs including Wilton Body Brussels and Axminster. more than 200 rugs in 9x12. Oriental rugs from mats to large carpets. stock carpets for immediate delivery plus a cut-order department on the second floor.
Advertising copy promotes the genuine Beckwith Round Oak heating stove available in several sizes. It claims the stove burns hard coal soft coal coke or with equal success and economy. It emphasizes even heat easy insulation and adjustable heat. Also advertised are ranges The Great Majestic Ohio Steel Range Champion Coal and Gas improved Regal Quality and Direct Gas Range.
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