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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1914
Page
6
Apply to the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company for permanent trainee positions with salaries while learning. Room 2% 1115 Fourth Ave between Spring and Seneca. Elliott 6377. Office open weekdays 8:39 a.m. to p.m.
A dense OCR fragment lists private teaching, massage, and varied psychic services. Entries mention Chinese Medicine Co at 623 Third Ave Beattie Washington, Spirit mediums and card readers, clairvoyants, palmists, astrologists, and readings offered at multiple downtown addresses including Windsor Court, Hotel Snoqualmie, Sterling Motel, and 1412 Third Ave. Potential notices include contact names such as Rev Elizabeth Stalker and Dr Ida Griffin.
United States Marshal joins in the matter of the petition by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, owner of the Steamship Princess Victoria, to limit liability. The proceeding is filed in the Western District of Washington, Northern Division, naming J.M. Rotle as marshal.
Readable fragments advertise low prices for deeded lands and government homesteads. Items include 866 dollars for full acres, irrigable plots eight miles from town with railroad access and water, alfalfa and livestock potential, and comparisons to nearby sales. buyers urged to act, with contact through P. F. Box 126 Beattie Washington and Leonard Cole Yale Oregon. Also mentions 1,000,000 acres of free government homesteads offered, with $1 to 640 per acre, yields of 25 bushels wheat, and immigration booklets via the Immigration Bureau Seattle WA.
Almanac of brief notices includes J H Abbott in habeas corpus bid to escape Jal, Chas Terry near death, 3 year old Arthur Greable found in Lake Union, Mrs Susan Henderson dead, H Yamashita suspected killer captured, W A Byers accused letter thief, Dr F L Hayden elected head of Presbyterian ministers, moving pictures at South Park, J W Phillips appointed state assay er, Count von Rex sails to New York, Monday Night program for high schoolers, court dispute over Seven Sisters bills, Montana progressives back woman suffrage, Dr C G Haines moves political science work, W F Piper ends life in asylum, Chinese pheasants released at Raymond, armored cruiser South Dakota returns from Honolulu, railroads seek rate rise after court reopening, Britain France China sign peace treaties, Colorado coal owners meet on peace plans, naval exam pass rate five of 120, American singers open opera season in New York, Panama canal gun tests, Luxem struck sand bank near New Zealand, Lina Diggs granted divorce with alimony in Woodland.
29 acres in Lincoln Creek Valley at Centralia on the main auto road with milk routes. 23 acres cultivated, 4 acres timber, 2 acres fine orchard, spring brook and good well. 6 room house, large barn and other buildings. Price 2000 dollars with terms 600 cash and 100 a year for 14 years by Southwest Washington Land Co. 18 Downs Creek.
An advertisement from 1947 touts a farming community near Seattle inviting buyers to own rich land with payments of one dollar per acre per month. Readers are asked to request free literature and contact for an appointment.
Market stalls list items with varying details including lamb cuts pork sausage and bacon priced per pound. Bananas grapes Tokay grapes Washington milk Swiss cheese Jersey butter and assorted produce appear with unit prices and weights. Multiple stalls note specials though many figures are garbled.
The OCR fragment lists stall numbers and item prices for groceries including sugar sardines macaroni coffee peanut butter pickles ham and pork with items priced per pound per packet and promotion offers such as sugar with a two dollar grocery order. Several stalls are named with specific prices and product types.
In the Puget Sound Methodist conference closing session at First Methodist Church Seattle, Rev Adna Wright Leonard D D was assigned to the First Methodist church at Seattle for a fifth year. Numerous ministerial transfers followed among Seattle and surrounding districts with many churches listed for supply and reassignment.
The Seattle run of Kitty Mackay at the Moore features the same prominent New York cast led by Marjorie Murray Bernard Thornton Eleanor Daniels Wallace Irikine Marie Stuart Rule Pyott and others. Cabiria at the Metropolitan draws large crowds with dramatic scenes of village fires volcano eruptions and ancient battles. University of Washington opens winter term with over 2000 students registered and a special U W Daily edition.
Readable items show groceries and prices at stalls: sanitary supplies, honey, figs, rye wafers, maple syrup, bulk granola, back bones and lamb cuts, leaf lard, milk cans, tea and coffee, toilet paper, catsup, olives, asparagus, peas, pineapple, Elberta peaches, and Siberian crabapples with crate prices. Includes multiple stalls and itemized weights and cents per unit.
Stall 15 offers Malaga and Tokay grapes best baking apples 26c a dozen Siberian crabapples box Concord grapes 300 large baskets pickling cucumbers 260 and 36c per 100 Stall 9 lists salmon trout halibut life salmon 20c to 3 Ibe Stall 12 promotes sauerkraut be qt 9 qts large German dills pure cider vinegar 406 gal white pickling vinegar 40c gal Stall 101 bottle mayonnaise 20c Be bottle salad dressing 16c 1$ bottle soup pickles 10c
A fragmented market listing describes stalls at Westlake with items and prices including flour at $1.40, spices, navy beans, cream fudge 20 cents, Tokay grapes, maple fudge, Brussels sprouts, fancy sweet potatoes, cabbage, coffee 40 cents, lamb stew priced per pound, and oranges by the dozen among other goods.
A St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train derailed near Lebanon at 2 35 a m while en route to Texas. The forward section plunged into a 12 foot deep washout, drowning many passengers in the chair car. Thirteen injured survivors received treatment at a Lebanon hospital.
Prosecutor John Murphy leads officers to 1526 Albiay in West Seattle. They find beer and whisky hidden in a bungalow and arrest a man named Matt Dee after a raid tied to the Meadows venue and the Johnny Clancy operation.
Sept 15 Poulsbo inland fire devastated the town’s business section destroying two blocks of structures. The Olympic hotel led the losses at 4000 with Myrobes millinery 4000 and Reliable Hardware 9000 as key totals. Fireboat Snoqualmie saved remaining areas. Damages tallied to 26700 with several other businesses listed among the losses. Gov West of Oregon delays executions until after November elections.
Daily Star publication features builders listing bargains on its want ad page. The compact notice highlights affordable prices and quick offers to attract buyers.
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