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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1908
Page
6
Rates for classified advertisements listed with telephoned ads not guaranteed accurate. Situations wanted ads priced at 2 dollars for 18 words, repeatable three times. additional space billed at 50 cents per line.
Classified notice outlines pricing rules for advertising. It explains per word minimum counts, line-based charges, and discounts for prepaid multiple insertions. The text is a fragment describing how ads are billed and formatted in the newspaper.
Classified notice from the Ballard Agency by P. H. Mullen listing contact details and office locations with post or street addresses and telephone numbers for business inquiries. The message indicates a daily cut off time for classifications and provides main office location in a downtown area.
A scan of notices shows a wife in Ogden with a September 1 date plus miscellaneous funeral and public notices. It lists death and matrimonial announcements, obituaries, and classified briefs including services, rentals, and job ads with street addresses and phone references.
Classified ad blurb lists services from The Canadian Bank of Commerce including savings and time deposits. Mixed with other lines about contractors real estate and lending, the snippet mentions a Beattie land tract for sale and cheap acreage near Pacific City and Tacoma areas with low down payments and monthly terms.
Farm offer lists 46 acres near Cloyonm Indiana with cows horses and wagons, 100 bearing fruit trees, good water and full crop. Asking 2000 with easy terms. nearby listings include 1.5 acres near Tacoma Interurban and multiple 5 acre tracts with water and orchard potential. Also notes New York City real estate listings.
Classified notes advertise cheap building tracts from 280 to 400 per quarter acre, proximity to schools and churches, and owner offers a free 4 room cottage. Several small homes and lots priced from 1 350 to 3 400 with terms, near Ravenna park and Green Lake area.
Bremerton sales promote naval station growth with 200 lots in a Navy Yard addition. Oak Company invites buyers to tour waterfront plots at 107 My 118 Alaska Building and in Times block offices nightly, offering rooms and cottages for cash deals and urging prompt purchase.
Se serene eneree announces a Sunday free excursion to Bremerton with complimentary tickets at D. Hin man's office. The notice promotes waterfront lots for sale at $1 per month and invites readers to visit the new additions, claiming exclusive free excursions and urging action today.
Listings advertise a brand new seven room house near the river with double construction and a quick sale price of 1160 dollars. Also offered are two cliffal lots in Weedlawn Terrace at 700 dollars and a 126 foot riverfront tract with riparian rights. Other parcels include an irrigated 2 1/2 acre tract yielding 100 dollars per acre.
An advertisement promotes Lot 40100 near Beacon Hill for sale on easy terms. It touts a 2 acre ground with large view, near car line, offering $100 cash, $16 monthly balance, and a yearly payment schedule, with emphasis on location and simple terms.
Joe Martino nominated by the Asiatic Exclusion League as candidate for Vancouver in the forthcoming federal election. He agreed with exclusionist committee to run.
In Bremerton on September 16 John Noveteny, a Spanish American War veteran and Navy Yard employee, visited a friend to bid farewell then shot himself on the doorstep after a brief visit. He left no known relatives in the area.
The Rev. Ernest J. Craft of Christ's Episcopal Church in Bridgeport has written a problem play titled His Affinity. It centers on matritony and a broken home caused by an unrighteous woman named Farle. The piece echoes a real attack case involving an affinity wife. Craft, a leading Connecticut clergyman, weighs offers from managers but has not decided on production.
A stranger in Rondale, a Cincinnati suburb, allegedly handed poisoned apples to children. Wilson Lawrence, six, is dead. Clara O Rourke nine and Sturgeon Kirby seven are gravely ill. Mothers are shocked as doctors and Coroner Cameron investigate. Several other children possibly affected.
Realty ad from Fremont av Sons North details payment terms for a built home with concrete basement and street access. It lists graded streets, 2 car lines, cement walks, and full features priced near 14 900 with a 40 percent initial payment and balance due later. Named party is Realty Yo Fremont av Sons North 62% offering.
Saratoga N Y Sept 16 The Republican state ticket governor Charles E Hughes of New York renominated For lieutenant governor Horace White of Owen For secretary state Samuel B Koente of New Yes 2 attorney Edward O Malley of xpi For comptroller Charles H Gaus of Albany For state treasurer Thomas B Dunn of Monroe For associate judge of the court of appeals Albert J of Erie
In Oakland on September 16 Arthur F Ball, a maker of wooden legs, sues Mary Ball for annulment of marriage. Judge Harris postponed the case after Mrs Ball was arrested in San Jose on a charge of eloping with Frank Fleming, another wooden leg maker. Proceedings will resume after police court handling of Ball and Fleming. In Blaine the Morrison mill tested boilers and will begin lumber cutting soon.
John Haller, a Seattle Transfer employee aged about 66, was struck by a southbound car on the Maynard trestle last night at 11 15 and died at Seattle General Hospital at 3 this morning after being hurled forty feet to rocks below. Police suspect internal injuries and say alcohol may have played a role.
Report from Duluth states two men, Monker and Indiana, died trying to save homesteaders at Nestor as fire sweeps arms mountains of flame. Gen Wood and Minnesota naval militia aboard the Gopher warn danger remains. Grand Marais and Colville suffer near total destruction on the north shore.
C W Ellsworth who came to Everett with his family from Portland a week ago vanished after returning from Hartford where they had friends. He left Hartford with about 150 in his possession and has not been seen since last Thursday. Relatives fear robbery and murder.
Negotiations terminate over claims on the first tier right limit of Dome creek in Fairbanks. Key figures Miller De Journal Dettering Johnson West Ron Crawford and others sell to Barnett Cook Ridenour McGinn Sullivan for a cash sum over 115000 with a 90000 mortgage due July 16, 1909. Development starts immediately. mining men expect over 2 million in output.
The Boundary region reports a major negotiation underway as the British Columbia Copper Company secures an option on Phoenix properties valued at about 1 million dollars. The deal status is not yet officially announced, but negotiations have been active for some time.
A logger named Effinger was killed yesterday afternoon at the C. H. Clemons camp near Montesano. The body was brought to Montesano last night for further handling.
A fine four-room cottage near the new car line and university offers electric fixtures, hard fibre plaster, and fresh paneled rooms with shade trees. It fronts Si feet on a lot with a woodshed in back, free from incumbrances, priced at $1,000 with $175 cash and $16 monthly payments, branch office reachable by Green Lake car.
Montreal dispatch reports Canadian Pacific officials acknowledge eventual building of an all-Canadian line to the Yukon. Survey work has begun toward this objective, with plans under consideration by company executives in Montreal and Vancouver.
United States report from Los Angeles says McComas a popular mining man released on motion of the district after a mistrial in the murder trial of Charlotte L Neves. The defendant allegedly shot and killed Neves on February 28 while living with her before the case was declared a mistrial by Judge James dlemfiss.
The fortieth anniversary of the A O internal organization will be celebrated on Oct seven with a monster and initiation. Representatives from lodges in the city have been active in anniversary plans and preparations for a se as program are under way.
United Press reports Justice T McFarland, a leading California jurist, died at his San Francisco residence after a long illness. He was born in 1825 and had served on the state high court for many years.
A fragmented price list shows radishes and parsley by the bunch, cabbage, beets, cucumbers, lemons, pineapples, oranges, peaches, watermelons, cantaloupes, flowers, eggs, potatoes, onions, summer squash, and mutton steaks with assorted weights and per unit or per pound pricing. The text includes vendor notes and several OCR errors but conveys a general market inventory and prices.
Fragmentary quotation lists prices paid to producers for various commodities including beef pork potatoes beets and other produce. Reading shows per pound per ton rates and dressed weights with unclear formatting and several garbled entries.
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