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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
6
Brief listing notes a situations wanted advertisement priced at 25e for 18 words, with a 3 month duration. Mentions additional space available for a per-ne rate, reflecting traditional classifieds and payment terms.
A local notice outlines pricing rules for classified ads: a minimum charge per word, counting of fines, seven insertions for the price of six when paid in cash, and all cap lines or fractions counted as two lines. The policy details how charges are calculated and billed.
Classified notice lists contact info for Ballard Agency with addresses on Ballard Avenue and Seventh Avenue, plus phone numbers Ballard 300 Main 1050 and Ind 441. States classification cannot be given after 1 o clock daily and references P H Mullen at 5409 Ballard Ave opposite City Hall.
Notices list passengers and deaths with scattered personal details and dates. The text notes to verify train times by calling station information and provides several names and ages tied to September dates and Alaska travel.
Funeral services for Joseph Mott and Charles Fack were held at local parlors and church venues with interment at Mount Pleasant and Lakeview cemeteries. Amy Kalan also noted, with services at MEB church in belt Priday afternoon. Probate notices follow for Georgiana Reuss with Blake Mills named as executor. creditors urged to file within one year.
A collage of 1908 notices, sales, wanted ads, lo tions and services across Seattle area including furniture, real estate, rooms for rent, job offers, and auction announcements. Entries mention University Place, College of Commerce, Mrs Ketty, auction firm, and various rental and sale items with prices and contact notes.
Readable fragments describe a property sale near Woodland Park with a grand view and modern features. The text lists uncertain details including a date, garage or car item, and references to Phlaney and Vhene North 16 White 248 watt, indicating an ad style notice about listing.
A fragmented ad urges rapid investment in Bremerton Heights near the navy yard with opening prices and large tract land offers. It lists main and branch offices at 666-4 Empire Building and Bremerton, urging buyers to act as investors place savings in the development.
Real estate listings show several cheap tracts near Green Lake with payments of five dollars monthly and 20 minute car rides. Also advertised are two homes on lot 605100 near 24th and Dearborn with rental income and a $8,700 price, plus modern cottages on improved lots near Pioneer Square with prices around $2,350 to $2,600 and easy terms. Also offers include lake view properties on Lake Washington with city water and schools and a new listing in Youngstown with monthly rates.
Strikers at Mantos attack dock loading of coffee. A cruiser is sent to preserve order. The mob threw two bombs into the company stores, wounding five men and prompting officers to respond.
Herman Hranter, son of a police judge in Clinton Missouri, died in Hut te jail after battering his head against the cell wall during a drunken frenzy. He arrived from Clinton yesterday, resisted arrest, and was found dead this morning.
The board of trustees of the children's hospital will hold its annual open meeting tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Johnston's Music Hall Third and University. Mrs Charles Stinson president will speak and Mrs C R Collins secretary will read her report. Mrs L H Gray will describe the hospital's work with crippled children. Dr Herbert H Ghowen rector of Trinity Church will also speak. The meeting is open to all interested in the hospital's work.
Nick Pettrich, known as the Servian bandit, was found guilty of first degree murder for killing Marenel Meary Miller of Kent on April 10. The jury awarded the death penalty, with defense attorneys planning to seek a new trial. The verdict came after a calm jury deliberation.
Bertha Claiche, who killed Emile Gendron in 1906 after claiming enslavement, left Auburn prison for New York city after Governor Hughes pardoned her. She will enter care under Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America, with plans to live a quiet life and be sheltered from publicity.
Ten angry women confronted chauffeur Henry Gaynor after his car struck a child at West Thirty-third Street and Seventh Avenue. They shouted accusations while three policemen freed him, the child Delligo Millevin, seven, was dragged and injured. officials say the driver was not to blame.
Japanese residents of Sapperton have raised 125 dollars for the widow and children of C. Dynes killed by a street car days after his home burned. White residents have not contributed.
A Batchelor dispatch says Hekto Hamed John Miles was lynched there last night for shooting a white man who was not seriously hurt. In Boston a bronze statue of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Hanks was unveiled on the statehouse grounds with living descendants among participants and spectators.
A garbled sequence of lines hints at a sales pitch offering saved fuel costs and a free deed to heirs upon death. It mentions weekly payments, saving money for winter, and a life insurance offer. The text is unclear and largely unreadable.
A fragment mentions full half sore on East 11th Avenue and northeast corner with thief property. notes cleared and level ground ready to build, claiming four big jets, tied to Goodfellow & Bong and Bil Dalley Ride.
Classified ad offers one acre free to owner on August 1 1968 for improved street with 4500 price per acre. Feature four room cottage near car line and university with electric fixtures hard fibre plaster shade trees 60 foot frontage incumbrance free. Down payment 178 cash and 16 monthly. Also promotes GRAND FREE EXCURSION and FREE BARBECUE CLAM AND OYSTER BAKE on Sunday Sept 26 aboard steamer Yosemite with music and free passes at Times block offices and Green Lake Station.
Hon. W. L. Jones says he will travel to Ohio to aid in the Republican campaign there and expects to begin the stint in the latter part of October. He will stay in Washington if the state central committee prefers, as that would be his primary duty.
In Powder Springs Georgia on September 17 Mrs. Sarah Reed formed a posse to chase Robert Bostick after he attacked her daughter. She shot him with a shotgun as he hid behind a log, wounding him fatally before deputies arrived. The sheriff rushed the casualty to Marietta to prevent lynching.
The United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs invites sealed bids for canned tomatoes corn meal cracked wheat dried fruit flour hominy oats and rolled barley for the fiscal year ending June 30 1909 Bids due in Washington DC before 2 pm September 24 Circulars from Isthmian Canal Commission seek bids for lumber tires piles pumps and other items for use in the Canal Zone with bids due in Washington DC before 10 am October 5 A U S reclamation service project calls for sealed bids to construct 6 miles of open canal near Mabton Washington bids due at Sunnyside department office before 2 pm October 1
John E. B. Redmond, leader of the Irish in the commons, along with Joseph F. Devlin and John Fits Gibbon, arrived in New York to attend the United Irish League biennial convention in Boston. They received a warm reception, were escorted to the Hoffman House, and saluted by the league in a formal welcome. Ben Franklin quote noted.
A court awarded ten dollars in a slander case involving Harry Babenheuszer Bam and Bella Hegg tortified Piaintiffe go but Babenhauszer re OPCM press were vned.
Circular listing assorted grocery prices and items for sale at the public market tomorrow. Highlights include ring bologna at a ring, cream brick cheese 2 for 35c, prunes 4 for 4c, eggs 3 dozen for 45c, cantaloupes at from 2 for 2, seedless raisins, salmon, huckleberries, green beans for pickling, lamb 12c per pound, and other fruits and vegetables with per basket and per pound prices. Local produce like turnips celery cabbage apples oranges peaches and tomatoes also shown with unit prices.
Local market ledger lists purchase prices for various farm products and meats. Entries show per pound rates for poultry beef veal and live animals, plus prices for fruits and vegetables such as blackberries apples and lettuce with unit ranges. Prices vary by item and supplier in the Western area.
Store advertises unprecedented low prices in Seattle for sheet music and player pianos. Promotes Postoffice on Third Avenue as the sales location with direct front display.
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