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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1914
Page
6
Classified ads offer employment, housing, and matchmaking notes. Listed are positions at Pacific Telephone, motel solicitations, and various personal services including nursing, manicuring, and matrimonial inquiries. Several notices reference rooms for rent, subscriptions, and sensational health remedies.
An early 1900s classified-style notice promotes money for buying or building. It lists real estate loans from Northern Road and Mortgage Co and Mturtevant & Co, with vacant or improved property options, low rates, and easy payments.
A detailed market listing shows prices for lamb cuts and other groceries. Items include shoulder of lamb at varying weights, bacon, butter, bread, flour, cheese and vegetables with prices per pound, quart, or crate. Also listed are fish such as halibut and cod, pickles, preserves, eggs, milk, and dairy products from local and imported sources.
A fragmented advertisement lists items with prices including sugar 6c per pound, asparagus 8c, macaroni 10c, and minced meat 10c. Other entries mention coffee 100 percent, salad dressing 20c, soup 3c, pork and beans 2c, red salmon 2 cans, sauerkraut, liverwurst, various hams, veal cutlets, and steaks priced per pound or unit across stalls 8, 12, 27, 1527, and 1808.
A fragmented catalog lists stall numbers and prices for groceries such as flour stales 12 percent, oysters 48 cents per pint, macaroni, corn flakes, olives, pineapples, figs, raisins and butter. It references stalls 12 through 24 and 47 with various daily staples and dairy items.
Norman EF Shults a clerk at the fruit stand owned by Backer Bros reports a young stranger held him up and used a revolver. Police later arrest Shults and Guy F. Gribby who admit staging the hold-up. Gribby played the heavy and cash stolen is found in his room at the Colonial hotel along with extra proceeds from copper sales.
The itemized notes list seven deaths and seven divorces in the area. Other items mention a birthday celebration, local club meetings, election contests for freshmen officers, the county fair opening, gambling arrests, lodge leadership, and various civic events and statements from officials. Details include a $75 damages award to Margaret Titus after an auto incident, and references to community leaders, religious services, and municipal lectures. Local law actions include administrator appointments and a court injunction affecting Miller Freeman.
Elsewhere indicates North Pacific and Milwaukee union depot work begins at Rochester. Items note Sulu in New York to end Southern Pacific control of Cen tral Pacific and other varied notices including accidents, politics, and industry events from A to Z.
In Judge Ronald's court Commissioner Lafe Hamilton faces a $10,000 damages suit from J. R. McIntyre who was assaulted during an attempt to separate Dr. Richardson and McKenzie. Witnesses include road supervisor J. L. Brockway and Nell Turner who sold powder to the county. Brockway says McIntyre jumped chairs as Hamilton began defending himself after McIntyre struck him.
The War Office announced Craonne in Lorraine, defended by the Eighth French corps, has fallen to German forces. The statement says the fortress-like heights are captured and that Germans advance toward Rheims, which is burning.
The House Ways and Means Committee, by party vote, ordered the war tax measure reported to the House. The Rules Committee will report a special rule tomorrow to give the tax bill the right of way, and it may pass the House this week.
Portland report notes R C Rohrabacher, son of Seattle insurer CA Rohrabacher, plans salt against Leggott owners for uncovered hatches that let seawater flood the hold. He awaits word on his father’s fate as recovery efforts continue.
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