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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1908
Page
6
A collage of railway timetable cautions and varied classified blurbs. The page lists departure and arrival inquiries, personal notices of births and marriages, and numerous ads for real estate, hiring, and goods for sale scattered with street addresses and phone numbers.
Five room modern cottage offered for sale with cash price 2200 dollars and balance 26 dollars per month. Includes alley access, car view, light and shades. Buyers urged to hurry to secure the property.
Investors flock to Bremerton Heights near the navy yard as growth accelerates. Opening fees attract buyers with large tracts listed at $60 and large lots up to term $1 monthly payments. Seattle Home Speaker Co. owners announce main office in the Empire Building and branch in Bremerton.
Real estate notice promotes parcels at four weeks of sale in one plot near Green Lake with multiple sizes. Emphasizes cheap, fertile soil and wet surface area. Encourages visits to the branch office at Denny M street to inspect property and learn terms.
A listing describes a small room cottage with basement and garden features near the university. Price noted as 18 dollars per month with terms including flowers and domestic space.
A sales notice promotes affordable home plots with a $26 listing and financing at $68 monthly. It promises free deed upon purchase and claims abundant fuel wood on site, urging prompt visits before poor weather and sold plots.
A bold ad promises $200 cash and a small four room cottage with fuel, bath, and toilet near town. It claims easy terms and a chance to own a home cheaper than rent.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe property pricing near 66th and Phinney with figures like 8606 and 8766, down payments around 690 to 698, monthly or per unit costs such as 810 per 300 and 615 per vexten, plus cash options and fruit trees mentioned in unclear terms.
A referendum among union weavers in the United States and Canada fails to relocate the headquarters from Seattle to Everett. Everett loses 467 to 170 as the tally concludes last Sunday with official canvass set for early week.
The Utah state Democratic convention in Logan adopted a platform endorsing the Denver national platform and backing Bryan and Kern. Jease Knight of Provo received the gubernatorial nomination by acclamation, while the local option plank was rejected.
Fred T. Funk a traveling salesman for the California Liquor House was arrested at the Plaza hotel by Detectives Byrne and Phillips for forgery in Stockton California. He admitted cashing a $1265 worthless check on Hearingier contension while his wife fainted and later said she never wished to see him again. Sheriff Sibley of San Joaquin county will be notified to arrange his extradition.
Daniel J. Bully once ruled the cotton market and twice cornered it, now earns a salary as a salesman for a Broad Street brokerage firm after a failed bid that cost him over a million dollars.
Despondent over three years of rheumatism Mrs Annie M Wisen 34 wife of Charles A Wisen hotel proprietor 1728 Summit Ave committed suicide in the Alhambra hotel yesterday by drinking carbide. Survived by husband and two sons. Also mentioned is Mrs Bogdahl daughter of Mr and Mrs John Bogdahl.
During a gunnery drill on the French armored cruiser La Touche Treville a turret gun exploded killing 30 crew members. Several others were seriously injured with some fatalities feared as wreckage and body parts were thrown across the deck and into the sea. The blast followed a similar incident aboard the gunnery school ship Couronne on August 12.
Fifteen freight cars of a Baltimore and Ohio train plunged into the Delaware River when the east span of the Port Deposit bridge gave way. One man is believed fatally injured, others escaped. Traffic will be seriously disrupted as repair work begins.
Confidence men operate in Seattle grabbing $190 from Arthur Biglow after a penny parlor meeting. A trio lured him to a Lake Union trip where a coin matching scheme unfolded. Biglow showed the $190 but were robbed at gunpoint and escaped on a Green Lake car as Patrolman Cunliffe intercepted the vehicle.
Mrs Sue P Godcharles files for absolute divorce from Henry G Godcharles alleging he waved a 42 caliber revolver under her nose and threatened to take her life. The couple wed in Pueblo Colorado in 1902. In Detroit, September 23 William H Munn 26 a stock clerk was found murdered today.
The convention met in Faneuil Hall with prominent Irish delegates from across the country representing United Irish League branches in the States.
Portland, Sept. 23. Charles Heyburn was killed by Casper Blickenstofer at Lents station after a quarrel over care of horses. They were teamsters from a wood yard. a stable hand alerted neighbors and a doctor, but Heyburn died before arrival. Blickenstofer arrested on murder charge.
United Press reports a raid on a fashionable California club led to the arrest of noted Angelenos William Garland Percy R Wilson Fred Flint Jr Philip Porve and Jo Scott on liquor license violations. They posted recognizance and set to stand trial October 9.
Two trolley cars on the Southwestern traction line between Chester and Philadelphia collided in dense fog. At least seven were killed and 72 seriously hurt as crowded workers were tossed from seats and windows. The impact telescoped the cars and toppled them, taking nearly an hour to clear the wreckage.
True to university tradition, freshmen and sophomores contest for class supremacy in a cane rush Friday. It may be the last cane rush as plans to abolish the rough activity grow, with eastern colleges already ending cane rush and push ball due to danger and injuries.
Bernard Marvin 22 walked into Reno police to surrender claiming he would go insane unless he did. He refused further discussion and warned a sensation upon return to Oakland California where he is wanted for passing two fictitious checks totaling 45 dollars. Marvin is said to hail from a prominent Spokane Washington family.
Readable items show produce pricing including turnips carrots and celery by bunch or per unit. Listings include apples pineapples oranges peaches cucumbers tomatoes and watermelons with varied per unit per box or per basket prices.
Listings describe creamery items and fresh produce with prices such as potatoes at 40 cents per cwt, onions 1 cent each, and two bunches of onions. Also featured are summer squash varieties, yellow squash, Hobart squash, mutton chops, porterhouse and sirloin steaks, roasts and roasts per pound, with various shoulder and round cuts.
Market notes list prices for poultry, meat, and produce. Quoted items include live hens, spring chickens, ducks, pigeons, veal cuts, and vegetables like cabbage, lettuce, potatoes, spinach, tomatoes, and berries with varying per pound or per dozen rates. Local farm prices reflect a broad range of farm-to-market costs from Western area producers.
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