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After the Great Fire the City collected a large amount of property of which the owners were not known and stored it in the Armory. The City planned to sell the property at a public auction if it wasn't claimed within 15 days. See full description in Digital Collections

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Sale of 105 unclaimed property taken + stored after 1889 fire [I?] 89

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NOTICE OF SALE OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY

WHEREAS, on, to-wit, the 7th.day of June, 1889, after the conflagration in the City of Seattle, a large amount of unclaimed property the owners of which being unknown, was taken and stored in the Armory, in the City of Seattle, and ever since has been therein, to-wit:

Notice is therefore hereby given that, if the above described property is not claimed by the ownwers thereof within fifteen days from the date hereof, that said property will, on the day of , 1889, be duly sold at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4P.M. of said day, at the front door of the Armory in the City of Seattle, on Union street, in said City and that the proceeds of said sale will be turned in and appropriated to the relief fund in the hands of the relief comitee of the City of Seattle.

Dated this day of , 1889.

Mayor.

City Clerk.

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