Ellen Beach Yaw California Lark in Opera Star Rise
Ellen Beach Yaw a Metropolitan Opera singer known as the California Lark rose to fame after debuting in Buffalo about nine years ago. She studied in Europe under foreign masters and performed in Italy as Mile Elvanna before marrying Vere Goldthwaite. In 1902 she sang The Star Spangled Banner at the McKinley memorial in Paris, drawing a large demonstration.
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California
Ellen Beach Yaw
Metropolitan Opera Company
Buffalo
Miss Yan
France
Italy
Europe
Mile. Elvanna
Len
Yan
Vere Goldthwaite
Milo
Elvanna
Boston
Buffalo Bill
Massachusetts
Miss Yaw
Paris
Lilley Draws National Attention With Submarine Probe
Connecticut congressman George Leavens Lilley pushed a resolution to investigate Electric Boat Company of New Jersey and its ties to House Naval Affairs Committee members. He alleged improper influence in submarine boat contracts, denying charges of partisan attacks under pressure. Lilley, a three term Republican from Waterbury born 1850, is a bank director active in state politics.
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George Leavens Lilley
Connecticut
Electric Boat Company
New Jersey
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Boat Building Company
Lilley
Meers Vs. Sherman
New York
Grices
Georgia
Congress
Boat Company
Oxford
Mass
Worcester (Mass
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Waterbury
Conn
Republican State Committee
Washington News In Brief
Wenatchee mayor Gellatly issues a order to remove inmates from immoral houses. A minister wives’ society movement forms in the state. Pullman snowbound. spring work lags eastern Whitaraw county. Elma man heir to 90000 and to receive fortune soon. Wheat crops in Horse Heaven and Rattlesnake counties may shrink without rain. Washington state institution salaries fixed from April 1 1998. North Yakima telegraph operator Todd ill with smallpox. Sumner farmer John Baird dies after train strike. North Yakima passenger and freight traffic strong. Hongkong Chinese boycott Nippon Yusen Kaisha ships Seattle to Shanghai. Bellingham census of penal aliens conducted. Centalia District Ministerial Association meets. 26 ministers attend. Cheney Bank authorized with 25000 capital. Seattle police to crack down on mashers. Two Rivers ditch works advance water turn-on planned in two months. Tacoma restaurant owners oppose free saloon lunches. Coffee marketing notes and Schilling’s Best pitch. Daisy Bell Teck gains divorce from Frank C Teck, ex-Chamber secretary and Northwest poet. March 30 rail service changes replace star routes in WA Idaho Montana. Deputy Daily returns with prisoner escaped via dummy in bed. Melvin Cavan of Seattle lighting dept struck dumb after head blow. Lincoln bridge over South Palouse near Elberton to be rebuilt with recovered timbers.
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Pullman
Whitaraw County
John Bearss
Elma
Horse Heaven
Washington State
State Board of Control
Olympia
Orville Todd
Northern Pacific
North Yakima
John Baird
Sumner
Tacoma
Hongkong
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
trans-Pacific
Seattle
S. H. Haber
United States
Bellingham
Danville
Centralia
Klamath
Schilling
Daisy Bell Teck
Frank C. Teck
Bellingham Chamber of Commerce
Teck
Northwest
Railway Mail Service
Post Office Department
Washington, Idaho & Montana
Star
Troy
Avon
Deary
Helmer
Bovill
Daily
Colfax
Tennessee
William McNabb
Whitman County
Melvin R. Cavan
Elberton
Rope superstitions from a jailer recount
A Maine origin superstition spreads from a jailer who notes old beliefs about rope curing cancer and mumps. He recalls requests for rope fragments after hangings and describes hemp rope hung in rural stores labeled for mumps cures.
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Maine
New York Tribune
Last Words From Notable Figures
A survey of famous last words notes widely cited lines from Augustus and Darwin but highlights a humble old man who, at the end, whispered that it was not yet time and he wished to stay, embodying nature's desire to endure.
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Berliner Post
Augustus
Nothnagel
Cooper
Bright
Brodie
Darwin
Locolz
How to Make Home Happy
Mary bluntly calls John a fool in a domestic exchange from the Liverpool Mercury. John replies with a mild defense recalling his mother's words from childhood about marriage.
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Mary
John
Liverpool Mercury
Thackeray Retort Compared to Pastry Cook Remark
A Thackeray retort recalls his joke about reading popular novels. He says he does not read them, explaining he bakes tarts and sells them, but eats bread and butter. The remark highlights his witty self depiction and humor about literary taste.
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Thackeray
One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin
A farmyard tale describes sharing a good find and applies it to human nature. The piece notes people cured by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy often write to urge others to try it and gain relief. Evans Drug Co sells the remedy.
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Evans Drug Co
City Fire Alarm Boxes List
A compiled directory of fire alarm box locations in Aberdeen. Entries include box numbers and cross streets or landmarks such as Box 4 at Young and Thomas, Box 5 at B and Cleveland, Box 7 at Terrace Avenue and D Street High School, Box 8 Burrows Dock, Box 12 Boone and King, Box 15 Wilson Bros Mill, Box 17 S E Slade Mill, Box 21 Market and F, Box 23 American Mill, Box 25 Heron and F, Box 27 Fourth and G, Box 31 Franklin School Market near Jefferson and M, Box 32 Hume and H, Box 35 Anderson and Middleton Mill, Box 37 Heron and Broadway, Box 38 Third and Broadway, Box 42 Hart Wood Lumber Co. Mill, Box 45 Western Cooperage, Box 47 Hume and Washington streets.
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Young and Thomas
North Aberdeen
Cleveland Streets
Highland Home
Terrace Avenue
D Street
High School
Burrows’ Dock
Hume
Northern Pacific Railroad
Boone and King Streets
South Aberdeen
Wilson Bros’ Mill
S. E. Slade Mill
Market
American Mill
Heron
Fourth
Franklin School
Jefferson and
M Streets
Washington Democratic Party calls state convention in Spokane
The Washington State Central Committee of the Democratic Party meets January 8 1908 at Hotel Tacoma Ta coma and unanimously adopts a resolution calling a state convention in Spokane May 18 1908 to elect ten delegates for the National Democratic Convention in Denver July 7 1908. Representation bases two delegates per county and one per every fifty votes cast for the Democratic candidates for state supreme court judges in 1906 with counts listed for each county. Also includes notice of officers and signatures. A separate ad promotes Chamberlains Salve as a healing remedy for burns sores and chapped hands and nipples with price 25 cents.
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Washington State Central Committee
Democratic Party
Tacoma
Washington
Washington State
Democratic Central Committee
State of Washington
Spokane
Denver
Col
United States
Supreme Court
Adame i
Benton
Columbia
Cowlitz
Douglas
Snohomish
Ferry
Franklin
Quip Exchanges on Family, Cars, and Callers
A compact patchwork of jokes shows domestic life and social irony. A wife loses time for practice due to two children, a man muses on blessings, a cartoonish mishap imagines a twenty foot embankment turn, and siblings tease each other about phone calls and beaus.
Big Hill Move urges street and lot filling in Aberdeen
The notice proclaims a big hill move to clear and fill streets alleys and lots in Aberdeen. Pledges abundant quality material from Dabney hill to be used and directs readers to send orders to S W Johnston Transfer Company, phone 821.
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Aberdeen
Dabney Hill
S. W. Johnston Transfer Company
Aberdeen Election Notice for 1908 Council and Officials
Election will be held April 7, 1908 in Aberdeen Washington to elect six councilmen for two years one city treasurer and one city clerk for one year each. Polls open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in each ward. Dated Aberdeen March 23 1908. Signed P F Clark City Clerk.
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Aberdeen
Wash
F. Clark
City Cerk
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George L. Lilley
Washington News
Gellatly
Wenatchee
The
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Edward F. Betz
Peter C. Hansen
C. C. Richardson
Irving Ward
Hume and
H Streets
Anderson & Middle
Western Cooperage
Washington Streets
Choice Inside Residence Corner
Ooxiso Ft
Wishkah and Park Sts
J. J. Carney
Wishkah Street
Democratic Party of State of Washington
Total A. R. Titlow
Carl D. Eshelman
Chamberlain
L. L. Maley
Telephone 1701
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South F Street
Herald Printery
East Wishkah ST
Bobby
Tommy
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Northup, King & Company
Rhodes Brothers
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