Boarding school ad and rifle sale notice
An advertisement offers Lourdes boarding and day school for boys with contact to the Brother Superior in South Park, Wash. It promotes rifle sales including 22 Winchester Repeater at 11.00 and other models ranging from 3.50 to 6.00 with calibres from Winchester and Marlin at low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother Superior
Remington
Stevens
West Point
Lake Steilacoom
Tacoma
Pulford, Prin
Wash
Great American Desert irrigation fund grows with land sales
The June anniversary of Bunker Hill and national irrigation day celebrates 50,000 acres irrigated under a 9 million dollar project in Nevada. The revolving fund, fed by Western land sales and water payments, may reach 100 million, financing reclamation across multiple states.
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Bunker Hill
Guy E. Mitchell
Nevada
Boston
Commonwealth
Truckee
United States
L. H. Taylor
Uncle Sam
Egypt
India
Secretary of the Interior
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
Nebraska and
Wyoming
New Mexico
Oregon
South Dakota
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Unusual Forethought in Town Topics Conversation
A humorous Town Topics quip about a woman who rejects a suitor saying she can do better. It notes that women rarely consider such thoughts before a wedding, while joking that she speaks to herself as if before a single audience.
Commodore Nicholson Endorses Peruna in 1887 Letter
Somerville Nicholson of the United States Navy cites a letter from 1887 praising Peruna as a cure for catarrh and endorsing it for widespread use. The ad notes army and navy endorsements, thousands of testimonials, and invites readers to write to Dr S B Hartman in Columbus Ohio for results.
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Ommodore Somerville Nicholson
United States Navy
Ratreet
Northwest
Washington, D. C
Hartman
S. B. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Ohio
Burglars and the Decline of a Once Noble Crime
The article traces a shift in burglary from elite yeggmen to common hoboes, noting small thefts usually under $2,000 to $38,000 and dangers faced by criminals. It cites Dunlap of the Scott and Dunlap partnership, now jailed, as emblematic of changing times and falling prestige in the profession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
United States
Dunlap
Scott
Northampton
New York
Chicago
Quotations on Faith and Morality from a Religious Forum
A sequence of aphoristic reflections discusses pride, friendship, sorrow, death, prayer, securities, gospel effort, Judas, noble life, love, and church blessings. The voice links virtue to humility, compassion, and genuine faith in God and neighbour.
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Jesus
God
Walnuts in Washington plan begun by Wenatchee Valley farmers
Ten Wenatchee Valley farmers organize walnut experiments planting forty five acres to test English walnut suitability here. They cite local market access, potential profits, and broader aims to promote diversified tree crops while reducing reliance on imports.
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Wenatchee Valley
Chelan County
Clarke County
Puget Sound
Wenatchee
United States
South America
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Bazaar Charity Eats Provokes Sirloin of Beef Gift Tale
A Baptist Commonwealth tale from a western city recounts a bazaar with a refreshment stall. Donors funded profits, and Mrs Billings received a note saying he sent a sirloin and two ox tongues. The butcher later confirmed he supplied Billings with meat for the same purpose. Sometimes a hostess has this kind of misfortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Commonwealth
Mr. Billings
Beutel Business College Ads and Rail Rate Outlook
An Ohio catalog highlights Beutel Business College with low tuition and Tacoma living costs. The passage discusses Roosevelt not calling Congress into extra session over the railroad rate bill and predicts Congress will address the issue in regular session. It notes Esch Townsend bill unlikely and mentions government supervision as a possible substitute. Also reflects on diminishing warfare and moral views on war. Rev H W Pinkham comments from Denver Baptist.
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Roosevelt
Fifty-Ninth Congress
Congress
Senate
H. W. Pinkham
Baptist
Denver
Col
Scripture as record of disobedience and God's redemptive love
Reverend W. R. Attwend analyzes scripture as not an abstract moral law but a record of humanity's sins and shame and of God's effort to recover love and restore dignity. He argues misunderstanding of the Bible stems from treating it as mere church exposition.
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God
Church
W. R. Attwend
Eniseanalieon
Lauelen
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Ayer
J.C. Ayeyer
Ata
Academy OF the Holy Names
7Th Ave
Jackson St
Seattle
Vashon College and Academy
Burton
College OF Our Lady
OF Lourdes
P. O. Box
South Park, Wash
Kirk
1St Ave
Hall
BROWN
Seattle, Wash
Stahr-Boyd Block
Verry
R. L. Beatty
Centennial
ALL Grocers
DE Koven Hall
Fair Land
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Commodore Nicholson
W. H. Faunce
Presbyterian
Providence
R. I
Dr.Kline
H. Kline, Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Frank Crane
Unitarian
Worcester
Mass
Mathere
Mrs. Winslow
Ram
Ginger
Judas
Beutel Business College
Tacoma, Wash
And
Everett, Wash
Seattle Tent & Awning CO
Goc
CUPED
E. Roehneke
Newark
N.Y
Prussian Remedy Co
St.Paul
Holmes
Portland Seed Co
Portland, Ore
Beall & CO
Hawthorne Ave
Portland
Ore
Teiationa
W. P. Brush
S.S. S
Atlanta
Sandwich Hay Press
Southwick
Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co
First St
Portland, Oregon
Boise
Medford
Spokane
B. Williams
Salem
C. B. Williams
Sash and i
Third Avenue
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