New Joint Rates Set by Railway Board for Eastern Washington
Seattle Dec 12 The state railway commission and the traffic departments of Great Northern Northern Pacific and Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company reach an agreement on a new joint rate schedule for freight including livestock and merchandise to Eastern Washington. Wheat rate remains unchanged. final order to follow detailing sheeted rates and scope.
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Seattle
State Railway Commission
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Colfax
Washington
Roslyn
Committees Announced by Speaker Cannon
Washington, Dec. 12. The House opened with no major changes in committee assignments for Washington members. Representative Humphrey gains an additional seat on elections No. 3 while keeping on merchant marine and fisheries, education, and agriculture expenditures. Mr. Jones stays on rivers and harbors, Cushman remains on interstate and foreign commerce and private land claims. The rivers and harbors panel will have less work this session with no general river bill. Cushman’s panel may handle railroad rate measures and ship subsidies could be pursued by Humphrey’s committee.
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Washington
House
Cannon
Humphrey
Department of Agriculture
Jones
Cushman
Chilean government deposits 3,000,000 gold with New York bank
The Chilean government has arranged with the National Bank of Commerce of New York to deposit 3 million dollars in gold there. The move forms part of a nucleus for Chile’s gold reserve strategy.
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Washington
Theational Bank of Commerce of New York
Sugar plant ers to recruit 1000 families from Azores
Honolulu reports the sugar planters association voted to send 1000 Azorean families, about 5000 workers, via the territorial board of immigration. An agent will depart immediately and Secretary Atkinson will likely accompany.
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Honolulu
Sugar Planters’ Association
Azores
Territorial Board of Immigration
Atkinson
Weather Sayings Echo Across Old Weather Lore
A collection of folk weather beliefs and sayings about sun and clouds, red skies, rain forecasts, and seasonal clues. The piece references groundhog shadows, sailors rhymes, and classic couplets like red at night and rain before seven, illustrating historical forecasting ideas.
Weather lore and history mix in a wide column
A long readable column blends weather folklore with notes on the US Weather Bureau and a stream of dated events from 1220 to 1908. It includes beliefs about cats, snakes, St Swithin’s day, farm signs, and animals predicting weather, followed by praise for the Weather Bureau and a rapid sequence of historical milestones and anecdotes.
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St. Swithin
Sam
United States Weather Bureau
Haystack Monument marks prayer meeting origin at Williams College
A Williams College plaque in Mission Park commemorates five students who met in a haystack in 1806 to pray and plan foreign missions. The gathering led to the formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the global Protestant mission movement.
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Williams College
Williamstown
Samuel J. Mills
James Richards
Francis L. Robbins
Harvey Loomis
Byram Green
Mills
Society of Brethren
Bradford
Mass
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Great Society of the American Board
Mission Park
Haystack Monument
Local Professionals Listing Aberdeen Area
Directory style notice lists multiple professionals with offices and hours. Dr Smits at Aberdeen General Hospital offers varied hours, Hayes & Hayes Bank Building and Crowther-Wooding block addresses appear. Attorney Fox and Ben Sheers noted with offices, W Mason drafts building plans, Olympia land office registrar advertises expertise.
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Olympia Land Office
Hayes & Hayes Bank Building
Aberdeen
Wash
Mrs Butler of Newton Center Honored Pioneer Missionary
In New York the enduring founder of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Mrs William Butler of Newton Center Massachusetts, attracted social attention. She recalled sailing for India in 1856 with her husband and two children and surviving the mutiny. Now 85 she plans to attend the India Methodist Jubilee next year and a $6000 thank offering will be raised by Methodist women for her service.
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New York
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
M. E. Church
William Butler
Newton Center
Mass
Our Nother of Missions
Woman's Foreign
WM. Butler
Missionary Society
Butler
India
Delhi
Fragmentary Editorial Snippets Probe Politics and Finance
A garbled collection of quotes critiques politics business and society. Topics touch on demnity for American tourists, a beef trust fine, outdated battleships, football as a parlor game, insurance industry changes, the Carnegie commission, prompts on Hungarian diet, and remarks on Japanese graft.
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Jagan
Beef Trust
Carnegie Commission
John W. Gates
Speed of the Gulf Stream and a stray cartoon quip
The item notes the Gulf Stream moves about three miles per hour on average but speeds up to fifty one miles per hour in spots. A humorous aside references a contractor’s son learning the business from the bottom as a hod carrier with bricks in a suitcase.
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Bocker
New York Sun
Gulf Stream
Gulf of Mexico
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Hayes & Hayes Bank
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Market Street
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Attorney AT Law
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Rrobert E. Taggart
Dabney Block
Ben Sheers
W. Mason
Heron Street
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Mother OF Missions
Mrs. Butler
The
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Continental
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G Street
Heron
Aberdeen, Wash
Humboldt Saloon
Fred Hewett
South F Street
James Hazen Hyde
Burton
Japan
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Independent Line Steamers
Grays Harbor
Los Angeles
C. E. Burrows Co., Ag’ts
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H. B. Elder
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Portland, Oregon
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S. F Street
Roslyn Coal
E. J. Bradley
State Bank
N. E
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Hayes & Hayes Bankers (Incorporated
A. Ingebrightsen
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Heron and
Wishkah
Canadian Pacific
Toronto
Montreal
Atlantic Lines
Phil S. Locke
J. W. Draper
F. C. Collins
A. B. Calder
Fred Redinger
Pioneer Barber Shop
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