Bankers Coming Convention Program Highlights
The Aberdeen Hoquiam convention features talks on central bank needs state banking laws and garnishment reform. Delegates will meet July 22 to 23 in Hoquiam with social events at Electric Park, a logging camp trip, a card party, a smoker and a Pacific coast excursion to Moclips.
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St. Louis
Jas. K. Lynch
First National Bank
San Francisco
lIn Ellis’ Hall
Aberdeen
Charles McDermoth
First Congregational Church
American Bankers’ Association
Chicago
E. ‘T. Coman
Exchange National Bank
Spokane
Thomas Burke
Seattle
J. L. Mohindra
Elks’ Hall
Hoquiam
Reyv
J. A. Laurie, Jr
First Presbyterian Church
Credit Department of A Country’ Bank
B. L. Jenkins
Afuditor Union Securities Co
Wesley L. Jones
United States
North Yakima
Los Angeles
Cal
Associated Bankers of
Electric Park
Grays Harbor
W. L. Adams
Elks’ Club
Those Pies of Boyhood
A vintage testimonial advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a toning tonic for digestion. It claims restored appetite and vigor by strengthening the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. The copy notes a 50 cent price at A W Shelley's.
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Boyhood
A. W. Shelley’s
Pinchot Denounces Tariff and Rubber Trust Ties
Pinchot tells St Paul dinner that Congress serves special interests not the people. He attacks tariff protections, cites wool and cotton schedules, steel, sugar, and rubber as rapacious trusts. He accuses Senate leader and Guggenheim syndicate of organizing a global rubber trust. He asks who “us” are in the headline.
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Gifford Pinchot
Conservation Movement
Roosevelt Club
St. Paul
Congress
Senate
Guggenheim Syndicate
International Rubber Trust
Let Us Have a Union of All Opposed to the Monopoly Tariff
The Washington state Grange master calls for a united front against the monopoly tariff. He urges farmers, independent manufacturers, and labor to form a commission to draft tariff changes and co operate to overthrow the tariff perceived as unfair to producers.
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Washington State
Indiana
Power
North Dakota
Senate Investigation Committee
Clarke
Senator Clarke
Canada
Aldriches
Paynes
Lodges
National Grange
Congress
Grange
United States
Washington State Grange
C. B. Kegley
New England
Revision Downward Poem to Mr Taft on Tariffs and Wages
A consumer voice pleads for tariff relief in a doggerel verse to President Taft. The speaker notes promises of downward tariff reform were not kept while wages rose, criticizing tax increases on ordinary Americans and lamenting high prices.
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Mr. Taft
Pneumatic tires reshaped locomotion through history
The article debates who deserves honor for the pneumatic tire between R. W. Thomson and John Dunlop. It recounts Thomson's 1845 belt with air, Dunlop's 1888 patent after his son’s tricycle spurred testing, and Harvey du Cros’s pivotal role in commercializing the tire.
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Edinburgh
R. W. Thomson
John Dunlop
Thomson
Dunlop
Dunlops
Belfast
Harvey du Cros
du Cros
R. J. Mecredy
England
New Vegetable Sought From Ground Nuts by English Farmers
English horticulturists seek a new vegetable from ground nuts or earth chestnuts once popular as a village delicacy. The hunt follows past praise by Gerarde and notes their historical abundance near London, though modern rights protect gamekeepers and limit foraging in English woods.
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Killjng
Gerarde
London
Highgate
Marylebone
Paddington
Muskrat Delicacy Planned for Chicago Restaurants
Three pioneer muskrat farmers push plans to open a Chicago market for loin meat and bulrush sauce. The first farm sits in Sag Worth Palos area, 190 acres of swamps and lakes, begun with a large muskrat population to supply food and fur. A Cossack rider named Kudasheff returns from Harbin on a 5420 mile trek to St Petersbur g.
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Chicago
Worth
Palos
Middlemen's Days Numbered in Cotton Trade
Cotton importers in Prague and Austria seek direct purchases from American exporters to avoid inferior goods and extra middlemen costs. They say better qualities ordered and paid for in advance are not reaching them. Chinese merchants also want direct access to American cotton goods instead of through Shanghai or Hongkong.
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Prague
Austria
Shanghai
Hongkong
Partington and Senator Lodge on Tariff Sentiment
The Saturday Evening Post notes Partington and Senator Lodge argue against low tariffs, while discussing profit from minting five cent pieces. It explains blanks cost 14 cents per hundred and stamping adds up to about 5 510 per million, yielding 50 000 nickels worth of profit 46 490.
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Treasury
Saturday Evening Post
Doan's Kidney Pills Promised Relief for Kidney Pain
An Aberdeen local ad touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for back ache and kidney disorders. Mrs Jessie E Clark of Hoquiam testifies the remedy freed her from kidney trouble since 1908, urging others to keep a supply. price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY listed as U.S. agents.
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Doan
Jessie E. Clark
Wheeler Ave
Hoquiam
Wash
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
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Pinchot
Organized Rubber Trust
Payne
A. Konzumer
Kudasheff
Harbin
St. Petersburg
Partington
Senator Lodge
The
Baltimore Sun
Ralston
Crammatte’s “Sweetshop
E. Heron St
A.W. Barkley
C Street
Wishkah Bik
the Order OF
Knights of
Pythiai
Burnett Bros
Corners and
Heron Streets
Chickering Pianos
Fvans Drug Co
Tacoma
Via
Northern Pacific Railway
M. H. Williams
Gen.l
Aberdeen Wash
East Heron ST
A. D. Charlton
Portland
Ore
Aberdeen Bicycle and Gun Shop
Oswald Bell
Baseball Goods
South C Street
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