Great contest offers big prizes to eager subscribers
A local newspaper promotes a subscribing contest with grand prizes including a Grafonda Regent piano, Victor Victrola, gold watches, a $400 gold prize, and scholarships. It emphasizes voting credits earned per subscription, urges readers to recruit friends, and highlights sponsors like Kaufman Co. and Burnett's Jewelry, with districts listing schools and stores as prize sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilers
Pacific Slope
Grafonda
Emenekers
Kaufman's
J. J. Kaufman Co
Victor Records
Burnett's
International Corerspondence Schools
Scranton
Grays Harbor
Steiglitz
Herald
Deep Sea Cruise for the Naval Militia Planned for July
The Pacific armored cruiser fleet will train naval militia from Washington Oregon and California. Six cruisers will be used with two assigned to each state battalion. The militia cruise is moved from mid July to July 2 to 12 for Fourth of July convenience. On July 2 the ships will anchor at Seattle Portland and San Francisco. Washington militia divisions will be assigned to the Seattle cruiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Naval Militia
State of Washington
Anointing of New King Still an English Rite
English coronation rites endure with the anointing ceremony traced to biblical origins. Winchester and Westminster rituals mirror ancient practices, with the regalia and oil supplied by the royal apothecary. The king sits in Edward the Confessor’s chair on coronation day, above the Stone of Destiny from Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Winchester
Westminster Abbey
George IV
Wilaim Iiv
Queen Victoria
Feward
Dean and Chapter
Westminster
Edward the Confessor
Edward II
Destiny
Ireland
Belle Kinney lands largest sculpture contract in south
Miss Belle Kinney of Nashville wins the largest sculpture commission ever given to a woman. The monument features three heroic figures with Fame guiding a southern woman to crown a dying soldier as a fallen flag lies nearby. The project honors southern women for Civil War sacrifice and loyalty across ten state capitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Kinney
Hampton
Miss Kinney
Nashville
Enn
United States
Want to Buy An Island Three for Sale by Duke of Argyle
The Duke of Argyle offers three islets for sale to those seeking quiet island life. The trio lacks fish in lochs and trees on broad lands, with marble quarries that cannot be quarried and Scandinavia era forts offering no real defense. Skerryvore lighthouse, though distant, is famed and built from Mull granite, standing sixty years and renowned among world lighthouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of
Argyl
Skerryvore
Tiree
Mull
Stockholders Meeting for West & Slade Grocery Increase Capital
West & Slade Grocery Company calls a stockholders meeting for April 26 1911 at 7 30 PM in Aberdeen Washington to vote on increasing capital stock from 100 000 to 250 000 dollars. Trustees W W Walk C T Scurry W B Mack C H Bartlett date details noted February 25 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West & Slade Grocery Company
Aberdeen
Chehalis County
Washington
W. W. Walk
C. T. Scurry
W. B. Mack
C. H. Bartlett
Trustees
Flyers Seek Grand Canyon Flight Feasible With Preparations
Aviators aim to cross the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona in the near future if proper plans are made. They project the canyon at thirteen miles wide with rim heights and suction concerns. Flights would begin 2,000 feet above ground and hover at about 9,000 feet above sea level to avoid downdraft effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Canyon
Colorado River
Arizona
Owerophine
No More Letters Opened Enigma Invention
A French inventor creates a double envelope design where each seal blocks the other, preventing access to contents without destroying the cover. The mechanism aims to stop tampering and reading letters.
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Wilda Smith
Millie Hansen
Ted Brachvogel
Roy Gibbins
Stella M. Johnson
Fay Allen
Nina McCall
Moir Kennith
Anna Droskie
Leacock H. Gosson R
Andrew H. Hansen
Rogan Jones
Mary Dinse
Mabel Larson
Willie Thompson
Hildrel
Amadon
Rae
Gainal
Nora Brown
Blanche
Andrews
Dean
Olive
Boyer Hooe
Henry Willis
Agnes H Wilson
Ethel Lougheed
Montesano
Anna Glancey
Elma
Birdie Hunley
Pacific Beach
del Carr
Stearnsville
Marie Gleeson
Satsop
Rene
Marie Witner
Katy Ziegler
Humptulips
Militia
Duke of Argyle
Breay
Ja. McNaware
HAYES
Hayes Bankers
Montesano Cosmopolis
Hoquiam
Westport
Hoquiam Aberdeen
Cosmoopolis
Melbourne
William
North Jetty Wednes
Peter Wilson
Hotel
Fairmont
THE
Fairmont Cafe
Austin M. Wade
Law
Wishkah Block
Aberdeen, Wash
Humboldt
T. H. Hill
Fred Hewitt
Prop
Public Accountant
East Wishkah Street
Aberdeen Grocery Co
Livingston & Co. Co
E. Brownell
Davidson Bros
H. R. Prentice & Co
Robinson Grocery Co
Maxey-Tenwick Co
Berlin
Cunningham & Co
Beckenhauer Bros
Michigan Grocery Star Grocery
P. Sandrijasevich Swanson
Yemaire
Gram
Great Ditch
AYPE
Coast Baking Company
Pastory Specials
Haydn
Mozart
Baldwin
Balwin
Baldwin Company
Emeneker Piano Co
South H Street
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