Joint Wheat Rate Complaints Headed by Rail Commission
The Washington railroad commission has prepared a fifteen page joint rate complaint against the Northern Pacific, Oregon Railroad and Navigation, and Great Northern railways. Hearings set for Colfax on June 20 will address wheat joint rate, empty bag rates, Bellingham terminal rates, minimum shipment charges, and a Pasco passenger depot. The filing also argues tariff fairness and discrimination against Eastern Washington shippers and Bellingham.
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Bellingham
Pasco
Olympia
State Railroad Commission
The
Railroad Commission of
Washinon
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Oregon Railroad, & Navigation Company
Great Northern Railway Company
Colfax
Sound
Washington
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Puget Sound
Great Northern
Everett
Oregon Railroad & Navintion Company
Spokane
Commission
Union of Cumberland and Presbyterian Churches Formally Ratified
Des Moines May 26. The general assembly ratified the merger uniting the Cumberland Presbyterian Church with the Presbyterian Church in the USA. The vote was nearly unanimous with two against. the union adds about 185000 members to the existing 1250000. The Cumberland church began in 1810 on the Cumberland River Tennessee. Loyalists in Decatur Illinois formed a separate assembly opposing the merger.
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Des Moines
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
General Assembly
Hunter Corbett
Cumberland Church
Presbyterian General Assembly
Presbyterian
Cumberland Presbyterian Churches
Cumberlands
Cumberland River
Tennessee
Kentucky
Mississippi
Ilinois
Decatur
Ills
Cumberland Presbyterians
Cumberland Burch
Denatured Alcohol Bill Passes Senate After Debate
Washington May 26 The senate approved the house measure relieving denatured alcohol from internal revenue tax The debate focused on impact on wood alcohol makers and Senator Aldrich warned of harm Senator Hale criticized provisions of the agricultural bill as overly paternalistic The only amendment required denaturization upon application of any registered distillery to bonded warehouses set aside for denaturizing Olympia May 23 Seattle bar association to meet in August in Seattle next year Second annual Pacific Coast Bar Association meeting announced by Secretary Schafer Portland organized last summer to unite western state attorneys Several hundred lawyers from west of the Rockies expected to attend
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Washington
Senate
House
Aldrich
Hale
Olympia
Seattle
Pacific Coast Bar Association
Schafer
Portland
Rocky Mountains
Republican call for Alaska primaries and convention
Juneau reports the Republican territorial committee issued a call for primaries on June 25 to select delegates for a July 14 convention in the city. Representation will be evenly split with fifty delegates from each of the territorys three judicial districts.
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Juneau
Alaska
Republican Territorial Committee
Rate Bill Sent to Conference in Washington
The railroad rate bill was moved from the speaker's table to conference. House conferees will adhere firmly to the provision raising the size of the railroad rate commission.
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Washington
House
Nighttime Childs Whispers and Marquesas Tales
A nostalgic nighttime verse about bedtime resistance and family prayers follows a child begging for one more chapter. The piece shifts to a Washington Star travel note on Marquesas Island athletes famed for height and stilts, tattoos, and ceremonial customs. It ends with a moral list of behavior Don'ts for boys and girls.
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Marquesas Islands
Pacific Ocean
Washington Star
New York Hippodrome
Islands
Parvil Smits M D Physician and Surgeon
Dr Smits office locations and hours listed for Aberdeen General Hospital Crowther Wooding block G and Heron streets Hayes Hayes Building with multiple daily time slots and two telephone numbers 614 135 177 for appointments and inquiries.
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Crowther-Wooding Block
G and Heron Streets
Hayes & Hayes
Passing of Confucianism in Japan and China
The essay argues Confucianism and Buddhism have faded in Japan and China under Western learning. It notes Tokugawa era promotion of Confucian classics, Japanese loyalty emphasis, and later decline with Western influence. A stray anecdote recalls Dick Wells, a Virginia waiter on a railroad dining car, and a Northern ceremony trip with a racial joke.
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Japan
China
Shanghai
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Teyasu
Confucius
Baltimore and Ohio Railway
Valley of
Virginia
Harpers Ferry
Strasburg
Dick Wells
de War
Darky
Newmarket
Pennsylvania
No Thoroughfare in Diary Exchange and China Clings to Methods
A dated miscellany notes a Grattan joke about a broken bridge and a blunt American remark on his nose. It then observes China clinging to 2000 year old farming tools and concludes with a quip about a woman throwing a hint better than a man a rock.
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Henry Greville
Colley Grattan
China
Froggies and Games and Weather Lore in Frog Town
Old nursery rhymes and games appear alongside weather signs and turtle hunting lore. The piece mentions three jolly frogs, a Scottish game cat in the hole, a sailor predicting fair weather from a small cloud, and turtles laid on moonlit beaches as they dig nests.
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Frog Town
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Rainroad Commission
Northern Pacific
Washington & Columbia River Railway Company
Knox
Constantinople
United States
Turkey
Presbyterian Assembly
Cumberland
General Bodies
Alaska Republican Convention
Lok
Parvil Smits, M. D
Watkins
Fverett
E. Lane, D. D. S
DF. M. Robb Stapp
Hayes & Hayes Bank
Warren Brown
Pacific Ave
Wash
Co. Cross
Attorney AT Law
Zelaska Block
G Street
Fox
Rrobert E. Taggart
Dabney Block
Ben Sheers
Jesse F. Murphy
U.S. Land Office
Continental Saloon O. C. Vammen
Heron, Wash
Aberdeen
Humboldt Saloon
Fred Hewett
South F Street
Aberdeen, Wash
Andrew Blum
Willes
Old Dick
South
Hoquiam
Cocosta
H. B. Elder
N. P. Ry
A. D. Charlton
N. P. Ry. Co
Portland, Oregon
Jack Jingler
W. Johnston Transfer Co
S. P Street
Roslyn Coal
J. M. Lupton, Mer
Fred Redinger
Pioneer Barber Shop
Heron Street
VP Ney Pacific
Continent
Minneapolis
St. Pau
Duluth
Fort William
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
P. S. Locke
John Halstead
Grays Harbor
California
San Francisco
Los Angeles
C. E. Burrows Co., Agts
Central Restaurant
M. Antich
Prop
Heron
Wishkah
Samson’s Hotel
Tacoma, Wash
Swan Samson
Westport, Wash
Mary Smith
Wm. Ziegler
Boot and Shoemaker
Jeff
William Ziegler
Ingebrightsen
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