Public spirited effort aids Wenatchee bridge sale
The piece highlights Washington state action to buy the Wenatchee River bridge, noting prior delays, advocacy by the State Territorial Association, and Christmas gifts to supporters. It also discusses Alaska coal imports, Oregon population projections, artesian water findings in Powder River valley, a seedless apple mystery near Spokane, and the Panama Exposition site choice in San Francisco boosting Northwest business.
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Wenatches
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Hdritorial Association
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Powder River
Neotion
San Francisco
Congress
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Harriman Directors Authorize Double Tracking on R N Line
The Harriman directors in New York approved double tracking of the C W R R line along the Columbia River from Echo to Portland. This expansion will enhance transportation facilities and reflect confidence in the North by the nation's major railway system investing heavily.
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Columbia River
Echo
Portland
Harriman
New York
Great Railway
Organist’s Replacement Goes Too Far at Feast
An organist was replaced by a deputy on the eve of a festival. The deputy played full chords while the main organist relied on single notes, exhausting wind. Mid "Hallelujah Chorus" the blower balked, and the deputy confronted him. The blower quipped that he knew how many puffs blow the chorus. Sorrow in an evil with many feet.
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St. James
The Fat Goddess and a Paris Patron Critique
French art patron M. Durand challenged a young painter’s Mount Olympus scene calling out the lack of noble bearing in the goddess figures. He argued aristocrats must feel like rulers and condemned the depicted figure as lacking form, before conceding after tactful explanation that iconography allows softer equivalents.
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Mount Olympus
Tunieled
Durand
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Mme
Mile
Juno
Mme. and
Mile. Durand
Raised Beaches of Arran Echo in Island Caves
On the island of Arran in western Scotland a geologic phenomenon known as a raised beach is evident. Caves along the coast, now well above high tide, indicate past coastal elevation and have been used by farmers and even converted for local shelter and domestic use amid stretches of shoreline rugged with evidence of ancient sea levels.
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Scotland
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Slvitera
Erie
Phoeidlon
Elie Toorle
Aeniel
Obituary Gema Sheridan and Distant Echoes of Death
The fragmentary obituary recalls Gema Sheridan and a distant, enigmatic death and ritual. Anecdotes and quotations surface from a newspaper page, including a cryptic reflection on life and a dated prose excerpt about a butcher and porter orders, with unfamiliar names and places.
A Fearsome Order in Baltimore American Dialogue
A fragment from the Baltimore American features a playful exchange about a table order. One person asks if the man at the next table is his daughter, while the other mentions a water summoned to bring a club sandwich and a drink on a stick.
True Ap Tishman Retirements and Work Persuasion
A fragment notes Tishman applying for retirement relief and being told to work for a living. It quotes a sentiment about inability to handle all work and mentions chance favoring the prudent. The line ends with the name Joubert.
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Retlef
Tala
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