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Newspaper
Centralia News Examiner
Location
Centralia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
2
A fragment from a Centralia city notice lists Saturday March 13 and references 1908 with blurred margins. The readable text focuses on date and place while omitting full actions or authorities. The fragment suggests an official notice or legal posting without complete content.
A Pierce county letter urges Southwestern counties to form a concerted plan for the next campaign. Proposes Judge W. H. Snell or George H. Emerson as gubernatorial prospects and names J. B. Bridges A. J. Fallot W. W. McCredie J. M. Rands N. S. Coffman as possible congressional candidates. Hopes for joint support to defeat Cushman and secure Southwest leadership.
Mr B F Scott, arriving from Maywood Missouri, aims to wed a fair woman aged 28 to 40 and plans to log in Centralia. He describes train travel hardships, sights of mountain timber and giant trees, and reports fresh onions and garden produce since arriving. He offers 8100 reward for logging success and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials.
An Old Resident reports on a Klickitat county settlement known as Six Prong Valley, 150 miles up the Columbia River from Vancouver. Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Americans from many states form a hopeful homesteading community, with a daily mail, a literary society, a school, and weekend gatherings.
The text speaks of people who are strong and brave, helping each other with endurance. It praises a shared sense of life and purpose, hoping that the community acts as a means of aiding new home seekers to settle and build lives together. ALBERT M. REESE
An advertisement touts Hyomel as a direct airborne treatment for catarrh with a guarantee from P J Stahl that the product will benefit sufferers or they incur no cost. It emphasizes cleaning germs, healing irritated membranes, and claims the method reaches airways for cure.
Waukesha Oil Co Ltd organized in Washington state with a 1 million dollar cap for drilling in Lincoln County. A 15 inch 5000 foot well will be prepared, with expected natural pay between 1700 and 1800 feet and a backup 2950 foot well contract to guarantee reach to the main oil horizon. Local stock interest grows as Washington citizens participate, amid broader regional extraction activity. Mrs Evia hosts local I U W meeting on South Gold Street March 3, all members invited. Dayton federal court remarks condemn liquor sales while pledging to prosecute dishonesty and perjury among saloon keepers.
Dora J. Grereey laments the town’s busy railroad station as a doorway to commerce and memory, noting muddy streets, shantytown back alleys, and faded travel recollections. She questions neglect of saloons and boarding houses and calls for a writer’s voice in The Delimator for Millinery.
Fragmented prose recounts Millie Margaret’s peril on a fast river. She floats a log, drifts ashore, is aided by a farmhouse family, then returns home. A poem recalls a party where fireworks frighten children, with an account of chasing culprits behind a tree.
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