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Newspaper
Centralia News Examiner
Location
Centralia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
7
City of Centrale faces budget review as officials consider adjustments amid fiscal pressures. Key figures include city treasurer and council members debating revenue measures and expenditure controls to balance the 1908 financial plan. The session outlines potential cuts and allocations affecting public services and infrastructure.
A Post-Intelligencer piece from the seventh urges southwestern counties to unite with Pierce peers to nominate a regional governor and a congressman. George H. Emerson is named as a leading potential candidate, with discussion of Cushman’s fading influence and calls for joint action to back a southwest man for national and state offices.
A missive recounts travel from Maywood Missouri to Centralia and Alderdale Washington. It describes a bachelor settler, local welcome, farming life, timber cut, and a literary society gathering with songs, readings, and a dog interruption. The author notes immigrants from diverse states building homes, and ponders community resilience amid hardship.
Fragmentary note praises townspeople for strength, hope, and mutual aid while blessing future home seekers. Names Albert M. Riese appear in a personal, devotional context. The text expresses endurance, comfort, and aspiration without a clear event or date.
An old advertisement promotes a hyomelia based remedy for catarrh claiming ninety percent of Americans suffer from it. It asserts the product treats airways, mucous membranes, and glands by inhalation, promising a money back guarantee if no improvement is shown. It urges trial through a local druggist with risk on the seller.
In Lincoln County the Waukesha Oil Company of Illinois formed under Washington law with a 1 million dollar capital to develop the local oil fields. A 500 foot capacity drill will start soon after setup. Authorities say a successful well could reach 1700 to 1800 feet, with a 3000 foot target in view. The project aims to boost state wealth and treasury activity.
Reprinted pieces by Cuntralia's young people recount adventures and mishaps. Millie Margaret faces a dangerous river drift, survives with help, and grows wiser. Other verses describe a curious party, a dark day, and childhood wonder as shared by Estelle Talmadge and locals.
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