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Newspaper
Chehalis Bee
Location
Chehalis, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1897
Page
2
A mournful quatrain recalls a vanished child with vivid imagery of pale features and innocent eyes. The speaker laments that even a tomb cannot erase the child’s pleading gaze and fluttering hands, as years pass and time alters all.
Brick Whalen, a contract worker for the Consolidated Canal, loses his pay when the company fails and improvises by taking mules and later sheep. He trades labor for mules, then buys sheep which die in a flood, and finally turns to bees before resuming work with mules. He remains hopeful to “double his money.”
The piece explains barristers charge a supplementary clerk fee per guinea earned and that no fee is below a guinea. It notes an unwritten rule against silver, a rare exception, and a quaint gown detail where a guineas pouch once hung. It contrasts past retainer habits with modern bold 50 guinea retainers.
The note cites Garrick's Mise In Her Teens with Tag urging Flash to show a fight in act 2. The quip compares modern American flair to late 18th century stage life and references two gentlemen fit yesterday.
A Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette description outlines common fruit composition including water and sugars, free organic acids such as tartaric in grapes and citric in lemons, proteins like albuminoids, pectose for firmness, Callalose as vegetable fiber, and minor ash. It notes these components vary by fruit.
The piece notes a historic lock once securing a Nineveh door. It describes the lock as a gigantic era artifact and mentions a remarkably long key measured near 83 feet in length.
A hunting scene describes a pack pursuing a fox across an open terrain. A leading hound sights the fox at 100 yards and the pack drives the quarry to a fatal encounter. The huntsman arrives, retrieves the dead fox, and conducts the rites with the field present.
The advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It explains internal treatment targeting blood and mucous surfaces and promises strength through constitution building. The makers offer 100 dollars for any failure and invite testimonials from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
The article advocates relocation to Lewis County Washington highlighting abundant natural resources and climate. It promotes factory startups land purchases farming expansion and a shift away from speculative settlement. It notes topography timber lands rivers and a strong agricultural base including hops apples pears and berries along with lumber mining and dairy potential.
A prospectus-like pitch for Chehalis Washington highlights business blocks mines a new railroad depot stockyards and factories plus a farming population and cannery chair factory sash and door works pork packing plant and other industries inviting homeseekers to inspect the area through October and to hear farmer C C Paul from Elkhorn Nebraska urge relocation to Washington for a better home and opportunities.
The fragment lists various health fears and conditions including premine manhood decline, venereal diseases, hernia, rheumatism, rupture, catarrh, piles, and chronic heart, lung, and liver disorders in a sensational ad tone. It reads as a dated health quacks catalog urging remedies.
Land Office at Vancouver Washington on October 2 1997 announces final proof for Ki yana to be made before November 21 in county at Washington. The notice cites a case under Nomination No 7046 for the north west quarter section 38.
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