Populist Talk and Wheat Prices Spark Local Debate
W BUSH letter notes national money policy boosts state securities and wheat gains. Chehalis miller Honrtex Haexent reports buying senator Dona hoe’s wheat crop at 85c a bushel, with prices rising since six years ago. Framingham exchange hints at political shifts after Bryan’s death. the column critiques calamityites and records 152 unclaimed letters in Chehalis Post Office for week ending Aug 26 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honrtex
Chehaits Flouring Mill Co
Bez
Senator Donahoe
Haskell
Popocrats
New York
Willy Bryan
Chehalis
A Barat Ve Dane
M Francis
John Hellman
Cora Kelly
Sam Kuhns
J W Phillips
Maybelle Turner
Elmer Wells
O. EH. Lintrop
P. M
Hops Prices in Chehalis County June 1 1897
The letter dispute clarifies growers pay 75 cents per box for hops in Chehalis and Yakima regions. Several yards, including Goodard and Olequa, report 75 cents with some reporting no offers of 1.00. Pickers begin in Goodard yard while Dobson Hop Co and Patterson at Olequa match 75 cents. Community notices mention local events, sales, and social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima Pickeraz
Sperry
Chehalis
Goodard Yard
W. A. Ashby
Phil Neie & Co
Phil Neis & Co
P.O
Portland
Ore
Dobson Hop Company
Carl Mutter
D. Moore
Olequa
G. Waller
Winlock
A. A. Alexander
T. C. Rush
Dobson Co
George Young
J.C. Bush
Ed Russell
Patterson
Puyallup
Yakima
Ball's Catarrh Cure Reward Notice
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Ball's Catarrh Care. It references Wect Fer and lists Toledo based suppliers and pharmacists. The claim states the remedy takes effect internally and acts through the blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball
Oussst & Co
Toledo
Vane, Konax & Maavuz
Draggiets
Hall
Iterneliy
Stuchell Talks Oregon Trip and Local Business Growth
132 H. W. Stuchell returned from Baker City and La Grande Ore where he met with Wm Murphy of Murphy & Stuchell. He noted Baker City’s good signs, local mines sold for 750000 and 350000, quartz claims employing many men, and La Grande wheat farms with large yields. He reports growth in Baker City and La Grande plus expanding building in Chehalis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodman’s
Ed Murphy
Baker City
Ore
Army Hall
Everyody
Cone
Cart
Grrvan
DeWitt Welton
California
John Haller
Theo Behrend
Mr. Haller
Los Angeles
Albert Pitcher
Mac Wood
Anne Grey Millett
Jennie Westendorf
Westendorf
Purdy
Keeley
Newland
Menenhall
Sulliger
State Board of Control
Washington State Reform School
John R. Rogers
Henr J. Snively
Yakima
Col
Harry Coffman
Clarence Maynard
St. Helens
Frank McIntire
Agate
A. M. Lauman
Harry Swafford
Swafford
Wm. Hopkinson
Fulton
Mount St. Helens
Spirit Lake
Coffman
Samson
Samson Pacific Copper and Gold Mining Company
Joe Gabel
Skaguay
Joe
al Mattingly
Crockett
Chehalis
Kepner
Johnson
Klondyke
Goodman
H. W. Stuchell
la Grande
Onner
Wm. Murphy
Murphy & Stuchell
Murphy
Bonanza
N Lson
Stuchell
Conley Wheat King
Dave
Drew Mike Gancen
John Spitzer
Barthold Br ‘Ele
Wright
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Benalle
W. Bush
Chenalis, Wash
Rogers
Coe
Haller’s. Elgin
Goodman's
George Holton
Pacific County
Butte
Mont
Jim
George
Seaview
Mr. Holton
Ed Holton
Bessie Sprague
J. A. Bush
Florence
Ethelyn
Effie Coffman
Lottie Jackson
Josephine Long
Agnes Willis
Nora
Kate
Alice Russell
Daisy Robertson
Annabell Donahoe
Hattie West
Kenneth Brown
Puget Sound University
Maynard, Everett & Co
Deering
Om Short Notise
Washington
A. S. Moss
D. Urquhart
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