Red Cross Seals Sale Opens In Stevens County
The tenth annual Red Cross Christmas Seals sale begins this week to fund tuberculosis work. Stevens County hosts the Anti-Tuberculosis League led by G. L. Putnam with a $525 county quota. The state target is $75,000 and local leaders urge full participation and extra orders. Community support from managers, clubs, schools, and business people drives the campaign.
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Red Cross
National Tuberculosis Association
Stevens County
Anti-Tuberculosis League
G. L. Putnam
Graham Purchases St. Clair Confectionery
Grover G. Graham has purchased Chauncey St Clair's business at the corner of Main and First and took possession December 5. The Rexall Store will stock drugs and Rexall goods, with the Spokesman-Review agency present. St Clair departs from fishing to focus on flowers and bulbs while retaining ties to Colville.
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Frank B. Goetter
Stenger-Graham Drug Co
Harry G. Gleason
Chauncey St. Clair
Northwest
St. Clair
Colville
Indorsement for Oil Search in Colville Valley
The Colville Chamber of Commerce urges residents and businessmen to assist the Colville Valley Oil Co. in proving whether the valley holds oil in paying quantities. The effort aims to map underground formations for future value to the county, regardless of immediate cash return. Signed by President W. G. Hartwell and Secretary W. W. Campbell.
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Indorse
Valley
Colville Chamber of Commerce
Colville Valley Oil Co
Colville Valley
Stevens County
Colville
Planetary Pull On Earth Mentioned In Cordwood Debate
The text argues against any planetary influence on earth and dismisses claims that celestial bodies could affect prices of cordwood or bacon. It jokes that even a sunspot continuation would only be recommended if such pull could remove water from gasoline.
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Albrt Porta
University of Michigan
United States
Mercury
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
League of Planets
Annals of Astronomy
Colville
Stevens County
Small Town Hospitality Shapes a Pleasant Homecoming
A narrator reflects on the warmth of local eateries in Colville and Spokane. Washington memories include friendly hotel staff and a train conversation with a boy declaring, We live in Washington and this is Colville, highlighting hometown ties and regional contrasts.
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Washington
Colville
Humanize Industry by Preventing Accidents
A historical analysis compares World War fatalities with industrial and public-place deaths in peaceful America. It cites 126000 deaths and over 2,000,000 injuries or disabilities from 19 months of war and peacetime hazards, urging intensive accident prevention and active employer and worker participation per the National Safety Council findings that 70 percent depend on cooperation.
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America
National Safety Council
Washington State Safety Act Aims to Cut Industrial Deaths
The plan cites that half of accident reductions come from organization and training of employers and workers. It outlines three steps: safe work places, installation of safety devices, and an extensive educational campaign. The State Safety Board is organized to offer services to employers and workers in extra hazardous industries.
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State Safety Board
Weights and Measures Division Reports Active Year
The annual Weights and Measures Division report for the year ending Sept. 30, 1919 shows 2 928 cities visited and 9 607 business places checked. Scales tested reached 55 626 with 50 893 approved, 2 634 adjusted, 1 624 condemned, and 475 confiscated. The process yielded 11 986 more scales approved and sealed than the prior year, reflecting improved merchant scales and better upkeep.
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W. B. Newcomb
The Husband's Offense Divorce Case Testimony
A divorce case sits in session with a former family maid called as a witness. The judge asks about quarrels between the defendant and his wife and what the husband did during them. The maid replies that he seemed to be listening. An ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea accompanies the piece.
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Colville
Spokane
Sor
Mean Man Friend exchange fuels a sharp roguish line
In a witty dialogue Poore quips that a girl's father would not chase her, but rather relocate to vanish from her sight once she elopes. The exchange frames a sly classically antiromantic joke about parental action and elopement.
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Jack Poore
Old Uproar Over Cigar and Gramophone
A humorous line pair contrasts a dealer’s boast about cigars and a gramophone with a counter quip about wanting a harp instead. The exchange reflects period slang and social quirks in a terse street scene.
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RICH
Jeweler and
Opticia
the Electric Shop
Stevens County Power and Light Co
Colville Abstract CO
Frank Kostka
Colville, Washington
TopNoch Flour Mills
Baeuml
Van
Lee
Weights and Measures Division
Hollister
Trs
Smith's
First National Bank
Colville, Wash
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