Unprecedented floods hit eastern Lewis county and more
High water caused widespread damage in eastern Lewis county. A Seattle officer, Captain W. K. Turner, is listed among wounded in a Canadian casualty list. Floods blocked the Portland Tacoma highway and cut light to Napa vine and Winlock. The Garfield warehouse burned in an incendiary blaze.
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Lewis County
W. K. Turner
Seattle
Morton
Pacific
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle Construction & Drydock Company
Walter A. Luckenbach
Pacific Northwest
Garfield Fruit and Produce Company
Garfield
State Board of Control
Washington State Penitentiary
Walla Walla
Allen
Republic-Wauconda Road
Okanogan County
North Pacific District
Rimrock
McAllister Meadows
Tieton Valley
Napavine
Winlock
Napavmne
Spokane
Pacific Northwest Milk Dealers’ Association
Northwest Milk Inspectors’ Association
Northwest Livestock Association
Lewiston
E. A. Matson
T. Nolan
Robert Solen
United States District Court
Olympia National Forest Reserve
Port Angeles
William Blackman
State of Washington
Wage Adjusting Board
The
Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Benson
Puyallup Valley
Pierce County
Grays Harbor
Quinsault Timber Company
North River
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company
Southern Pine
Washington
Northwest
United States
German Counterfeiter Painted Twenty Dollar Notes as Art
An old German counterfeiter in the United States gained fame for painting lifelike twenty dollar banknotes with brush and pen. He created each portrait in about a week, earning roughly three dollars a day in a pursuit driven by belief the world owed him a living. Jail terms did little to deter him, and collectors valued his bill portraits highly, with one offering five hundred dollars for a specimen.
The Ancient Dragon and Early St Louis Nickname Pain Court
A paleontological note compares the pterodactyl to the dragon of fable, noting its wing span and lifestyle. The article then explains how St Louis earned the nickname Pain Court from French settlers and nearby villages due to bread scarcity and garrison provisioning.
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Vs. Louis
Missouri
St. Louis
Laclede
Louis XV
Mississippi
Ohio
Wabash
Place Pain Court
Beatrix oryx Desert Thirst Quencher Mystery
A Wide World Magazine piece describes the Beatrix oryx of Arabia as never drinking water, surviving ten months without surface water. It explains a natural adaptation a thirst quenching parasite grows on desert bush roots, giving the antelope a water filled spadix, and the animal digs sand holes to access it.
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Arabia
Wide World Magazine
Farm equipment and stock for sale at Colville Wash listing
For sale includes one good work team one small horse Berkshire pigs eligible for registry several well bred Shorthorn cows registered and grade Shorthorn bull calves one good farm wagon 200 ft 4 inch cable an International 6 horsepower gasoline engine small threshing separator good gang plow 28 inch circle wood saw and bracket all ready to work 6 hp gas engine International C M Baker Colville Wash Percent F D No 1.
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International
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