Public Land Notices From Washington and Colville Records
A batch of Department of the Interior notices from Spokane and Colville: multiple claimants in Washington state file for homestead final proofs and timber land purchases. Entries include Johanson of Dominion, Mary Braziel of Addy, John Kerrigan of Colville, John Beck of Dominion, and others. Proof dates range through July 1918 with witnesses named. notices cite U.S. commissioner Kathrine S. Ide and various land details in townships and ranges.
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Department of the Interior
United States Land Office
Spokane
Washington
Ark Oo
Johanson
Dotinion
Meridian
St. Ide
United States
Colville
Wellington
Evan Richards
Nedls
Nelson
William Offenburger
Claude McNilt
DoMinion
John L. Wiley
Register
Department of the Interror
Mary Brazeil
Addy
J. W. Meridian
Kathrine 5
Ide
Washinton
Lester G. Dailey
Charles Geathem
Sarah Miller
George V. Dailey
John J. Kerrigan
Wash
B. W. Meridian
Kathrine
Eastern District of
Frank Platt
James 3. Kerrigan
William R. Reddington
James B. Reilly
Joan L. Wiley
United? States Land Office
John W. Beck
Orty
Willamette
Kathrine& Ide
Eastern District of Washington
John BL. Wiley
Wayine
Southwes
Kathrine Ide
State of Washington
Ig Hutz Staehly
James Maddox
Albert M. McCann
Everette I. Luttourette
Wettle Malls
John L. Wilky
CE Kor
Joseph Womacka
Kettle Talls
E. W. Meridian
Kathrine &. Ide
Stern
Cole
Charles I. O'Neil
H. C. Michael
A. ‘Oag
W. M. Schrieber
Kettle Falls
Robert BE. Lee
Old Dominion Mining & Milling Company
Robert Teler Neeriver
Local notices mix of land filings and court actions in Stevens County
A long mixed text from Colville Washington includes land entries, filings for final five year proof, and notice of public foreclosure, receivership and tax sale actions. It lists witnesses, dates, and places in Stevens County with references to Colville Kettle Falls Chewelah and Crestmore. It also includes summonses for publication and city warrants call.
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State of Washington
Stevens
Etzuld
Bob
Colville
Stevens County
Washington
KB. Obdsteald
Sticiennsy
Letania
Monney
Superior Court
County of
Margaret Tindsay
Mary A Klaus
GB. Ide
Katherine Ide
Fred
Ide
J. H. Laswell
Floyd R. Laswell
Colville Loan and Trust Company
W. F. Diffenbacher
Ressie Diffenbacher
Ann Elizabeth Young
James Henry Young
Glenn Pettay
Z. H. Laswell
Thomas Rh. Norton
Kate C. Norton
G. W. Denny
Thomas B. Norton
Kate G. Norton
G. W. Denny, Dated Tune 18Th, 1913, Recorded Insaid County Auditor's Office
Deeda
Colyne
Said
Towle
Olsen
Mhianters
Bossburg
Crestmore Park
Chewelah
Irving TD. Lilt
Wash
T. Tas Se
Property for sale and land offerings in Montana and Seattle
Examiner printing for sale listing property by Public Realty Bureau Seattle with free particulars. Mason Fenwick law firm Seattle patent attorneys. Real estate pitch for Homeseekers and Investors to buy land in Prairie Co Eastern Montana with farms ranches and wholesale tracts. Mabon Land Company Byron Mabon manager Terry Montana.
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Realty Bureau
Liberty Tildg
Seattle
Washington
Stars and Stripes
Marvelous Prairie Co
Montana
Mabon Land Company
Byron Mabon
Mgr
Terry
Mont
Visitor’s letdown at Calcutta’s Black Hole site
In India the Black Hole of Calcutta draws curiosity but offers only a monument with a chain. The writer laments lacking preserved prison features and a museum exhibit. He imagines an American-style restoration with wax figures, a survivor’s descendant selling postcards, and a fuller history for visitors.
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India
Calcutta
America
Homer Croy
Leslie
Strap Hangers In Tokyo
A vivid snapshot of Tokyo tram crowds near the Imperial palace. The piece notes more than two million people live within three miles of the palace and rely on trams, with seats always in demand and the subway rarely as crowded. It mentions multiple terminal stations and travel challenges across the city.
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Tokyo
Imperial Palace
New York
Empire
Tottyro
Europe
Ueno
Nikke
Karuizawa
Sendai
Hokkaido
Maynard Owen Williams
Christian Merald
You Can Do It When Facing Big Tasks
A passage urges perseverance when work seems overwhelming. It emphasizes tightening your belt, setting to it, and pushing through even when progress seems impossible. Completing the task brings hard won satisfaction beyond wealth.
Retaining Fee and Preparedness Talk in Washington
The Washington Star quotes a joke exchange on lawyers charging retainers before work and a senator warning he may lose his temper during a speech. The remarks touch on fee practices and heated debate in Congress.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Riddling Verse Exchange Cited in Cornell Widow
In the periodical Cornell Widow a quip from The Modern Child features a playful dialogue about lambs and gamboling joints. The exchange blends humor and wordplay as a father answers his son’s curiosities with a pun on gambol and joints.
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Cornell
Base Ingratitude Father and son clash over drink
In a German vent piece, a father scolds his son, a doctor, for cutting him off his drink after paying for his medical studies. The line lampoons parental expenditure and filial disobedience with sharp humor.
Broken Hearts and Great Florentines In Santa Croce
National Geographic Magazine recounts Santa Croce as a shrine to Florence’s stormy genius. Dante’s cenotaph rests in Ravenna while Michelangelo lies in San Lorenzo nearby. Galilei Alfieri Machiavelli and others are honored in the church and in the Medici mortuary chapel.
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Holy Cross
Florence
Ravenna
Michelangelo
Galilei
Alfieri
Machiavelli
San Lorenzo
The
Medici
National Geographic Magazine
Epitaph Quip From Fatal Upstate Auto Crash
A recent upstate county auto crash killed the driver and injured two passengers. Coroner testimony centered on speed and road disrepair. A nearby farmer, Mr Swiggett, quipped that the young man died trying to hit sixty on a ten mile road.
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Upstate
Swiggett
A Famous Dresser Murat the Best Dressed Man in History
Joachim Murat born 1767 near Cahors rose from day laborer to field marshal and king of Naples. He chased advancement through the army, married Napoleon’s sister Caroline, and wore gold embroidered uniforms in war and on parade, even when facing execution.
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Joachim Murat
Cahors
Uo Jesuit School
Naples
New York Tribune
If Every Word Sparkled a Gem Tales from a Fairylike Wife
A husband muses that if all women spoke jewels instead of words he could become rich. He recalls a fairy legend his grandmother told him about women whose lips drop a diamond or ruby with every word. His wife prompts for more, but he ends with one brief thought.
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Mary
Skibbereen name puzzled an English traveler
An English traveler in southern Ireland visits Skibbereen and asks why the village has that name. A villager answers with a humorous note that the name distinguishes it from other places sharing the same name. The anecdote is cited from the Christian Register.
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Skibbereen
Ireland
Christian Register
Mars and Its Moons Rotate Fast About Red Planet
A moon of Mars completes a orbit every seven hours causing it to appear to rise in the west and set in the east from the Martian surface if inhabitants exist.
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Mars
Well Guarded Treasury Alarms Tested Around the Clock
Electric burglar alarms surround Uncle Sam's treasury in Washington and are tested every fifteen minutes, day and night, reflecting a heightened security posture for federal facilities.
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Uncle Sam's Treasury
Washington
Morning Headache Causes and Dietary Advice
Early morning headaches have many possible causes such as eye strain kidney trouble and excessive smoking. The Medical Record cites 15 year observations by French doctor Henga noting high blood pressure in many cases. When headaches are severe the heart may enlarge and kidneys be affected. Intensive treatment can relieve symptoms. shut off coal tar derivatives and tobacco and allow mental rest. A milk-only diet for a week followed by carefully chosen fruits and vegetables for two weeks and a light low protein plan for several weeks are advised.
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Henga
Pepys at a Lenquet in 1608 shows meat and fish feast
The San Francisco Bulletin recounts Samuel Pepys holiday meal of rabbits, chickens, beef, carp, lamb, pigeons, lobsters, tarts, lamprey pie, anchovies, and wine. It notes the feast was almost entirely meat and fish with little or no vegetables, predating potatoes in England.
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Pepys
England
San Francisco Bulletin
Metchnikoff Dream of a Pure Body Revealed by Observer
A Cri de Paris excerpt profiles Dr Elie Metchnikoff the Russian born savant who settled in Paris. It notes his vision of restoring primitive organ purity and a belief that humanity could avoid suffering and die peacefully after about ninety years. He described the body as an imperfect machine with many superfluous organs.
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Metchnikoff
Elie Metchnikoff
Paris
Moujik
Measuring Rainfall With Standard Weather Gauge
A weather bureau rain gauge uses a funnel shaped receiver eight inches in diameter atop a cylinder of eight inches diameter and one and a half inches tall, placed over a cylindrical reservoir 2.53 inches in diameter and twenty inches high. The cross sectional area ratio is one to ten, so one inch of rain in the receiver equals ten inches of water in the gauge, magnified tenfold for accuracy.
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The
Weather Bureau
Ancient Chinese ingenuity in early taxicabs and distance carts
An orientalist claims ancient Chinese mechanical carts tracked distance by wheel revolutions, with cogs linking concentric wheels. A figure with a drum on top marked miles traveled, and some carts added a cymbal for ten drum beats, dating back 1700 to 1800 years.
Use of Maps in Schoolroom Lesson
A board inspector questions lower form boys after inspecting a school. He asks the use of the map and the boys reply in unsteady voices that it is to hide master's bicycle. The anecdote captures a humorous moment in a London Tit-Bits note.
Careless Speech Sparks Humiliation at Grabcoin House
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes a family joke about the Grabcoins hiring a tutor for Reginald. The humor centers on Mr. Grabcoin mispronouncing tutor as a horn-related word, causing Mrs. Grabcoin embarrassment.
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Grabcoins
Reginald Grabcoin
Do you remember Tommy and the neighborly advice
A Richmond Times Dispatch quip features a friend asking Tommy to love your neighbor as yourself and the youth replies that he always does but notes his father warns him not to have too good an opinion of himself.
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Tommy
Thomas
Richmond Times-Dispatch
How Women Judge by Clothes In Yard Wash
A Yonkers Statesman brief notes Mrs. Flatbush questions female judgment by appearance while Mrs. Bensonhurst jokes about judging those hanging laundry on the back line. The item reflects social humor in a local column.
Plain Spoken Intellect Annals Fate in Birmingham Age Herald
A fragmented quotation from the Birmingham Age-Herald highlights plain speech and intellect. It contrasts a plain spoken man with rare equality of opinion among townsfolk and quotes Emerson on freedom of thought. The text reflects mid century prose and period voice.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
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Foley
Ada Sanders
Cottontown
Tenn
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D. Swift & CO
Seventh St
Washington, D.C
Warrigarians
Department_of the interior
Charles Pr. O'Neil
J. S. Clark
Lynch Bide
R. S. Wells
Bank of
J. W. Henderson
F. Vinson Postoffice Bldg
MO. J. Ingle JR
Lane Bldg
Camilla Benson
L. C. Jesseph
First National Bank Building
Leo Grinstead
Bank of Colville Bldg
W. Lon Johnson
Rickey Building
John B. Slater
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Wentz & Bailey Lawyers Bank OF
R. A. Thayer
First National Bank
Stevens County Abstract Co
Henry R. Spedden
Mgt
Notich
Iwan County
Tor
Sento
Ben Johnson
Tfice
Paulsen
Spokane County
Alf
Cooney
Carloo
Olson
Eima Harrison
Paul B. Weatherhead
Paul A. Schecier
Charles Wasson
Emma Harrison
Paul MW. Weatherhead
Paul A. Schechler
Inis
Carl 0. Olson
Albert Bo Iban
Plaintifg
Ste. Vena County
Mason
Fuller & Johnson
Judge Pennypacker
Philadelphia
Pennsylvanian Historical Society
Baltimore Sun
George Ade W
Caprion
Examiner
Fmerson
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