Kettle Falls News Highlights Local Socials and Notices
Kettle Falls events include visits by Mrs. E. K. Jacobs in Colville and Mrs. Frankie Mount in town, a social at Mrs. N. G. Root, talks by Mr. Cruger on Colportage, and a $9.75 net from the evening. School directors hire Mrs. Enright and Miss Thomas for Meyers Falls. Activities span church meetings, gatherings of the N. G. Club, civic notices, and arrivals from Spokane and Colville with multiple local residents noted. Various ads announce laundry, wearing apparel, under muslins, and local sales while residents travel to Revelstoke and attend life insurance and legal notices.
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Meyers Falls
Barney Enright
Ward
Leonora Thomas
Colville
Christensen Folsom Wedding At Colfax
A simple home ceremony at the Irving Folsom residence in Colfax united Miss Edith Christensen and Tyler Folsom in marriage Thursday evening June 11 at 6 30. Rev Bainton officiated. The bride wore white charmeuse with lace and the veil secured with syringes. Mrs Irving Folsom served as matron of honor and Irving Folsom Jr. as best man. Guests enjoyed a roses and syringas decorated home and a generous dinner. The couple departed by morning train for Garfield for a two week stay amid warm congratulations.
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Irving Folsom
Garfield
Rickey Canyon Items
Mr and Mrs F E Folsom and Mr and Mrs R F Smith visited Mr and Mrs Claus Heide on Sunday. Miss Vivian Lewis and Emery Johnson of Rice traveled to the Marty home on Sunday. The Burris family attended the social at the N G Root home last Thursday. Miss Vivian Johnson stayed with Mrs J Marty last week. Perry Brown is harvesting his field.
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Rickey Canyon
F. E. Folsom
R. F. Smith
Claus Heide
Vivian Lewis
Emery Johnson
Rice
Marty
Thomas Burris
N. G. Root
Vivian Johnson
J. Marty
Perry Brown
Riverview Notes On Local Visits And Losses
Miss Esther Johnson visited her parents on the Acme ranch last week. Rev A J Stayt lost his horse to illness, a significant blow after a prior loss of a valuable cow about a month ago. Mr and Mrs R J Worley traveled to Colville on business last week Friday. Mrs A J Stayt has been ill for ten days but is much better now. Mr and Mrs Sage and Miss Bradbury trip to Spokane last Tuesday, return planned this week. No frost reported Sunday night. Leon Worley in Myncaster BC reports very cold weather for the season.
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Riverview
Esther Johnson
Swan Johnson
Acme
A. J. Stayt
Mr. Stayt
R. J. Worley
Colville
Sage
Miss Bradbury
Spokane
Leon Worley
Myncaster
B. C
Dr King’s New Discovery Advertised for Coughs
A 50 cent bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery is touted to stop coughs and throat and lung troubles. Testimonials claim it saved a wife’s life during a hot summer illness. Suitable for children, sold by druggists at 50 cents and one dollar.
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Dr. King
C. H. Brown
Muscatine
Ala
July 4th at Sherman Grange celebrates day with family
A Sherman Grange event invites families to spend July 4th at the hall. Come early bring your dinner and stay all day with music and an evening dance promising good entertainment for all attendees.
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Sherman Grange
Sea Mussels as Food in the Era of Oyster and Clam
The sea mussel is closely related to the oyster and clam but distinct from freshwater mussels. It is nutritious and superior in flavor to many, abundant and cheap to harvest, edible year round, with all meat usable and shells thin enough to yield more edible material per barrel than oysters. A peck of mussels in the shell can feed ten people.
Tipping the Headsman Across English History
The piece recalls how tipping and fees were a pervasive custom in England from early times. It cites Horace Walpole on George I paying for carp from his pond and Bishop Burnet on the ritual of bribes before execution, noting nobles feared royalty and officials demanded payments rather than rewards.
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England
Horace Walpole
George I
Tait
Canterbury
Bishop Burnet
Lord Russell
Chess and War Origin Story Through Ages
A historic sketch traces chess from India origin in chaturanga to Persia and Arabia then to Spain and Western Europe. It suggests chess was created to teach warcraft and statecraft, with legends crediting Palamedes and a Brahman tutor to a young despot in opposing myths.
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India
Persia
Arabia
Spain
Europe
Palamedes
Troy
Sleepwalking Sermons and Night Writing by a Sleepwalker
An arc bishop of Bordeaux relates a young ecclesiastic who writes sermons in his sleep. He would read and correct pages without sight, even with a pasteboard under his chin. Negretti the sleepwalker reportedly carried a lit candle in one instance and accepted a bottle in its place without noticing the swap.
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Bordeaux
Negretti
Curious Pictures in Antwerp Galleries
The Antwerp galleries display old master works with strange juxtapositions. One heaven scene shows archangels with bows and arrows while The Murder of the Innocents is set in a Dutch city with burgher parents and soldiers turned into Dutch policemen.
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Antwerp
Holland
When a visitor asks a six year old about marriage
A visitor asks Elsie if she will marry when grown up. The six year old replies that everyone says she resembles her mother and notes that her mother has been married three times, implying early expectations about marriage.
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Elsie
Gallant Lover and Insult Met in Quip
A Philadelphia Press humorous exchange notes a sharp remark by a woman and a magnanimous retort from a man. The man jokes that the speaker's mouth is so small he did not notice the offense, illustrating witty banter between the pair.
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Philadelphia Preas
Reticent Mary Declares Father—Bearded Lady in Dime Museum
In a Sunday school class a girl named Mary refuses to state her father's occupation. After persistent questioning, she bursts out that her father is the bearded lady in a dime museum, eliciting shock and dismay from the teacher and classmates.
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Mary
Dime Museum
Judge Fines Youth After Air Gun Incident
In a western town a judge aims to curb street firearms. A youth charged with drunkenness and firing a revolver in a crowded street pleads. the judge imposes twenty dollars with costs. The lawyer notes no one was hit, yet the act involved firing into the air. The judge warns he could have shot an angel.
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San Francisco
Its Route Labels for Suitscase In Pawnbrokers Dilemma
A brief quip from the Kansas City Journal notes that pawnbrokers do not provide luggage labels. The cartoonish exchange highlights the practical issue of marking travel baggage with origin.
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Kansas City Journal
England's Big Mine Road
Central Derbyshire hosts Britain longest underground road connecting several coal mines. A seven mile passage lets people walk beneath the hills linking multiple shafts and mines in a single route.
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England
Great Britain
Derbyshire
Business of a Jury
A lighthearted exchange about juries as a group that chooses the best lawyer, framing the jury as a body of men organized to determine outcomes in legal battles.
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Willie
Paw
Cincinnati Enquirer
Witty Quotations and Humorous Lines From Newspapers
A compact collection of quips from the Knoxville Journal and Tribune Judge and Washington Star. It includes remarks on faults transformation kindness and a jokey exchange about a monument and looping space flight.
Conductor’s Finger Worn Down Pointing Out Scenery
A humorous hedged tale from the Chicago News cited by the Scimitar describes a brakeman who loses a finger while he kindly points out scenery along the railway. The exchange features a curious woman and an apologetic sentiment about the injury.
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Choo
Chicago News
Woman Recovers From Nervous Breakdown Report
Mrs Rosa Bonner of Birmingham Alabama recounts relief from nervous prostration after long trials with doctors. The ad touts a remedy claimed to strengthen nerves and restore health for those with appetite loss digestion weakness and sleeplessness. Sold by all druggists with a money back guarantee if the first bottle fails. Miles Medical Co Muncie Ind.
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Miles Medical CO
Mikhart, Ind
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Clifton Comedy Company
E. R. Linsey
D. R. Jones
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Miss Beulah
Hr. H. Merrit
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T. E. Laing
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George E. Kline
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Benjaimin R. Haydon
Amy
Mr. Dooling
J. R. Hendley
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H. A. Greenwald
Welch Lines
Farmers
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Charles J. Webb
Eugene E Atwood
Webb & Atwood Attorneys At Law
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Gust Weigelt
Folsom & Yarnell
Weather Report
H. H. Cole
Cooperative Observer
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Cedonia
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