Colville Railway Commission Visits and Local Developments
The state railway commission visited Colville for about five hours with a business delegate. Orders covered depot enhancements, lighting, water, and flag stops at multiple stations while noting jurisdiction limits. Other items note a May 24 Christian science lecture, teacher examinations, telegraph connections, a fatal medical case, townsite sales, and local infrastructure plans.
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State Railway Commission
Colville
H. A. Fairchild
J. C. Lawrence
J. S. Jones
A. W. Perley
H. V. Tanner
L. B. Kaler
Great Northern
F. R. Brown
M. J. Costello
R. C. Morgan
J. C. Marr
Palmer Siding
Orient
Arden
Blue Creek
Kulzer
Gray
Herod’s Son Founds Palm Town. Jericho Destroyed by Vespasian
The fragment notes that the son of Herod founded a new town on a plain planted with palms. It adds that Jericho was finally destroyed by Vespasian in A D 68, per the Dundee Advertiser.
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Panhandle Improvement Company
Blackwell
Spokane
Cusick
Usk
Pend Oreille River Navigation Company
Joshua
Jericho
Rahab
B. C
Ahab
Hiel
Bethel
Herod the Great
Simon
Herod
Archelaus
Vespasian
Dundee Advertiser
Doing the Czar A Display of Quick Wit by Martineff
Comedian Martineff met Emperor Nicholas of Prussia in a staged interview. The czar requested a mimicry of an old minister, and Martineff improvised a finish that forced a payment of 1,000 rubles to the actor. The emperor, at first startled, ordered the sum paid after the performance.
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Martineff
Nicholas
Prussia
Volksovsky
Martinetf
Warner
Volkhonsky
M. Martineff
Stories of John Bright and a Knightly Threat
The piece recalls John Bright as a near abstainer who urged Ed ward Miall to drink champagne before a tense speech. It notes Bright’s rare marital friction over children and his quip about appealing to Mr. Gladstone for a knighthood unless demands were met.
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John Bright
Edward Miall
Bright
Miall
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Roman Stone & Mfg. CO
Cemen
Hotel Lee
Colville Examiner
Wash
Congress
J.C. Harrigan
Railway Commission
Christian Science
Clarence C. Eaton
Tacoma
Odd Fellows Hall
Francis Eaton
Alice Anderson
Maud Bandy
Anabel Bowns
Genevra Bowns
Bernice Cline
Ida Curry
Alvina Fowler
Mary Geiger
Myrtle Gillie
Harriette Gollan
Anna Garrity
J. N. Hoffer
Pearl Hixson
C. W. Hotchkiss
J. H. King
Tillie Kulzer
Joycelyn Knapp
Jennie McNicholas
Ruby McKenzie
Amy McGarvey
Flora McDonald
Guy Markham
Grace McCabe
Luella Nelson
Blanch Orr
Ethel Ogle
Ruth Pearse
Ida Rickey
Mable Stevens
F. H. Stovehouse
Kate Short
Della Sparks
Ruth Thayer
Georgia Thayer
Bessie Vierth
Anna Vanderwort
Helen Wilbert
Iva Weyand
Rhoda Wagoner
Colville & Echo Valley Telephone Co
County Farm
A.G. Smith
Henry
W. N.reynolds
C. S. Thompson
Harry West
Eunice A. DeBusk
Free Methodist Church
Rev. Brown
Highland Cemetery
L. DeBusk
A. L. Artman
American Type Foundry
J. C. Harrigan
Statesman-Index
Reveille
O, A. Wham
Allison
NelsoaMay
R. Ricker
Henry Cronkite
Isaac Dresser
Geo. Perkins
Ra. McIntosh
Aug. Anderson
J. S. Wiley
R. L. Danforth
Rhoton
C.E. Herrick
Wm. Richmond
F. G. Purchase
Frank Bree Gee
Copp
H. A. Nees Gee
O . Curry
Ed Davis
Ikland
E. P. Starry
F. Gilmore
F Me "Walston
Jas. Hodson
H. Newman
R. V. Rigg
D. C. Johnson
R. Perkins
F. Chaloner
E. W. Carrick
J. Parking John Wood
Ben Runberry
le Boody
Czar
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