County Commission Adjourns After Long Session
County board completes canvass of election and bills then lists other actions. Roads granted changes in Marcus Colville Columbia River area. licenses issued for liquor and meat. bridges contracts approved. Public notices include franchise hearing postponed and emergencies declared on Calispel river bridge.
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Board of County Commissioners
S. Omer
Marcus-Colville Road
M. S. Little
Columbia River Road
Game Fund
M. S. Markland
J. J. Gardner
D. McKeller
H. A. Renninger
Kettle Falls & Columbia River Telephone Co
E. T. Paulmer
Metaline
J. A. Shepard
Marcus
O. N. Cady
Blue Slide
Crestmore
Noah Road
P. H. Carlin
Cronin
Slander Trial in Deep Creek Court Case Heads to Jury
A three day superior court slander trial in the Deep Creek area ends with a verdict for Mrs. Julia Qualey against Mrs. Mary Damon for 325 damages plus costs. The suit arose from charges of bad character linked to a Grange membership dispute.
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Superior Court
Julia Qualey
Mary Damon
Deep Creek
F. Y. Wilson
J.A. Rochford
Josseph & Grinstead
Gooning swindlers caught in Boonton county land scam
A front office plot in Boonton county pits Dobson and Cram against a young farmer who unwittingly buys and swindles a swamp land tract. The farmer later discovers coal on the Gardner tract and profits from a coal company offer, exposing the partners’ scheme.
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Boonton County
Dobson
Dobson & Cram
Mr. Cram
Gardner
Cram
Edward B. Kimball
Corks With Hidden Worms Spoil Fine Wines
A New York Herald report describes cork flaws caused by a tiny worm that taints wine, often invisible to cork cutters. A restaurateur notes customers expect corks to be flawless and would demand refunds for corked bottles, while promising vast profits for a perfect preservation cork.
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Nuin
Tie
New York Herald
Mrs Andrew Johnsons Troubled Washington Years
William H. Crook says in Century that Mrs Johnson led a private life as a consumptive woman with little public presence yet exercised strong influence toward toleration and gentleness. She supported Andrew through his youth and taught him to write in the tailor shop. The death of her eldest son deeply affected her and the Washington years were unhappy for her.
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Washington
McKinley
William HL. Crook
Century
Nubar Pasha Abandons Bagpipes In Cairo
After Cairo falls to British troops Nubar Pasha plans to employ a bagpiper but a French liaison reports the task would be dangerous. The piper warns of wind and strain risking serious injury, leading Nubar to cancel the idea of a household bagpiper.
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Nubar Pasha
Cairo
Nubar
Donald
Westminster Gazette
Depth of Cyclones and Hurricanes Brought to Light
A United States weather bureau official explains that ordinary west to east cyclones in the United States are only two or three miles deep and do not affect upper atmospheric levels. Hurricanes, by contrast, extend five to six miles deep, while higher currents cross the eye and the anticyclonic zones driving surface weather.
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United States Weather Bureau
Chicago Inter Ocean
Easy Money at the Garrick Club
Theodore Hook, famed Garrick Club member, late to the club and said to avoid night air, predicted the millennium in three years. He offered a five pound note now, pledging to repay fifty pounds at the millennium.
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Theodore Hook
Garrick Club
Hook
London Life Snippet Highlights Courage and Craft
The excerpt notes a conversation about a son gaining work both behind a counter and outside. It comments that the dangers of surgeon’s tools reveal cowardice even in the bravest, with a nod to London Telegraph and London Sketch tone.
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Giles
Lonnon
London Telegraph
London
Promotion of a Best Friend to More
John recounts the arc of his friend Alice Coale's engagement to Tom Martin and a tangled plot of debt disappearance. He tracks Martin from rumors to Honduras rubber land, recovers Mrs. Coale's funds, and reunites with Alice, ending with a shift from best friend to fiancé.
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Alice Coale
Tom Martin
Alice
John
Tom
Central Anmeries
Honduras
Australia
Central America
Florida
Tonduras
Puerto Cabello
Martin
Mrs. Coale
United States
Mason Bradstreet
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Sisters of Charity
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A. B. Cook
W. H. Dranz
Colville
A. V. Sheldon
Chewelah
Lester Ward
George Ward
McColeman Place
G. H. Wilbur
Congregational Church
Mesdames Josseph
Cook
Burdsal
Miss Hard
W. H. Jackson
New Cemetery
James Wynne
North Yakima
J. W. Dunlap
Lake View
Paul Scot
Paul
Mr. Morgan
Shaw’s
Guy A. Young
Spokane
Hotchkiss
Rocky Creek
Leon Bowns
John Ayre
Statesman Index
Pierce & English
S. E. Bailey
M. M. McCully
Coeur d’Alene
Colville Monlay
the Firemen’s
Child of Nature
Mrs
Andrew Johnson
Cronin Hotel
Albert Loiselle
Enterprise
Fred McDermott
Kettle Falls Landing
Harvey
Clinton’s
Daisy
Edendale
Hunters
Gerome
Glasgow
Spokane Rapids
Way
Kettle Falls
Miles
Davenport
Grigg
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First Avenue
Seattle
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