Safeguarding Ferry Boats Draw Editorial Attention
Spokane papers and Stevens county fire warden quote editorials on Columbia River ferry deaths to urge safer crossings. Readers urged bridges or sturdier ferries, stricter inspections, and life guards while Welty defends ferrymen and explains drivers caused the accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia River
Spokane Chronicle
Spokesman- Review
Spokesman-Review
Columbia
Chronicle
Ihe
Apple Way
Spokane
Stevens County
John Welty
Bossburg
Lincoln Gettysburg speech praised and criticized in 1863 editorial
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union on November 24, 1863, criticized Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as acting without sense and for party benefit. The Christian Science Monitor notes the remark and clarifies it referred to Lincoln, not Woodrow Wilson.
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New York Sun
New York Tribune
Poindexter
Sherman
McCormick
Harrisburg
Patriot and Union
Woodrow Wilson
Abraham Lincoln
Christian Science Monitor
They All Had the Minister With Them in Death
A clergyman who drank occasionally hires an Irishman to clean his cellar. The cellar worker checks empty whisky bottles for contents. The clergyman remarks they are dead ones. The Irishman agrees and adds a twist about the minister accompanying them in death.
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Old
England
Dukhobor Haven Spotted on BC Tour by Colville Group
A Spokane party led by J Smith visits British Columbia near the Canadian border and describes the Dukhobor community in the Kettle River valley. They detail road quality from Laurier to Osoyoos, border procedures, lake scenery at Christina Lake, and impressions of local farms, people, and customs as they travel through Canada.
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Russia
Colville
Laurier
Canada
Christena Lake
C. P
British Columbia
Midway
Mountain
Hill and Vale
Brideville
Osooyoos Lake
Osooyoos Mountain
Rocky Bluffs
Osooyoos Trail
Provincial Highway Department
Victoria
Osooyoos
Keremeos
Richter’s Pass
Okanogan
Similkameen Valley
United States
Grand
Forks
Greenwood
Kettle River
Caucassus
Alberta
Mounted
Kettle River Valley
Groad
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Rich
Stevens County Power & Light Co
Colville Abstract CO
Frank Kostka
Colville, Washington
P. E. Dingle
TopNoch Flour Mills
Meyers Falls
The
Bossburg and
Marcus
Dukhobors
Frank B. Goetter
Polvidele
B’gosh
Smith
First National Bank
Colville, Wash
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