Riverside Tems News Highlights Include Citrus Club Forming
Riverside December report notes the Citrus Experiment Club forming to study citrus stock and attract Luther Burbank's aid. A prize contest is planned for spring. Also mentioned are an automobile hill climb with 30 entries, navel orange shipments, a $100000 mining option by Harry S. Steece, and city actions on transit pricing and a new prohibition ordinance.
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Riverside
Citrus Experiment Club
California
Luther Burbank
Los Angeles
CU. A. Dividas
DeWitt’s Kidney & Bladder Pills Promote Relief
An advertisement claims DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills ease backache fatigue and energy loss due to weak kidneys and bladder inflammation. Sold by R. Billings.
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DeWitt
R. ¥. Billings
Man Never Kissed Marries at 70 in Scotland
Mount Vernon, Dec 1. John McCleish aged 70 leaves for Scotland where he will wed his 60 year old sweetheart who has waited since she was 16. He boasts he has never been kissed and quips there are two times a man marries: when too young and when old enough to know better. He has lived as a bachelor his entire life.
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Mount Vernon
John McCleish
New York
Scotland
McCleish
Panama Canal Workforce Reaches High Water Mark
Washington reports the Panama Canal employs 4200 to 4800 skilled workers with most labor now focused on excavation and construction. The project shows total appropriations of 120,964,468.28 and expenditures of 84,573,998.55 through July 1, 1908 with 26,391,470.05 balance. Hospitals cost 8,808,614.50. two steamers and Panama railroad relocation total 2,195,000,000.00.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Panama
Colon
Pie Democracy Scene in a Family Meeting
A period piece dialogue from Amstell's Magazine portrays Pa Jackson calling a family meeting after prayers. John Jr proposes Ruth as secretary, Willie seconds, and the family votes aye. The main topic is dinner with a disputed budget and a proposed turkey meal while Ma voices concern about money. Ruth asserts support, Miss Jackson raises a point of order, and the chorus says aye.
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John Jackson
Tom
Ruth
Tommy
Miss Jackson
Amstell’s
Black Garb Sorrow Fears in Moonlit Vow
In a moonlit moment the bridegroom asks what he would do if he drowned and the bride pleads she does not look well in black. The exchange, set among pale tremors, frames a quietly ominous wedding scene reported by the Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Two Styles In Language From Chicago News Archive
A brief note contrasts two styles of expression, illustrating that literary diction can emerge from minimal descriptive elements, as discussed in a Chicago News piece on clarity and language.
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Chicago News
Sights of town drawn by morning passersby
Random observations mix with an old ad for kidney relief and a note about For Rent signs at the office. The ad promotes DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills with quick relief claims and a 25 cent week treatment.
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Lippincott’s
Delinquent Stock Notice for Corona Publishing Co
The Corona Independent Publishing Co in Riverside County announces delinquent stock assessments and a public auction sale on November 18, 1908 at 10:00 AM. Shares listed include C F Larrabee, Frank Perkins, Glass Bros, George Brown, Cy Pord, H C Cree, W A Wood, D E Newton, Wm Riddell, J A White, T P Drinkwater, J L Davis, Thos K E Park, R C Huber, J Samahan. Sale to cover delinquent amounts and costs.
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C. F. Larrabee
Frank Perkins
Glass Bros
George Brown
H. C. Cree
A. Wood
D. E. Newton
Wm. Riddell
JA. B. White
T. P. Drinkwater
J. TL. Davis
Thos. KE. Park
R. C. Huber
J. Samahan
Saa Bueg
Corona
County of Riverside
State of
California
EL Prench
Riverside County
City youth brags of Swiss label trunks teased by uncle
A city youth boasts of traveling in fine company with trunks labeled from Switzerland. His rural uncle retorts that a box of cheese has similar prestige, prompting Chicago News style humor about class and travel.
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Switzerland
Sonny
Chicago News
Humorous Quotations From Press Snippets
A brief collection of wry quotes from Detroit Free Press and Atchison Globe. A husband recalls Mrs Peddicard asking about regretted words and a joke about a woman at home calling chores the wash and in town the laundry.
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Atchison Globe
Track gambling doomed as anti-track laws spread
San Francisco reports public sentiment turning against race tracks as anti track legislation spreads from New York to Washington. Isador Jacobs cites polls showing 44 assemblymen and 23 senators ready to back the measure, with Governor Gillett likely to sign if passed.
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San Francisco
Tom Williams
North
Baldwin
California
Washington
Seattle
New York
District of Columbia
Kentucky
United States
New Orleans
Memphis
Pimlico
Isador Jacobs
Direct Legislation League
Gillett
Jacobs
Corona Home Telephone & Telegraph Company Stockholders Meeting
Notice to stockholders of Corona Elemen Telephone & Telegraph Company announcing its annual meeting on Wednesday December 2 1908 at 2 PM at the office in Corona Riverside County California to elect a board of Directors and transact other business A C Wood president and W S Chapman secretary
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Corona Elemen Telephone & Telegraph Company
Corporstion
Sixth Street
Corona
County of Riverside
State of California
A. C. Wood
W.S. Chapman
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Arthur Hartmann
W.J. Mills
KR. Pelz
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Arlington Heights Fruit’ Company
Aby
Harry S. Steece
Riverside Peak
Riverside Mountains
Colorado River
Arlington
Dunn
Pacific Electric Company
Arlington Presbyterian Church
Interstate Commerce Commission
Santa Claus
Murray
Lowney
Christopher
Murray's Drug
Palace Pharmacy
Citizens’ Bank
W. F. Botsford
Coa, Kinney
Cashier
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Yosemite Valley Railroad Company
O. W
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Merced
Cal
Labor
Isthmus
Pie
Demosthenes
R. F. Billings
The
Corona Independent Publishing Co
Corona Home Telephone & Telegraph Company
Dr. King
Tela Gottio Free
PLAID
Lars
Corona Lumber Company
Trome
J. S. Mayfield
L.C. Ackley Milling and Fuel Company
First and
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