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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
3
The Milgate Monthly profiles the Cowcaddens as a center of unsanitary, demoralizing urban life. It warns that penny pawns entice the poor with illegitimate short term pawnbroking, causing misuse of goods and loss of redemption options compared with legitimate pawnbrokers.
Eyewitness tale from the London Telegraph recounts Oliver Cromwell punishing a poor shoemaker who betrayed Pembroke Castle by revealing a water pipe route. The traitor was hanged at the next tree and the castle surrendered after the pipe was cut.
In the Philippines Colonel Edmund Rice formed a mounted scouts company from the Twenty-sixth Infantry. A clerk questioned why eighty nosebags were needed for sixty men, and Rice replied that he had eighty horses, so the nosebags were for the horses, not the men.
The piece traces early smallpox inoculation led by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who had her son inoculated in 1718 and saw trial on seven criminals in 1721 and royal family members in 1722. It notes clergy opposition until 1760 and mentions Dr Mead and Dr Dinsdale as practitioners plus Jenner’s later vaccine introduction in 1799.
The article reflects on the Moors as descendants who conquered Spain and dominated the south for two centuries. It notes visible remnants of Moorish buildings in modern Spain and ponders why contemporary Moors seem unable to adapt to present conditions.
A London Telegraph exchange shows a rich uncle telling his nephew the difference between capital and labor. The nephew asks for £5 and, as he extends his hand, the concept is demonstrated with the money as capital.
Frost minor damage reported in the Valley but fruit persists with a bumper peach crop expected. Wheat risk from winds noted but no crop impact yet. Prices to producers include alfalfa hay nine dollars per ton, barley hay seventeen, wild hay thirteen fifty, oats thirty-two, root vegetables per sack from seventy five cents to one dollar twenty five, onions three twenty five per cwt, potatoes ninety cents per cwt, seed potatoes thirty dollars per ton, eggs fifteen cents per dozen, ranch butter thirty cents per lb, creamery forty cents per lb. Egg movements expected to rise with no price advance. asparagus first shipment thirty cents, California stock eighteen. Poultry meat six to seven dollars per dozen. The Charles H. Culling Co handles wholesale fruit, produce, seeds, feed and poultry supplies.
Alfred A. DeFrance to A T Deats War Deed Fract H of N P I Co amended plat to Kennewick 3450.00 Benton Water Co to Ceiel Moss War Deed lots 7 8 Bsk 7 First Addition to Richland 15000 Geo H Lea to Edwin Layton War Deed Fr lot 3 in Sec 14 8 30 E W M 1.0 C L Smith et ux to A P Richards War Deed 7 acres in N of NW of Sec 35 8 30 E W M 1700 U S to David McCoy Receiver s final receipt NE of Sec 32 7 28 E W M 12.00 C S to Edwin B Scott Patent SW of Sec 20 8 29 E W M 160 acres on Lalli U S to Clarence E Johnson Patent EX of SW of SW of Sec 2 9 28 E W M Hover Investment Co to Allen B Dance War Deed total and 2 Blk An of Hover special division of tracts 1 and 2 of Amun s Addition to Kennewick 400.00 A L Menhinick et ux to Allen b Dance War Deed lots 10 11 and 13 Blk 1 of Menhinick s Addition to Sam Darling et ux to DeWity Owed War Deck lots 3 3 and 5 of Blk 11 of Beach s First Addition to Kennewick 1300.00
An advertisement claims Chamberlains Pain Balm relieves lame shoulders whether from sprain or rheumatic pain. It recommends liberal use with vigorous rubbing at each application and promises a quick cure, sold by Columbia Pharmacy.
CG Collet took up and keeps at Ves sey McRae ranch Kiowa Wa several estray horses including two bay mares branded M on right stifle and M on right shoulder one brown mare with same brands one buckskin horse branded with two small circles joined by a curved line on right shoulder and one brown mare branded with a three pronged circle on right shoulder and M on right stifle. The animals will be sold to the highest bidder for cash on Monday April 6 1908 at 11 o'clock in the forenoon unless the owner or legal representative appears before then to prove title and pay charges. First publication March 20 1908. W S Jenkins County Auditor
United States Land Office in Walla Walla Washington dated March 7 1908 announces George F Zurcher of Kiowa Washington filed intention to take desert claim proof No 470 for the Sexy Nex Luta 234 Sec 14 T 10 N R 28 E before the Register and Receiver on April 24 1908 Witnesses named to prove irrigation and reclamation W A Kelso Rollie M Lythle Selle Kameon and A N Brown all of Washington state
Fine green bunchgrass pasturage at Lotta ranch on Columbia Heights one mile west of Second Street bridge. Send in your colts and calves to grow up.
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