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Advertising schemes and Westward land policy debate
A scattered miscellany discusses aggressive advertising tactics from rail fences to hotel signs and calendars, then pivots to Col lier’s Weekly critique of eastern conservationists and the settler West. It notes an Interior Department post and a county division battle in Sunnyside, Mabton and Toppenish, plus rural education shifts and Massachusetts vote-buying penalties.
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Millinton
Interior Department
United States
Collier’s Weekly
Great West
West
Atlantic Seaboard
Great Middle West
Pacific Coast
Sunnyside
House
Senate
Yakima
Benton
Toppenish
Mabton
Grandview
Benton County
Prosser
Kennewick
Wende
Wapato