Money Makers Swine Raising Booklet Promotes Northwest Hogs
The O W R N Co distributes a 24 page booklet by D O Lively of Portland on swine raising in the Pacific Northwest. It argues hog farming is profitable, supports shipping to market year round, and notes hogs pay farm mortgages and build wealth. The Commercial Club offers copies from its secretary. A British railway economist praises American railways as most economical and efficient.
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Pacific Northwest
D. O. Lively
Portland
Middle States
The
Commercial Club
United States
Acworth
Pacific Northwest flour mills plan Europe market push
The Tacoma meeting of Northwest millers eyed a uniform European brand to be advertised with steamship company cooperation. Mills will sell at cost for now to build demand, aiming to ship flour rather than wheat. If successful, Europe’s demand could raise Northwest payrolls and widen trade post Panama Canal opening.
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Pacific Northwest
Europe
Panama Canal
Tacoma
O. D. Fisher
Fisher Flouring Mills Company
Seattle
Kansas
Fisher
Northwest
The Great Divides Reno The Harem Skirt The Tariff Wall
A compact list of evocative phrases mentions Reno Harem Skirt Tariff Wall and Jim Crow laws alongside geographic and historic references as a period reflective collection. It reads like a headline laden catalog of social markers and regional boundaries.
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Reno
Mason and Dixon’s Line
Rio Grande River
The Way You Are Passed On
Four months ago Jones of New York signed a postal card seeking information about the Fortune Colony a promoter's stock scheme. Three months later an agent of Reactor Gas Lighting offered securities to sell. A month ago World Home Supply mailed literature with stock offers. After a July trip a Moisant International Aviators letter offered stock at bargain prices. Jones is on the sucker list and faces repeat solicitations unless he seeks Post Office protection against promo material.
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Fortune Colony
Jones
Rector Gas Lighting Company
World Home Supply Company
Moisant International
Post Office
Collier’s
Tax figures show Washington per capita levy and county spread
State tax commission reports per capita taxes at 23.67. Kitsap county is lowest at 11.52 and Clallam highest at 38.68. Total state taxes last year were 27,083,979.84 with property valuation at 906,247,944. Property shares equate to 795.57 per person by assessed value and 2064.38 by actual value.
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of Washington
Kitsap County
Clallam County
Washington
Postal Banks Grow and Parcels Post Demand Rises
The postal banks prove so popular that the Postmaster General must add a hundred banks each month. Parcels post draws public demand as rising. The postal deficit is wiped out with $3,000,000 appropriated for deficit returned to the Treasury.
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Treasury
Beer cooled engine aids Walla Walla to Pasco auto run
Dr. Blalock and companions reportedly used beer to cool their engine after their cooler ran dry during a cross-state auto run from Walla Walla to Pasco. The report notes this odd strategy and mentions the W C T U involvement in related guidance.
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Dr. Blalock
Party
Walla Walla
Pasco
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Denver
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R. Burns
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C.F. van DE Water
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Money Makers
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Informa
Cascade Lumber CO
R. C. Mounsey
Mgr
Kennewick, Wash
Valley Barn and Dray
Ferrel & Schmella Proprietors
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co
L. B. Ward, Mgr. Kennewick
H. W. Nelson, Finley
Borchardt Tailoring CO
Second Street
Hotel
H. J. Claussen
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