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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1907
Page
3
The Portland Seed Co announces its celebrated Seeds have arrived with retail prices well below the catalogue in nearly every instance. During this month and next the company will make continued offerings and promotions to customers.
A rhinoceros living in the London Zoo had a horn that grew toward its mouth making eating and drinking difficult. A keeper, using careful, staged approach with stroking and a mock saw, eventually amputated the horn to save the animal’s life.
A Philadelphia speaker lauded the late Judge M Russell Thayer noting his public service and fairness as a lawyer and judge. He quoted Thayer's will and recounted a lawyerly anecdote about fees, highlighting Thayer's modest estate and integrity. The piece also references Blackwood's Magazine on a harsh but rare penal practice and a humorous Paddy tale from Angler's Evenings.
Dr Robert Hutchinson of London says bread sugar and eggs provide a respectable body support when meat is unavailable. Sugar supplies energy but lacks nitrogen while bread adds some nitrogen. combined they balance well. In scarcity bread and molasses can sustain the body and keep it reasonably efficient.
The passage compares modern athletic women to Mary Lamb who wrote to Miss Wordsworth that fifteen miles is her exact limit. It recalls a delicate woman who could only manage four or five miles every few days, resting between efforts.
The report notes that if the Native Americans who sold Manhattan to Governor Peter Minuit for $24 in 1626 had invested that amount at compound interest, their heirs would today possess about $12 billion. This reflects on the power of long term growth and the historical oddly small price.
A diner rails at a waiter over a lunch order after citing that breakfast was served earlier. The exchange highlights mismatched expectations between patron and staff in a restaurant setting.
The Atlanta Journal notes encouragement for job seekers, advising persistence on the first day of looking and cautioning against discouragement if a job is not found immediately, with a reminder that late weeks may bring chances.
A long list of Kennewick valley farm offers describes 10 to 100 acre tracts near Finley and Kennewick. Properties feature strawberries alfalfa grapes peaches and alfalfa with houses stables water systems and varied payment plans including cash down and multi year installments at 6 7 or 8 percent. Prices range from $25 to $6000 per parcel with emphasis on ready to plant land near the Columbia River and Finley.
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