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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
6
A brief note records a vote guess on the electoral tally with numbers 11 10 13 3 cited. The item reads like a political placeholder or puzzle clue within a local page. No additional context is provided to identify candidates, places, or dates.
The Kennewick Courier invites subscribers to predict the 1908 election electoral vote split between Bryan and Taft. First prize $5 in gold goes to the closest overall distribution, second prize $2.50 to the second closest. Each subscriber may submit one guess by November 3 1908 noon on the official coupon at the Courier office Kennewick Washington.
The Rev Hazen T Murray of Kent Washington has accepted the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church. He will preach in the morning at 11 o clock and in the evening at 7 30 next Sunday. Murray led Kent’s church for three years and brings strong recommendations from former congregations. Educated in Toronto he is a McGill University graduate and studied at the local seminary. An invitation is extended for all to hear him.
The piece tracks the 1888 labor party with 146 836 votes for a presidential ticket and its decline into the Socialist Labor party with 21 532 in 1892 then 36 373 in 1896 33 375 in 1900 and 33 622 in 1904. It notes the Social-Democratic party formed in 1900 led by Debs and, as Socialist, reached 402 150 votes in 1904.
The health bureau of the United States will present a complete exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition next summer. It will showcase tuberculosis treatment methods with practical hospitals and outdoor living apartments.
A reporter hears a piano melody and the line Dear Mother from a young singer then glimpses a mother baking dough at a hot stove. She belts out We’ll Work Till Jesus Comes as she works, sweat on her face and sleeves in a pan of dough.
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