Northwest State News Roundup of 1911 Crop and Politics
Hay crop in Kittitas valley tops 100000 tons while linotype workers’ pay into state fund is mandated. Seattle recalls challenger for mayor. Sedro Woolley suffers 250000 dollar fire loss. Rev Harry Ferguson elected Hoquiam mayor. Margie Newman Holstein cow sets milk and butter records. Navy to place Oregon and St Louis in reserve at Bremerton with more vessels planned. Pacific Northwest economy upbeat on bumper crops boosting lumber and grain markets. Remember Chamberlains remedy ad ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Robert T. Hodge
King County
Dilling
Upper
Skagit
Sedro-Woolley
Harry Ferguson
The
Baptist Church
Hoquiam
Sidney Moore Heath
Ferguson
Washington
Margie Newman
Charles Eldridge
Chimacum Valley
Navy Department
Atlantic
Pacific
Oregon
St. Louis
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Bremerton
Pennsylvania
Charleston
Milwaukee
Galveston
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest States
Northwest States
We natchee shopkeeper arrested for selling hard cider
County news reports James M. Duffy of Wenatchee, owner of a confectionery and cigar store, was arrested last week on a charge of selling hard cider. The item also mentions Sheriff Ed Ferguson as a gubernatorial hopeful and notes a fatal climbing accident involving a six year old boy near Lake Chelan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Duffy
Wenatchee
Ed Ferguson
Chelan County
U. S
D. E. van Gundy
Wenatche
Stehekin
Little Powell McClure
Walter McClure
Seattle
Lake Chelan
Horseshoe Basin
Postoffice List and Curious Clippings From Old Times
Postmaster notes remaining in the postoffice list underlines a call to advertise. The selection includes names Bryant Burt Chapman Hansen Kilto Madden OConnor Solbacken Seebold Saunders Thornton Taylor Taylor Westland Wilcox and others. The day’s miscellaneous items discuss ice in Persia and garfish skin as luxury material.
England's Cream Ponies and a Kinds of History Jokes
The cream ponies that pull the king's carriage are the last survivors of a once thriving Han over stock. They trace pure lineage to Hanover horses George I brought to England two centuries ago, with all others now extinct. The article notes a King Victoria era stock search failed to find replacements in Hanover. The rest of the text blends quotations on reputation and a classroom joke about a coon in a history lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
England
Hanover
George I
Victoria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kittitas Valley
State Industrial Commission
King’s City Drug Store
Tne
County
Bryant, A
A Burt
E G
J. C. Davis
Persia
Los Angeles Times
William
Louisiana
Willie
New Orleans
Forrester
Edmund
New York Times
Leavenworth and
Echo
J. E. Grant
Commercial St
Echo Office
Rutherford & Burns
Chiwawa River
Leavenworth
Chinawa River
Mr. Burke
Sydney Smith
Harrison
Cashmere
Peshastin
N. Paterson
Leavenworth Furniture & Hardware Co
Cashmere Nurseries
G. A. Loudenback, Prop
Leavenworth Furniture
Pacific Building & Loan Association
Tacoma, Wash
Orville Billings
J. Heitman
State of
Tacoma
Wash
Arthur Osborne
B. A. McKenzie
Robt. B. Field
Leavenworth State Bank
Leavenworth Market
Martin Christensen
Emil Frank
the Gandy Shop
Hellman & Pabst
Cariquist’s Jewelry
Varney
Cascade
L. J. Nelson
Hotel
Wii
Manns
Copynicuts &c
Munn
Scientific American
All
Munn & Co
New York
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