Regional road survey and political shifts in the northwest
Engineers survey planned trunk road routes from the Canadian border to Seattle via Spokane and Wenatchee. J D Farrell slated as president of a Harriman lines linked company. Pension rolls report over eleven thousand Washington residents receive government pensions totaling 1.86 million dollars yearly. Alaska totals cited. North Yakima women lead in school board registration for December 3 as district bonds seek 175000 for a new building. A Twisp mass meeting pushes Methow county secession, naming J W Faulkner as representative with an anticipated value of 1.6 million and 3000 residents.
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Samuel Hill
Washington State Good Roads Association
Vancouver
Wash
Columbia River
Big Bend
Spokane
Cascades
Wenatchee
Seattle
J.D. Farrell
Oregon- Washington Railroad & Navigation Company
State of
Oregon
Harriman Lines
North Coast
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company
Oregon & Washington Railway Company
Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Alaska
Phoebe Palmeter
Brookfield
N. Y
North Yakima
WEA
Twisp
Okanogan
Methow County
J. W. Faulkner
Fruit ranch schemes warned to cautious investors in West
The column cautions investors about fruit ranch promotion schemes in the West. It urges first hand inspection of tracts offered at 300 to 500 dollars per acre and scrutiny of the promoters' financial standing and local reputation. The piece likens investment to meeting a distant partner without personal verification and stresses careful judgment.
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West
Patronage schemes and a Georgia congressman's aid act
Representative Livingston of Georgia, a long serving Democrat considered for the Appropriations Committee chair, is noted for hustling patronage. A widow with two children sought government work. he promised to help and, after she returned, secured her a government job, prompting astonishment from a colleague.
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Livingston
Georgia
Committee On Appropriations
Secretary Wilson’s 2000-strong training staff aids world standing
Secretary Wilson boasts of a vast training school for scientists with about 2000 dependent investigators under his direction. He notes valued personnel lost to big commercial interests including G Harrold Powell, who led fruit decay and cold storage research across many states and aided growers nationally. Powell now heads California Citrus Protective League and serves as acting chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry.
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Wilson
Europe
Washington
Department
G. Harrold Powell
California
Georgia
Florida
New York
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pushing Foreign Trade Through Consular Efforts
The article notes efforts by the state department to boost foreign commerce with better consular cooperation. American manufacturers show growing interest in exports despite strong home demand. Consul P Merrill Griffith reports a surge of catalogues and mail from New York following a Trade Opportunities notice, signaling active exporter interest abroad.
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State Department
United States
Bureau of Manufactures
P. Merrill Griffith
Pernambuco
Chelan Farmers Union to form cooperative general store
Chelan branch plans to incorporate a stock company for a cooperative store in Chelan. Shares have a par value of 25 dollars and each stockholder may hold up to five shares.
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Chelan
Farmers’ Union
Advertised Letters at Post Office Uncalled For
List of uncalled letters remaining in the post office includes Anderson Albert Gale Will Adams RH Guist John A Beezley F Ross Chas Burgeson Bernie McKinzie S F Choate Burnham Newton HS Casey C W Roeschke John Dawson JH Talbert C E Williams Chas F In calling for same please say advertised J C Davis Postmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Albert Gale
Will Adams
RH Guist
John A Beezley
Ross
Chas Burgeson
Bernie McKinzie
S F Choate
Burnham Newton
HS Casey
C W
Roeschke
John Dawson
Talbert
C E Williams
Chas F
The Electric Fan's Early Motor Experiments
In the early eighties NY engineer Dr Wheeler tested a tiny electric motor with a direct drive screw propeller. The resulting cooling breeze inspired him to abandon gear based steam propulsion ideas and he refined the electric fan into a commercial success.
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Wheeler
New York
Bonnyclabber Drinks and Gentlemen’s Banter Recalled
Bonnyclabber is hailed as a glorious popular drink by 1635 letters from Lord Straf ford to Lord Cottington noting it as bravest and freshest tasting. Ben Jonson hints a mixture of beer and buttermilk as its likely composition amid later comic dialogue about lending ten dollars testing friendship.
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Lord Strafford
Lord Cottington
Madrid
Ben Jonson
London Chronicle
The Fateful Message
A short exchange shows a wife explaining she could not keep her mother away as the mother insisted on coming after reading a telegraph. The husband and wife clash over family visitation in a melodramatic telegram scene.
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Frank
Genuine Benevolence Moves About Yet Stays"
A reflective aphorism by Nevins on true charity as active and roaming, not fixed. It emphasizes benevolence as mobility and action rather than stationary virtue.
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Nevins
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Bed Rock
Cobble
Stone
Leavenworth Friends
Cecil
Las
McFarland
Clarence J. Gerald
Echo Office
Bertram
Mark X
John W. Pickin
Everett, Wash
International Correspondence Schools
Scranton
Harri Noton Hing
Harringtons Best
Northwest
Harrington Wheat Belt
the Leavenworth. Mercantile Company
Suc- Ce
Leavenworth State Bank
G. W. Hathaway
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