Wenatchee Valley Leads In Apple Production
Washington state tops with a 19 320 000 box yield and Wenatchee Valley leads the state’s bumper crop. Oregon Idaho and California show strong outputs with Hood River Valley and Yakima among key districts. Expert G S Ray notes high quality fruit and significant by product movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wenatchee Valley
United States
Federal Bureau of Crop Estimates
Far West
Yakima Valley
Yakima
Benton
Spokane
Walla Walla
White Salmon
Washington
Coast
Oregon
Hood River
Idaho
California
G. S. Ray
A Word to Disabled Soldiers
A public advisory urging veterans disabled in the late war to contact the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in Washington, D.C. for compensation and free medical care until fitness is restored. It notes many who were discharged in 1918 due to fitness standards may not know their rights under congressional acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Washington, D. C
Congress
Notice of separate property from husband Frank Jamison
On and after Nov 80th 1919 I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife Mrs Theone Jamison signed Frank K Jamison.
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Theone Jamison
Retailers Not Affixing Revenue Stamps Warned
Information to the Collector of Internal Revenue notes many grocery drug cigar and small variety stores fail to affix proprietary revenue stamps on sough drops vase line and related items. The one cent war tax per 25 cents or fraction must be paid by stamping the article with the proper value stamps. Penalties apply for noncompliance. Stamps available from postmasters or the collector. mail stamp orders with money order or certified check.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue
Chameleon Weather Pattern Persists in Spokane
Spokane's weather continues its unpredictable pattern as December shows higher mean temperatures than normal. The Spokane Weather Bureau notes 43.8F mean yesterday, with 46F max and 40F min, and rainfall of 0.26 inch on Sunday night.
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Spokane
Spokesman-Review
Weather Bureau
Reinstatement Offer for War Risk Insurance Ends Dec 31 1919
A new Bureau of War Risk Insurance ruling in Washington allows former service members whose Government life insurance lapsed to reinstate by paying two months' premiums. applicants must be in as good health as at discharge or when the grace period expired and state this in the application. Send payment to the Treasurer of the United States with the reinstatement application to the Premium Receipt Section in Washington.
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Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Washington
D. C
United States
Washington, D. C
Young burglars caught red handed at K and V B
Two youths aged about nineteen or twenty broke into the K and V B Hardware store Christmas night by breaking two windows. Employee F W Spencer confronted them with a gun, police took them to jail and they await hearing before Justice Day. They claim Snohomish origin and face possible reform school if underage.
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K. & V. B. Hardware
F. W. Spencer
Spencer
Snohomish
Wages for Wives Debate Sparks Modern Romance Fears
A Philadelphia audience largely of women rejected the idea of husbands paying wives wages after a debate. Speakers warned of a future where wives work for pay and society treats marriage as a labor contract with weekly wages. They contrasted romantic ideals with a wage focused marriage and mocked legal notices and court scenes.
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Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
John Brown
Mary Smith
Russell H. Conwell
Logan
Augustus Tolliver Seeks London Meeting Amid Blimp Misfire
Augustus Tolliver, soap king, confronts a porter aboard a blimp after missing a London directors' meeting. He learns they just passed St. Louis and plan to return to New York by 12 05, aiming to attend a 12 30 soap powder gathering and catch a 1 80 blimp to London.
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Augustus Tolliver
London
St. Louis
N’yawk
Tolliver
Canada to lift wartime controls January first
Ottawa announces a peace basis on January 1 with war conditions long ceased. Liquor restrictions, race track betting, and interprovincial trade rules will ease, though orders-in-council remain on paper, coal, sugar, silver coinage and censorship. A governor general order frees military act prisoners ahead of a proclamation Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
Portable dark room for on the go photo development
A compact dark chamber fits in a case under two feet long and one foot wide. It opens to an 18 inch front by 13 inch back space with light proof fabric walls. Elastic cuffs allow hand access while a hood with two shutters opens by pressure for instant closure. Ruby glass door top holds trays and plates.
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Popular Mechanics
Laborer Builds Organ in Small Midland Home
A Midland worker with musical skill crafted a living room organ featuring a reed stop and pedal notes. In a 12 by 12 foot space, the organ occupies about one third of the family’s single living room, yet the family values music enough to endure the crowding.
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Midland
London Chronicle
Why Not A Boy And His Dog Cause A Chicken Pox Mixup
Clymer Jeffries Jr of Williams Arizona 4 1 2 years old recently got a small dog. He told his neighbor to keep her chickens out of their yard. He warned the dog might bite or spread illness if the chickens crossed the yard line.
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Clymer Jeffries, Jr
Williams, Ariz
Lost limb no barrier to many sports says London Chronicle
A cor respondent notes personal recovery from losing a left arm and claims he can do nearly all tasks and sports. He cites tying a tie, booting, riding, driving, billiards, golf, hockey, tennis and swimming as easily as before.
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London Chronicle
Restrictions on coal movement lifted by Chicago committee
Seattle announces that the regional coal committee led by T. W. Proctor has removed all wagon and truck delivery restrictions for coal and coke. The action, effective December 18, 1919, signals a return to normal supply with coal available in any quantity and delivered without government interference.
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Seattle
Wash
Regional Coal Committee
Chicago
T. W. Proctor
L. C. Gilman
Railroad Administration
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
State Fuel Dealers Association
Regional Committee
Leavenworth Service Club Eyes Mail Route and Town Upgrades
Leavenworth Service Club meets to push house to house mail delivery via postal department approval, with City Council backing and congressional help sought. The group forms committees to pursue deputy sheriff, school sewer, Boy Scout master, and toll abolishment on routes to Peshastin, and plans hearings with the Public Service Commission.
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Leavenworth
McKeown
Postal Department
Wm. McIntosh
Thos. Pipkin
H. S. Rearick
Boy Scouts
R. F. Taylor
Taylor
George Hauber
Carlquist
Rearick
Hauber
Here
Peshastin
Pacific Telegraph and Telephone Company
Sympathy in Uniontown Fines Foreign Remarks
James Shaffer of Uniontown Pa struck a foreigner after disloyal remarks and was fined ten dollars. Ten local Christian church members paid the fine by placing one dollar each on the desk of the mrgess office, ending the case.
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James Shaffer
Uniontown
Christian Church
Mrgess
Seattle inventor builds atmospheric power generator
Alfred M. Hubbard a 19 year old Seattle inventor says his atmospheric power generator will be the largest and most powerful device he has built and plans a public demonstration after a test by Rev William E Smith of Seattle college. He will begin operation once material from the East arrives and patent rights are secured.
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Seattle
William E. Smith
Seattle College
Hubbard
Local Residents See Seasonal Travel and Visits
Charley Miller visits North Carolina while Charley Foster buys Homer Gilbert property. Residents travel to Wenatchee Seattle and Leavenworth for holidays. Students and teachers from the high school take a sled ride to Dryden and return to class, with Miss Han nah chaperoning. Families plan Christmas gatherings and potential relocations as others travel for vacation and property sales.
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Charley Miller
North Carolina
Charley Foster
Homer Gilbert
B. W. Taylor
F. F. Gilbert
Cashmere
M. W. Starks
Wenatchee
P. R. Bradley
Bradley
Miss Hannah
Dryden
North Side
Elizabeth
Mary Hauber
Bill
George
Grace Young
Pullman
Maude Wilson
Seattle
Jacob French
Spokane
F. A. Wingate
Editor Retires Wealth From Diligence and Inherited Fortune
A man recounts an editor who began poor twenty years ago and now retires with about $50,000. The sum came from steady industry and thrift plus an uncle’s death leaving $49,999.50.
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Federal
Frank K. Jamison
Bastile
Dominion
Service Club Notes
Peshastin Notes
J. A. Warman
al Darlington
Walter Craig
Big Bend
Carricker
Grace Lanphere
Waterville
Elizabeth Hauber
Glenda Smith
Madeline McCoy
Ida Coons
John McCoy
Burk
Wilma Moore
Everett
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