Match Makers Anxious About Future Of The Tiny Tool
The Boston Transcript notes the friction match's rise from late adoption to a vast industry. It details vast production, numerous factories, and the risk of wood shortages as forests are cleared for match timber. Experts foresee possible substitutes and greater innovation in starting fires.
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Manchester
England
Boston
Pacific Coast
Lake Region
Germany
France
Boston Transcript
Editor laments limits of free space in newspaper
The Cashmere Record editor complains that business pressures force editors to sell column space for income while readers expect free space, likening editorial space to merchant shelves and noting the demand for free columns from advertisers and readers.
Typhoid Germ Threat in Leavenworth Warns Citizens
In a 1907 Leavenworth letter Professor W. W. Elmer urges public action to stop typhoid fever, explains germ theory and how the bacillus typhoedeus contaminates water, and prescribes household safeguards such as boiling water, proper disposal of waste, and diligent hand and cloth hygiene.
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Leavenworth
Echo
W. W. Elmer
Obadiah Jenks Portrayed as Disagreeable Debater in Porterville
A Chicago News column reflects on Obadiah Jenks of Porterville as the most disgusting man the author knew. He Argues relentlessly about issues like railroad right of way, stubbornly clinging to his opinions and dominating debates despite others’ attempts to counter him.
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Obadiah Jenks
Porterville
Obadiah
Soulless Corporation
George
Chicago News
Card of Thanks From Tholin Family
The Tholin family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy and help during their bereavement Edward Tholin Anna Tholin.
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Edward Tholin
Real Estate Transfers and Contracts in Wenatchee Area
Listings show transfers of parcels across Chelan and Wenatchee including J B Fosdick to school district 17 for lots 21 and 22 Chelan Falls at 700 dollars and multiple exchanges within Chelan, Wenatchee, Belmont and Okanogan Heights with prices ranging from 1 to 11,000 dollars. A single contract records Jno A Gellatly purchasing extensive blocks in Okanogan Heights add Wen for 11,000 dollars.
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Fosdick
Chelan Falls
Amanda Comer
E L Henderson
Chelan
T H McGough
Drebis
Wenatchae Cemetery
Percy Walker
J C Tyrrell
Belmont
Wenatchee
C Guiney
Upper Col. Mission
O K Bann
WN Hunt
Wen Lamb Co
W R Prowell
Wen Canning Co
Emma K Wood
Sarah S Wood
Chelan Orchards
R W Starr
Kingman
Geo Pennell
John Deland
Northup
Chas E Northup
E Motteler
Jno A. Gellatly
Geo F Begg
Okanogan Heights
Potato vines yield giant tubers in Douglas county report
W. R. Packwood predicts a potato evolution after a strange ranch experience in Douglas county. He claims to have grown immense potatoes on vines above ground rather than underground, with one specimen weighing four and three quarters pounds. The seed potato itself sprouted on top of the vines last year.
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W. R. Packwood
Douglas County
Wenatchee Republic
Real Wonderland South Dakota Healing Miracle
In Mound City Mrs. E. D. Clapp reports a miraculous recovery as her son, once near death from lung and throat trouble, was cured after using Dr. King's New Discovery. The King Drug store advertises the cough and cold remedy at 50c and 1 with a trial bottle free.
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South Dakota
Mound City
E. D. Clapp
Mrs. Clapp
King Drug Store
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Mrs. Jones
John Jones
Cashmere Record
Anna Tholin
Chelan County Abstract Company
Hunt
Gibsons
Wen Dev Co
Roy E Thayer
Justice Court
P. S. Taylor, Esq
Chelan County
State of Washington
Michalitschke Bros. and Company
Norris F. Gray
Pius Tolin
Gray and Tolin
William Herder
William M. Hobson
Herder
Herder & Hobson
Washington
Taylor
Justice of the Peace
Wash
Attorneys AT Law
Lewis J. Nelson
A. J. King
General Land Office
Secretary of the Interior
Leavenworth, Wash
J. B. Adams
Henry Crass
Columbia Valley Bank
Ira Thomas
O. G. Marsh
Thomas & Marsh
F. E. Carlquist
the Samantha
Front Street
A. N. Corbin
Fred Kemp
Corbin & Kemp
M. Bank
Long
Wenatchee, Wash
Reeves & Reeves Attorneys
Counselors AT Law
Wenatchee Drug Company
D. Griffith
ER. F. Sprague
Undertaker
Front St
A. J. Martin
Ernest Forbes
Congregational Church
Mill Board’s
G. W. Hoxley
W. W. Elmer, M. D
Big Rock
WM. O. Boon
Hotel Franklin
Portland, Oregon
J. D. Langdon
Joe Massie
Miss Cecile Brown
Mason
Woldenberg
Tumwater Lodge
L. H. Laden
M.W
John W. Laden
O. G. Bjork
Fraternal Brotherhood
G. W. Hathaway
E. ©. Booth
U. W. Leavenworth Lodge No. 32
Ida Davis
Carrie Turner
Anna Goerger
Cascade Aerie No
Order of Eagles
I. W. Faulkner
Geo. Blacksedge
Lodge
Bloom
M. A. Marley Noble
J. D. Morrison
Department of the Interior Land Office
Waterville
George P. Hisele
Cashmere
E.w.m
A. N.gorbin
U. S
Virgil Bryan
Everett Lessenger
Sylvester Huddie
Andrew
Burbank
W.F. Haynes
Register
Abraham
Huffmaster
Ney
Shore
A. 8
Joseph Hh, Mitchell
Robert G. Nickles
William Geffen
Wm. W. Burgess
Justice's Court
Frank Sutton
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