Northwest items note booming trade and upcoming fairs
Puget Sound customs district reports January exports at 6 175 873 dollars, with imports over 2 844 000 and Port Townsend collections at 138 928. Seattle holds a slim lead over Tacoma in shipping. a major Pacific coast dog show is slated for April in Seattle. Settlers Agency lists 7 000 acres for sale at 5 to 30 dollars per acre to attract farmers. Chelan county defies a new fruit tax act, signaling a potential court battle. other districts likewise oppose the levy.
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Puget Sound
Seattle
Tacoma
Queen City
Port Townsend
Settlers’ Agency
Southwest Washington Development Association
Washington
Chelan County
Wenatchee Valley
Items of Interest to Women Across Major Cities
The piece notes six American cities with populations over 100,000 where women may vote on all offices on equal terms with men, including San Francisco and Seattle. It cites new California laws allowing women over 21 to vote, with March 23 as the law’s start, and mentions a Minneapolis policewoman and a London Royal Academy gender award win highlighting women’s progress.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Seattle
Denver
Oakland
Spokane
Sacramento
C. W. Haub
United States
California
Royal Academy of Arts
London
Maud Howe Elliott
Julia Ward Howe
Welfare League
The Boy Who Told the Truth and a Cherry Tree
A boy named Georgie chops a cherry tree with a hatchet and confesses to his father. The tale ends with a moral about honesty leading to national acclaim and the boy becoming a president. Narrated in a classic moralizing tone credited to Theodore H. Boice.
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Georgie
George
Chopper
How to Prevent Typhoid When Living Near Outbreaks
Advice from a USDA bulletin urges heat treatment of foods and strict sanitation to curb typhoid. Eat and drink only recently heated items, scald water and milk, and pare fruits. Screen and destroy flies, disinfect sick discharges, and consider vaccination discussions. Copies of Farmers' bulletin 478 are available from the Department of Agriculture.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Logan Waller Page
John R. Moller
Irwin F. Smith
Department of Agriculture
Advertise for it you ignoramus
An audience interruption during a talk on immigration and wealth ends with a lecturer demanding the questioner advertise for his ignorance. The crowd cheers as the questioned man leaves the hall in defeat, a total wreck.
Ice-Worm Confirmed in Alaska Glaciers by UW Expert
Dr. Trevor Kincaid of the University of Washington states the ice-worm is real, not myth, after Homer R. Burritt brought a specimen from the Slope Glacier to Seattle. The worm, about a quarter inch long, feeds on glacier debris and absorbs heat from sun rays, surviving in colonies that darken the ice.
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Trevor Kincaid
University of Washington
Alaska
Seattle
Homer R. Burritt
Washington, D. C
Burritt
Kincaid
Muir Glacier
Europe
Asia
North Pacific
Olympics
Cascades
Discovery Cures Severe Coughs and Pneumonia Threat
Mason Michigan resident L. A. Stid recalls near fatal exposure to a merciless storm. A neighbor administered Dr King s New Discovery which relieved the cold and severe chest pains. The doctor warned of pneumonia but Stid recovered after two bottles. Price 50c and 1.00 trial bottle free guaranteed by all druggists February.
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L. A
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Pacific Coast
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Emil Frank
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D. A. Burgett
Gen. Sup’t
John B. Adams
O. S. Sampson
L. R. Hart
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Oriental Block
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J. B. Violette
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