Wheat price climbs as state harvests and postoffice receipts rise
The district reports wheat at 1.37 a bushel and Spokane postoffice receipts to exceed last year by over 50 000 dollars. Okanogan county seat moves to Okanogan with a booming town ahead and a biweekly paper planned. The Wenatchee hospital project in the old Gellatly home and open settlement of the Colville reservation are noted.
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Spokane
Okanogan County
Methodists
Wenatchee
Gellatly
Okanogan Avenue
Colville Indian Reservation
The
Union Savings and Trust Co
Sun Publishing Company
Seattle Sun
Dr King’s New Life Pills Promoted for Liver Health
advertisement-style copy touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for sluggish liver causing constipation headaches nervousness and bilious spells. It notes price of 25 cents at druggists and cites Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for skin eruptions.
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Dr. King
Bucklen
Card of Thanks for Help from Eastern Star and Elks
The Elks of Leavenworth express gratitude to the Eastern Star Mr. L. W. Woodrow and Robert L. Smith for aiding the December 31 entertainment.
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Astern
Sloan’s Liniment for Neuralgia Relief
Advertises Sloan’s Liniment as quick penetrating balm for neuralgia and similar pains. Recommends applying to the surface without rubbing in. Claims fast relief and 25 cent bottle with money back promise.
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Sloan
January Superior Court Docket List with Case Dates
The court announces the January term docket with dates from January 4 to January 28. Cases include Good versus Tompkins. Fiske versus Wen. Improvement Co. versus Gehr & Tidmarsh. Lamb-Davis Lumber Co. versus Leav. R. E. & Imp. Co.. Van Slyke versus Delvendahl. Mann versus Menn. Yakima Valley Bank versus Kuehn. Dunning versus Dunning. Beck versus Beck. Kahl versus Kahl. Padoshek versus Padoshek. Anderson versus Rader. Bower versus Taylor. Gruber versus Hartman. Cain versus Cashmere Merc. Co.. Smith versus Smith. Rogers versus McGlothern. Pfaff et al. versus Wen. Col. Fruit Co.. Ewing versus Maxwell. Kimbley versus Kimbley. Huizinga versus Wen Hegt's Orchard Co.. Blanch et al. versus Pfaff et al.. Wash. Steel & Iron Co. versus Rotert. Gillman Trustee versus Groves. Amesbury versus Kenyon et al.
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Lamb-Davis Lbr. Co
Leav. R. E. & Imp. Company
Hattie B. van Slyke
J. R. Delvendahl
Et al
Emma R. Mann
Wm. H. Menn
Gussie Kimbley
Marvin E. Kimbley
D. S. Huizinga
Wen Hegt
S. Orchard Co
F. T. Blanch, Jr
H. L. Pfaff
Wash. Steel & Iron Co
E. H. Rotert
E. H. Rothert
S. F. Gillman
Trus
T. J. Groves
Albert Amesbury
Chas. Kenyon
Children's Coughs Colds and a War Wind
When a child shows early cold signs use Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey for quick relief. It soothes lungs loosens mucus and strengthens the system with a 25 cent bottle. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is also advised. Railroads look to a busy near future as Europe’s war rails activity rises.
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Dr. Bell
Bucklen
Ties Tendered for England Delivery by Northwest Mills
J F Neame Co of London asks Northwest mills through local agent A S Penketh for 20 000 000 feet of ties for delivery in England. Conditions improve for the lumber industry. Bjork building owners John and Mrs Bjork plan spring reconstruction after the December 31 fire. A H Zane Co wins $8523 contract for 234 miles of permanent highway between Granger and Outlook.
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Tacoma
England
Northwest Mills
J. F. Neame & Co
London
A. S. Penketh
John Bjork
Bjork
North Yakima
A. H. Zane & Co
Granger
Outlook
Electric rail plan and Pacific Northwest industry notes
The report covers the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul plan to electrify 430 miles of Rocky Mountain division at about 15 million dollars, rail and street projects in Yakima and Spokane, wage reforms by the Welfare Commission, new factories and mills, and inflation impacts on wheat and road work. It notes irrigation funding, river and harbor appropriations, and upcoming construction of an electric street railway through Clarkston and Vineland.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Okanogan
First National Bank
Spokane
Welfare Commission
Pullman
Dayton
Yakima
Acme
Whatcom Falls Mill Co
Belling Mills
Seattle Brewing & Malting Co
San Francisco
Washington
Yakima County
Brown-Lewis Co
Walla Walla
Hart
Clarkston
Vineland
An Earl’s Duel With a Butler
In Paris mid-19th century Lord Rosebery met a rude butler who challenged him to a duel. After two shots missed, the earl funded a £250 annuity to deter the man from returning to domestic service, a condition both sides kept.
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Lord Rosebery
Paris
Little Bits of New Year Verse from Walter Beverley Crane
A compendium of four stanzas on time and renewal with imagery of bells, lilies, rose, and a newborn year. The verses praise Time and the new year while hoping for happiness, health, and renewed spirit for all. References include Macbeth quotes and seasonal contrasts of snow and dawn.
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Lily
Star
Rose
Walter Beverley Crane
New York Times
A New Year Poem urging healing and renewal
The Old Year and New Year exchange lines about burying pain and healing broken hearts. The piece urges readers to enter the new year with resolve to gain knowledge, strengthen character, and act with usefulness toward a sweeter, happier life.
Bruising Interview After Nighttime Accident
A fragment from the New York Globe depicts an officer asking about bruises and a man explaining he was surprised by a fight after an accident. The dialogue captures a tense exchange and suggests a street incident with injuries.
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New York Globe
Court tale of a wife redrawing accusations
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung reports a husband facing his wife’s complaint. The judge’s harsh stance spooks the wife who then retracts all claims. She admits no blows. She explains the black eye came from the mantelpiece and the ear bite from herself, not the husband.
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Illustrirte Zeitung
Two Negro workers in building demolition accident
In a three story brick building teardown two black laborers worked on the top and below. A brick fell from the chute striking one man on the head but not killing him, he simply asked what was happening. A London barrister once defended a cook for murder and won an acquittal, the cook asked how to reward him and the counsel humorously asked him never to cook for him again.
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Gold Bar
Thomas Precious
Goldbar
Precios
Precious
Great Northern
Sultan
Monroe
Everett
London
Potter Wasps and Their Busy Family Builders
The family eumenidae or solitary wasps include miners that tunnel in earth and carpenters that cut channels in wood. They build mud nests on branches divided into chambers where the mother supplies small captured insects for the young to feed upon.
Stars That Outshine the Sun
Government astronomer notes stars beyond parallax measurements glow far brighter than the sun Canopus Rigel and Speca are among the first magnitude stars at immeasurable distances. They outshine the sun by enormous margins, though exact brightness factors vary from five thousand to twenty thousand times according to estimates.
Smugglers Fund Tobacco for Broadmoor and Perth Lunatics
Smugglers provide abundant high quality pipe tobacco cigars and cigarettes to the criminal lunatics at Broadmoor and Perth with the government bearing no cost. The confiscated smuggled tobacco is used to fill tobacco boxes for Perth and Broadmoor.
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Broadmoor
Perth
England
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Olympia
W. M. Mitchell
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Minnesota
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J. A. Good
Yakima Valley Bank
Frank T. Kuehn
Julia R. Dunning
C. R. Dunning
John E. Beck
Dora Beck
Ora Kahl
Mabel M. Kahl
Martin Padoshek, Sr
John Padoshek
I. Anderson
W. T. Rader
C. A. Bower
C. E. Tay
Europe
Echo Office
State Industrial News
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First Avenue
Columbia River
L. W. Hutton
Manning & Morris
YarowDee
Rexall Agency
Wheeler’s City Drug Store
A. D. S. Agency
Owen Meredith
Macbeth
Southwell
Minna
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