Chumstick Valley prospectors map alfalfa riches and homes
In the Chumstick Valley near town, Adam Emig farms over a hundred acres with alfalfa yielding six to eight tons per acre annually. A 2100 dollar hay crop is projected from fifty acres. Emil Frank feeds two hundred tons of alfalfa to butcher stock and has built a grand Chelan county residence. The narrative moves along to P. H. Graham and Max Spremberg properties with notes on land and development.
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Adam Emig
Emig
John
Nick
California
Chumstick
Emil Frank
Leavenworth Meat Market
Frank
Mr. Frank
Chelan County
F. Freund
Freund
P. H. Graham
Max Spremberg
Seedless apple eases Colorado orchardists at World’s Fair
A Washington Standard note reports John F. Spencer of Grand Junction developed a seedless apple variety grown on a blossomless tree. The fruit is seedless and reportedly insect immune, with frost resilience. Spencer aims to develop seedless Winesap and Gano varieties, promising broader adoption by fruit growers.
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California
Florida
Colorado
John F. Spencer
Grand Junction
Spencer
Washington Standard
Nero Soundings Deepest Yet On Cable Survey
The United States ship Nero conducted a Honolulu Manila cable survey and made the deepest sounding by any vessel. Near Guam the depth reached 5,269 fathoms or 81,614 feet, just 66 feet shy of six miles, a depth that would nearly reach the height of Mt Everest if placed there.
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United States
Nero
Guam
Mt. Everest
Earth
Tacoma Ledger
Population by religion and health claim from old statistics
The piece lists global religion counts including Christians 584.9 million and Mahometans 175.3 million with other groups totaling 1.544 billion. It notes a ratio of believers per thousand and adds a medical ad claiming Hollister's Rocky Mountain Pea remedies constipation, priced 35 cents at City Drug Store.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
City Drug Store
Louis Ernest
Evansville
Ind
Mission Incorporation Move Proposed by Local Businessmen
A push to incorporate Mission gains traction with strong business support. Advocates cite benefits like water works power, electric lighting, improved streets and rising property values, arguing taxes would rise but improve town prosperity. The call urges signatures and active civic effort to realize a modern, enterprising community.
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Mission
Fruit Valley Journal
Washington
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General Merchandise
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G. W. Hoxley
Leavenworth
Moody
Seattle
Leavenworth Hospital
Leavenworth, Wash
J J. King
Secretary of the Interior
Lewis J. Nelson
Ohn B. Adams
Griffith
Wenatchee, Wash
Prank Reeves
Wenatchee
Wash
Court House
Fred Reeves
L. H. Turner
P. H. Tomlinson
The
Wenatchee Canal Company
J.a.gellatly
Mission and
Palouse Streets
St. Louis
Chicago
Great Northern Railway
S. G. Yerkes
Tumwater Lodge
L. H. Laden
M.W
John W. Laden
O. G. Bjork
A. O. Us. W. Leavenworth Lodge No. 82
Amanda Martin
H. Lottie Doyle
Louise McGuire
Independent Order of Forresters
Forresters
G. English
C. R
C. B. Turner
Imp. O. R. M
Tumwater Tribe
Improved Order of Red Men
A. E. Downing
W. Walker
Front Street
EB. A, King
Hobson Yard
J. F. Hobson & Co
Chumstick Valley
Washinton
John Holden
Ben South
Joe Teshara
G. N. Ry
Far East
Prom
Echo
Riverside
Washington Penitentiary
Chelan
van Slyke & Co
Trinidad
John Francisco
Okanogan River
Colville
City
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