Seattle Potlatch to Be Best Ever Held
Seattle's Golden Potlatch will run July 15 to 20 with daily events and a carnival finale. Elks events on July 15, business leaders host July 16 with $20 000 for Northwest merchants, Portland guests arriving for grand lodge events, and trains ready to shuttle delegates to Tacoma and Seattle.
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Merchants Day Promised as Key Potlatch Event in Seattle
Seattle officials vow the merchants day on Tuesday July 16 will be the largest part of the Potlatch. Northwest business leaders and their families will tour the city by auto and boat, attend a smoker at Leschi Park, and enjoy a lakeside clambake. The first Potlatch taught the value of personal ties with regional merchants, a lesson Seattle aims to repeat on a grander scale.
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Leschi Park
Alaskan Pageant to Open Potlatch in Seattle
The Alaskan pageant funded by the Tilikums of Elltæ is planned as a major Potlatch feature in Seattle. The production launches July 17 with the Potlatch Tyee and Indian court arriving aboard the Portland, parading through downtown on an ornate barge. Floats and scenes, lasting about a mile and a half, will exceed 20 000 dollars in float costs.
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Lawrence campaign crowds Wenatchee for governor
Chelan County reports John C. Lawrence progressive candidate for governor spoke to a large Wenatchee crowd last Saturday evening and was hailed as Washington’s next governor. Also noted are local curiosities, a two legged cat and a double headed calf exhibited in town, property purchases, a gambling conviction appeal, a fatal head wound from coal, apricot shipments, a purse snatching on the steamer Okanogan, a planned rematch between fighters Reynolds and Mortimer, July Fourth arrests, and rattlesnake sightings on rattlesnake hill.
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Seattle Potlatch to be Free Admission Festival in July
Seattle plans a no charge Potlatch week with free shows and spectacles funded by the city. Big traveling acts like Sells Floto circus and 101 Ranch will charge admission, while Podated features remain free. Buyers urged to get Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from King's City Drug Store.
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Great Northern Time Table for Leavenworth Trains
Trains depart Leavenworth going east and west with No 2 at 1.30 am and No 1 at 1.35 pm among others. Fast mail Nos 27 and 28 run at 3.05 am and 4.25 am. All trains arrive five minutes earlier than listed.
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Potlatch Bug Becomes Northwest’s Fun Emblem
The Potlatch Bug, adopted from an Alaskan totem, anchors Seattle’s Golden Potlatch set for July 15 to 20. The quirky mascot spurs public pranks led by the Tilikums secret order with notable initiations of Governor Hay and city mayors. Seattle plans grand celebrations with Elks delegates, totems on every lamppost, and a $200,000 spend to mark Potlatch week.
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Advertising Sale Notes for Printing Supplies
A readable fragment listing sales materials including cards billheads circulars auction show bills pamphlets law blanks brief books labels offered at reasonable prices for customers seeking print shop items.
Peshastin M. E. Church Sunday Schedule
The Peshastin Methodist Episcopal Church lists Sunday School at 10 a m Morning sermon at 11 Epworth League at 7 Evening preaching at 8 and Thursday prayer meetings The pastor J O Hawk extends a cordial welcome to all.
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Unclaimed Letters at Leavenworth Post Office
List of names uncalled for dated July 8 1912 includes Bergstron Chas Baker A J Evans D W Franklin C W Gilbert Frank Pierce C E Reicher Edith Mrs Wood A E J C Davis postmaster indicates a mail room notice advising patrons to claim overdue correspondence.
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Baker A. J
Evans D. W
Franklin C. W
Gilbert Frank
Pierce C. E
Reicher Edith
Wood A. E. J. C. Davis
Voice of the Press and Civil War Picket Tales
A historical piece notes how press influence shaped revolutions from England to America, citing Junius, Common Sense, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, then shifts to a Civil War vignette from Atlanta lines where pickets negotiate a temporary truce. The anecdote ends with a grim image of soldiers’ graves and a weary exchange between Yankees and Rebs.
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Thomas Paine
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Rousseau
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