County Real Estate Transfers Week Ending July 15 1911
List of county transfers including Darling Land Co to Adams Inot Co pt sw4ne4 s 12-24-17 for 1 dollar and various parcels. Notable entries include C S Craig to AJ Mills for 12000 dollars and W Greig canal water rights transfers for 10 dollars and 17000 dollars in two holdings. Includes multiple tracts in Wenatchee Cashmere and Leavenworth areas with prices from 1 dollar to 17000 dollars.
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Darling Land Co
Adams Inot Co
Hovey
Nsw
H C Peters
Ernst
Cascade Orchards
Elizabeth Moody
W B
Moody
Greig
Title Trust
Coto
D Wode
Barnhisel
Wen Heights
S Craig
AJ Mills
F Anderson
Ira D Edwards
B Fisher
J M Hartwi
A Killian
Paul Atwood
Giant Panama Canal lock gates planned for Pittsburg
The Boston Transcript notes Pittsburg will supply the largest locks gates for the Panama Canal. Ninety two gates will stand as high as a six story building, sixty five feet wide, seven feet thick and weigh sixty thousand tons of structural steel. Cost projected at 5.5 million dollars. Work to begin 1912 and take three years with about four hundred steel builders. Each gate designed to handle ships fifty percent larger than present vessels.
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Pittsburg
Panama Canal
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Baltimore
Boston Transcript
Catskill Gnomes Legend Recalls Hudson Tale in 1929
A New York World feature recounts the Catskill dwarfs living behind Grand Hotel in the mountains. Their famed forges melt metals and brew a liquor that was said to deform drinkers, with Hudson and his crew allegedly bewitched. The tale notes they appear every twenty years, last seen in 1909, promising a 1929 return for curious visitors.
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Catskill Mountains
Grand Hotel Station
Catskill
Hendrick Hudson
Hudson
Alice Phebe Eldridge
New York World
Exquisite Pain And The Most Agonizing Thrillers
A collection of short curiosities on pain irritation and neuralgia noting the fifth nerve as a source of intense suffering. Included are anecdotes on dental nerve rupture during tooth drawing and a humorous essay on the joy of pockets and a tale of a clever girl named Amy with hats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearson's Weekly
Cooperation Aims At Washington County Farming Progress
The Gaston Farmers club in Washington County advances cooperative farming with a focus on Holstein cattle and Poland China hogs. Community breeding aims to raise quality, reduce intra-community competition, and elevate farming methods across the Pacific Northwest.
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Gaston Farmers’ Club
Washington County
Washington
Hood River
Pacific Northwest
Precautions General Taylor Took Before Meeting Santa Anna
Santa Anna led about 25 000 veterans with the aim of wiping out the US army at Buena Vista but Taylor with 5 000 men held the line and won a decisive victory. Afterward Taylor defended his retreat preparations noting every man wrote a will. he said victory, not defeat, would have justified those lines.
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Santa Anna
Buena Vista
United States
Taylor
The Tenth Penny Tax Crisis in Spain
The piece recounts the Duke of Alva's ten percent sales tax and one percent property levy in the Netherlands, its harsh enforcement, tortures for defiance, and a temporary compromise under Philip II with annual payments of two thousand dollars for two years ending August 1571. It also includes a string of farcical and unrelated anecdotes and quips.
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Alva
Spain
Netherlands
Philip II
Northwest to Host Silk Worm Colony Plans
Italians from northern Italy plan to establish a silk worm colony in the Northwest. They have investigated and expect a silk mill working within a few years and foresee importing worms from Italy.
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Italy
Eve and Adam miss letters at general delivery window
Eve notices Adam does not ask for mail at the general delivery window implying a quiet day with no letters to collect. The brief scene focuses on the mundane moment of mail handling and attention.
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Eve
Adam
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chelan County Abstract Company
T S Land Cattle & Fruit Co
H G Chadbourne
W Merrick
R Prowell
A Dorman
Peter Gallant
H Black
YMCA
Wenatchee
O D Fowler
R J Fisher
Prowells
Mission
Schoonover
Nwi
D Banko Pt Se
L W Smart
J Nelson
Ada Rumohr
Seattle
Catskill Gnomes
Legend of the Ugly Elves
London Chronicle
Amy
Upper West Side
New York Press
New York Sun
London Telegraph
Mamma
Browning
Echo
Pullets
Rutherford & Burns
Thos. Nolan
Leavenworth
J. E. Grant
Commercial St
Echo Office
New York
Washington, D, C
Washington Trust and Savings Bank
Utg
Dexter Horton National
O. K
Guy A. Hamilton
G. Hamilton
F. R. Peake
Wenatchee Valley Improvement Company
Chelan County
Kh. Hamilton
Wenatchee Valley Improvement Co
Hellman & Pabst
Carlquist
Varney
Ball Park
Cascade
L. J. Nelson
Hotel
Eastman Kodaks
Wheeler’s
Jane
Wenatchee River
Stu
Db. N. Qelatly
Juanes Ausd
Leavenworth Furniture
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