U S Commerce Record Shows 1904 Exports Lead In History
The Commerce and Labor Department reports 1904 exports total 1.460 billion dollars, up from 1903, with imports down and the export surplus rising to about 470 million. It notes manufacturing exports will set a record and domestic product exports lead the United Kingdom, with eleven months showing a US excess of about 38 million in favor. The article includes a table of yearly import and export figures from 1890 to 1904. It also describes a new Uruguayan potato variety promising high yields in France and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Statistics
United States
United Kingdom
Good Roads Experiment Near Eugene Under State Supervision
Experimental good roads project to test macadam techniques near Eugene Oregon under J W Abbott of the agriculture department good roads division. Abbott traveled with John S Beall of Portland who supplies most road machinery for government use. The Eugene road will use local stone to adapt road building for nationwide use. Abbott has directed similar tests in the mountains and Pacific states and will return to Seattle after Oregon work to help plan a state good roads convention at Bellingham. Smell waists advertise Hollister Rockey Mountain Tea 35c. Shingle mills around Olympia report labor unrest with a Jap crew employed by one mill and others threatening to follow.
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Eugene Ore
J. W. Abbott
Good Roads Division
Department of Agriculture
Abbot
Seattle
John S. Beall
Portland
Chicago
Eugene
Abbott
Mountains
Pacific States
Washington
St Louis
Oregon
Bellingham
West
Olympia
Rockey Mountain Tea Featured At City Drug Store
A poem line mentions a Mary and a little lad with a fair face drinking Rockey Mountain tea each night, attributed to City Drug Store.
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Mary
City Drug Store
Roosevelt order spares mothers from costly telegrams
Riis recounts President Roosevelt's push to telegraph the names of killed and wounded soldiers to their mothers, opposing an economy measure that would cost $25 to $50 per message. The story contrasts the president and Adjutant General Corbin over the duty to inform families promptly. Other items note Odessa wheat, Adams county yields, Hostetter widow's estate, and Palouse irrigation surveys.
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Jacob A. Riis
Roosevelt
General Young
Philippines
Corbin
Pacific Ocean
Washington
Lew Delzer
Odessa
Wil Michaelson
Adams County
Fittsburg
Penn
R. R. Hostetter
David Hostetter
Washtuena
Palouse
Sulphur Lake
Connell
Rock Lake
Washtucna Enterprise
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Grain and Feed
Plisch & Bliss
General Merchandise
R. R
Fruits and Vegetables
G. W. Hoxley
Leavenworth, Washington
W. M. McCoy
Leavenworth Hospital
Leavenworth
Ea & Congdon
Attorneys At Law
Wenatchee
J J. King
Secretary of the Interior
Wash
Lewis J. Nelson
Leavenworth, Wash
Jobn B. Adams
S. D. Griffith
Wenatchee, Wash
Frank Reeves
Chelan County
Court House
Fred Reeves
GEO. Blocksedge
Smith’s
Lew Monger
A.O.U. W
Tumwater Lodge
A. OO. U W
L. H. Laden
John W. Laden
O. G. Bjork
A. O. U. W. Leavenworth Lodge No. 82
Amanda Martin
H. Lottie Doyle
Louise McGuire
LBC
I. O. F. Companion Court
Independent Order of Forresters
Forresters
G. English
C. R
C. B. Turner
R. S
Imp. O. R. M
Tumwater Tribe
Improved Order of Red Men
A. E. Downing
Ww. Walker
E. A. King
Hobson Yard
J. F. Hobson & Co
South America
France
The
Post-Intelligencer
Uruguay
Heckel
Colonial Institute
Marseilles
Haynes
Hollister
Rockey Mountain
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