Oranges Can Be Grown in Washington
James C. Crowell reports to the Department of Agriculture on citrange trees tested in Washington and Oregon. The trees proved hardy and flourished last winter after careful planting, withstanding six degrees below zero. The department recommends small home orchards rather than commercial scale planting for the citrange, noting fruit is sweet and juicy but smaller than navels.
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James C. Crowell
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Florida
California
Washington
Oregon
Missouri residents to meet in Spokane Missouri Day highlights planned
The Missouri clan schedules a Spokane gathering on the 24th and annual reunions. Leo Walton editor of the Spokane based Orator Outburst seeks names ages and bios of all Missouri natives living within 200 miles now in the Inland Empire. He asks readers to provide full names addresses ages and brief sketches of each person.
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Missouri
Spokane
Leo Walton
State of
Inland Empire
Philosophers and executioners in a scattered vignette
A fragment recounts a man pursuing an ax wielding killer past Socrates and Plato’s master, revealing role labels from assassin to physician through a humorous quarrel. Quanah Parker discusses a new Indian bill in Guthrie, while a French lady interrupts an Italian duke with a risqué story in Washington.
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Socrates
Plato
Quanah Parker
Guthrie
Washington
Widow Instructs Husband On Size Of Motto
A New York couple receives a telegram from a wife in a nearby town. She instructs her husband to buy a motto for Sunday school in Broadway New York City. The message requests the inscription Unto Us a Child is Born eight feet long and five feet wide.
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New York
John Johnson
Broadway
New York City
Polly’s Park Lion Lie Recalled in Family Tale
A girl named Polly reports seeing a lion in the park and remains firm despite her mother’s attempts to persuade her. At night she tells God she forgives her fib and quotes a joke about a big yellow dog fooling even the Almighty.
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Polly
Miss Polly
Real Estate Transfers Across Chelan and Wenatchee Areas
A long list records numerous property transfers including James L Moore to Olaus Sterling in northeast Washington, Mary M Rochester and others to O A Sterling for five acres in the northwest quadrant, and several lots and parcels traded among locals such as W J Gilbert to John Miller in Leavenworth First Addition. The compilation also notes cemetery plots, minor sums, and a stray poem and recipe fragment embedded in the notice.
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James L Moore
Olaus Sterling
Mary M Rochester Et al
O A Sterling
O Campbell
Robin Harris
W J Gilbert
John Miller
Leavenworth
Anna Zinkey
Ella L Miller
Jesse Peters
Otto A Gordon
Sunnyslope Farms
J . Peachey
H P Hicks
Peachey
Wenatchee Columbia Valley Cemetery Association
G W Lessenger
Cashmere
Say
Chelan Electric Go
Kee Larrabee
Boyd
Gibsons
Phillip S Leonard
Dike Leonard
Wen
Joseph Darnell
WO Sutton
United States
Uw Nw
Mary B Dorsey
OU Allender
John Walsh
Chelan
D Martin
G M Coleman
Prowells
DS Teneyek
Wm H Hazelton
WG Perry
J H Richardson
Myrtle M Sherwood
Eddy
R Eddy
Amos Edmunds
Rockefeller joke about a Swedish worker at a Salvation Army meeting
The joke recounts Will iam Rockefeller's young Swede Gustav who declines an offer to work for the Lord, saying he already has a job with Rockefeller. The anecdote frames a humorous contrast between secular employment and religious calling.
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John D. Rockefeller
William
Salvation Army
Gustav
Rockefeller
Duck Hunters Bag 37 Ducks in Grand Coulee Outing
J. T. Seleen Charles and Clarence Lindblad hunted in Grand Coulee over Sunday and Monday reporting good sport. The two days produced 37 ducks, mostly mallards with a few teal. Wilson Creek World.
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J. T. Seleen
Charles and
Clarence Lindblad
Grand Coulee
Wilson Creek World
A Humane Appeal for Dr. King's New Discovery
Richmond citizen A D Williams urges people with weak lungs to try Dr King s New Discovery. He claims the remedy saves lives and cures throat and lung issues such as asthma bronchitis croup whooping cough and hoarseness. King Drug store guarantees it with 50c and 1 trial bottle free.
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Richmond
Ind
A. D. Williams
West Main St
King Drug Store
Land for Sale in Chelan County Washington
By will of John Baker deceased I offer for sale the S E 1 4 of Section 7 Township 25 North Range 18 E in Chelan County Washington with water rights to the local irrigation ditches. Private sale subject to Superior Court confirmation. Address offers to 504 Hyde Block Spokane Washington. Dated September 2 19 4 7 Herbert L Kimball executor.
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John Baker
Twentesove
North Range
KB. W. M
Chelan County
State of Washington
Hyde Block
Spokane
Washington
Superior Court
County of
Chelan
Herbert L. Kimball
United States Land Office
Waterville
Wash
W. M
J. HE. Shore
A. S
Leavenworth
Patrick H. Graham
Max Spremberg
Isaiah H. Gook
John Davis
W.F. Haynes
Register
KE. W. M
U.S
AN. Corbin
Wenatchee
S. A. Thompson
W.S. Milner
Rufus Woods
Oliver Bowen
Peshastin
Whelan County
Benjamin M. Belvel
Jacobson
O. W. Ernst
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la Terre
New York Life
The
Lady and
Jas. Edwards
Undertaker
A . Korsario
Ion H
Barbauld
Philadelphia Telegraph
ADAMS
CARR
Timber Lands
City Property
Seuter
Harrington Wash
Harringtons Best
Harrington
Morning Glory
Leavenworth Mer. Co
Tumwater
L, Lasib
P. Davis
M. A. Marley
E. F. Sprague
A. J. Martin
J. D., Langdon
Joe Massie
Leavenworth, Wash
Attorneys AT Law
Lewis J. Nelson
J. J. King
General Land Office
Secretary of the Interior
Henry Crass
Columbia Valley Bank
Tra Thomas
O. G. Marsh
Thomas & Marsh
A. N. Corbin
Fred Kemp
Corbin & Kemp
M. Bank
Wenatchee, Wash
Reeves & Reeves Attorneys
Counselors AT Law
Wenatchee Drug Company
Emil Frank
Prop
D. Griffith
G. W. Hoxley
Key West
Satmuanthia
Herder & Hobson
Front Street
W. W. Elmer, M. D
Front St
Big Rock
WM. O. Boon
Omee
Franklin
Room
Portland, Oregon
Hotel Franklin
Ira
John Holden
Chewawa
Austin & CO
Chelan County Abstract
Leavenworth Steam Laundry
Home Enterprise
Cahill & Son, Props
Woldenberg
Tumwater Lodge
Secon
Rpostofice
L. H. Laden
M.W
John W. Laden
O. G. Byork
Fraternal Brotherhood
G. W. Hathaway
E. C. Booth
A. O
Leavenworth Lodge No. 32
Ida Davis
Carrie Turner
Anna Goerger
Cascade Aerie
Order of Eagles
I. W. Faulkner
Geo. Blacksedge
Department of the Interior
Frank K. Shotwell
Township
N. of Rangers
HK. W. M
J. KH
Shore
U. 8
Williams
J. W. Corcoran
Joseph Mitchel
Thomas Smith
W. KF. Haynes
Abi W. Stewart
J. KE. Shore
U. S
Eugene R. Eddy
Joe Searls
Wesley Searls
William Walters
Justice Court
Taylor
Echo
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