Spokane Undertakers Slug It Out With Cut Rates
Competition for funeral business drives Spokane undertakers to advertise bargains including free parlors and a 7 passenger limousine. Price list shows black cloth casket 25 dollars outside grave box 4 hearse 10 limousine 6 and care of remains 10 totaling 55 dollars. Aberdeen Union Oil to erect 25000 plant. shipyards lumber mills delays. Chehalis jitney competition. North Coast Power plans service cut between here and Centralia.
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Spokane
Falls City
Chehalis
North Coast Power Co
Here
Centralia
Methodist Church Services Schedule
Sunday School at 10 a m with preaching at 11 a m Epworth League at 6 30 p m and preaching at 7 30 p m Prayer meeting at 7 30 p m Thursday Pastor F L Moore invites all to attend all services
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Epworth League
F. L. Moore
Church Services and Sunday School Schedule Change
Rev Haase leads services at 10 45 in Cashmere next Sunday morning at 10 and in Leavenworth at 8 oclock. Sunday school occurs in both places at 9 oclock. Evening preaching remains at 7 30. First service today at 10 45 with Sunday school at 9 45.
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Haase
Cashmere
Leavenworth
Young urges universal draft for 19 to 31 year olds
Washington reports Lt General 8 B M Young former commander in chief of the Loyal Legion and president of the Universal Military Training group endorses early drafting of youths 19 to 21 to form a national army. He argues married men avoid conscription and urges the young unmarried to serve as in the Civil War, detailing draft statistics and proposing an amended law to include 19 to 31 year olds not registered in 1917.
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General Young
Washington
8. B. M. Young
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
National Association For Universal Military Training
National Army
Young
War Department
Congress
Peshastin Pear Packing Accelerates As Harvest Nears
Peshastin pear packing is booming with many young trees bearing and a new apple sizing machine installed at the P F G warehouse. A new apple warehouse foundation is laid on the Wm Stage ranch with Frank Shell assisting. Local workers including J H Bridgeman and Mr Brown join the crew while Mrs McCoy adds packing duties. Industry track extension begins to enlarge capacity by 700 feet and Miss Madeline McCoy resigns to pack apples on the Hauber ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Faulkner
Leavenworth
Frank Shell
Monkeys Chase Snakes at Ne shannock Falls Site
Monkeys placed on a wild site at Ne shannock Falls to chase black snakes for a summer colony. The effort aims to clear the area and allow bungalows to be erected there in Newcastle Pennsylvania.
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Newcastle
Neshannock Falls
Local Blewett Happenings and News
Blewett residents Mrs. S A Covert and son Jack returned Tuesday after a brief Wenatchee trip. Mr J C Biles bought a Hudson Super Six and hosted Mrs W E Biles of Seattle visiting this week. F G Thompson and A L Humphries bought new Fords from a Leavenworth car load. Blewett schools plan to open for five grades as soon as supplies arrive with upper grades bused to Peshastin. Mr J C Biles departed Wednesday on No 1 to Portland Oregon.
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Messrs
F. G. Thompson
A. L. Humphries
Leavenworth
W. E. Biles
Seattle
J. C. Biles
Blewett
Independent Tin Plate Growth Ties To McKinley Tariff
The piece argues McKinley’s tariff spurred a domestic tin plate industry reducing reliance on Europe. It contrasts Republican pro tariffs with Democratic warnings, claiming protection aided growth and avoided future trade disruptions with Germany. It also notes local travel and farming news about Ted Marble and Wm Risk, including land improvements and livestock expansion.
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William McKinley
Europe
McKinley
United States
Germany
Risk Of Fighting Man Not As Great As Imagined
Marine corps officials release statistics on allied losses in the war estimating one kill per fifteen wounded and one limb lost per five hundred. About 95 percent recover from wounds and 90 percent return to the firing line, while Haiti operations show under 1 percent losses. The study notes a shift from trench warfare to house to house fighting and redoubts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marine Corps
France
Haiti
Industrial News Highlights Across Washington State
Reports show Aberdeen O W R N extends line to North River Valley while Chehalis notes a 214 acre farm sale for 37000 dollars. Anacortes ships keel laying begins six vessels at the shipyard. Walla Walla sees a 10000 addition to division offices and a heating system install at Natatorium.
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Aberdeen
North River Valley
Tacoma
Addison-Hill Lumber Company
South Tacoma
Chehalis
Here
Anacortes
Anacortes Shipbuilding Co
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Aberdeen—Union Oil Co
Lutheran Church
Edw. de Reymonte
Barclay Hotel
C. R. Rothen & Co
MIDGE
Wheeler’s
Holland
B. M. Young
Peshastin
J. H. Bridgeman
Everett
A. G. Stage
H. A. Harvey
Mr. Brown
A. G
John McCoy
John
L. J. Harvey
John Brady
Douglas
Mrs. McFarland
McCoys Store
Madeline McCoy
Hauber Ranch
S. A. Covert
Jack
Wenatchee
Portland
Oregon
Ted Marble
Glen and Dale
Great Northern Railroad Company
Glacier Park
Montana
Scenic
Wm. Risk
J. A. Hearst
Hearst
Risk
Moses Lake
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Stephenson Health
Toggery
Mallory
State Industrial News
Northport
Electric Point
Sunnyside
Yakima Valley
Arlington—American Theatre
Montesano
Skagit County
Raymond
Gray’s Harbor
Lewis
Winlock
Vader
Republic
Okanogan
Okanogan Growers Union
Bay City
Seattle—New Shipbuilding Plant
Naches
Grandview
Skagit
Crook Road
Chelan County
Leavenworth Meat Market
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