Pioneer Skidmore's Westward Rise and Quiet Giving
John N. Skidmore, born 1832 in Kentucky, moved west to what became Portland, served in the Yakima Indian War, and homesteaded at Willapa Harbor. He grew rich as South Bend blossomed, then shared gains by building a grand home and giving away much of his fortune, remaining generous until his death.
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Kentucky
Skidmore
West
Portland
Oregon Volunteers
Pacific
Sydney Lambert
New Territory
Wilepa Harbor
South Bend
Himeelf
Willapa Harbor
Mr. Skidmore
Skidmere
State Operated Institutions Lose Big Funds
Washington state institutions including the Veterans Home Boys Training School and Monroe Reformatory run over budget with a $400000 deficit for the 1919 21 biennium. Daily per capita costs at the school for the blind rise to 242 dollars while 1918 figures show 150. costs vary across hospitals and training schools.
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Olympia
Veterans’ Home
Boys’ Training School
Monroe Reformatory
Reformatory
Board of Control
Washington
School For
Girls’ Training School
Monroe
State Board of Control
Western Hospital
It &T
Eastern Hospital
Soldiers’ Home Wcoes
Jane Home Co
Hoehne
Penitentiaee
State training schools report higher costs per inmate meals
The report notes daily meal costs at the Girls' Training School averaging 1.30 per capita and 1.25 at the Boys' Training School. State institutions produce much of their food but rising living costs affect all, with averages covering all expenditures of the current biennium.
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Girls’ Training School
Boys’ Training School
Bread price cuts and global notes from early 20th century press
Toledo reports a second weekly bread price cut with large loaves down to 13 cents and small loaves to 8 cents. Other items note state official associations, a Budapest food shortage warning to Red Cross HQ, Madrid bread lines and military bakery aid, a navy surgeon general retirement, blind shoppers plans in Boston, a Pacific fleet flight to the Panama Canal, and Peru's cabinet resignation under Premier Germano Leguia Martinez.
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Toledo
Ohio
Coal prospect opened on 120 acre Chehalis land
Baluna Coal and Coke Company purchased the tract near Newaukum from Big Four Land. Prospecting teams opened a 151 foot vein near the surface with subbituminous coal likely plentiful. North Central Washington rains ease planting for fall wheat in the Big Bend as Wenatchee records heavy October rainfall. Prosser High School addition of 75,009 dollars nears completion to relieve crowding from rapid population growth.
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Chehalis
Newaukum
Baluna Coal & Coke Company of
Raymond
Big Four Land Company
Wenatchee
Washington
Big Bend
Prosser
Prosser High School
Wonder Worker Dies in Brooklyn Bed-Ridden Genius
New York reports the death of Charles Noel Douglas the so called most remarkable invalid in the world. He lived bedridden for thirty years in Brooklyn and died of pneumonia. Douglas authored 700 lyrics a poetry volume and several books edited five magazines with millions of readers wrote half the skits and parodies in vaudeville produced a dozen amateur plays and received vast mail. He did all his work from a bed of pain.
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New York
Charles Noel Douglas
Brooklyn
Douglas
J. P. Morgan
The Cheerful Man of New York Actor Douglas
Douglas, a once cheerful figure in New York theater, came from England in 1888. He endured ups and downs in the stage, finally portraying a villain in a melodrama. The role demanded a fatal fall, and such self imposed injuries led to his decline into paralysis.
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Douglas
England
Villian
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National Association of Secretaries of State of the United States of America
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James G. Pedrow
Red Cross
Hungary
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Elgenard R. Stitt
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State Commission For the Blind
Pacific Fleet
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Panama Canal
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Lima
Peru
Germano Leguia Martinez
Northwest News
Wonder Worker
Apex Motor Corporation
Ypsilanti, Michigan
General Distributors Corporation Factory Distributors
With Ave
Seattle
the Silk Shop
J. D. Zahrt
Wright
Oregon
F. J. Pingry & Son
Third Ave
Seattle, Wash
Cali
Pike Street
Co. Co
HART
Umrvensrrr ST
F. D. Stevens
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First Ave
Marion
du Rere Ee Co
P.I
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Chauncey Wright
Chauncey Wright Restaurant CO
Hazen J. Titus
L. C. Smith Bidg
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Siberian Commercial
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