Australia boundary riders count days with clever methods
A Youth's Companion style anecdote recounts Australian sheep ranch boundary riders who keep time alone on vast ranges. One man uses seven pebbles to track weeks, another marks a seven slice damper to mark days, and a hungry rider steals portions triggering the refusal to reveal the day of the week. The piece ends praising steady daily improvement in small tasks.
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Australia
Eagan
Sonny
Found License on Ev erson Bellingham Road
A license number 12038 is recorded on Ev erson Bellingham Road and a call to The Tribune is requested for details.
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Everson-Bellingham Road
the Tribune
Community Thanks for Kindness After Cremation
E. R. Bostwick and family express heartfelt gratitude for the kindness and help from friends and neighbors during their bereavement and recreation.
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E. R. Bostwick
Advertised Letters at Lynden Post Office
Mail for Thomas Grimes and J G Browne remains unclaimed at Lynden Washington post office as of December 28 1916. One cent due on each letter. Callers should say Advertised. letters will be sent to Dead Letter Office after two weeks. D L Beckes Postmaster.
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Lynden
Wash
Thomas Grimes
J. G. Browne
D. L. Beckes
Herd Record Sheets Offer Affordable Dairy Accounting
The Tribune advocates herd record sheets on cardboard to track two daily milkings from 20 cows for one month. Priced at 50 cents per dozen, 25 for a dollar, the ad promotes an inexpensive way to identify which cows fail to pay their board and incur losses on cream yield.
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the Tribune
A Willing Witness Verisimilitude Quip
The passage features a lawyer questioning a witness about verisimilitude and the witness humorously refrains, noting the subject was “verisimilitudin’” all round the place. It highlights a playful exchange on plausible imitation.
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Ness
Saturday Evening Post
Boston Traveler’s War Time Trip Visits Salt Lake City
A wealthy Boston man, denied a European trip due to the war, attends the Panama Pacific Exhibition then tours Salt Lake City. He meets a Mormon girl who proudly says her Sunday school has a missionary in Boston, sparking a brief exchange about the city.
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Boston
Europe
Panama Pacific
Salt Lake City
Chicago News
Witty Quips and Famous Rimes Across Times
A collage of humorous exchanges and literary quips. Notes on word play from a Chicago News remark about ice and slips. References to Byron Browning and a garden seed penalty letter from the Christian Register illustrate playful verse and bureaucratic ironies.
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Christian Register
Lynden High School Alumni Reunion Planned
Lynden High School alumni and seniors will hold a party Friday at 8 in the G A R Hall. Home for holidays graduates are expected to attend, making it a reunion. A small assessment will cover hall and refreshments.
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Lynden High School
Christmas greetings and visits across towns
Everson residents and families spent holidays visiting relatives in New Westminster Vancouver and B C. Alaska and Bremerton travelers joined local gatherings while church programs closed the year with a Sunday school Christmas program at the Presbyterian Church.
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Chas. Arnell
New Westminster
Vancouver
B.C
Otto Biehle
Bremerton, Wash
John Todd
H. Iverson
Wm. Hunt
Seattle
H. Girke
L. Bushby
W. C. Scott
Bellingham
Adeline Ingersoll
Clyde F. Reed
Vivian
Mearer
Riverside
Paul Biehle
Stanwood
Frances Willard
Presbyterian Church
The Ball Was To Be That Night Inauspiciously
Charley Towne, editor and poet, judged a prize story contest and found a bulky bundle of manuscript sheets in a random envelope. He resigned promptly and forgot the story title, though the opening sentence remained: The day the ball was to be that night dawned auspiciously.
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Charley Towne
Harolds Fund Drive Lesson Highlights Quiet Generosity
Harold's father gave a dollar each Sunday to the church, recorded in a numbered envelope on the church books. On returning from a summer away, Mr T settled his arrears by entrusting Harold to place the envelope on the plate. The boy proudly boasted of contributing more than others as he came home.
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Harold
Mr. T
A Mighty Big Can and a Plate Moment
Remi puts all the money on the plate with no envelope to reveal its amount. Harold notes the envelope was removed, ensuring the total is visible. An Irish harvester in a Scottish town misreads a large gasometer, the Scotsman sparking a humorous exchange about a dinner can.
Dairy Herd Records at Tribune Office
Advisory brief notes dairy herd records available at the Tribune office for fifty cents per dozen.
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Lynden Motor CO
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