Making Money Out of Waste in an Era of Clever Use
A 1910 essay argues brains beat capital in business and highlights practical recycling. It cites Butte Montana copper-water and can waste as early examples of extracting value from refuse, detailing coal tar dyes, meat by products, wood waste, and agricultural by products as wealth sources. It also notes a pioneer, Blanket Bill Jarman, dies aged 64 in Whatcom County Ferndale home.
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Waldemar Kaempffert
Saturday Evening Post
Amalgamated Copper Company
Kaempffert
Germany
United States
Paris
Hamlet
Alexander
Farmers' Mutual Telephone Co annual meeting held in Bellingham
About 300 stockholders attended the annual session of the Farmers' Mutual Telephone Company in Bellingham. officers and committees were elected, financial reports for 1911 and early 1912 reviewed, and by law amendments to enlarge the board to nine directors adopted. The meeting pressed for a Lynden head office and possible larger loan to support growing business.
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Farmers’ Mutual Telephone Company
Bellingham
E. Lopas
C. B. Legoe
P. R. Jeffcoat
Clark
Blaine
Ferndale
Lynden
Sumas
Blaine District
T. BE. Davis
Custer
Ed Brown
I. D. VanValkenberg
Nooksack
T. Shumway
T. P. Riley
Deming
C. F. Nelson
Ss. &Jackman
Alki
N. P. Sorenson
At -Large
Nels Nelson
Board of Trustees
Berry Growers Day in Lynden District
Berry Growers Day is set for Saturday June 22 at Chap Bayes Berrylyn fruit farm near Lynden. Farmers from across the county will attend a 1 pm meeting with invited guests F A Huntley state horticulture commissioner and Prof H W Sparks from the state experimental station to discuss berry culture and marketing. Teachers in the county are specially invited.
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Lynden
Chap Bayes
Berrylyn Fruit Farm
F. A. Huntley
H. W. Sparks
Township Officers Favor Abolishment of County Commission
Whatcom County township supervisors met in Judge Hardin's court room in Bellingham to discuss uniform road and road expense laws. They favored abolishing the county commissioners largely as a functional change and proposed a county audit board to handle audits and payments, with changes to the board of equalization and bond requirements for township officials.
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Whatcom County
Board of Equalization
Board of County Commissioners
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Butte
Montana
Big Hill
New York City
Calico
Japan
Europe
Robert Kennedy Duncan
Fern Gale
G. M. Shumway
A. Danielson
L. C. Durr
A. E. Lappe
P. M. Serrurier
Hay
American Congress
Philadelphia
Washington
America
Robert Morris
Ross
Colonel Ross
Betsy Ross
Congress
Army
Navy
Ft. Stanwix
Ft. Schuyler
Rome
New York
Gansevoort
Charleston
S. C
Brandywine
Germantown
Burgoyne
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Vermont
Kentucky
Union
Nooksack Valley
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