Northwest Notes and Local Happenings Summary
Victoria report notes severe punishments in China after mourning deaths of the Empress Dowager and emperor. A Chinese ban was fined and imprisoned for an affair involving a banie. The chief eunuch vows to become a priest after hair shaving. George Findley near town trapped a wildcat in his poultry house and secured a wildcat skin after a brief clash. Three to four carloads of commercial prunes entered the city centers, with the season’s expense totaling about $10,000.
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Banjo—Giets
Victoria
Empress of India
China
George Findley
Mr. Findley
Sian
Beer Price Proposal Sparks Mont-Legislation Rally
Rev John Quincey Atkins of Carbon county proposes 5 cent beer to legalize prices and curb drinkers He argues temperance by equal pricing deters habitual drunkenness and notes urban beer at 5 cents while rural districts see 124 percent more per drink efforts aim to standardize cost amid excitement in Hélens Mont Legislation today.
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Hélens
Mont
John Quincey Atkins
Carbon County
Atkins
Liquor Licenses Won't Be Decided Soon in Wenatchee
Wenatchee city council faces a key question on liquor licenses for the coming year. The license committee has not yet reported on one license up for disposal, and debate over granting permission remains intense. The issue has supporters on both sides awaiting the forthcoming test. Honor Former Commandant, Navy Yards Puget Sound. A thirteen gun salute marked the memory of Rear Admiral Joseph B Coghlan who died recently in New York. Coghlan once commanded the yard for about a year.
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Wenatchee
Lcense
Navy Yards
Puget Sound
Joszeph BR. Coghlan
New York
Coghlan
Navy Department
Dinner honors for local telephone workers by butcher and wife
E. Ri. Wering, a local butcher, and Mrs. Wering hosted a dinner inviting all the girls of the local telephone force. The toasts praised patient operators and joked about party line life with lines like That Inquisitive Person on the Party Line, May She Never Prosper, Good Morning Is the Baby Well This Morning, and To the Man Who Calls His Wife Honey He’s a Good Fellow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Ri. Wering
Mrs. Wering
Few Homeless Children Noted in North Yakima County
North Yakima Yakima county reports the fewest homeless children in the state per J J Covington secretary of the Washington Children's Home Society. In twelve years the society has taken only eight children from the county. A Vancouver youth named Auguat Yd appeared in superior court seeking no guardian was granted for him. The lad pronounces his name Eyed and claims the shortest surname in Sweden.
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North Yakima
Yakima County
J. J. Covington
The
Washington Children's Home Society
Vancouver
Auguat Yd
Sweden
Prune Crop Nears Completion In Albany Oregon
The Northwest Fruit association has practically completed pecking the prune crop of last year in Albany Oregon.
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Albany
Ore
Northwest Fruit Association
Typhoid Epidemic Under Control in Nolin
Nolin January reports the typhoid outbreak subsiding with only appetite concerns among patients. A cold snap shows 22 degrees below zero at 4 am Sunday, with an inch of snow. Frank Lane sold a 4 acre timber tract near Meacham to Henry Koppitzke of Pendleton. post office patrons face travel and no trains, while school attendance suffers from the storm.
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Nolin
Acre
Frank Lane
Meacham
Henry Koppitzke
Pendleton
Woolmen Stand Pat Against Revised Tariff
Pocatello Idaho January 12 Stand put on the tariff is the slogan of the sheep men gathering for this week s convention of the National Woolgrowers association It is noted that since 1897 when the tariff was enacted the value of sheep in the United States rose from 365 million to 212 million dollars annual wool production hits 290 million pounds and 70 percent of wool used by American mills is grown in the country
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Pocatello, Ldm
National
Woolgrowers’ Association
Mystery surrounds Englishman shot in Central Park
New York January 12. Mystery surrounds the shooting of Bert Hillyard a wealthy Englishman in Central Park by a stranger who was refused financial aid by him. Hillyard is in critical condition. The beggar fired when Hillyard said he did not believe in giving money to beggars.
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New York
Bert Hillyard
Central Park
Hillyard
Bread and TB risk in bread making
A Washington Times report notes a French researcher found that baking does not always kill germs in bread. Tubercle bacilli mixed into dough survived baking and caused infection when tested in pigs. The suggested fix is mechanical bread production and banning bare hands from dough.
Good Business Opportunity at Hellx Hotel and Millinery
For sale a renovated Hellx Oregon hotel with strong business. Includes established millinery store. Good reasons for selling. Inquiries to Mia Frank Myers Hellx Oregon.
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Hellx
Ore
Mia
Frank Myers
Oregon
Fresh seafood arrives at the Quelle restaurant
Gus La Fontaine announces a new supply of crawfish crab and oysters on the shell at the Quelle, expanding the menu with shellfish offerings for diners.
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Gus la Fontaine
Quelle
The Four Men Meet At Crossroads Of Belief
A reflective verse recounts four travelers from Elst, the South, and the West meeting by a crossroad year later. They discuss God, presenting visions from a man, a spirit, Nature, and disbelief. Their debate turns to anger and mutual hostility as they depart with strained peace and lingering enmity.
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Sam Walter Foss
Paso Robles Hot Springs Ideal Winter Resort Hotel
In California Paso Robles Hot Springs offers quiet congenial surroundings and modern nearly luxurious accommodations. A winter resort hotel with home hospitality and healing springs, not a sanatorium, an enchanting country place with resort conveniences. Ask O R N Agent for illustrated booklet Paso Robles Hot Springs.
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Paso Robles Hot Springs
California
Paso Rovies
Paso Robles Tot Springs
Diamonds Lost In Sewers Found After Search
Mrs Louis Gottlieb of Dorchester dropped two diamond rings valued at 5000 in a sewer outlet. Inspectors traced them through catch basins, finally locating them seven miles from the home near the ocean pumping station after twelve hours. They were awarded 25 dollars for recovering the gems.
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Boston
Louis Gottlieb
Dorchester
Gottlieb
Philadelphia
Fifteen Die Sentenced in Yekaterinoslav Executions
Fifteen death sentences were handed down yesterday with seven at Yekaterinoslav and four teen executions reported. The count reflects a harsh wartime crackdown as authorities pursue alleged traitors and collaborators.
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St. Petersburg
Yekaterinoslav
Shiny Fat Folks and a Creamy Complexion Cure
An ad explains oily skin among overweight people. It promotes Marmola and cascara aromatic as a remedy to absorb excess fat, claim clearer complexion as fat loss progresses. Directions: one half ounce Marmola, cascara aromatic, peppermint water. take after meals and at bedtime for a week or two. It promises weight loss of 26 to 30 pounds and near perfect skin after a month.
Don't Mistake the Cause of Your Troubles A Pendleton Citizen
Pendleton residents learn to seek kidney cures for backache and urinary trouble. Mrs Arthur Hammer of 717 Aura St Pendleton Ore testifies five years of Dean's Kidney Pills eased her backache and she still vouches for their merit. For sale by all dealers 60 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
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Bright
Doman
Pendleton
Arthur Hammer
Aura Street
Ore
Dean
Pendleton Drug Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
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