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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
2
The entry notes business matters for mailing in Wenatchee Washington with a main office at the Columbia Valley Bank Building and a Farmers Phone line. It identifies the local post office as the Wenatchee facility and references second class matter status.
One year by mail in advance five dollars. Six months by mail in advance two dollars sixty cents. Delivered by carrier per week ten cents.
A roundup of editorials from multiple papers dated August 23 1906 commenting on political figures. Topics include Senator Platt questioning Thomas Taggarts resignation, municipal ownership debates between Abrooklyn and Coney Island, humor about modern women and a mouse, the baggage smasher metaphor, the description of Colonel Bryan as The American Gladstone, and Tafts Maine campaigning role for Littlefield with Ohio figures mentioned.
Good Short Stories reports Mise Nellie White heiress to wealth and family ties to ex governor John D. Long leaves home to travel six thousand miles and marry Dr Walter R Biinckerho who leads the U S leprosy camp at Molokai. He vows to devote his life to seeking a cure for leprosy.
The text notes a Boston smallpox era physician later serving as Harvard Medical School professor in pathology and a representative to Manila during the plague. It also recounts a Honolulu wedding plan and a humorous exchange on diplomacy at a dinner with Senator Long. Dahomey punishment details describe a parricide execution by tree suspension.
Bertha Krupp heiress of the Krupp armaments empire in Essen is linked with Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach secretary to the Prussian legation at the Vatican. She is famed as one of the world’s richest women while he, though from nobility, is comparatively modest in means.
Includes literary lines and slang exchanges, a short ad blurb for land and a home with terms, plus a prospectus from Bower and Nowland offering loans for building or buying homes with monthly repayments.
A fragmentary OCR item shows times 4:00 a.m and 4:20 a.m with odd numbers and symbols, lacking clear context or events to identify people or places. The readable bits are minimal, offering only timestamps and stray characters.
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