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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
2
In Wenatchee a family of six to eight children fights smallpox at home. The World urges county commissioners to provide a safe contagious-disease building for afflicted residents, noting city health limits and urging urgent action. The plea ends with a local verse about Wenatchee.
The Western Union Telegraph Company directors announce a quarterly dividend of 1 percent payable in company stock. With $2,620,000 of unsold stock, the dividend will be issued to cover the amount due. In New York a court awards damages over a runaway death and a trolley injury.
A New Idea Woman's Magazine January issue extols winter pastimes in Canada. It notes begambling snowshoeing hockey and ice boating engaging both sexes, highlighting social cohesion and lively photographs of clubs in action.
Classified style blurb praising The Daily World as a newspaper for the Wenatchee Valley and noting value of advertising in its columns.
Spokane reports the Cayuse chief Metanie embraces Christianity after the ordination of Rev. Edward Conner, a full-blood Cayuse, at Tutuilla Presbyterian mission. Metanie pledges to abandon pagan practices, feasting, theft, and intoxication, signaling a dramatic church milestone.
Three high schoolboys in Astoria built a wireless telegraph setup on a hill behind West Astoria. They stripped a tree to serve as a pole and placed homemade instruments in a hut beneath it, intercepting messages from a government station and ships off the California coast.
List of names published for a fundraiser or notice of unclaimed letters at the post office for the week ending December 10, 1967. Readers with items waiting should say advertised. L. M. Hull, P. M.
An advertisement notes artists colors at H W Russell's and promotes a cold remedy priced at 25 cents from Wenatchee Drag Company. It also suggests watching Daily World columns for Christmas ideas.
Timetables show UP RIVER service from Wenatchee at 5:00 am to Brewster at 6:00 pm with stops at Orondo Entiat Chelan Falls Pateros. DOWN RIVER departures from Brewster at 4:00 am to Wenatchee by 12:00 pm. Steamer runs to Bridgeport on Mon Wed Fri mornings with return at night. Special folders urged for Okanogan irrigation and Lake Chelan districts.
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