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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1910
Page
6
A Northwest nurseryman's ad emphasizes combining customer loyalty with sales profit. It offers high quality trees and confident service, urging customers to choose good orchardists for mutual profit and inviting written inquiries if a salesman misses a visit.
The Methow Irrigation company proposes reclaiming four thousand acres in the Methow valley with a canal carrying about seventy five feet of water. Promoted by Prowell and Hoffman with Colbert and Barber as Methow representatives, the system aims to start work in spring 1911 and deliver water for the 1912 irrigation season.
Spokane is the only city in the state with no padding found in the census returns and the population 104,400 was met with satisfaction by residents. Supervisor A M Storch received a letter from the census committee of the 150,000 club praising the accuracy and lack of substantial errors in Spokane's count.
In the Illustrated London Cookery Book a royal style soupe a la Crecy is given with ham onions turnips carrots celery herbs mace cloves bay leaf and butter. The Pall Mall Gazette says the recipe is largely the royal standard though spice may be strong and carrot quality matters.
The article explains cordite as a paste formed from nitroglycerin and gun cotton with petroleum jelly. It describes kneading by workers, machine processes, and molding into cords for use in large guns and rifles. It notes lengths and packaging, and mentions it can be safely fired when properly handled.
A Quincy Valley Water Users' director reports a survey of the Wenatchee lake gravity ditch. Two lakes will be tapped, Wenatchee lake as reservoir, with a 2000 foot fall to the Quincy flats. Estimated cost trimmed to 25 million dollars for 500000 acres. survey to finish in spring.
Great Northern officials expect James J Hill to arrive in Seattle within about ten days on a special train with Hill line executives. The exact date is unconfirmed but the visit is anticipated before year’s end. In Conconully Judge E K Pendergast orders Sheriff F E Thorp to transport Charles Phillips the halfbreed Indian convict to King County jail in Seattle.
Mike Rollins sustained a broken leg this afternoon while running with other boys near the Lamb-Davis company office. He fell over a red object and suffered serious injuries as a result.
Harriet Onimby in Leslie's outlines how wild alligators nest along rivers or marshes with mud and grass nests, describes incubation of 35 to 80 eggs over two months and six days, and details the mother’s denning, egg care, and feeding behavior including swishing tails to drive in minnows.
Deed transfers recorded for Land Co to Geo D Nelson for 1 dollar covering lot 4 block 7 Leavenworth Land Co's first add. Also deed from S C Gockley and others to R Livingstone for 800 dollars conveying all of lot 29 and west 148 feet of lot 30 Sunnyslope Farms.
Deeds and mortgages record transfers in Chelan and Wenatchee including D L Clemmer and Mary E Craig selling lots in Chelan townsite to M A Palmer for 500 and 1600 dollars. Patrick Boyd contracts with W C Henley for Sunset Orchard lots 5 6 7 for 1300 dollars. Multiple deeds mortgage notices list property blocks ranges and prices across Chelan Cashmere Wenatchee and Olympia Brewing Co and others.
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