County official departs for Entiat bridge inspection
County Engineer Berry left this morning for Entiat to inspect a county bridge contract. Also notes on local business and social items include Christmas apple sales at Huff's and offerings from Russell Johnson Co, with various residents traveling, shipments, and events around Okanogan and Leavenworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berry
Entiat
J. R. Snyder
C. & O. Nursery Company
Spokane
W. S. Belser
Col. Valley Bank
Chas. Yenter
Nahahum Canyon
Russell- Johnson Co
W. E. Hinman
Pasadena
California
Wenatchee
Omak Chronicle
Eagle Hall
Wenatchee Business College
Huff
Ladies’ Aid
M. E. Church
Lew Richardson
City Engineer’s Office
Seattle
World Office
A. T. Kaupp
Dr. Leslie
Waterville
Frank Palmer
Childr&n
C. I. Motteler
Columbia River
Frank K. Baker
Lillian Haardt
Frank Bliss
Palouse Street
Lynn Chapman
Leavenworth
J. P. Wantz
Monitor
A. V. Huff
Raymond Bell Co
Postal savings banks to begin deposits January 3
Postmaster General Hitchcock announced readiness for the postal savings banks to receive deposits on January 3 the first work day of the new year. One experimental office will open in each state and territory to test the system. Second class offices in favorable locales and cities with many foreign born residents were chosen. Additional postmasters from 36 more offices will gather in Washington soon to receive similar instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hitchcock
Postal Savings Banks
Postal Savings Bank
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Burnett
Gloge
Ariz
Leonard
Oroville
Cal
Bohn
Rossini's Jealousy and Quiet Retirement
The composer Rossini grew intensely jealous of contemporaries like Meyerbeer after hearing The Huguenots in 1836. He vowed to write no more operatic works, lived until 1868, and spent 32 years in retirement amid pleasures and a lively social circle known for good eating and drinking.
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Rossini
Meyerbeer
His Way of Showing His Love
A daughter confronts her father about love and money as she recalls her suitor’s claim that wealth isn’t important to him. The scene centers on affection versus material concerns and the certainty of genuine feeling.
Would I Were a Boy Again Sung by Mr Bashful
Anxious mother questions a proposal while daughter recalls last evening. As she held young Dick, Mr Bashful played the piano and sang Would I Were a Boy Again, revealing a lighthearted domestic moment.
Husband suggests wife take cooking lessons
A brief exchange notes a husband recommending cooking lessons for his wife. She responds by arranging a three month course with her mother to teach her.
Weekend sport slate with boxing billiards chess and college games
The week sports calendar lists Abe Attell and Packie McFarland in New York, Johnny Marto and Jack Dorman, Jimmy Walsh and Joe Coster, Phil Knight and Mike Memsic in Oklahoma City, and more. Billiards Alfred De Oro and John Daly in New York. Marvin Hart and Carl Morris in Sapulpa. hockey Yale vs St Pauls in New York and Williams vs Princeton in New York. chess in New York City. Friday boxing Mantell Sullivan in New York alongside college basketball and chess close in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Attell
Packie McFarland
Fairmount A. C
New York
Johnny Marto
Jack Dorman
Olympic A. C
Jimmy Walsh
Joe Coster
Brooklyn
Phil Knight
Mike Memsic
Oklahoma City
Alfred de Oro
John Daly
Marvin Hart
Carl Morris
Sapulpa
Okla
Eddie Greenwald
Nick Considine
Hurley
Wis
Hugo Kelly
Frank Klaus
Armory A. A
Boston
Young Erlenborn
Kid'’ Ross
Cheyenne
Wyo
Annapolis
Princeton
New York City College
Mortality Rates Highlight Life Insurance Dividends
The United States Census Bureau 1909 death rate is cited as 15 per 1000, with Seattle at about 9 per 1000. The piece argues Northern Life benefits from low regional mortality and stresses participating policies yield higher dividends, urging readers to consider where they hold insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Census Bureau
Seattle
Washington
United States
Tunnel Chicago to New York Project Detailed
The Record Herald will announce a planned tunnel linking Chicago with New York and other eastern cities. It would carry telephone and telegraph wires and pneumatic tubes for parcels, with terminals built in both cities and crews to begin excavation soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
the Record- Herald
Here
New York
Egyptian land surveying origins traced to Nile floods
The text explains that annual Nile floods prevented permanent monuments on land. To reidentify parcels, Egyptians used astronomy based instruments and modified mathematical methods for surveying.
Tremendous Global Tides and The Severn Bore Phenomenon
A detailed survey of extraordinary tides around the world. It describes the Fundy Bay and Mount Saint Michel tides, double tides in the English Channel, the Panama Pacific tide, Amazon estuary bore, the Ganges and Seine risks, and famed tidal races near Jura Scarba. It closes with Hamburg Elbe gales and shipping disruption in December 1902.
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Chepstow
Bristol Channel
Severn
Irish Channel
Ireland
Mount St. Michael
la Vendee
Isle of
Noirmoulien
Bay of
St. Michael's Mount
English Channel
England
Poole Harbor
Isle of Wight
Panama
Pacific
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Big Cut
Amazon
Ganges
Seine
Moskol Island
Jura
Scarba Islands
Scotland
Hamburg
Elbe
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rector complains over meager Oxford preaching fee
A country rector arrives at Oxford to preach and tells Dr. Routh that his remuneration is inadequate after travel and labor. When asked how much he received, he says five pounds. The doctor repeats fifty seven shillings, exclaiming he would not have preached the sermon for fifty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Scotch Night At John McLaren Home On F Street
An evening gathering at John McLaren's residence on F street featured guests David Salmon from Farmer and Jas Ohsler from Alberta Canada recently arrived from Scotland. Music included Edith McLaren singing, W. A. Lamond performing solos, and the group closed with Auld Lang Syne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McLaren
F Street
David Salmon
Farmer
Jas Ohsler
Alberta
Canada
Scotland
Edith McLaren
W. A. Lamond
Wenatchee Apples Sent East in Christmas Minde
W. T. Knapp and Dr. Haskell shipped about forty choice Wenatchee apples, packed in earboard cartons, to the east yesterday as Christmas remembrances. A large portion went to Chicago with many others sent further east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Knapp
Dr. Haskell
Chicago
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Brief City News
L. E. Miller
Daily World
Corning
Modesto
Woodcraft
Olone E. J. Delaney
Thornhill Garage
Thornhill Automobile Agency
Mason & Yocum
Pai
Gordon Boyd
Ira Edwards
San Francisco
Los Angeless
Milot-Mills
B. E. Gregory
Pioneer Realty Company of
Okanogan
Dakotas
Dakota
Aes L. McLean
Russell-Plough Building
W. B. Hampson
Omak
Mr. Hampson
Societe Wads Cacoias
J. M. Duffy
CO. B. Brown
the Pastime
Maxwell's Billiard Hall
Wenatched
Richard's Pharmacy
Cashmere
Imperial Candy Company
Pat Healey Ceatre the Tailor
Black Diamond
Wellington
Crow’s Nest
Newcastle
Wenatcheefuel CO
Coeur D'Alene
Idaho
Olympia
Stuttgart
Ark
Pekin
Ill
Ind
Decorah
Iowa
New Iberia
Gulfport
Miss
Carthage
Nebraska City
Neb
Wahpeton
N. D
Guymon
Deadwood
8. D
Harry Forbes
Earl Denning
Windsor
A. C
New York City
Williams
Frank Mantell
Jack (Twin
Chi
N. Y
The
Bay of Fundy
Mann, Elman Hotel
Family
E. L
P. F. Barry
Walker Ave
Hotel del Mundo
North B Street
Seaman Bros
Wash
First National Bank
Business
John E. Porter
Columbia Valley Bank
Eilers
Christ
D. S. Johnston Co
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