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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1906
Page
1
Auckland dispatch outlines major labor reforms under New Zealand Liberal government including state railways land tenure taxation changes and social measures such as old age pensions, women’s enfranchisement and arbitration to curb strikes. The piece notes broad socialist aims and government ownership moves.
A collage of political chaos and elite circles. Czar and czarina host elaborate dinners for guards. US comptroller notes bank examiner shortages. debates spark about stagewomen at rich men dinners. Japan marks Shinnen week. Caleb Powers remains jailed. Poland resists dictators. Russia Moscow revolution notes. Roosevelt praised for bipartisan appointments and Cleveland connections flagged.
An association to promote laughter is formed by professors and students at Paris’s medical faculty. They draft a circular urging universities across France to revive the bright joyous laughter of ancestors, describing five laughter types and their character clues from the sounds.
At the Western Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane in Pitstburg six hundred inmates attended a masquerade dance. Slow music soothed the crowd while one patient dressed as a queen of England and another as Lady Macbeth. Spectators in galleries observed the unusual event with mixed emotions.
A Berkeley scientist Professor Jaffa of the state university reports experiments aimed at controlling the moulting period in hens. If successful by January 1, hens would lay eggs year round, curbing price spikes that raise egg famine fears.
A Washington dispatch reports the administration will deploy a squadron rather than a single ship to European waters in the Russian crisis. President, Secretary Root and Secretary Boneparte ordered Admiral Sigsbee to move the Brooklyn Galveston Tacoma and Chattanooga to Madeira, with possible Baltic voyage, or winter at Naples.
In Chicago Secretary Shaw says Walsh will not be prosecuted or criminally charged by his department and that depositors will be fully protected. He notes the treasury guards depositors not stockholders and warns banks not to loan more than ten percent to a single person. Bryan and Oyama discuss Manchuria amid an exchange about national institutions.
Margaret B. Fisher a half million-dollar social leader in Ithaca married her coachman, Rev. A. E. Georges, at her home after forty eight years of single life. The couple left for a short wedding trip and will be at home after the holidays.
Practice in federal and state courts by R W Cutts and C L Holcomb. Farm loans at lowest rates. Cross and Corbin with probate focus. Office over F and M Bank. Frank Calp MD A T Ekaupp MD Griggs Block. Wallender and McCor physicians at Forde block.
Washington December 27. More pension bills were introduced in the first two weeks of the current session than in the entire fifty-eighth congress. Over 12 000 pension bills have been filed in the senate and house since December 4 with about 10 000 from the house and 2 400 from the senate. The bulk are private pension claims and about 6 000 have already reached the house invalid pensions committee.
Santa Rosa December 28 The Rev John H Page of New York confesses to sheriffs in this state that ten years ago he traveled through northern counties stealing horses hogs sheep and numerous other property and in addition committed a carp theft.
Seventy year old farm listing describes eleven and a half acres with water rights and irrigation. Nine acres planted as an orchard with 200 trees four years old and 50 trees three years old. Two acres alfalfa. Four room house and outbuildings. Price four thousand one hundred dollars with two thousand two hundred cash and balance on easy terms. Address G A Virtue Seattle Wash.
A compilation of farm property listings with multiple tracts near Wenatchee and nearby towns. Properties include 10 acre fruit ranches, 12 acre valley land, 5 acre choices with trees, 20 plus acre timber and pasture tracts, and near school access. Prices range from about 1 100 to 13 500 plus terms. payments and terms vary.
For sale in Wenatchee Washington area multiple properties are advertised including new house and lot 50 by 120 feet Nob Hill with good barnon property price 650 dollars cash 350 balance. two lots Nob Hill 50 by 120 price 275 cash 150 balance. swap for cash-lot 180 by 180 with two-year-old trees four room house pantry and bathroom water rights city water small barn inside city limits price 900. corner lot 90 by 120 five blocks from post office 250 half cash balance easy terms. swap for small money good three room house corner lot 60 by 120 nearly new buildings price 625 cash 325 balance. five room house lot 50 by 120 Wenatchee Avenue three doors south of courthouse easy terms. J S Mooney and Co.
Property includes 45 acres of good fruit land 15 acres timber 200 bearing apple and peach trees 160 young trees two years old 25 acres alfalfa. Four miles from Cashmere with rural free delivery school on site ten room plastered house fine well large barn 20 inch water right under a good ditch. Price 3000 cash and balance four years at eight percent. Address G A Virtue 306 Best Block Seattle Wash.
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