Sleighing party hosts and local social notes
Mrs. E M Allen hosted a New Year sleighing party with a two hour ride and hot refreshments at her home. Attendees included Mesdames Cushing Morck Lail Prowell Tumble Jacobson Thompson Corvin and Messrs Chas Fenton and Harry Fenton. Other items note a dinner party for J R Henry with local guests, hotel dining room help wanted, and various visits, sales, loans, and club meetings across Wenatchee including band rehearsal and a barber chair installation.
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E. M. Allen
Allen
Mrs. Allen
Mesdames Cushing
Morck
Lail
Prowell
Tumble
Jacobson
Thompson
Corvin
Chas. Fenton
Harry
Kelly
Marshall
McCreany
Lane
Mrs. Lail
Macedonia
Iowa
Columbia
J. R. Henry
Oroville
Wenatchee
E. Brewster
Twisp
Methow
J. W. Brewster
Brewster
Joan
Inc. A. Gellatly
Jonas Utz
Quincy
Gellatis
McCoy
Pioneer Miners Murdered in Cal for Centerville Claim
Tom Pierce aged 60 and his brother John Pierce aged 64, pioneer miners near Centerville west of Redding California, were slain on their mining claim. Tom left his cabin at 8 o clock and did not return for dinner. John found him shot and buried and was then killed at his own cabin when he returned home. A posse of about 100 men hunts the killer across the territory.
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Redding
Cal
Tom
John Pierce
Centerville
John
Hildreth
Famine in Northern Japan Devastates Miyagi Province
Dispatches from the Empress of Japan report Miyagi Fukushima and Iwate provinces with 2 821 357 people face famine described as the worst in sixty years. One third of Miyagi’s population allegedly faces death sentence as thousands inch to bark and shrub roots for survival. Foreign committees organize relief amid widespread misery. A second item notes 23 miners killed in the Coaldale mine near Huntington West Virginia.
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Victoria
B. C
Japan
Empress of
Snow storm rips across major cities with casualties
Snow and sleet battered the east with forty mile winds. Chicago reported one dead and many injured as winds tore signs from streets and damaged property worth about 100000 dollars. In St Paul a heavy snowstorm disrupted transport while Red Wing and other Minnesota towns faced heavy drifts. A humorous aside ends with a tale of a man boasting a musical ear and a failed tuner joke.
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Milwaukee
Chicago
Evanston
Illinois Steel Company
Steel Company
West Maedislon Street
Thomas D. Henderson
ST. Paul
Jan
Epith
Minnesota
Red Wing
Minn
Daleth
Trafic
The Landlord Prayer from Edward VI era prayer book
A prayer asks landlords to temper rents and excess profits, urging stewardship of earth as tenants and the poor are considered. It emphasizes humility, fair rents, and humane treatment, reminding landlords they are strangers and pilgrims.
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Edward VI
England
Hidden Treasure Laws and Garden Philosophy from England
The excerpt contrasts Lord Bacon on gardens as human refreshment with English treasure law. It notes coroner inquests on found treasure, referencing Edward I statutes requiring officials to summon nearby towns when treasure is reported.
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Lord Bacon
England
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Addess P.O
Wash
T. G. Dark
Marshal Schrader
Palmer
W. Dwight M Caughey
Washington — Street
Farmers
A. J. Davies
Columbia River
Almeda J. McCall
Wiester
C. L. Hover
New Brick School House
I. J. Bailey
Wm. Nicyte
Cleckum
Wenatchee Drug Co
J. B. Palmer
Wenatchee Ave
J. W. Stevenson
Chelan
Alice Barber Wick
Philadephia
Lake Chelan
H. R. Scheldnicht
H. A. Manchester
Miles Johnson
John Potts
Snohomish
F. W. Smith
Columbia River Lumber Company
J. J. Clapp
Nob Hill
M. R. Maxwell
Orondo Avenue
Frank Culp
Ceshmere
Episcopa Church
Wenatchee Theatre
W. Edmonds
Orondo
W. H. Scott
Southside
George Weightmen
Monitor
G. FE. Dye
Seattle
W. Harris
J. E. Ferguson
Walter Thomas
University of Washington
A. N. Maltbie
M. H. Davison
Nellie Robinson
Waterville
M. R. Meyers
Coulee City
Wenatchee Yeste
M. Camp
Chelan County Horticultural Society
Columbia Hotel
California
Northern
Cincinnati
Huntington
W. Va
Coaldale
Bluefield
North Dakota
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Boulevards
Will
Kansas City Times
FBI Ee
Wenatchee, Wash
Bank of California
Anglia-California Bank
San Francisco
Chase National Bank
New York
First National Bank
J.M Tompkins
Pres
R. F.lewis, V. P
John Goofrey
J. J. Browne
Moran
Guy C. Browne
Chas. H. Wildberger
Columbia Valley Bank
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