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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1909
Page
2
A Wenatchee newspaper column notes Italy’s distress and the world’s reaction to calamity. It discusses warfare as a last resort, praises growing humanity, and cites The Hague tribunal as evidence of a shift toward averting war through reason and reflection.
Edward Bok condemns the comic supplement in the Ladies' Home Journal as insipid and injurious. He argues it lacks refinement and uplifting value, notes editors pander to demand, and sees similar fate awaiting such material as public taste shifts away from indecency.
The Tacoma Daily News discusses a proposed State City to house the capital and all state institutions. It notes practical obstacles, costs, and local opposition in existing states, arguing such a unified complex might be ideal yet impractical given current conditions and jealousies.
Local notes from Peshastin report improving health of Lora Hendricks after typhoid fever. Debates at the New New Year meeting address immigration and a proposed postal savings bank. Land sales show rising prices with Krauze selling seven and a half acres at 1000 per acre. Community talks of a Fruit Growers union and a new steel Wenatchee river bridge. Meeker brothers suffer a milk delivery accident. one horse injured. Visits from Seattle residents and Wenatchee outings noted. A new church nearing completion and local officials plan road work. Temperance leader Hester T Griffith urges birth education and public school instruction to curb crime and disease, citing 93,000 affected children.
The notice advertises a savings plan with 4 percent interest compounded semiannually and invites readers to save and deposit. Miss Elouise Scheble departed for Seattle for an extended visit, with friends seeing her off at the train.
Los Angeles January 4 The proposed law requires the state board of health to issue a free book of instructions on parental physiological and psychological laws with each marriage license. The draft aims for next legislature to pass the statute and make pamphlets compulsory.
The Toledo case reports a jury sparing the juvenile killer with life imprisonment after convicting him of murdering his mother with a hammer for robbery. The New York World comments on the case, noting the youth’s age as the sole mitigating factor.
Start the year with a savings account at Columbia Valley Bank. Any deposit made before January 10 earns interest from January 1 at four percent payable semi annually.
The 1908 cereal crops in Washington are valued at 27.7 million dollars with total seven-crop value reaching 42.0 million. Winter wheat tops at 11.6 million, spring wheat 10.7 million, oats 4.14 million, hay 9.23 million, barley 3.01 million, rye 0.52 million, corn 0.35 million. Wheat crops total 22.27 million. hay 9.23 million. Rye, potatoes, and corn yields given with per bushel and ton values. Potatoes 4.56 million bushels at 67 cents each. Hay 1.4 million tons at 7.10 dollars per ton.
A loan advertisement states several thousand dollars available to borrow on approved city and farm security. Lender identified as J. A. Gellatly.
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