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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
4
Wenatchee Daily World opens its Missing Word Ad Contest inviting readers to submit clues for a missing word. Entries must be received by the contest deadline and include participant contact information for publication consideration. Local readers urged to compete.
Announcement invites the public to have carriages painted while snow blocks use, urging calls to M O Merrill and W F O Neail. Also notes Drayage and Transfer services and an optical exhibit by R Be Hastings J Wait Hess at Hotel Chewawa with Mr Wolff and Mr Hess, experts from Spokane and Germany respectively.
Doctor of optics Herbert W. Capeiana will be at the Hotel Roosevelt until Thursday evening offering free eye tests and guaranteed work.
Before adjourning the mayor ordered no liquor sales in the red light district and the council moved to draft an ordinance closing eating and lodging houses tied to salons with curtains removed. The mayor pledged even enforcement of laws without fear or favor as the city remains in harmony on major issues. Advertised letters from the post office in Wenatchee for week ending Jan 14 1907 include L H Alger W M Burchell A Cimolai Mrs S E Dille and Mr J B.
A damaged OCR notice lists names including Embree Mrs N C Bilis Miss Car eil Mrs Alice Gahr Edwin Heally C P Knibbs Mrs W A Laraway Hattie IjaFeere Sylvester Long E vn H C McCray L V Martin H W Nelson Ediths Peyton A Smith Mrs Affe Shaw Souash Patsy Taylor Wm Van Voris Forte Wheeler Glen Vaaxk Wegner. Readers called to respond to the advertisement.
Mr and Mrs George Rose of Everett traveled Monday morning to attend the funeral for George Rose and returned to their home yesterday according to the report.
A Boston reporter in the northwestern state sought sensational lynching notes, prompting locals to reveal their brutal justice myth. Another tale recalls an English son taking his father by train to London, triggering the old man's cry I told you something would happen, you young villain I m struck blind after a tunnel crash.
A collage of witty quips and observations from the era. Joseph Jefferson cautions Yale juniors about bachelors and marriage while a colored girl’s mispronunciation and a drug clerk’s color misstep evoke social humor. Among brief notes are domestic politics, a note on foreign gold in panic, and stray jests on industry, weather, and divorce motives.
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