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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
3
A buggy caravan crossing a railway near Baird Springs jolted when a live freight engine approached. Eight riders fell or jumped clear. Dr Graves suffered head cuts and a temporary loss of consciousness but is improving. The other occupants escaped unharmed and the group continued toward their outing.
A letter from Johan son describes Castle Rock near Soap Lake as a homeland of Winesap apples with grand size flavor and a joking note on applejack. The writer notes sunny days quiet deaths and a Fourth of July celebration with fireworks late at night and a busy dance hall.
A historical sketch of fifteenth to eighteenth century grooming and manners. It notes wives protecting husbands from fleas, the reluctance to bathe, and the shift toward daily washing by the seventeenth century. It also covers nose blowing, snuff, door knocking, and etiquette debates of the era.
Local growers including T. Thomas T. Williams Beal Bros and Strucelmyer Bros report wheat yields of twenty to thirty bushels per acre after a half inch rain on Monday night. Other notices include cabbages, a cow lost on the railroad, and town updates on residents travel markets and church arrangements.
Mrs A Hamilton has improved after illness. Spencer Cole seeks work in Yakima. Chris Dummick returns home to tend crops. Jack Keizer goes to Weatonet to work. Tapley Parker Perry Ferguson Wagever to leave for harvest North of Quincy Tuesday. Drilling delay due to broken machinery. crews prepare to resume once fixed. Mason visit Royal Flats. Rain arrives Monday easing heat. sickness noted but rain cools the spell.
A newly married couple hosts guests at dinner when a rude guest taunts with a piece of meat on his fork and asks is this pig. A quiet guest at the far end replies which end of the fork do you refer to.
Dr Eva C Ditman practicing general medicine with specialty in women and children housed in the Columbia Valley Bank Building. Phone 1585. Two palm leaf fans offered for five cents at the Barrir. Purity of tone and ice cream purity advertised as refreshing to cool heated self at the Palmetto.
J. B. Brisbois manager of the Globe Hotel announces a private treatment for drunkenness with a promise of cure in three to five days. He asserts affidavits from hundreds of cured men and notes the private, unobtrusive nature of the service. Brisbois will be at Soxp Lake on the 19th or 20th for ten days.
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