Royal family stipends and European rulers salaries listed
Washington notes parliamentary debate over traveling expenses for Taft and reviews monarchs pay. England pays the king 2 350 000 yearly plus 550 000 for private use, duchy revenues 300 000, and Wales prince 100 000 with 50 000 for princess. Other European lists include Kaiser Wilhelm civil list 3 741 192, Austria Hungary 4 538,800, Italy 2 905 000, Netherlands 241 000 plus palace funds, Belgium 685 000, Spain 1 251 000 with 86 850 queen and 48 250 mother, Portugal 394 000, Sweden 380 000 and 80 400 annuity, Norway 187 000, Denmark 268 000, France president 115 800 plus 115 800 expenses.
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Prince of Wales
Duchy of Cornwall
Kaiser Wilhelm
Prussia
Francis Joseph
Austria
Hungary
Italy
Netherlands
Belgiim
Spain
Portugal
Manuel II
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
French Republic
Coast chambers debate Pacific coast visit to China
Seattle July 26 The Associated Chambers of Commerce of Pacific coast cities consider inviting a delegation to visit main Chinese ports in February 1910. San Francisco Portland Tacoma Spokane and Seattle have accepted. Oakland Los Angeles and San Diego undecided. J D Lowman leads arrangements. China plans steamship and rail travel for 4000 miles to foster trade relations.
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Seattle
Associated Chambers of Commerce
China
Pacific Coast
Amos Wilder
Shanghai
Amoy
Foochow
Nanking
Canton
Woochow
San Francisco
Portland
Tacoma
Spokane
Oakland
Los Angeles
San Diego
J. D. Lowman
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Associated Chambers
China Mail Company
Russians Starving in Alaska Welfare Crisis Spurred by Mine Owners
Hundreds of Russians who came to Alaska seeking work are reported starving in Nome Dawson and Fairbanks. The Nome Industrial Worker accuses mine owners of sending workers to suppress wages. No proof on how they were brought in exists. The paper calls for immediate relief and accountability for those responsible.
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Alaska
Nome
Dawson
Fairbanks
Nome Industrial Worker
The
Western Federation of Miners At
Stray Opigs From Little Old New York
New York July 24. Suffragettes shift to indoor meetings but attendance remains light amid humorous incidents. A Nassau Light and Power protest ends in a woman occupying a dig site. A missing man’s wife fears insurance proceeds. An anti noise ordinance passes but excludes many loud nuisances. The Hip Sing Tong banquet proceeds without incident. A New Jersey suit concerns kissed women seeking damages. Trilby opera adaptation heads to New York stages with Mary Garden.
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New York
Nassau Light and Power Company
Sea Cliff
L. I
Hip Sing Tong
New Jersey
Mary Garden
Salome
Change in Undertaking Firm in Vallejo
E. Sprague has sold a half interest in his undertaking business to L. E. Rupp of Vallejo California. Rupp is an experienced undertaker with high recommendations and will take charge of the business. The sale covers the business only, not the building.
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Beatrice Thaw
Marquis Theodoll
Francesco Maria Theodoll
Miss Thaw
Alexander Thaw
Pittsburg
Harry Thaw
Countess of
Yarmouth
E. F. Sprague
Terest
Chamberlain's Remedy Cited As Saver Of $100 In Illness
R N Farrar of Cat Island Louisiana recalls a 1902 diarrhoea illness and credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with relief during a 1907 attack. He says using it then would have saved a $100 doctors bill. sold by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
R. N. Farrar
Cat Island
Mrs Wiswell’s Home in Seattle Welcomes Visitors
Wenatchee visitors to Seattle are advised to seek comfort at Mrs Wiswell’s 4529 Brooklyn Avenue. Cars from the depot to Eastlake and Wallingford routes go directly to the house. Rates are $1 per day for a room and bath, with advance engagement recommended.
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Seattle
Wenatchee
Wenatchee Fruit Growers Invite Carrot Shipments to Seattle
Wenatchee and nearby fruit growers are invited to join the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers association to load express carrot shipments to Seattle and other Sound points. Loading starts Wednesday July 28 at the Wenatchee express office with weekly Monday and Thursday sessions. Consign to Seattle commission house and deliver to the express office. charges are 2 cents per box for apples pears cantaloupes and similar packages and 1 cent for plums prunes tomatoes etc. Express costs drop from 85 cents per hundredweight to 45 cents on car lots of 20 000 pounds and 50 cents on cars of 15 000 pounds. Balch.
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Wenatchee
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Gressman Scott
Kansas
England
Scott
Duchy of Lancaster
the Dragon
TER
Kewanee
Fiske & Gillette Heating and Plumbing Contractors
Mission Street
Moorefield
Moorefields
Nature
Mission ST
Little Old New York
James P. Hoover
P. Nelson
Wenatchee Avenue
INTER
L. E. Rupp
Vallejo
Cal
Vallejo, Cal
Mr. Rupp
Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers Association
E. T. Balch
Lamp
Aikin & Cassidy
Republic Building
Chas. Becker
F. A. Rogers
Okanogan Avenue
Stevens School
Chelan County Realty CO
First National Bank
ACME
M. D. Merrill
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