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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
2
City readers urged immediate Wenatchee Avenue improvement to restore a proper street level, curb mud holes, and attract business. Abutting property owners should fund the work, with condemnation possible if needed, as the council moves toward an official improvement plan.
Public mood favors a fair trial as jurors are seated and Judge Fremont Wood seeks to speed hearings. The lengthy process may stretch weeks or months with evidence, arguments, and technical objections shaping the course of the Haywood case.
A Texas jury in Austin verdicts Waters-Pierce Co. guilty of fraudulently entering the state and fines the company 1,628,900 dollars. The court grants ouster and a receiver to prevent asset removal until final ruling.
A New York bootblack Jimmy attends a mission school where a Christmas tree gift disappoints him with Browning poems. He exchanges it for a tin of bootblack and explains his need, turning the tale into a humorous moral about expectations and exchange.
A salesman explains duck billed platypus and echidna as egg laying mammals from South America. The dialogue notes platypus lays two eggs and echidna one, carried in a pouch until hatch. Separate piece highlights a stenographer misreading French lines and an English poem line about laughing with the world.
The Chicago Record-Herald jokes that Mrs. Henpeck keeps her husband highly trained. He would jump through a hoop on command and even assists in celebrating the anniversary of her marriage to her first husband.
The piece mocks Dr. Risk failing to satisfy Calvinistic members who demand more about renouncing self righteousness. A Spartan Plaindealer quips that prickly thistles have uses yet do not justify becoming one.
The writer contrasts giant laughers to Cervantes and Sterne, labeling the former as jolly roarers and guffawers while the latter are “smilers.” Cervantes and Sterne are deemed thin, lean, ironic smiles, with Sterne termed a diluted Rabelais.
A stockbroker describes his father’s age with a financial metaphor. He says his father is quoted at eighty with prospects to reach par and possibly be at a premium, reflecting his mind for business even while discussing family.
A dialogue fragment shows Mr Hearsey proposing a kiss to Miss May and her witty reply about restraint. The scene references Whitt and a character Coryanten in a literary or dramatic exchange.
A West Somerset fox eluded the hounds by swimming to sea and back to shore where it trotted away unharmed. The master spared the fox, and the day’s chase ended. In town, an agent for Ideal weeders displays stock at Wenatchee and Orondo avenues urging early orders before stock runs out.
The narrator recalls a college prank filled freshman year memories on Washington's birthday. A seven foot student grabs a helper during a snowball fight while one man fells an opponent with a precise throw. The tale ends with a quip about a report in the snow.
Local market prices list meats fruits vegetables grain hay feed and flour including Peach Blossom Flour stock items and prices such as 1.35 per unit and 21.00 for bran and shorts. Fraternal notices show A O U W No 83 meets on the 2nd and 4th Fridays at Bow er hall with H Dennis as W M and H W Stockton as Recorder. Also MacCABEES of the World Wenatchee Tent No 56 meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at Bow er hall.
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