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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
4
The Wenatchee Daily World details subscription prices and delivery options. One year by mail in advance costs 5.00, six months 2.50, and carrier delivery at 10 cents per week. The paper is published daily except Sundays by World Advance Pub Co with editor W S Trimble and advertising manager B Stohl.
Close observers see a head to head battle between Miles Poindexter the progressive candidate and Jno L Wilson the stalwart leader with four fringe contenders. Poindexter champions Roosevelt policies while Wilson values party harmony and eastern leadership.
The text cautions against overreliance on imagination in describing two sage brush towns and suggests a potential rude awakening may follow. It presents a measured note about later consequences rather than a concrete event or outcome.
The piece denounces Governor Haskell for hastily relocating the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City before election returns. It accuses him of smallness and meanness and notes the public chose a capitol change by vote while condemning the midnight move.
Oregon citizens near Weston plan a petition to the state legislature to enact an initiative bill funding state normal schools with a direct tax levy. If lawmakers balk, they may seek passage by referendum at the next general election. The move aims to override a reluctant legislature. Also, Judge Burke and John L. Wilson,U S senate hopefuls from Seattle, toured eastern Washington but quickly left after poor turnout and strong Poindexter support among Republicans.
A Louisiana legislator says he will introduce a bill to suppress bridge whist so husbands can spend time with wives and children and learn their mothers. The Everett Herald warns courts may see it as a low rank discrimination favoring Pinochle and Seven Up.
A Spokane letter from T H Walker a former local linotype operator complains of Spokane water famine. He jokes about trading Mayor Gellatly and Water Commissioner Pat Sherburne for Spokane officials and asks for relief noting his North Monroe hill water woes and a disparaging remark about prior water cutoffs. The writer signs off in frustration with his wife’s sentiment about leaving We natchee.
Proceedings cover tax corrections for Lamb-Davis Lumber Co and other financial adjustments. They grant C B Clark pipeline work, deny North Wenatchee Ave improvements, approve School District 26 withdrawal from Union High, and authorize bridge bids, road changes, and a Chelan Falls water pipeline franchise to Geo D Brown with 25 year term plus renewal conditions.
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