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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1906
Page
4
Longtime residents and visitors share short notes from Wenatchee. Walter M. Olive travels to Cashmere on business. O S Sampson of Leavenworth visits Wenatchee for a weekend pleasure trip. several townsfolk move, travel or change jobs, and local businesses announce repairs and new offices.
The W C T U met with Mrs Albin who donated a dictionary for the reading room. Mrs Winans has recovered from illness and Mrs O'Brien along with her mother managed today. Visit the free reading room to try the candies and take a supply for Sunday.
An advertisement by T. A. Meredith, Doctor of Optics, promises cures for headaches, nervousness, irritability, faint spells, and eye issues. It guarantees satisfaction or a refund with reasonable prices and notes an office over the Post Office.
About 1700 horses are gathered in Ephrata Ephrats Washington corrals pending shipment. Roughly 1250 horses will be sent east tomorrow as men sort and cart the animals for loading. McCarty is the lead shipper this time with Townsend holding fewer horses in the lot. The horses are not yet on the tracks but expected tonight.
Market prices for fruit and vegetables listed by the Weratchee Growers Association. Pie cherries in straw berry crates and sweet cherries per box with values from 0.75 to 1.00. Strawberries A grade at 2.00, black caps 4.00, red raspberries 3.00 to 4.00, peas 0.04 per pound, beans 0.04 per pound, gooseberries 0.03 per 1 8.
Wenatchee school board advertises for bids to add eight rooms to Whitman school in stone and brick. Bid deposits require five percent certified checks due by noon July 3. Contractors to dismantle the wooden building on site and reuse materials. plans on file with Secretary Littlefield and the Seattle architect at Coleman building.
In Heppner Oregon June 18 the court ruled that a confectionery shop may stay open on Sundays due to perishable stock in the case State v Ashbaugh. E C Ashbaugh owner of the Pastime cigar and confectionery was charged under the blue law which requires Sunday closures. Saloonkeepers urged closures and arrests followed. The ruling favors local confectioners who plan to keep stores open Sundays.
Wm McMullen erects a fire residence on his ranch at Burch Flat. Mrs S F Fry recovers from a severe two week illness. Olds ranch balers finish baling for now. Mrs E F Fry ill for several days. P D Sator harvests last strawberries of the season. Friday rain refreshes residents. Miss Reider arrives home after travel delays from Montana. She will teach in her home county as upcoming town school principal.
Bluffton resident M F Burroughs endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best for bowel trouble after years of use in his family. It is urged as a summer emergency and available from all druggists.
Chicago June 18 Postmaster Busse issued an order that women are not wanted to work at the Chicago post office. Only 150 women are now employed on the postal list of 5,000 eligible. Busse said women need not apply for clerkships at civil service commissions. The move follows a discharge order from Barbar Asphalt Paving Company. The crusade against women drew heavy criticism.
The Pacific Royal mail steamship Empress of Britain completed the Liverpool to Cape Race crossing in three days and twenty one hours setting a new Atlantic record. It departed Liverpool Saturday at 6 am and reached the open sea by 9 am. The ship relayed a wireless message to the station 100 miles from shore at 6 am today. A separate item notes the M E church meeting at Mrs P P Holcomb's home on Tuesday at 2 pm.
St Louis June 18. General Manager George H Durant of the Bell Telephone company refuses to follow other city managers in banning peekaboo waists and open-work hosiery worn by hello girls. Durant supports the girls choice saying nothing in the constitution forbids such attire. The disputes stem from prekaboo fashion and openwork stockings amid proposed penalties for noncompliance.
The text notes ice cream enjoyed at the Palace Cafe on Sundays, produced at the Fern Candy Kitchen opposite the post office. It also includes a stray tag e618 and a hint to advertise for help.
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