Wenatchee River Improvements and Community Initiatives
The piece urges funding for a Wenatchee valley publicity campaign at the A Y P exposition to attract investment, notes the need to fill the Columbia river reservoir for security, and praises enforcement of a curfew by Chief Inscho to curb late street roaming. It also argues tip bans raise wages for porters and improve rail and hotel staff living standards.
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Squillechuck
Columbia
Wenatchee
Wenatchee Valley
The
Commercial Club
A.Y.P. Exposition
Inscho
This Date in History June 24 Through 1908
A chronological list of historical events and births on June 24 across years from 1675 to 1908. Highlights include King Philip’s War start, Anne’s fleet in 1711, Hull as Michigan’s first territorial governor, Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign, Beecher’s birth, Hancock nomination, and Cleveland’s death.
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Swanzey
Plymouth Colony
Canada
Boston
William Hull
Michigan
Derby
Conn
Newtown
Mass
Henry Ward Beecher
Litchfield
Brooklyn
John G. Downey
California
Ireland
Birth of General Lord Kitchener Celebrated on May 59th
The celebrated British General General Lord Kitchener, commander in India, born in County Kerry Ireland on June 24 1850, educated at Woolwich, led Egyptian cavalry 1882 to 1884 and Egypt Sudan service, later Boer War commander in chief, raised to peerage and viscount after wartime achievements. note also Jack Mahoney's arrival from Leavenworth yesterday.
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Lord Kitchener
India
County Kerry
Ireland
Royal Military Academy
Woolwich
Royal Engineers
England
Egypt
Soudan
Khartoum
Kitchener
South Africa
Japanese to Tour United States
Tokyo reports Baron Yei Ichi Shibuzawa will head a 30 man Japanese business delegation touring the United States in September. The trip follows an exchange of notes between Ambassador Thomas J. O'Brien and Count Komura with Japanese commercial bodies selecting leaders for the mission. Shibuzawa, a famed industrial figure, helped found Tokyo's first bank and led the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce since its start.
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Tokyo
Yei-Ichi Shibuzawa
United States
Empire
Thomas J. O’brien
Count Komura
Japan
Count Komuka
Baron Shibuzawa
Dye family relocates to Riverside area above Orondo
Harry Dye, new purchaser of the Ross place above Orondo, arrived last night and went up the river this morning. His old home was in Iowa, but he has based in Tacoma in recent years. The Dye family are longtime acquaintances of U. K. Lail.
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Harry Dye
Ross Place
Orondo
Mr. Dye
Iowa
Tacoma
Dye
U. K. Lail
London air fleet fears debunked by a12 Lupton figures
London reader Arnold Lupton argues a large air attack on the city would require millions of bombs and hundreds of airships or planes, making a successful strike unlikely. He calculates 20 million dollars needed to destroy major landmarks with explosive drops, noting practical limits and implausible hit rates.
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London
Lupton
Bank of England
Royal Exchange
Mansion House
Mr. Lupton
In Bed He Shoots a Fox While Sick in Bed
J Clay ton Gable of Felton, bedridden by typhoid fever, shot a red fox from his window when it entered the hennery. His wife urged him to rise with pillows and loaded the gun. The fox was crippled by the shot and killed by the wife with a club after a chase.
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York
J. Clayton Gable
Felton
Gable
Dismissal in Liquor Charge Against Louis Vendell
Louis Vendell, arrested on liquor selling to an intoxicated Indian, was freed today by motion of Prosecuting Attorney Kemp. The dismissal cites insufficient evidence linking him to the crime.
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Louis Vendell
Direct
Kemp
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rufus Woods
W. 8. Trimble
Daily World
Daily* World Building
Washington
Farmers
Wash
Columbia Valley Bank
J. Browne
M. Horan
Guy C. Browne
Frank D. Case
Charles E Owens
Wenatchee Park
Joseph A. Murphy
Alfred L. Hil
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
GEM Cafe
Wenatchee Avenue
R.S. Keiser
Maryland
Navy Department
Cincinnati
Winfield S. Hancock
Grover Cleveland
Princeton, N. J
Caldwell, N. J
Jack Mahoney
Leavenworth
Arnold Lupton
Eng
Sleaford
H. C. Littlefield
Oregon
Dougas
M. R. Rossi
Douglas Street
E. A. Nichols
King Street
Dr. King
C Street
Will Little
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Grig Ney Bed
Panama
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Douglas and
Florsheim
Oxfords
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