Appalling List of G N Disasters
A condensed report recounts a six month spree of Great Northern wrecks and injuries from St Paul Minnesota to Havre Montana. It cites mail train accidents, derailments and collisions with clerks injured or killed, and shows financial strains on a railway clerks benefit fund amid mounting losses.
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Great Northern
Spokesman-Review
G. N
Railway Post Office
Railway Mail Service
Interstate Commercee Commission
St. Paul
Minn
Havre
Mont
Walkway
Tenth Division
Grand Forks
Spokane
Camden
Great Northern Railway
Whitefish
Seattle
Relay race planned for Fourth of July by two firms
Arrangements are under way for a 520 yard relay on July 4. Ellis Forde’s team includes Gordon Boyd Harry Miller Ed Preece and Charley McNerney while Harlin Meat Co signs N Lake Nelson Sloane and Emex. The race will be laid out and judged by the regular Fourth of July track committee.
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Daily World
Ellis
County Commissioners Set Meeting for Monday
County commissioners, who adjourned on Wednesday, will reconvene Monday, July 1, to handle further official business. Chairman Saunders asks those with business or county bills to attend. The group aims to clear unfinished items and pay outstanding bills. a second meeting is planned for August.
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Saunders
Bride Stolen Night of Wedding Party In Tally-Ho Raid
Attorney B J Williams returned to W A Thompson home to find his bride missing. He feared kidnapping until a phone call revealed she was among friends. The tally ho party had spirited the bride away while Williams was away, with several guests listed as participants from Wells to Berger.
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B. J. Williams
W. A. Thompson
Snd
Williams
York
Nebraska
Wells
Mahoney
Vaughn
Miller
Wyman
Culp
Hines
Hutchinson
Kemp
Woods
Berger
Will Ply for Hire in Wenatchee Garage Venture
Ea Canfield, famed chaffeur, plans a Wenatchee transportation business with an automobile for hire. He has chartered the Gebreaching to establish the first true garage operation in town, marking a new era for local transport services.
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Ea Canfield
Chaffeur
Wenatchee
Canfield
Gebreaching
Chewawa Hotel Opened With Grand Wenatchee Festivities
A grand opening of the Chewawa hotel last night drew a cosmopolitan crowd to Wenatchee. The event featured a decorated hotel bus, a marching band, lavish refreshments, and welcomes from Austin and Ruger as the hotel opened to the public as a leading local institution.
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Chewawa
Messrs
Austin
Ruger
Wenatchee
Aged Pioneer B. B. Holcomb Dies At Home
B B Holcomb an early valley settler dies about 1 30 pm after weeks of illness. Heart disease and age-related complications claimed the life with family and friends present. Survived by wife and three children Pearl P Holcomb Ida Garrett and John Phipps all residents of the city. Funeral plans will be announced in tomorrow s Daily World.
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B. B. Holcomb
Culp
Hier
Pearl P. Holcomb
Ida Garrett
John Phipps
Daily World
Voters wait as final ballot day nears with forecast of last minute surge
The text notes a waiting electorate with predictions of a late avalanche of votes tomorrow when polls close at seven. It lists names with tallies such as Martha Koehler 1100 Tone Bozarth 791 Minnie Wilson and others, followed by an ad for Wells & Morris offering fishing rods and tackle.
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Martha Koehler
Tone Bozarth
Minnie Wilson
Mildred Finch
Blanche Beard
Zelma Reeves
Irene Austin
Ita Messerly
Sadie Godfrey
Sylvia Grant
Mildred Hallenbeck
Eva Tedford
Murrell Prebles
Halcyon Morrison
Bessie Graham
Stella Adams
Three-Month Extension Granted to Okanogan Canal Contractors
The interior secretary granted three month extensions to James A Barker Rederick W Rosenfelt and John W Douglas all of Pogue for finishing embankment work on the Okanogan main canal. Delays were caused by extreme cold and frozen ground delaying the original May 1 deadline. Wenatchee watches the project with interest as regional development and a railroad along the Columbia are seen as major benefits.
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Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Interior
Okanogan Irrigation Project
James A. Barker
Rederick W. Rosenfelt
John W. Douglas
Pogue
Wenatchee
Okanogan
North Country
Columbia
Painful Accident to Small Boy Injures Mc Creery Child
The seven year old son of the Mc Creery family on North Miller street burned his feet on red hot coals in an afternoon backyard fire. Neighbors carried him inside and Dr. Culp attended him. The doctor says the boy is not in danger and should recover.
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McCreery
North Miller Street
Dr. Culp
Misunderstanding Over a Local Cayuse Ends in Swap
An amusing mixup in town involved a tenderfoot an agile cayuse and Constable Simmons. Melvin Krauss known as Chicago owned a horse that changed hands from Ping to Courtnay before Krauss returned and rode off on it. Simmons tracked Krauss through town and explanations followed.
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Simmons
Melvin Krauss
Chicago
F. E. Ping
Krauss J
Krauss
Bert Courtnay
Ping
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Hig
Wenatchee Valley
Wells & Morris
Columbus
Express
Wenatchee Military Band
Wenatchee Electric Company
Sunnyslope
M. W. Nelson
Poplar Street
Wenatchee Post Office
Wenatchee Realty and Investment Co
Crystal Springs
Frank E. Knapp
Entiat
Wash
A. Greenfield
Oliver L. Peterson
Leroy Wright
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