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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1909
Page
3
The ad touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as equally priced with other medicines but superior value. It promises reliable results and cautions that neglected colds become serious. Price 25 and 50 cents a bottle, sold by all dealers.
J. A. Gellatly offers several thousand dollars to loan on approved city and farm property securing the loan with the collateral.
A local option bill, approved by the senate with one dissent, would bar brewers from holding saloon licenses or bonds and prohibit them from serving on saloon bonds. The measure, amended to include rectifiers, aims to end brewery ownership of saloons and could become a strong temperance reform.
A letter to the Yakima Morning Herald under the caption A Wenatchee Man's Query questions the origin of peach samples sent from Wenatchee, the prize winners at Spokane fair, and how one man could win with ten varieties. The writer, a Wenatchee resident, favors Yakima valley as the state fruit center and plans to move to North Yakima in 1909.
Associated Press reports Homer Davenport faces a comic dilemma after a letter from Akmat Haffez triggers a staged Arab wedding scene. Davenport must travel 10 000 miles or cover 1000 in wedding costs and provisions. The mock betrothal and best man role stem from Davenport’s past as an Arab acquaintance. A church dinner notice and grocery firm ad follow in the same item.
Pratt and Harkness open a new playhouse in the Gehr Fuller building on North Wenatchee Avenue. A clean up to date selection of moving pictures will be shown every afternoon and evening with a program changed every other evening. The management aims to make the venue a popular spot for afternoon or evening entertainment.
Washington reports Representative Jones petitioned the Indian Office for a Colville reservation townsite at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers and sought 2000 acres for irrigation under the Okanogan project. Reclamation Service input and Indian agent reporting were ordered. He also pursued Sunnyside project land sales with Land Commissioner Ross and requested timely action. Jones announced appointments of Moses Little and Henry Theirman as Yakima surplus land appraisers, contingent on forest service timber designation.
Twenty business and professional men and ranchers meet at city hall to organize the Wenatchee Valley Development company of Leavenworth. Dues set at 4 initiation and 1 monthly. some favor higher fees. Members from 18 or older may join. School year in brick building described. two school board seats to be elected. district finances good. Revival meetings continue with union service led by Rev. Luce. Local notices on bicycle and sewing machine repairs and denatured alcohol for chafing dishes.
The article notes large Jewish immigration to Palestine has brought writers scholars and professionals who lead education efforts. It highlights Jewish public libraries in Jaffa with 30 000 volumes and rarities, plus two major labor groups Poale Zion and Hapoel Hazior and a Jaffa league advancing cooperative institutions for Jewish workers.
Acting Governor Hay may sign the Potts Hotel Bill imposing annual inspections and a $5 fee on any boarding or rooming house renting ten or more rooms. The measure targets small dwellings converted to hotels, requires fire escapes, rope in rooms, and annual bed linen rules with inspectors issuing a compliance card.
Seventy acres total with 7 in orchard of bearing varieties, 8 in alfalfa, a 16 by 30 foot house with kitchen and dining room, a bath, and water plumbed in. Barn measures 30 by 30. Priced at 7 000 dollars with 2 000 dollars cash boot.
A brief item reports Claude Keeny, formerly of the city, writing to the Daily World asking to have the paper sent to him at Prince Rupert B C where he is located for education. The note mentions the Stoffels and a home visit by Capt and Mrs Stoffel.
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