Slim man sought to run pre cooling railway car
Washington May 7 Uncle Sam seeks a very thin man to operate refrigerating machinery in a government railway car for pre cooling fruit. A civil service exam was held today as agencies plan to send Special Agent Powell to Wenatchee Yakima and Puyallup districts next fall to teach proper apple packing and demonstrate car equipment. S A Shaw arrived from Tacoma and returned home.
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Washington
Sam
Chee
Yakima
Puyallup
Ex Empress Eugenie Birthday Marked in London
London May 5 Ex Empress Eugenie widow of the last Napoleon is celebrating her 83rd birthday. Once a brilliant figure at European courts she endured a dramatic fall from power and fortune. Born May 5 1826 in Granada she rose from obscurity to marry Napoleon III and later faced exile, illness, and tragedy including the deaths of Napoleon and her son.
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London
Eugenie
Napoleon
France
Granada
Spain
Eugenie d Montijo
Count de Montijo
Kirkpatrick
Louis Napoleon
Second Republic
Adventuress
Sedan
Paris
Dr. Evans
England
Chiselhurst
South Africa
Massive British Columbia bush fires devastate mills and farms
A sweeping bush fire across Notch Hill to Three Valley and Sicamous to Vernon destroys two large sawmills the Carlin and Carrigan valued at 75000 and 35000 dollars respectively. Hundreds of thousands in property lose cattle barns and homes with many ranchers fleeing for safety. Principal losers include Narcesse J. Suckle A. Judge and S. P. Matthews.
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Kamloops, B. CC
Notch Hill
Three Valley
Sicamous
Vernon
Carlin
Tappens Siding
Carrigan Mill
Salmon River
Salmon Arm
Narcesse J. Suckle
A. Judge
S. P. Matthews
Convicts Join Golden Rule Club At San Quentin
Five hundred convicts at San Quentin pledge to do good be good and make good in a reform movement led by Z P Smith of Berkeley. Pins and remarks highlight the impact of the address on inmates and a lifer notes the talk surpassed prior sermons. One prisoner asks Smith to intervene in his wife’s divorce.
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San Francisco
San Quentin
Golden Rule Club
Z. P. Smith
Berkeley
Smith
Canned goods mostly pure says Dr Wiley letter
Chicago May 5 Dr W H Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry criticizes artificial color sweetener or chemical preservative in canned foods noting the vast majority contain only food with minimal additives. He urges advertising of this fact and warns against harming the trade. B4 you buy see second hand bicycles from J Eyer with prices from five dollars.
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Chicago
W. H. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Walter A. Frost
National
Dried Fruit and Canned Goods Brokers’ Association
Tiny dictionary watch charm gains Brooklyn owner
New York, May 7. A pocket English dictionary of 364 pages, defining 14 000 words, was found in a silver case with magnifier. Peter J. Collison, president of Collison & Co., says it is a unique watch charm and the only copy he has seen in the United States.
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New York
Peter J. Collison
Collison & Co
Brooklyn
the Herald
George Martin
Columbus
Ohio
United States
Collison
Scotland
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Agricultural Department OF
THE
Government
Wesley L. Jones
Agricultural Department
Powell
Wenat
S. A. Shaw
Tacoma
Empress Eugenie
Idol
New Furniture Store
B. W. Ludington
Prop
Wenatchee Avenue
First Street
Olympia Cafe
Singay
Queen Olives
Boston
Olympia
Wenatchee
Wenatchee Ice Cream Factory
Neely & Company
Neubauer’s
First St
B. C
Wiester’s
Barrington
Strel-Cut
Oxfords
Vici Kid
H. L. Weister
ROYAL
Worcester
Convict’s
Wiley
J. J. Eyer
Mrs. Folk
Husband
Tennessee
World Useful
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
Brownsville
Tenn
Folk
St. Louis
Vanderbilt University Law School
Gertrude Glass
Jefferson City
the Presbyterian Church
A. E. Thompson
Fred Lynch
Lamar
Colorado
Walker & Widney
Mission and
Orondo Avenue
Lynch
Chamberlain
Hilton
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