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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1908
Page
2
Public notices indicate the Farmers telephone listing at Wenatchee Washington shows line 1132 for office and editorial use at the Daily World Building. The item notes second class mail handling and a price of 5 dollars with a 2.50 charge and a 10 value.
The Wenatchee school board grants a special holiday to allow children to view the fleet in Seattle. Students attending will gain patriotic instruction and information richer than many days of regular school.
Max Bass general immigration agent for the Great Northern visits Wenatchee this week and notes a growing east to Central Washington exodus. He has invested in Wenatchee with a large orchard across the Columbia, signaling confidence in the region’s future.
The World praises Wenatchee High School's Wa Wa-1909 as superb and a perfect compendium dedicating the volume to Prof. E. Riste. It highlights student portraits, staff roles, alumni notes, and a write-up of major school events. Decoration Day picnic is postponed to another date out of respect for solemn memories.
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The Westminter Gazette recalls Jean Richepin's rise from precarious work as bootblack and porter to a writer. A chance trunk delivery unearthed his manuscripts, stunning a college friend and prompting publication that sparked a dramatic career shift.
Walter Rothschild, heir to the Rothschild fortune, survives a flirtatious plot as a young man when a designing mother and daughter try to secure a proposal. He overhears them at a watering place and the daughter jokes about his kangaroos before he apologizes and vows to avoid such tales.
From 1689 notes trace the evolving name of Saratoga from Serachtague to Saragh toge and Sarachtoge. The text recalls a convention decision during Leisler era to dispatch Lief Jochim Staets with ten men to Sarachtoge to assess an Indian hostilities report at Bartel Vromans.
A fragment discusses sending a post with tides and notes spelling reforms. It observes wording shifts from ye to the, and forthwith as for with. Schoolcraft links Saratoga to Indian roots and place meaning.
A Satur day Evening Post anecdote recounts a pilgrim visiting Summit N J and asking a thirty year liveryman if he knows Dr Hamilton Wright Mabie. The driver insists Mabie is a newspaper reporter not a doctor with a wooden leg quip from Mabie. Lord Young finds wit at a public dinner about a water trust. A father tests a boy on the proverb as black as your hat offering a tactile definition.
School boys sought for mail routes and paper folding duties. Names to World office. Woman wanted for kitchen work. room at home preferred. Roosevelt Hotel. May 26.
The steamer will depart Wenatchee for Bridgeport on Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings with return trips leaving Bridgeport the same night. Passengers may request special folders on the Okanogan irrigation project and the Lake Chelan district.
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