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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
2
Waterville revels in a summer arena scene as local fans fill the stands. Athletes maneuver in the sun while spectators chant Hoch Wenatchee and await results. The event spotlights discus, hurdles, and sprinting amid civic pride.
An American editorial critiques moral overreach and the nation’s obsession with beauty. It argues Americans, steeped in Puritan heritage, chase art abroad, buy or imitate works, and rely on guardians like preachers and trustees to shape taste while lamenting cultural compromise. It references Carnegie museums, Anthony Comstock, Danbury school boards, and St. John’s trustees as examples of imported influence.
In Olympia on May 23, Assistant Attorney General Faulkner advised State Horticultural Commissioner Huntley that fruit growers associations selling produce on commission to nonmembers should be licensed as commission merchants if they operate as principal businesses. He noted the term principal is a fact question and urged enforcement with doubt. funding for enforcement remains unappropriated.
The St Paul Dispatch imagines future American history with Anthony Comstock and Carrie Nation as chief parents and mocks sensational reform rhetoric. The prose riffs on censorship, morals, and landmark laws with allegorical zeal and period voice.
Norfolk Virginia May 22 plan to link Jamestown exposition grounds with Hampton Roads by a water belt line using steamers carrying about 1500 passengers. Boats run every fifteen minutes from Campbell's wharf touching Portsmouth Navy Yard Newport News Old Point Comfort Fortress Monroe and more with coupon tickets allowing disembark at stops and return later.
Chicago plans an airship fair opening March 25 with dirigibles and airplanes in daily races from South Side park to downtown. Events include a race above the elevated "L" line, automobile flights, and a circuit around the Masonic temple. Prizes range from 500 dollars for certain feats to 3000 dollars to exhibitors displaying motor propelled airships.
The report notes expenses over a two week period and announces that kite flying will be included as a feature at the airship fair.
Bids will be received for the construction of a one story store building in Cashmere. The cement block structure will have a plate glass front and frontage of 86 feet on Division street and about 70 feet on Cottage avenue. Suitable bond required. Plans available at The Ellis Forde Co Wenatchee store.
Advertisement for bids to construct a four room brick school on the Lewis Clarke site in school district No 46 Chelan county Washington. Bids opened at 2 o clock p m June 3 1907. Board may reject all bids. Plans from H C Littlefield Director Clerk Wenatchee Wash.
The Wenatchee dealers list current quotations for meats fruits vegetables grain hay feed and flour. Items include Peach Blossom Flour bran shorts rolled barley and various meat values with steers veal ducks and hides noted among the prices.
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