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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
3
The World urges renters to place small ads for rooms in its pages to attract steady inquiries. Readers are reminded that repeated calls to the World office can secure listings and quick occupancy.
Edison predicts rapid airship travel with passengers across oceans in 18 hours at 200 mph within five years. He says the North Pole can be reached in a 48 hour trip and a heliocopter could circle the globe in a week, stressing automatic operation and reduced human control.
Ed S Russell purchased 725 acres of orchard land on Sunnyslope from I P Ferrin for 2500 dollars. Four and a half acres are set to trees. Federal jurors drawn for the county term include Grand jurors C R Dexter Lakeside and C E Preston. Petit jurors listed: H S Simmons Wenatchee J A Fansler Okanogan C B Reed Malaga Arthur Gunn Wenatchee. Grand jurors report 10 a m Monday September 28 in the Hutton building clerk’s office. petit jurors report same hour the following day.
City ordinance prohibits coasting or sliding with a sled or riding bicycles tricycles or velocipedes on any sidewalk in Wenatchee. Violations carry a fine from 1 to 50 dollars. enforcement will be stringent, announces J E Ferguson.
A hotel ledger records guests including J. F. English of Newark Ohio C G Sanford of Portland E C Case of Seattle Mrs Gardnerff and Mrs S T Hart of Spokane Jos Kyle of Grand Forks Philip Miller and P Swanson of Seattle Chas Hedler O A Hoag C W Dixon Chas Pook M W Harris Geo Henton and wife C W Eckman Geo White Kelley R C Blake R J Hunter E W Fawny Frederick T Webb John Kiernan and E H Epperson and wife of Seattle.
The Spokane Interstate Fair aims for a record six nights of crowds with nightly attractions. Strobel’s airship Sensation circus and vaudeville programs bands fireworks and a huge midway. Special nights feature Eagle drill team Mystery orders and reunions by state societies.
Farmers Telephone and Telegraph seeks a franchise to build operate and maintain telephone lines over all Chelan County public roads Washington The hearing is set for October 5 1908 at 2 pm in Chelan County Court House Public notice required by the county auditor to be posted in Wenatchee and on county roads and published three times in Daily World before October 5 1908 indicating all county and public roads in Chelan County Washington as the description.
The Washington Star recalls Champ Clark visiting the capital on business for a client. He meets an old friend at the hotel and brings the friend to the desk asserting favors and promising to pay for any excess, saying charge it to him. The clerk acknowledges Mr Brown’s debt to Clark’s friend.
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