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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1909
Page
4
A Seattle Times essay warns that careless talk can wound like stray bullets. It argues apologies rarely heal the hurt and urges restraint to avoid needless harm. The piece cites cases in San Francisco and New York and contrasts personal harm with political danger.
The insurgent Republican senators are hailed as heroes in the tariff battle though the bill remains below party promises. Democrats sided with Aldrich and Cannon on key schedules, earning both sides praise and blame. The fight reveals a rift, revealing kinship across old party lines and signaling a potential new political alignment.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer lauds William Allen White's novel A Certain Rich Man as a masterful American epic. It portrays life in America from 1857 to 1909, centering on a son of an abolitionist who builds a national provisions empire. The critique calls it a great American novel and worthy for real Americans.
Attorney General Wickersham dismisses Utah Fuel Co. cases over coal lands theft after a $73,000 payment and transfer of 800 acres back to the United States. The move signals mercy in federal action against large interests while upholding law.
The speaker contrasts railway land grabs with petty fraud, arguing that railways stole coal lands and issued bonds while packers faced mercy. He cites Wickersham’s leniency toward bondholders and rebating packers, noting mercy as a cloudburst on bondholders and emphasizing differing justice for corporations and individuals.
A Rochester, New York heiress elopes with the home team star pitcher, sparking society scandal. The tale contrasts a senator’s daughter wed to an Italian duke seeking wealth with a left handed ballplayer husband, while a rival says the pitcher may throw the pennant. The piece uses sharp, sensational language about ethnicity and class.
A London rumor claims King Edward purchased U S Steel on a tip from J P Morgan. The story speculates the king could have netted about one million dollars from the rise. Reporters are praised whether fact or fiction.
A historic notice promotes the Zediker Institute of Drugless Healing offering osteopathy, electricity, hydrotherapy and related treatments under the NATUROPATHY banner. Founded by James F. and Almira M. Zediker, the clinic operated seven years in the Ditter block at 211 East Yakima Avenue and reports 1700 cases treated with no knife or drugs. Main 6738.
For sale is a South African veteran bounty land certificate issued by Canada under the Volunteer Bounty Act. It grants 20 acres of open Dominion Land in Alberta Saskatchewan or Manitoba. Any person over 18 may acquire with this certificate for $800. Write or wire L. E. Telford 131 Shuter St Toronto Canada.
In East Bay township near Traverse City two large artificial cranberry bogs are being created by University of Michigan engineering students Ray and W F Jackson. They channel water between small lakes and fill low areas with sand and gravel to form 10 acre bogs. Planting will start soon, with full bearing years away. The Walton berry may yield 200 to 800 bushels per acre at $600 to $700 per barrel. The project spans 160 acres and converts waste land into productive bogs.
Two hundred Sioux Indians tired of reservation life plan to migrate to a highland area in Nicaragua promised by President Zelaya. They aim to live primitively, fight for Zelaya when summoned, and lease their allotted 320 acres to whites while retaining ownership.
Mrs. Mary Bermerton of Meridian Idaho was struck and killed by a Seattle-Tacoma interurban train at Tukwila ten miles south of Seattle while attempting to cross the tracks.
The famed Muir glacier in Alaska reappears after hiding for nine years, with ships in Glacier Bay able to peek its left face through drifted lanes. Observers note changes since the 1890s, including a split into active and dead sections and a newly formed bay. the glacier has retreated about four miles during its concealment.
Tillie T. Tolan who proved in 1907 she was not the wife of a stranger now marries Henry Hammerstrom after a courtship. In a 1907 case Klimovitz had identified her as his wife via a mother in law and sister but Miss Tolan disputed the claim and later proved her identity with a back mark absence. Klimovitz later sought divorce.
A brief exchange reveals a playful moment as one character questions the whereabouts of a heart while the other deflects with cautious optimism about good intentions. The dialogue centers on sincerity and a lighthearted search.
The high priestess of Theosophists Mrs Annie Besant spoke in Brighton on Monday on The Closing and the Opening Age. Her lecture traced history as unfolding spirits and cycles, linking the Roman era to the Teutonic dawn and the rise of a new civilization sparked by the Christ. She noted the dawning of a new era as the prior age closes. Mrs Besant will lecture in Seattle on August 22 and 28.
Boston hosts an equal suffrage campaign that names Jane Addams of Chicago as a future U S president. Advocates plan the city as the start of a effort to gain prestige for women even if not electing a woman president.
S D Freed a Sunnyside district farmer faced a justice court trial for willfully taking water from the Euclid lateral of the Sunnyside canal for private use. Freed testified no criminal intent, saying the action protected his crops. He was discharged by the court.
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