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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
7
Practical tips cover cleaning charred dishes with water and ashes, selecting fresh fruit, sterilizing jars, and using new rubbers. Includes canning procedures, tomato and pear recipes, warts removal with kerosene, and a midnight bell ritual for ambience.
The August issue suggests a Cinderella themed summer night event with slipper shaped invitations and a 11 o'clock dance stoppage. Guests would move to a porch supper, center table featuring a large white centerpiece surrounded by flowers for a graceful close.
Christine Terhune Herrick advises Wo mans Home Companion readers to convert leftovers into a cold meat loaf. The recipe uses chopped steak or roast with ham or tongue, raw eggs, and optional gravy, baked in a mold, then cooled and sliced. Veal or cold lamb may follow the same method with careful seasoning.
Guidance on strawberry bed maintenance cutting runners and weeds. Watch for pear blight and remove infected parts. Prepare for harvest by securing supplies and thinning fruit to prevent crop loss. Control rusts and prune apple trunks, and note yields of blackberries and acre potential. Plant winter onions and apply Bordeaux spraying to prevent blight.
An advertisement touts Ballard's Snow Liniment as a cure for rheumatism burns cuts contracted muscles and sore chest offering instant relief. It cites Texas merchant J. T. Bogg from Willow Point praising the product and notes D. H. Fry druggist sells it.
Long list of candidates filed in Olympia for Republican, Democratic, Nonpartisan, and judiciary tickets. Names cover Congress, governor, lieutenants, secretaries, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, lands commissioner, insurance, and state supreme court. Also lists joint district legislators and counts as midnight filings end under the new primary law.
Sam Hutchinson of Sunnyside, at seven feet four inches, earns the North Yakima Eagles the claim to the world's tallest member and will compete in Seattle for the international prize. Five other candidates joined him as initiates, and the lodge hopes to send 100 members to the convention, bolstering North Yakima's reputation as a loyal lodge.
L J Roberts representing S G Palmer, a Minneapolis commission house, is in Yakima for over a month examining fruit conditions. He notes the house buys in the valley and keeps daily reports from U S fruit regions, disputing many crop shortfall reports as misinformed by ranchers seeking profit.
J M Brown Yakima county fruit inspector plans immediate incorporation of a company with 20000 capital to convert non saleable orchard waste into jellies jams juices ciders vinegar confections and other products. A plant is to be built this fall ready to handle the late apple crop benefiting the local fruit industry.
Irving J. Bounds announced Friday evening his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for county clerk. The Bryan-Splawn club meeting next drew wide local support as Bounds likely gains a large factional backing.
The Direct Primary places the nomination of candidates for public office in your hands by abolishing conventions and caucuses, thereby securing an equal voice to each voter.
The article explains that the nominating power rests with printing all candidates for each party and office on the ballot for the September 8, 1908 Primary. The candidate with the most votes in each party for each office will be the nominee for the general election on November 3, 1908.
A political exhortation urges turnout for the Primary to choose capable candidates. It stresses that Primary results forecast November outcomes and that every vote counts equally.
A call to support Congressman Wesley L Jones in the upcoming Primary election, asserting the people’s voice cannot be overridden by the legislature. The message emphasizes this is the sole chance for voters to express preference for Jones.
If you want the right sort of men to represent you in congress and state legislature, ascertain your choice from the candidates now before you and then vote for their nomination September 8.
A call to secure wise county governance urges party members to nominate the right man for office in the Primary on September 8. Polls open in each precinct from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Encourages turnout and warns against personal interests interfering.
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