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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1911
Page
7
Ranchers west of the city push for changing the name Wide Hollow, arguing hollow implies a hole and undesirability. They seek an attractive, market-friendly appellation for their fertile, populous area on Cemetery Road.
Inman Rose Funeral Directors advertise child and adult caskets with prices 8.00 and 36.00 respectively. They offer notary and legal services via McAulay and Meigs Attorneys at Law with offices over Janeck Drug Store and residence at Sixth and Estnnt. Office hours are 9 to 12 and 3 to 6. The firm also notes Pension Board membership.
A district meeting of women considered renaming Wide Hollow road and Hubbard drive to richer titles. Selfstyled options include Nob Hill Boulevard or Cemetery Road with broad public support for preserving historic associations. The streetcar company remains flexible on labels as residents weigh tradition against modern appeal.
Robert Ambold offers a gas engine in good order and cheap. Location is R. F. D. No. 1, Pleven. Contact for details and availability.
In San Francisco on August 19 a new kneading cutting molding weighing and measuring bread machine is unveiled. The device replaces over thirty workers, turning out 44 loaves per minute and up to 100 with speed. Two operators feed and unload, while the machine performs the work of more than thirty workers. It costs about one eighth of its original $25,000 price and yields 26,400 loaves in ten hours, though it cannot produce French bread.
Paul Mathulka of Buffalo New York says he keeps Dr King s New Life Pills at home and finds them a blessing to his family. They cure constipation headache indigestion dyspepsia and cost 25 cents at Chark s Pharmacy.
An old New York agricultural law setting a minimum acidity of 4.14 percent acetic acid blocks sale of pure apple cider vinegar. The rule forces many farmers’ cider vinegar into storage, unable to reach the required acidity level.
A Newport couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geraghty, recount their romance from first sight in front of a Springfield interviewer. Happy, a young businessman, says he can support his bride, while Julia criticizes society life and vows to live simply as a real woman.
Berlin reports Dr. Edmund Richter the German geographer held for ransom since May 25 while mapping the Olympus region near the Turkish Greek frontier. A Greek nationalist band led by Capt Strati is accused of abducting him and seeking 225000 dollars. pursuit has shifted to Tirnavos in Greek territory. The incident underscores renewed band warfare along the Greek frontier amid shifting Balkan tensions.
A man returns from vacation ready to work and resists deprecating youthful antics, in a Plain Dealer column.
Leslie's Weekly recounts a Middle Western senator ignoring stamp seals by letting a secretary sign farmer letters. A returned reply to a constituent arrived upside down and stamped upside down, revealing the practice of typed, rubber-stamped correspondence.
Grace Margaret Gould notes Paul Poiret’s harem skirt divided American taste. She argues women reject unfeminine, Turkish styles seeking genuinely feminine fashions and common sense choices. The Herald requests copies of Weekly Herald issues from 1910 dates June 16 July 13 Nov 238 and Dec 7 to aid the office.
Aug 19. Julius Raril Joux an 18 year old messenger with United Messenger Company has vanished after taking $85 for Mrs Merrill proprietor of the Westlake House at 1924 Westlake avenue. He was sent to Seattle National Bank to deposit the money and was to return and deposit it in a checking account. A garbage can in a downtown alley is the only clue left behind.
A testimonial claims a child with intestinal worms improves rapidly after taking White's Cream Vermifuge. The ad cites several doses as destroying and expelling worms and notes the child’s growth thriving afterward. Brand and distributor details reference Dr Pry and W. Camp at Third and Yakima avenues.
Notice seeks copies of the Weekly Herald on June 15 July 14 November 23 and requests inform the office. The request implies a local newspaper archive or collector exchange.
The State Board of Equalization report for 1910 shows Yakima County leading in average values across many personal property items. Yakima tops figures for one year horses two year shipments and three year olds with strong showings in breeding stock jewelry bicycles autos and musical instruments though some items favor King Pierce or Spokane. Local figures show Yakima’s averages per item ranging from draft horses to watches and fine china, highlighting the county's wealth and prosperous standing.
A Chicago reader Mr. E. M. Stewart reports relief from fever and summer coughs using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. The ad urges others with asthma and colds to try the product, touting its effectiveness for children and adults and warning against substitutes.
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