Open house marks Salvation Army welcoming new North Yakima hall
The Salvation Army celebrated the formal handover of its North Yakima building to Brigadier Dubbins Ensign Omann and staff. Architect W W DeVeaux presented keys guests toured the new facilities including free dispensary reading room single rooms dormitory kitchen and Sunday school auditorium with movable partition. Ensign Omann outlined plans for employment bureau care for the sick and needy and cost price charges for lodging with a community support ethos. Ice cream and cake were served to attendees.
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Salvation Army
North
Yakima
Army
W. W. DeVeaux
Brigadier Dubbins
Ensign Omann
Omann
Yakima Avenue
First Streets
Dubbin
Omana
DeVeaux
Brigadier Dubbin
Ensien Omann
Omari
Temperance Trend Reaches West End Clubs
London report notes a 25 percent drop in wine consumption at a leading West End club since its founding thirty years ago. Upper-class temperance grows with barley water replacing wine and champagne, which now often incurs a charge to cover deficits.
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London
West End
Sunnyside Water Users Association Passes Up Water Contracts
A Washington letter to the United States land office states the Sunnyside Water Users Association has refused to execute new water right contract forms. It directs the land office to suspend new water right applications lacking the secretary's certificate and suggests possible waiving of that certificate for Sunnyside project.
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Sunnyside Reclamation
Department of the Interior
Land Office
Sunnyside Water Users’ Association
Sunnyside Canal
Washington
United States Land Office
North Yakima
Secretary of the Interior
Department
Reclamation Service
the Water Users’ Association
United States
Water Users’ Association
Sunnyside
S. V. Proudft
State Bureau Finds North Yakima Finances Sound
Olympia August 26 The state Bureau of Inspection reports North Yakima assets total 816654 with liabilities including a 218000 bond issue leaving net assets 539593 Four irregular small claims totaling 721 were allowed without proper finance committee signs No wrongdoing charged but irregular Clerical errors show present clerk owed 1750 repaid Minor reforms urged and police system harshly criticized Audit cost 1000.
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Olympia
Wash
State Bureau of Inspection
North Yakima
HW. B. Doust
J. ¢. Brooker
On His Way Patient Say Tooth Extraction Mention
A Roeston Transcript snippet shows a patient and dentist dialog about a tooth extraction. The patient hesitates while the dentist suggests proceeding, reflecting a clinic visit moment.
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Roeston
London Striking Railway Men Paralyze Britain Soldiers Patrol Tower of London
With 200000 men out, London guarded by 50000 troops patrolling rail stations with loaded rifles and orders to shoot to kill. Great Central service suspended as railway workers on the Great Western and Midland lines strike nationwide. Troops mobilized at the Tower of London as disruptions center there.
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London
Great Central
Great Western
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Tower of London
Express Train Between North Yakima and Spokane
A special express train operating between North Yakima and Spokane carries only fruit shipments and mail, expanding to four to five cars by Spokane. The service speeds goods eastward, with peaches and other fruit leading current shipments, and highlights improved town and valley commerce.
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Yakima
Spokane
Northwest
North Yakima
Northern Pacific Railway
Wapatu
Toppenish
Michigan
Fiest
Tabby
Electric lights kill codling moths in Spokane orchard test
In Spokane Valley a six year old orchard became the site of a world first demonstration using electric light to destroy codling moths. W M Frost and J E Lawrence deployed six candle power globes netted with copper tin wire to electrocute moths attracted to bright lights. Frost plans one battery per acre and notes reduced spraying costs. Several neighbors witnessed the test and others plan similar installations across hundreds of bearing acres as commercial light wires reach orchard tracts.
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Spokane
Wash
Spokane Valley
W. M. Frost
Opportunity
J.e C. Lawrence
Frost
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
Montana
Waters Flow In The Pacific Monthly Poem Welds
The piece describes irrigation and nature with lines about blue sky purple mountains and rushing waters. It references money and abundance as it portrays gate lifting and fields, orchards, and harvests under sun and desert breeze. The author Win Maxwell appears as the Pacific Monthly credit.
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Win Maxwell
Pacific Monthly
City Urges Strong Cooperation for North Yakima State Fair
Citizens and business leaders meet with fair commission to plan a broad boost campaign. Proposed steps include half day store closures during fair week, a bargain sale day, window decorations, extended water mains and lighting, visitor badges, a central information booth, lodging registrations, and improved access roads.
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North Yakima
State Fair Commission
Messrs. A. M. Dean
W. C. Schroeder
J. F. Barton
Rider
Business Men's Association
Kloeber
Pace
Fair Commission
Yakima
Progress of Irrigation Projects in Washington's Wakima and Tieton Areas
Federal data report on August progress notes 19 percent completion at Kaches storage unit with excavator dredging and dump scows active. Sunnyside unit at 68 percent. Tieton unit at 38 percent. Water deliveries reached 7300 acres on Wide Hollow branch. Bumping Lake reservoir full after July 6. river works include canal spillway floats and automatic signal lines.
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Washington
Wakima Valley
Kachees
Sunnyside
Tieton
Tanit
Zillah Wasteway
Bumping Lake
Constipation Ad Promotes Health via Herbine
An advertisement claims constipation leads to diseases and promotes Herbine as a remedy. It asserts Herbine clears bowel accumulations and primes the system, selling for 50 cents through D. H. Fry and C. W. Camp at the corner of 8th and Yakima avenues.
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D. H. Fry
C. W. Camp
Yakima Avenues
Belasco condemns two melodramas for crowded audiences
David Belasco derides two melodramas praised by a less cultivated public. He calls one "all blood and thunder" and the other "all thud and blunder," in a sharp epigrammatic remark reported by the Washington Star.
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David Belasco
Mr. Belasco
Washington Star
Recipe for Vacation From an Exchange
A humorous note describes a home based vacation recipe: wear sun glare, endure mosquito bites, sleep on a cellar grate, dust your clothes, and discard all but five cents into a lake. All of this can be done in one afternoon without leaving home.
Are You Free From Ailments The Gentle Laxative Promise
Advert says to take a desert spoonful of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna for headaches colds indigestion pains and constipation. Claims it is a gentle natural laxative. Advises buying only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product with the company name on the front of each package.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Veggmen Frustrate Robbery At Verden Earls Grocery
A gang of three or four attempted to rob Werden Earls cash grocer at 17 South First Street between 11 and midnight. Clerk Henry Neil battled a robber, was shot at and knocked from the roof but survived as robbers escaped through a skylight.
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Veggmen
Verden
Bharls
South First Street
Henry Neil
Neil
Baker
Warls
East Yakima
Seventh Street
Mr. Bearl
Werden & Earls
Vermifuge Promises Health Boost for Child
A bulging ad claims White's Cream Vermifuge cures intestinal worms in a child, improving growth and vitality after a few doses. It lists a price of 25 cents per bottle and notes sale by D. H. Fry and C. W. Camp at the corner of 3rd and Yakima Avenues.
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D. H Fry
C. W. Camp
Cor
3Rd
Yakima Avenues
Beach Encounter Yields Unusual Engagement Gifts
The narrator recalls a summer beach meeting yielding multiple rings from sweat test engagements. The tale hints at unconventional romantic outcomes and lingering curiosities about the seaside rendezvous.
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Neo
Ambold Seeks Gas Engine Order in KR FR No. 1
Obscure note cites Robert Ambold requesting a gas engine order from KR F. D No. 1, described as low price and available. No additional context or details accompany the fragment.
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Robert Ambold
KR. F
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Water Users Association
State Bureau
British Ambulance Corps
Tambulance Corps
Northern Pacific
Business Men Promise Commission
Herald Office
Federal
Kaches
Patience
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Belasco
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