Local notices and business items from Yakima area
A column lists various local happenings including John H. Lynch opening a law office at Yakima National Bank Building Myre. Leeper family return from Oregon. Newt Scott visiting Kenewsk week. property trade offers. Kruger couple anniversary celebration on the 25th. crafts and Western Indian leather gifts for eastern friends. Mrs G W Cary hosts meeting. NP at Yakima crossing weather shelter. Quinn and Fletcher fined for roughhouse on Front Street. R D Read plans voyage to New Zealand via Victoria Honolulu and Australia for health. County Superintendent Dickey touring schools. Claude Briggs opens real estate and insurance office at 212 East Yakima Avenue. senior entertainment at high school with William Lee Greenleaf impersonation. Geo Parker and James Monroe purchase Sunatorium at 51 1/2 North First Street offering laundry and garment services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newt Scott
Kenewswick
Ais
North 7Th Street
Kruger
G. W. Cary
Frederik the Great Shines at Edison Theatre This Week
Frederik the Great displays clever entertaining magic at the Edison Theatre becoming a favorite with patrons. The piece features classic hand tricks and a tone suggesting a seasoned conjurer lineage as the performer hints at playful family sleights and a notable audience appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison Theatre
Frederik
Cigars Featured At The Elite Store
A brief ad note mentions cigars as ideal gifts for gentlemen who smoke and offers two box sets from 60 cents. A casual social line references Jerry going to church Sunday with his wife and paying an election bet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Jerry
Jill
Royal guests, American host, and a British condescension
A World’s Work anecdote recalls a lively social moment where an American guest is told to stay put when royals arrive. The host’s casual joke about being American eases etiquette questions, while a companion notes lingering condescension in friendly manners. Also unearthed is a tale of wooden tobacco cigarettes from Britain, shredded pine wood laced with drugs, briefly legal then banned after fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busiess
Chalmers Roberts
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Catalpa Wood For Ties And Its Prospects This Century
The article discusses substituting catalpa wood for railway ties due to white oak depletion. It notes catalpa’s durability, potential plantations by railroads, and yields of up to 12 ties per tree by age 25, with about 2,000 ties per acre. It also summarizes Beachy Head erosion and future newspaper concepts by Victor Murdoch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Henry Harrison
Wabash Valley
Beachy Head
Seven Sisters
London Times
The Youths Companion Gift Offer And Local Notices
An advertisement promotes The Youths Companion Christmas gift with a 1.75 subscription and a December 1903 to 1904 packet including a colored calendar and subscription certificate. Additional notes mention a closing out sale by Rinehart and various second hand goods and services from local merchants, plus a couple of cartoonish quips.
Also Mentioned on This Page
North
Yakima
Yakima Tea CO
City News
John H. Lynch
Yakima National Bank
Northern Pacific
Pro
Yakima Sevenue Crossing
Harry Quinn
Bert Fletcher
Taggard
Front Street
R. D. Read
Victoria
B. C
New Zealand
Honolulu
Australia
Mr. Read
Dickey
Sunnyside
Teachers’ Association
Claude Briggs
East Yakima Avenue
Wm. Lee Greenleaf
Geo. Parker
Jas. Monroe
Yakima Avenue
Frederik the Great
Jessie
Jessica
Papica
Namica
Maryica
Georgica
California
Sammica
Victor Murdoch
Kansas Editorial Association
London Express
Waily
America
United States
Berkeley Street
Boston
Mass
Rinehart
TI. W. Kauffman
South Seventh Street
D. B. Fox
South Second Street
EK. A. Thompson
Thompson Music Co
North Second Street
P.O
Drug Store
A. D. Sloan, Ph. G
Northwest
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