London Daily Mail items stir Boer War debate and Yakima fair pleas
The 1899 column notes Kipling’s Absent Minded Beggar proceeds for English soldiers families raising £5 000, a diamond ring donation, and a second folio Shakespeare sale. It quips Hartford Courant finds and details North Yakima’s failed 1899 fair funds, urging unity for a 1900 event and warning against state support loss.
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Tuk Hearn
London
Daily Mail
Joe Martin
Kipling
England
South Africa
Gordon Highlanders
Dinburgh
Liverpool
Cheshire
Dargai
Castle
Hartford Courant
Yakima
Courant
The
Hartford
Tne
Beet sugar boom may push cane import out of market
A Seattle Times note predicts American farmers’ strong beet sugar production will reduce or end the need to import cane or Dutch refined sugar within five years, potentially sidelining sugar magnate Claus Spreckels.
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Claus Spreckles
Seattle Times
Four new serials and hundreds of stories offered by The Companion
Readers learn of four serialized tales and two hundred other stories by famed American writers for 1900. Subscriptions include The Companion's new 1900 Calendar sent free along with a full volume prospectus. Shiloh cough remedy offers a money back guarantee for 25, 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles.
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Columbus Avenue
Boston
Mass
Wheat and corn prices compare to 1896 figures
The note asks if fifty percent more wheat buys a stove now than in 1896, if twenty bushels more corn buys a wagon, and if one hundred percent more corn or wheat buys a copper kettle, all compared with 1896 prices.
The Youth's Companion Publicizes 1900 Story Series
The Youth's Companion promotes manly and womanly virtues through fiction appealing to all ages. In 1900 it will publish special series including Former Political Campaigns and Adventures of Linemen, plus many girl stories by Sarah Orne Jewett Mary E Wilkins Deland and others.
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Sarah Orne Jewett
Mary E. Wilkins
Margaret , Deland
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Edith
Croup Fears and Cures Promoted in Local Ad Copy
An old advertisement promotes Sheiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure for croup with claims of immediate relief and varying prices. The piece also includes a dyspepsia cure endorsement from Annie E. Gunning of Tyre Michigan, attributed to Kodo Dyspepsia Cure sold by Janeck's Drug Store.
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Sheiloh
L. O. Janeck
Annie £. Gunning
Tyre, Mich
Janeck
H. N. Williams
Gentryville
Ind
Portage railway to begin service by June next year
Mr Mohr states all portage railway work is under contract and by June next year the Lewiston to sea line will transport freight both directions. The item includes local commentary and advertisements for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and One Minute Cough Cure with brief testimonials and product notes.
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Yakima
Mohr
Portage Railway
Lewiston
Sea
Goldendale Sentinel
Kidney Cure Relieves Longstanding Kidney Pain Says Thurness
A. H. Thurness of Wills Creek Coal Co., Buffalo Ohio, reports chronic kidney and bladder trouble with gravel and stones. After using Foley's Kidney Cure, pain subsides and bricks dust stones disappear. He claims the remedy has done him $1000 worth of good and notes he feels like a new man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Thurness
Wills Creek Coal Co
Buffalo
Ohio
Foley
Best is Levering's Package Coffee in Town
A brief retail note highlights Levering's package coffee as best and advertises Buckeye cider mill at Yakima Hardware Co for cider.
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Best
The
Yakima
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H. E. McBride
Attorney AT Law
Hough's Bank
Second Street
North Yakima, Wash
Carroll B. Graves
Ellensburg
Ika P. Englehart
North Yakima
Yraves & Englehart
Attorneys AT Law
First National Bank
J Ines & Guthrie
Gyer First National Bank
Whitson & Parker
PWD
Whitsox
Fred Parker
Progle & Rigg, Attorneys AT Law
Yakima National Bank
Washington
John G. Boyle
Herald Building
State
U.S. Land
Ss. H. Mason
Prosser
Wash
R. C. G. Fletcher
Sehhlorfeldt
David Rosser
U.S. Pension
Janeck Bros. Drug Store
6Th and ChestNut
P. Frank
C. T. Dulin
Frank & Dulin
Physicians
J . E. Banks
Postofice
Yakima Avenue
Mac L. Richards
W W. Felton
Tose
Lee's Shoe Store
Coffin Bros
Chestnut Street
First National Bank of North
M. Ladd
W. L. Steinweg
Chas, Carpenter
H. B. Scudder
W. B. Dudley
Geo. Donald
Hugh K. Sinclair
J.D. Cornett
Frank Bartholet
Capital
Yakima Herald, Publishers
Pacific Poultryman
Shiloh
Tacoma
ULE
Portland
California
G. A. Graham
A. D. Cha
A.G.P
North
Ore
Atlantic Mail
Pacific Mail
Pullman
Sillicus
Cynicus
Chicago
Milwaukee
Ethel
Papa
Werner Company
Square Meals
Lucy
Kinsey
Mulhollan
Grocers
G. T. Aumiller
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co
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