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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
2
Ironbrew from a celebrated physician’s recipe blends vegetable tonics and aromatics to enrich and strengthen the blood muscles and brain. It aims to regulate digestion stomach and nervous system relieve headaches nausea and debility with life renewing properties and offers free city delivery.
Rev H M Bartlett reports a Carnegie gift to build a free public library in North Yakima. James Bertram confirms $10 000 toward construction pending city resolution and site provision. Believed landmarks suggest sites at Dock 49 and Natchez Yakima avenues with talks of a $5 000 public subscription to raise total to $20 000.
The text notes Radium and its bizarre properties prompting some to call it a miracle of science and suggests a new revelation could upend current understanding.
Miss Besse Patton returns home from Tacoma. Dr G J Hill and wife depart for San Francisco for a month. Sam Cameron goes to Palouse for a week of business. Greene Mercantile Co offers Christmas tree trimmings. A job wish for room and board. Sage brush clearing contract offered by John Gibson. J P Mattoon back to health on the streets. J A Orchard seeks police work. Chris Larson travels to Whatcom for a wrestling match with Jack Laney. Dancing academy seeks 100 pupils four years up. Prof G G Gordon mentioned. Mrs Je Or F'n of Ballard visiting, planning Michigan home. Democrats plan Jackson birthday celebration January 8 with a public spread. Ditter Bros window display praised by holiday shoppers. Cascade Lumber Co and A E Howard joint venture for sash and doors. Yakima Swank Mining Co elects officers and plans hydraulic work this spring.
Professor John Trowbridge comments in the December Atlantic on radium as a nearly unlimited energy source. He contrasts it with the heat from fuel and references Sidgwick and Melland’s views on heat as motion, calling radium a potential boiler or dynamo that dispenses energy without consumption.
Excerpted reflections quote Patrick Henry Winston on greed as the era’s defining trait from Grant’s term to today. The piece laments money worship, trusts, mergers, and larceny risk, urging a cultural shift toward learning and virtue. A later note mocks sales tactics and a whiskey-fueled turkey hatch method.
Mr J W Phillips of the government printing office touts old turkey hens as effective incubator substitutes. He describes rigging a barrel with air holes and straw to create a nest and simulate setting, claiming hens can hatch eggs when used properly.
An old ad notes undigested food and gas under the heart causing palpitations and promotes Herbine for a few days as a remedy sold for 50 cents at F L Janeck's Drug Store. A separate vignette features a teasing exchange between a girl, her brother, and her lover over a promised dime.
J G Gluck superintendent of the Prunty town reform school in West Virginia reports replacing all advertised cough medicines with Foley's Honey and Tar as the most effective and harmless option. North Yakima Drug Store owned by A D Sloan provides the product.
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