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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
7
Readable notices report town events and visits. Attendees include Mrs Towne’s closing sale and millinery bargains. Two local deaths and illness updates mention Marshal Grant and smallpox precautions. Community notices cover sermons, travel, building plans, and theater promotion for January events.
The December Book- Keeper issue highlights bookkeeping articles and travel fiction, plus notes on a national association for book keepers. Marriage of J Brandau and Miss Lillie Michaels occurred at Hotel Bartholet with plans to relocate to Tacoma. Local items include hunting trips, a music study trip to North Yakima, Congregational Church events, theater plans, a military commission, a sick child, cattle for sale, and Wedgewood ware on offer.
Coffin Bros held a Christmas prize drawing presided by J D Cornett. Winners include James Monroe Bancroft library Minnie Yesting the black trotting mare R T Moore the cow John Lutz bobsleds George Harris the bicycle and C F Fisk Joe Meline each a japanned pantry. The Footlight club's What Happened to Jones will be at Larson's Theater January 4 for the public library benefit with all net proceeds for books.
A brief anecdote recalls former President Benjamin Harrison practicing golf near Indianapolis. Edward Bok of The Ladies Home Journal reportedly handed the General a new ball with the prompt Drive this and later sent a dispatch noting the ball came with liniment to accompany it.
Local ads list a fine stock and dairy ranch for sale in Natchez with contact details, a good family horse for sale, a five room house for rent near town, a team harness and wagon for sale, and various shop and theater notices. Also mentions iron beds, winter goods, imported tweeds, wallpaper, and Jordan water pumps supplying churches in Europe.
Two rival island fishermen clash in Chesapeake Bay as a young man from one isle intermarried with a damsel from the other. The feud leads to many wounded but no confirmed fatalities. Police and local authorities investigate the incident and seek motives tied to the marriage.
An advertisement seeks several good men with teams and farming gear for farm labor. High wages offered. Inquiries directed to Coffin Bros. store in North Yakima or the advertiser at Toppenish, Washington. Also notes Dr. Angel Bellinzaghi, who won a $100,000 prize from the Mexican government for a yellow fever serum, declines the prize due to its conditions.
Benj Ingerson of Hutton Ind says months of silence were ended by one bottle of FO LEY S HONEY AND TAR. The remedy is popular with speakers and singers. Take no substitute. North Yakima Drug Store. "I didn t know it was to be a comic opera" contrasts with the opera billed as an amateur production.
Miss Kate Miller of Fredricksburg Pennsylvania is probably the United States' oldest factory worker. She recently celebrated her eighty first birthday and has spent the last twenty years in the same establishment. The item mentions the Yakima Collection Agency and Mull's Lightning Cough Cure in brief notices.
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