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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
1
A collection of notices lists syrups for tasting by Rumnsey & Co. and a Crescent wheel for sale in good condition. Also advertised are feed goods at Bond’s feed store and bakery offerings at Ditter & Mechtel, with a suggestion to explore remedies.
North Yakima mechanics in brick and stone work and plastering form a labor union to fix a wage scale. The agreement lists prices for brick work veneer work chimneys stone work plastering and day wages with collective consent requiring two thirds approval. Signers include Frank Engless Albert Hall Carl Vertner Max Kremer W.H. Hatfield Frank Winchell George W. Sutton Scott Kremer Kremer. Ladies visiting cards at this office.
The Oregonian Seattle correspondent surveys state politics under the headline Too Much Wilson. It notes Wilson machine plans to retire Congressman Jones and back John B. Allen or Edward Whiteon for governor. George Lockwood of Waitsburg faces arson charges but is not linked by prosecutors. he was jailed and later discharged while Oscar Cain, Walla Walla County prosecutor, investigated.
The funeral of Mathias Cherry of Company E First Washington will be at the M E church this Thursday February 8. The body is en route from San Francisco and expected tomorrow night. Interment will be with military honors and all Company E members are asked to attend. Cherry was the second Company E member struck in the February 4 Philippines fight, Ralph Shearer the first. Herbert L Flint Grace Marion Flint hypnotists at Mason's opera house entertain crowds with magnetic tricks and a hypnotized young lady seen at Dulls' store. Daisy Boyle provides piano pieces at the show.
Mr and Mrs Guy McL Richards hosted a jolly evening for Miss Flossie Richards in honor of her birthday. Guests skated on a thin edge ice near the pond, then moved inside for music, a musical guessing contest won by Miss Jean Cameron and Edgar Gunn, followed by lunch and dancing. The hosts wished Flossie many returns of the day.
World renowned Rentz-Santley company to perform Wednesday evening February 7 at Mason’s Opera House. Promises a big bill with the prettiest and most talented girls, brainy comedians, and clever vaudeville acts. Burlesque satire mocks New York ladies clubs with a beautiful Wal‑dorf-Astoria gold room setting and elaborate costumes with modern electrical effects.
President Graves of the state university spoke to Central school pupils in morning and afternoon sessions and to public school teachers in the high school room in the evening on educational topics. He toured eastern Washington, noting city gains since last year and the addition of a fourth year to the city schools' curriculum.
George Carpenter, 15, son of O W Carpenter, showed grit after a wagon overturned at a railroad crossing. While a freight train passed, unmanageable horses ran along the embankment, the wagon was struck and splintered, and George was knocked against a passing car. He held to the horses and afterward guided them home, with witnesses calling it a miracle they and the horses escaped unharmed.
Congressman Jones reports a War Department letter stating the bodies of all Washington volunteers who died in the Philippines will be brought home. Disinterment dates depend on Manila sanitary authorities. If relatives claim them, bodies go to their homes at government expense. otherwise they are buried at the Presidio National Cemetery in San Francisco.
A St. Louis dispatch reports Burlington and Northern Pacific railroads will inaugurate through passenger service on May 1 linking St Louis Kansas City and St Joseph with Puget Sound and Portland via the Billings route.
Dr Grace Della Baker, Osteopath, has located in the Schlotfeldt block and is prepared to meet patients at her office from 9 a m to 12 m and 2 to p m. Patients treated entirely without drugs.
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