A Yakima Woman in Hawaii Writes of Health and Hardship
Mrs. O. R. Wilkis, formerly of Yakima, recounts a rough Pacific voyage to Hawaii and life in Lakiana. She notes scarce housing, high prices, abundant coconuts and fruits, native crafts, and improved health but ongoing search for suitable lodging, with Christmas scenes and local culture described.
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Honolulu
Maine
Lakiana
Wialuku
California
Orren
Yakima
O. R. Wilkis
H. I
Travel via Rio Grande Western to the East
The Rio Grande Western Railroad offers six routes to the East connected with the Denver Rio Grande and Colorado Midland lines. Passengers enjoy a through Pullman Palace car service, sleeping and reclining chair cars, and a fine dining car. Pamphlets on the Great Salt Lake Route are available from agents in Portland and Salt Lake City.
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Rio Grande Western Railway
Denver & Rio Grande
Colorado Midland
Salt Lake City
Temple City
Great Salt Lake
Salt Palace
Utah Valley
Pullman Palace
J. D. Mansfield
Washington
Portland
Geo. W. Heintz
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promised Cure
An appeal praises Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for digestive and related ailments, claiming it cures stomach and digestion diseases when other medicines fail. A testimonial from W H Braswell of North Carolina is cited, and buyers are offered a Common Sense Medical Adviser with mailing stamps.
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Ord
Dr. Pierce
RV. Pierce
Buffalo
Washington Town Dwellers and a King Wives Tale
A New England woman widow living in a royal country and married to a king is highlighted as a featured romance in the March Ladies' Home Journal. An Oregon saloon hold up ends with a robber wounded and hospitalized, with uncertain fate ahead. Local ads tout Mull’s Lightning Cough Cure and Lightning Pain Killer. Carrie Nation’s new play Ten Minutes in a Barroom tours Kansas towns.
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New England
March Ladies’ Home Journal
Carrie Nation
Kansas
The N P Cut Off and Yakima Rail Impact
The Ellensburg Lind cut off survey results are disputed amid claims of possible contracts and high costs. Northern Pacific aims to shorten eastern to Sound travel but faces reorganization worries and a cooled relation with Great Northern. Yakima may see minor local effects with fewer through trains, while Spokane remains the top revenue station on the line.
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Ellensburg-Lind
Northern Pacific
Sound
Washington
Great Northern
Yakima
Montana
Minneapolis
Tacoma
Seattle
Spokane
North Yakima
Free sample offer for Bochee's German Syrup in North Yakima
An ad announces free sample bottles of Bochee's German Syrup for adults with colds or lung troubles at North Yakima Drug Store run by A. D. Sloan in the Terry building. Limit one bottle per person. no free samples to children without parental order. The piece claims physician endorsement and wide sales history.
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North Yakima
A. D. Sloan
Terry Building
First St
Wash
Bochee
Green
Burglar Questions Woman About Husband
A burglar interrogates a trembling woman asking for her husband’s location. She replies he is under the bed. The burglar remarks he will not take anything, declaring it bad enough to have such a husband without being robbed.
Five Doctors Fail Kidney Trouble Cured by Foley’s
Mrs Francis L Sales of Missouri Valley Iowa writes she suffered kidney trouble for years and after trying five doctors without benefit three bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure cured her.
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Francis L. Sales
Missouri’ Valley
Foley
Thirteen years for stealing $690000
A bank employee, Alvord, a paying teller at the First National Bank of New York, received a thirteen year sentence for stealing six hundred ninety thousand dollars. This sentence implies roughly one year per fifty thousand dollars stolen.
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Alvord
First National Bank of New York
Are Women Cured by Dr. Pierce's Remedies
An ad style piece extols the health benefits of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets for women. It features testimonials from Mrs. Maria G. Hayzel describing relief from nervousness, weakness, and rheumatism after treatment, and claims the remedies restore vigor, regulate periods, and aid motherhood. It also promotes Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser guiding women's health.
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God
Pierce
Yale Plans Bicentennial Celebration and Memorial Fund
President Hadley and Yale faculty outline a four day bicentennial event from November 20 to 23 with graduates and undergraduates playing key roles. The finance committee reports subscriptions totaling 603,474.79 dollars by October 26 1900, with 244,069.84 spent on land and 99,110 for special purposes. Total disbursements reach 282,404.10. Three more 100,000 dollar pledges are contingent on three similar gifts, potentially boosting funds by 50,000 to 653,474.79. Subscriptions number 607.
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Hadley
Yale
Grove
College Streets
Horse Rescues Blind Companion From Mountain Grove Pond
A blind horse wandered into a mill pond in Mountain Grove West Virginia and struggled to swim. A horse owned by Postmaster C. dr. Horner swam to the distressed animal and towed it to shore, attracting cheers from over 100 onlookers.
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Mountain Grove
W. Va
Terra Firma
Empress of China Faces Illness Said Not Serious
The Pittsburgh Times notes the empress’s illness should not alarm friends, citing her history of surviving assassination, poisoning, and past burnings as evidence she can recover from an ordinary illness.
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China
Pittsburgh Times
Questioning who wrote the composition
A student asserts his father wrote the assignment but claims he helped. The exchange hints at suspected authoring of the work.
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Johnny
No'm
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E. J. Patton
Prop
the Palace Grocery
The
Palace Grocery
South Second Street
Natchez Market
L. G. Zenovich
Hawaii
Uncle Sam
Washington Town Dwellers
Mull
Taft & Taft and
W. J. Roaf
Sumner
Oregon
Northport
Teres
Orting
Marysville
Walla Walla
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Newt Whatcom
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Garfield
Fairhaven Rogue
Vancouver
Olympia
Winlock
Seeee
Een
Wilbur
Colville
Port Townsend
Ilwaco
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la Conner
Hulam
Kalama Seeere
Angeles
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Medical Lake
Colfax
Auburn
Penish
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Public
Edmonds
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Asotin Chehalis
Blaine
Fenee Uniontown
Pullman
Waitsby
Kettle Fa
Cosmopo
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Yakimai
Pomeroy
Oledo
Palouse
Tumwater
Oakesda
Sidney
Elma Latah
Asco
Shelton
Sedro- Woolley
Penne
N. P
Plan Yale
College Wilbold
FERRY
Pet Ferry
M. Ferry & CO
Detroit, Mich
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Warren Street
New York
Copyriants &c
Munn & Co
Scientific American
New Forks
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