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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1907
Page
9
Police and county officials confront a spike in gambling in North Yakima. Chief Cayou orders immediate closures as Prosecuting Attorney Krutz reports several cases of lost savings and ruined households due to gaming in bars and parlors.
At her Nob Hill home Saturday at 1 PM Miss Nola Lowther hosted eight friends for a dainty luncheon. The rooms and tables featured tasteful decorations with tiny Christmas trees lighted candy and red roses. Souvenir gifts were laid before guests.
Alton TL January 1 Chief Maxwell ordered police to shoot mashers who bother women on the street or resist arrest After an unsuccessful attempt to subdue one he fired two shots and then issued a general shooting order hoping officers would sharpen marksmanship He said insulting women must be stopped.
A Seattle report states two lives were lost in a fire that destroyed H. H. Shrewsbury’s home in Sedro-Woolley. Ruth and Iola Johnson, nieces of Mrs. Shrewsbury, were burned to death before help could reach them.
Louis Murrheat and his son Louis depart from Wide Hollow for Glasgow after visiting Carl Murrheat. The elder will remain in Scotland, while Louis Jr. plans a few months in the region before possibly settling in the Pacific Northwest. Louis Jr. has spent the past year photographing Alaska.
A Seventeenth Street publisher had a clerk hang a Boy Wanted sign. A red headed boy seized the sign and climbed to the publisher's office. He asked if the sign said Roy Wanted. The boy then revealed he was the Roy.
An old advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for loss of appetite indigestion nervous symptoms and related ailments. It claims the medicine improves digestion purifies blood and strengthens flesh and nerve tissue while suggesting bronchial throat and lung relief when not advanced. It also promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation as a gentle corrective.
D C Reed of Bellingham returned from the Washington Educational Association convention with reports of the largest attendance and membership in the association’s history. He noted strong support for teacher certification and school library funding, and outlined proposed bills for holidays, school census timing, and salaries tied to certification and efficiency.
Three young children, twin boys aged three and their one-year-old sister, burned to death when their home near Anderson, Redding, California, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. Their mother, a widow named Mrs. Stewart, was away visiting a neighbor and then attempted suicide upon learning the tragedy. The children were believed to have been asleep together in one bed. the fire’s origin remains unknown.
In Pittsburg on January 2 two workers were killed and two more fatally injured when a steam pipe burst at the Pressed Steel Car company plant in Schoenville.
An eight pound boy was born on Tuesday January 1 1907 to Mr and Mrs Dan Reilly. Both mother and infant are doing well.
A special meeting of School District No. 6 considered issuing bonds to build two brick eight room schools, remodel Lincoln Columbia and Central buildings, and acquire sites for a high school. Amendments proposed raising to 150000 with allocations for high and ward schools. committee report approved with changes. Notables included Rev. Henry, Prof. Barge, Winchester, and Supt. Reed.
Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets advertised as a health tonic for vitality and digestion. The promotional copy touts benefits like improved breath and vigor with a claimed medicinal formula.
A shop announces capability in heavy forging and machine work. It builds fire escapes and can cast any type of product. It also markets the Lambron Sagebrush Grubber, claimed as the only machine that will grub sagebrush.
A masonry wall in the ruins of the old California Can company building at Seventh and Townsend streets collapsed during razing. One man was killed instantly and another severely mangled, likely to die, as workers attempted to pull down the wall with ropes.
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