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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1904
Page
2
City notes list progress on church construction as workmen resume stone cutting. Also reports residents traveling to Seattle for college and events, plus local moves, police and fire department notes, exams, and a purse found with Seattle-bound nurses.
C HH Barrett at 121 North First street announces a one week sale starting January 25 offering light and heavy harness at a ten percent discount. All heavy harness is hand made.
Dr. Ingalls, an eye specialist from Portland, offers on the spot lens grinding and refractive testing at Hotel Yakima parlors. He warns most eye troubles come from refractive error and urges prompt consultation for proper glasses.
The poll books for voter registration in North Yakima Washington are now open at City Hall. Legal voters may register at the Clerk’s office. Also notices about safe deposits and pruning tools from Yakima Hardware Co. and Claude Briggs collecting for Allen Gilbert Ramaker at 212 Yakima Avenue.
Baled hay slightly damaged offered at reduced prices by Yakima Produce Company located opposite the depot. 40-tf
A short ad notes a new store at 7 South First Street offering harness stock and repair services with honest prices. The rest is a humorous exchange about meat being bone and not bone, illustrating a stray comic line.
Engineer G H Hansen now living in Lima Ohio reports recovery from threatened kidney disease. He states he was cured by Foley's Kidney Cure and recommends it to all especially trainmen. Sold by North Yakima Drug Store and A D Sloan, proprietor.
Secretary Heg’s report to the state board of health commends Yakima for immediate sanitation steps. Water boiling disinfecting homes covering garbage caches and sewer attention reduced disease, with an estimated 300 cases and 23 deaths in Yakima County last fall. Dr. Heg predicts typhoid cases may fall by about half next year due to improved reporting and cleanup efforts.
Archdeacon Sinclair offered the only humor at a recent Semi-Teetotallers pledge gathering in London. He presented a diary of a Scotch shepherd recorded as a class with temptations, detailing multiple drams from morning to church, ending with a brandy before leaving for worship.
A hunter boasts of his intelligent dog who pauses to look at him and seems to ask permission to flush birds. His friend quips that the dog is an interrogation pointer, adding a humorous note about the animal’s cleverness.
A classified brief seeks a girl for general housework at a Chicago dry goods store. Employment details and contact instructions are implied for interested applicants.
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