Seattle to Host World Apple Show in 1912
Seattle plans a monster World’s Apple Show as a strategic event to promote Northwest fruit. Backers argue Seattle’s port, canal opening, and regional growers, real estate boosters, and interstate fair ties will draw national buyers and visitors, with education and marketing features.
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Seattle
Northwest
Spokane
Vancouver
Denver
California
Portland
Yakima
Inland Empire
Seatte
Panama Canal
London
New York
Orient
Islands
Europe
Sunnyside
Grandview
Richland
Kennewick
Wenatchee
Chelan
Hood River
Medford
Arcadia
Greenacres
Calhoun
W. W. Robinson
Denny Blaine
Moses Coulee
Perkins and
Baile
Moses Lake
de Graff and
Powell
The
Columbia
Pacific Coast
Granger School Teaches Grading and Packing Apples
The Yakima Valley Fruit Growers Association opens a Granger school on January 22 to train locals in grading and packing apples. Special instructor C. L. Hamilton oversees thirty or more applicants as Byron Thompson supervises, with certificates awarded for grading packing and speed. many graduates may become foremen at large ranches.
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Granger
Herald
Fruit Growers’ Association
Byron Thompson
C. L. Hamilton
North Yakima
Thompson
Cr. L. Hamilton
Association
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound touted for grippe cure
Patient reports relief from severe La Grippe by Foley's Honey and Tar Compound after three bottles, claiming it prevented pneumonia. Advertisement notes availability at North Yakima Drug Store and quotes R E Fisher of Washington Kansas.
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Foley
R. E. Fisher
Washington
Kas
North
Strawberry Plant Bears Year-Round Fruit in Oregon
Edward Dixon of Forest Grove Oregon imports a Siberian strawberry plant that bears fruit every month with white ripe berries and pineapple like flavor. Blossoms and fruit appear weekly, best bearing from August through December. The plant propagates by dividing fruit-bearing stems, not runners, and Dixon predicts commercial value for the state.
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Siberia
Edward Dixon
Forest Grove
Ore
Oregon
Dixon
New York Sur
Coffee Consumption Rises While Ice Use Falls in the United States
The report notes that per capita ice consumption remains steady in the U S but coffee intake shows a consistent upward trend. It highlights growing coffee popularity across the population and hints at shifting beverage habits over time.
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United States
Cure for bed wetting by Foley Kidney Pills claimed
Charles Durham of Lovington New Jersey says his son was nightly bedwetting until Foley Kidney Pills were tried. After two days the child improved and after two thirds of a bottle the bedwetting stopped about six weeks ago. For sale at North Yakima Drug Store.
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Charles Durham
Lovington
Foley
North Yakima Drug Store
Presbyterian Writes from Jezireh on Missionary Life
Mr and Mrs RE Lunn receive a letter from Eli T Allen a Presbyterian missionary in Jezireh Turkey dated October 30. The report describes multilingual services Kurdish and Arabic customs poverty and persecution of Christians including a Kurd in prison. Allen recounts travels along the Tigris follows Xenophon’s route and notes local distress including a threatened village seizure and Christian refugees. He details meals and daily life in markets and stables and reflects on Noahs ark and Mount Ararat nearby. Ballard’s Snow Liniment ad appears at end.
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RE. V. Lunn
Eli. T. Allen
Jezireh
Turkey
Allen
Lunn
South Dakota
Mount
Ararat
Judith
Noah
Greatest Medicine on Earth Prompts Evansville Endorsement
A prominent Evansville citizen says he suffered five months with a pulmonary ailment and hemor rhages but credits Vinci with saving his life after trying Vimal. He urges locals with chronic coughs or colds to obtain a bottle, promising refunds if it fails to heal. Druggist Fred L. Janceck of North Yakima backs the claim.
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Evansville
Ind
Vinci
Fred L. Janceck
North Yakima
Wash
Radium Treatments Debut At Kellogg Sanitarium
Dr J H Kellogg returns from Europe with radium enough for four thousand years of treatments. San will offer radium therapy, one of six world sites, with Vienna Berlin and Joachimsthal as other centers. Radium, a gray metal emitting energy, is used for rheumatism neuralgia cancers and skin diseases. a miligram costs 100 dollars and a gram 100000 dollars.
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United States
Vienna
Berlin
Joachimsthal
Bohemia
Kellogg
Relief for stomach distress with Herb ine remedy
Advertisement notes instant relief for heartburn indigestion or stomach distress using Herb ine. Claims it forces badly digested food from the body and restores tone with a 50 cent price. Sold by D H Fry and C W Camp at 3rd and Yakima avenues.
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Ballard
D. H. Fry
C. W. Camp
Cor
8Rd
Yakima Avenues
3Rd
D. H. Fry and Co
W. Camp
Men Like to Stuff Themselves at The Table
A quip notes that men enjoy eating as eagerly as boys do, only at a slower pace, suggesting humor about appetite and manners in social meals.
Italian Violinist Moves to North Yakima for Fruit Ranch Life
Giovanni Ottalano, born in Naples, famed violinist, relocates with family to North Yakima after reading about Yakima Valley in The Coast. After teaching in Lynchburg Virginia, he now oversees a Selah fruit ranch and continues his music alongside farming. They reside at 217 South Eighth Street with two children, Vincent and Dolly.
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Pacific Coast
Yakima Valley
Northwest
Giovanni Ottaiano
Naples
Italy
United States
Lynchbore
Virginia
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Ottaiano
Yakima
Washington
North Yakima
Ottalano
Mrs. Ottalano
No. 217
South Eighth Street
Vincent
Dolly
Mr. Ottalano
Selah
Rockefeller Institute Discovers Pneumonia Serum Yet Lacks Patients
New York January 27 The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research reports a serum cure for pneumonia but has no patients to treat. Despite ample endowment and facilities the institute cannot obtain cases from hospitals or private sources and even considered sending cases to the fire department for trial. The serum, developed from monkey studies, aims to neutralize the bacteria and prevent pleural effusions with a modified anti toxin approach. Ballard’s Horehound Syrup is advertised as a lung remedy in the same notice.
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New York
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Fire Department
Rockefeller Institute
Rockefeller
Parochial School and Community Moves at Moxee City
Six lots are being secured for a new parochial school tied to Holy Rosary church with a cottage planned for spring. The Catholic hall will serve as a temporary school. A Congregational chapel move is under vote after strong local backing. A farmers mass meeting on Feb 1 will discuss a creamery and cheese factory and a better road into town. The Commercial club will elect officers that evening. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Desseraule on Jan 22. Moxee electric lighting began Friday night, marking a town’s future improvements. The Catholic ladies plan an upcoming entertainment. Watch for notices.
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Moxee Moxee City
Moxee City
Holy Rosary
Artessian
Commercial Club
Ditter’s Hall
Joseph Desseraule
Moxee
E. F. Swanson
North
Myers
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Earth
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Zenophon
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Tigris
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Eden
Tripoli
Mr. Allen
J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek
Mich
NEWEL
Newell Mill & Lumber Co
Hoge
Union Savings & Trust Co
Citizens Bank
Georgetown Station
Seattle Wash
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