Lights and Sidelights of Daily Doings in Yakima
Over fifty tickets sold at North Yakima for trips to Tacoma and Seattle. Notes on residents traveling to Ta coma and Seattle for celebrations or visits. Local notables from Seattle visit Moxee, and church calls extend to Rev. A H Lyons. Short items on crops, auctions, and small incidents.
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Washington
North Yakima
Tacoma
Seattle
Baptist
Roslyn
Cle Elum
A. H. Lyons
The
Baptist Church
Yakima
New York Cash Store Ad Offers Budget Hardware and Goods
An old style storefront ad lists items: a Curry Comb for 15¢, a 26 inch Hand Saw for 45¢, a Mowing Machine Oil Can for 10¢, two packages of Matches, a Rawhide Whip ranges from 60¢ to 88¢, a 7 foot Rawhide Whip, Ladies' Silk Parasol at $1.00, Bread Knife, Washboard varieties, and Bronze Brass Washboard. The shop promotes value from 5 and 10¢ counters, claiming more for a dollar than elsewhere.
Gideons Minstrel Carnival Tops Larson’s Theater Attraction
The big attraction booked for Larson's theater Tuesday evening is Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival and Nashville Students, touted as one of the largest road combinations and among the cleanest and finest of its kind. Tickets at Briggs & Dam's, Company C, National Guards, left for Tacoma for Fourth of July observances. Captain Coombs and Lieutenants led 45 men. uniforms were unavailable. Deputy Lum and others left for Walla Walla with Bayles and Barnett, sentenced to six and five years. Sheriff hoped to seize Louis Martin, colored, sentenced to fifteen years, but 30-day grace remains before supreme court action. Also mentions flour and feed from Kleis & Bond and travel by Wisconsin Central between St. Paul and Chicago. Ends with notices on Abe Lincoln Snow, nasal catarrh treatment by Ely's Cream Balm and its liquid variant.
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Larson’s
Gideon’s
Nashville
Briggs & Dam’s
National Guards
Tacoma
Coombs
Lieut
Liggett
Dam
Adjutant General
Lum
W. S. Lince
L. W. Haworth
Walla Walla
Bayles
Barnett
Louis Martin
Johnson
Supreme Court
Miss Blummer Advised Clock Change and Room Stay
Messenger Koy reports Miss Blummer told her mother to set the clock ahead an hour and to keep the door of the room closed while you were there.
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Mr. Plodder
Mrs Browne Is Not Home Says Bridget
Bridget warns that Mrs Browne may soon be back and urges leaving a card. The note mentions a visit and a rush, plus a line about stains at Metcalf's Paint Store.
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Mrs. Gabble
Bridget
Metcalf
Early Yakima Valley reminiscences and Fourth of July notes
Eyewitness recollections from Yakima residents cover pioneer arrivals near Union Gap, a fort site, and local Civil War veterans. Reports detail Water and Power ditch repairs, political ambitions, Roosevelt era anecdotes, a harrowing Queenstown memory, sheriff race talk, and a large Fourth of July fair crowd demonstrating regional growth.
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Andrew Gervais
Union Gap
Yakima River
Wanmick
Moxee
Yakima Valley
Pater Gervais
Pete the Filipino in Yakima street scrap with Chinaman
A fight on Yakima avenue Tuesday involved Pete the Filipino and a Chinaman, halted only by spectators. Josiah Smith and his wife and daughter, visiting from Fairmont Minnesota, arrived Monday and may stay in Yakima. A land dispute hearing over 160 acres on the Moxee, John Loudon versus Mrs. Mattie Frain, was held before Receiver Reed with Whiteon Parker for the contestant and I M Krutz for the defendant. judgment pending as the land’s value hinges on a forthcoming ditch reclamation project.
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Pete
Yakima Avenue
Josiah Smith
Yakima
Fairmont
Minn
John Loudon
Mattie Frain
Moxee
Reed
U. S. Land Office
Whiteon & Parker
I. M. Krutz
Local notices and travel note from Sunnyside trip
A fragment mentions Yakima Hardware Co urging early orders. Journalist Joel Shoemaaker, noted agriculturist, left for Sunnyside country on Tuesday to deliver a Fourth of July oration wearing his best clothes and earning credit.
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Joel Shoemaaker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Yellow Drug Store
C. Nightbell
Pen Oketches
WEA
Herald
Dell Hiscock
Westport
Hoquiam
H. B. Scudder
Timothy
Dudley
A. H. Wilgus
the Sound
Sidney
E. W. Dooly
North Dakota
D. M. Shanks
Peter Ager
D. E. Lesh
Mr. Lesh
Port Orchard
C. B. Livermore
A. B. Fowler
Columbia River
Mr. Livermore
Sam Hutchinson
Crab Creek
Sam
Spokane
John Bales
Montana
Richard Curry
Davidson
Dingle
Englehart
Bertha Behrens
Unger
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Charles B Spahr
Bryan
McKinley
Wm. Lee, Jr
Mr. Lee
Commission
Order of
A. J. Shaw
Herauo
Mr. Shaw
Abbie Jordan
Greene’s
Kleis & Bond
Samuel McCaw
Charley Churchill
Yakima Hardware Co
C. G. Fletcher
Yakima Bottling Works
F. E. James
Eugene, Oregon
Paris
A. D. Sloan
First Street
North
Drug Store
New
York
Sec
New York
Cas State
Alaska
St. Paul
Chicago
Jas. A
Portland
Oregon
Abe Lincoln Snow
Ely
Ely’s
al Whitson
Water, Light & Power Company
D. W. Richardson
Tacoma Ledger
John J. Wilson
Wilson
Senate
John L
P. D. Konkler
Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Cuba
Luni
Queenstown
A. L. Dilley
Jack Splawn
Marshal Grant
R. Strobach
Eilensburg
Square Meals
Inhalie
w.Hile
Lucy, Propr
Columbia Market
Columbia Meat Market
H. J. Rand
Propr
Yakina
Retati
J. H. Needham
OmMee
Chestnut Street
Coffin Bros
North Yakima, WN
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