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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
3
A reader from Nysipe July 16 1900 praises Sunnyside Washington praising its climate and hospitable residents. The letter contrasts former neglectful neighbors with Sunnyside’s courteous culture and welcomes the editor to publish thanks for a community that values new arrivals.
Sergeant J. H. Wright, veteran of the Philippine campaign, returns to the Yakima ranch and meets with melon dealers to arrange handling. He notes good seed germination and fine fruit maturity, with smaller overall acreage and shifts to potatoes in many patches. Canteloupes will outpace watermelons, and the Rocky Ford watermelon is planted widely for long distance shipments.
A California Consolidated Petroleum Company stockholder holds shares in fifty oil firms. His stake entitles him to a proportional share of all dividends paid by California Consolidated and its associated companies.
A mixed page features a rising financier motif with family quips about fathers pockets full of nickels. It also includes vintage ads for Mull’s Lightning Pain Killer and Cough Cure at 25c from Taft Taft and W. J. Rost, plus DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve claims and humorous exchanges about marriage money and a Berlin medical congress finger transplant.
Readers are urged to consider travel options beyond the Boer War and Alaska Gold Fields. The note promotes using the Wisconsin Central Bay for best service between St. Paul and Chicago with rates and information available from Jas A Clock, General Agent, Portland, Oregon.
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