Narrow Escape Rescued From 70 Foot Cliff Fall
Fred Chase a Milwaukee patrolman was saved from a 70 foot plunge into Yakima River by a section crew led by his brother Verna. They used 100 feet of Manila rope to drop a noose and haul him to safety from a rock shelf above the water. Chase suffered facial injury but is expected to return to duty soon.
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Yakima
Fred Chase
Milwaukee
Verna Chase
Lake Kanchelus
Fred
Young Chase
Vern
Chase
Water cost fixed at $60 per acre under Klickitat canal
Officials deny rumors that irrigation water costs exceed other canals. Contracts set price at 60 dollars per acre, paid in fifteen annual installments of four dollars each, starting after irrigation begins. Land sales rise as soil proves fertile and orchard prospects improve with canal operation.
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Whickitat Irrigation and Power Company
Horse Heaven Country
Tieton Canal
Klickitat Company
Stick Pierces Lads Cheek in Vacation Accident
North Yakima officers Vern and Fred Chase, two police brothers, returned from vacation with Vern showing a ragged hole in his left jaw after a fall near Cabin Creek south of Lake Keechelus. Vern said a sharp stick caused the injury. the brothers recounted a fast pace and entangled feet during their outing.
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Nywening
Chase
Vern
Fred Chase
North Yakima
Cabin Creek
Lake Keechelus
Fruit shippers urged to align shipping days in 1910
H. M. Gilbert urges shippers to coordinate Fargo and East shipments on select Saturdays and alternate days to form 30 car trains during Bartlett pear and prune season. The plan aims to help Northern Pacific schedule five day runs for peaches and test feasibility of special fruit trains.
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Fargo
Far East
H. M. Gilbert
Mr. Gilbert
Richards
Northern Pacific Railroad
Bartlett
Gilbert
St. Paul
Eastern
Billings
East
First Zoroastrian Marriage Performed in Leipzig Germany
In Leipzig a Zoroastrian community temple held the first marriage ceremony according to Zoroastrian rites. The altar decor included spring flowers a burning candle and symbolic objects as the bride and groom exchanged rings and a blessing was given by the messenger using a mirror to reflect the couple's faces and duties.
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Berlin
Leipzig
Germany
Mazdazan
Pies of Boyhood and Electric Bitters Tonic
How delicious were the pies of boyhood and how nothing compares now. The ad promotes Electric Bitters to restore digestion and vitality, claiming benefits for stomach liver kidneys and overall strength, at Clark's Pharmacy.
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Clark's Pharmacy
Progressives urged to unite against Big Business
Madison July 25 Senator La Follette in La Follette's Weekly Magazine calls progressives of all parties to unite in opposing the Money Power in politics. He argues the fight is not party doctrine but securing true representation and public welfare over privilege. Judge Lindsey echoes urging support for insurgent Republicans to defeat corporate interests.
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Madison
Wis
la Follette
Ben B Lindsey
Colorado
Beveridge
LaFollette
Dolliver
Aldrich
Foster
Fitzgerald
Cannon
Lindsey
Congress
Ballard's Snow Liniment Promoted For Insect Bites
An advertisement claims stings or bites can be poisonous and should be treated promptly. Ballard's Snow Liniment is described as antiseptic and healing and sold in three sizes. Available from D. H. Fry at 10 Yakima Ave and C. W. Camp at the corner of 8th Ave and W. Yakima Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballard
D. H. Fry
Yakima Ave
C. W. Camp
W. Yakima Ave
Warning for fruit folk in peach crop market notes
Chicago selling agents Denny & Co report Southern peach growers face poor selling conditions due to car and ice shortages and an oversupply. Seventeen cars of deciduous fruit sold at auction with Bartlett pears 1.70 to 2.00, Foster peaches 0.40 to 0.69, and German prunes around 1.79, among others.
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Chicago
Denny & Co
Herald
Bartlett
Burbank
Crawfords
Wikson
Spoons Pictures Barred Movement In Missouri Churches
The Christian Endeavor Union of Missouri launches a state wide drive to ban moving pictures with inappropriate tones. It targets demoralizing scenes from elopements to robberies and kissing outside marriage. A St Louis congress approves a five member committee led by Wallace Bell and George W Lubke to push the ban locally and statewide.
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ST. Louis
Christian Endeavor Union of Missouri
Congress of
Prospects For Wheat Good Says Buyer
H P Chapman sales manager of the C H Lilly company reports from Mabton and Horse Heaven that farmers plan to buy as much as last year and some expect a crop 20 percent larger. Hay looks good with a large second alfalfa cutting, but oats may be down though carryover stocks are large. Chapman plans another Eastern Washington survey to Ellensburg for hay prospects.
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Horse Heaven
H. P. Chapman
C. H. Lilly Company
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Washington
Mabton
Chapman
Astern
Ellensburg
HERBINE Liver Tonic Promises Health Repair
When you feel lazy and listless and yawn often, a torpid liver allows impurities to build up. HER BINE cures disorders from an inactive liver. It strengthens the liver, cleanses the bowels, and improves overall health. Price 60c. Sold by D. H. Fry 10 Yakima Ave and W Camp at Yakima Ave corner.
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D. H. Fry
Yakima Ave
W. Camp
Cor.srd
Telephone Rates Advance For Farmers Lines
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph announces an advance in rates for farmers lines, effective July 1, raising average monthly charges by about forty cents. The move aims to bring lines to a paying level as the service expands with more patrons and back-country extensions continue.
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Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company
Yakima Phone Service Expands To Wider Population Reach
Mousger Wilkinson notes $45,000 allocated for local work with material on hand. The company now serves a larger portion of the population within phone reach, with Yakima showing rapid growth in phone use compared with many other cities.
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Mousger Wilkinson
Yakima
Swauk Creek placer land dispute reaches land office
Testimony heard in a Rainier forest reserve homestead contest questions if Swauk Creek land is mineral or agricultural in character. W A Wells contests against Edmund Grady over about 64 acres in two townships. Decision reserved as forestry service classification and overlapping mining claims are noted. New entry notices cover township 21 north range 11 east with portions of Lake Keechelus and Tod Lake.
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Swauk Creek
Land Office
Rainier Forest Reserve
Swank Creek
W. A. Wells
Edmund Grady
Section Lo
North Range
Kittitas County
Davidson
Kittitas
Messrs. Pruyn and
Allen
Forestry Service
New Homestead Land
Range 11
Lake Keechelus
Tost Lake
Napoleon's Gait and Dr King’s New Discovery Ad
An old health ad touts Napoleon's never-say-die spirit and promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for bad colds coughs and lung diseases. It claims to cure bronchial ailments including lagrippe croup asthma hay fever and whooping cough with trial bottle offered at Clark's Pharmacy.
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Napoleon
Dr. King
Clark's
Good Roads Get Additional Money
About $2000 from the state general fund maintenance appropriation for the Walla Walla penitentiary will be diverted to support the Maryhill Lyle to Samuel Hill highway and other road work. A conference led by Governor Hay and Attorney General Bell, with the board of control and Highway Commissioner Bowlby, decided the shift is feasible since convict labor cannot absorb all penitentiary needs.
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Olympia
Walla Walla
Lyle
Samuel Hill
Maryhill
Iieid
State Board of Control
Hay
Bell
Board of Control
Bowlby
State road convict camp subsistence plan noted
The text outlines a maintenance proposal of 11 to 12 cents per day per convict on state roads. It describes calculating subsistence proportions from the prison per capita appropriation and using prison funds to buy foodstuffs for road convict camps to the determined amounts.
Public views on typhoid cure and bowel cleansing methods
Letter to the readers argues typhoid fever can be broken up quickly through thorough bowel cleansing, saline laxatives, antiseptic injections, and specific diets. Cites doctors from Cameron Texas to Almira Washington praising drugless treatments and lemon juice as protective against typhoid, urging readers to adopt these methods and clip prior articles for reference.
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Scitor Herald
Herald
Charles H. Brewer
Cameron
Texas
Breuer
W. C .Abbott
M. D
G. W. H. Moore
Almira
Washington
Ike Dr. Breuer
S. Wt. Itter
Frank J. Femning, M
Butler, Ind
Welch
Naboth
J. H. Tilden
Denver
Oro
Iifield
S. Corr
Medical Tall
Ell G. Jones
Burlington
W. H. Burgess
Chattanooga
Bass
New York
Philadelphia
the Herald
Yakima
Ferguson
London
King
F.C. Jones
Sunnysite
J. F. Zmdirer
Chicago Fruit Market Prices Show Strong Deciduous Goods
Declining late shipments, ripe Crawford and Elberta peaches, and strong California imports shape a hot market. Twenty two cars offered. Crawford pears and Elberta peaches varied in size and quality with prices 50 to 75 cents for Crawford and around 50 to 60 cents for Elberta. Sacramento river pears praised. Suisun fruit steadier but not as attractive. Prices overall firmer as heat persists.
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Texas
Chicago
California
Ciibnl
Waco
Crawford
Ilbertas
Crawfords
Elbertas
Denny & Cots Eircular
Sacramento River District
Suisun
Frusit
Dhove
Doemland
Brulshaw
Cgraveenstein
Columbia
Washington
Dixon Couple Welcome Daughter From Wide Hollow
A daughter was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dixon Jr. of the Wide Hollow.
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J. J. Dixon, Jr
The
Wide Hollow
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Lad
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SWAUK
the Peoples’ Forum
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