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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
4
An article recounts Jack London’s claim of five serious afflictions, including an unnamed incurable disease and a malarial fever gradually fading. He cites a voyage end and vows to seek medical diagnosis on return, while editorially linking health woes to social inequities and wealth distribution.
The excerpt contrasts medieval aristocratic abundance with the laborers who toil for wages. It notes how food was distributed from the head of the table to noble guests, while those who worked fed on leftovers, highlighting enduring tensions when prices rise and workers gain little from increased production.
The New York Evening Post tally shows senators by business ties amid tariff debates. It lists lawyers, bankers, merchants, manufacturers, landowners, and stockholders, including 10 poor and 22 millionaires, arguing reforms favor property rights over human rights.
Saloonkeeper Jimmie Durkin, with two existing saloons and his sons as partners, opens a new bar in Spokane and posts mottoes about liquor and drinking. He has long observed varied patrons, from children to elders, and uses newspaper ads to reach customers’ wives.
A jagged excerpt shows a speaker musing on overdoses bar rooms bartenders and money. Lines contrast drinking culture with risk noting full bottles cheap shots and the craving for wealth. The snippets reveal a gritty streetwise World War era tone and streetwise humor.
A New York Sun contributor argues the old hierarchy of leadership is shifting. He lists thirteen ranks from finance magnates to poets, noting the populace now wields power while distinctions remain about individual influence. Spokane testimony and Wright brothers’ feats are cited as examples of hidden ownership and renewed pursuit of wealth.
President Taft jokes about the age of flight while skeptical about airship progress. He quips about Taft flying without sagging in the middle of an airship, reflecting contemporary doubts about aerial technology.
Washington D C June 14 A federal report says creating a fourteen foot lake to gulf ship channel would cost about 159 million in money and 18 years of labor A plan favors dredging and regularization near St Louis and Cairo while ruling out six other methods The discussion centers on whether a deep water route is feasible and how it would affect towns farms and rail lines.
The army board rejects a fourteen foot navigable channel from St Louis to the Mississippi mouth as unnecessary and costly. It favors an eight to nine foot channel approach via existing Cairo and Ohio projects and warns that deeper water would need new vessel types and altered methods.
Omaha center leads typhoid vaccination experiments at Fort Crook and Fort Omaha as nine medical corps privates volunteer. If successful, the entire army could gain immunity, boosting available strength by about 20 percent while reducing maintenance costs.
A Mormon elder in a boarding house endured severe burns on his hands while saving a woman from a skirt burning with gasoline. He acted without hesitation and extinguished the flames, saving the woman before medical help arrived from Dr Nywening.
San Francisco leads six contenders for the 1910 National Irrigation Congress to be held in Spokane August 9 to 14. Pueblo Chicago St Louis Charleston and Rochester join Texas and others in sending delegates. Speakers include Pinchot Harriman and many state engineers as pressures mount to move the event east of the Missouri River.
A playful fashion snippet notes a bride from Rocky Mountain Tea inlaid. Case's Drug Store highlights a beauty claim about a fair complexion that will endure beyond her wedding in June.
Tigers fail to generate offense as Dale delivers a spectacular catch and a strong crowd watches a fast but hitless game. The Tigers fall short despite a standout effort by the defense and pitching.
Advertising blurb praising attractive women and linking health to beauty. Claims Electric Bitters regulate stomach liver and kidneys purify blood improve nerves and skin. Ends with price 50c at C. C. Case's.
Mark Twain visited Baltimore to speak to the girl graduates of St. Timothy's school. He advised them on three things not to do to excess, joking that he is 73 percent years old and has smoked for 73 years. He urged avoidance of excess in smoking and drinking and cautioned against excess marriage.
To relieve constipation and improve digestion, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is promoted as the reliable tonic for thirty years. The advertises tea or tab lets at Case's Drug Store priced at 35 cents.
L D Williams a Yakima valley pioneer from Wapato vanished from home after a May 1 disagreement. Friends and relatives fear self harm. he had prior influenza illness and three stays in the asylum.
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