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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
5
The report describes land expansion in the Yakima and Prosser regions, with increasing settlement, irrigation projects, and asset purchases. Officials note rising wheat prospects, growing farms, and new homesteads as populations move toward Sunnyside and neighboring valleys.
W Felton lists office hours from 9 to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Yakima Avenue West.
A terse notice promotes the Viavi Message for health, advising ladies to write for guidance. The address listed is the Office of VIAVICO in the Commercial Club building near the Fist National Bank area in North Yakima.
The Washington Federation of Women's Clubs chooses Pullman as the site for its next annual meeting. Eastern Washington women lead the new board, with officers from Ellensburg Spokane Pullman Everett Seattle and Chehalis. The group adopts a resolution opposing any by law changes to restrict general federation membership by race. A second resolution urges action to make desertion of a husband a crime. Election of president favors Elwood of Ellensburg after a lengthy ballot.
The article argues that vertical writing has no character or speed and should be abandoned. It condemns forcing pupils into a system that hinders rapid writing and practical use, urging clear, fast handwriting and warning that vertical writing is impractical.
Barbers defeat saloon men 19 to 16 in a championship game last Sunday. The barber nine, mostly amateurs, faced a well-known saloon lineup in a spirited contest that drew local interest.
A collage of humorous lines and ads from a late 19th or early 20th century page. It includes a moral quip about heaven and the circus, ads for Foley’s Kidney Cure and One Minute Cough Cure, a trust ad seeking advertisers, social chatter about bridge games, and a joke about marriage costs and hair styling.
London fashion mentions Lady Castlereagh laid up with measles Lady Camden ill with chickenpox and Lady Bective with influenza along with a hoard of notices about salaries ad rates and a Chicago address. A country servant recalls leaving a local concert mid performance while a poetic and practical wedding scene ends with a laundry bill reminder.
A promotional note touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as the cure for chronic constipation. It claims genuine tablets stamped C C C and warns against bulk sales, urging druggists to stock it.
Half the world is in darkness about their illness says a local ad urging readers to treat the stomach. Take Dr Loyal Ford's Dyspepticide to get the stomach working properly, as promoted by North Yakima Drug.
A woman seeking to measure how uncertain popularity feels can join a progressive euchre gathering and win all the prizes, demonstrating the fickleness of social acclaim.
Miss Maude Dickens of Parsons reports eight years of severe asthma with frequent attacks and near death. She began using Foley's Honey and Tar and claims it has never failed to give immediate relief. North Yakima Z Store endorsement.
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