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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1900
Page
10
McConnell runs affairs for the home. Outlook visitor Benjamin Dighton shops in the metropolis. Several aunts uncles and neighbors welcome a baby girl. Local ministers farmers and merchants plan outings sales and church events. A missing youth is located and the community reports a lawn social with some $105 raised. Heady with entertainments and local commerce the item highlights people places and upcoming gatherings.
An old advertisement lists items such as curry combs 15¢, 26 inch hand saw 45¢, mowing machine oil can 10¢, matches 5¢, rawhide whips 60¢, a 7 foot rawhide whip, ladies silk parasol $1.00, bread knife 106, washboards including glass and metal varieties, and a sales pitch claiming customers can buy more for 50c than elsewhere for $1.00.
District directors approved Contractor Bruenns bond and began foundation excavations Tuesday. They also accepted C H Armstrongs resignation as Columbia school principal and named J C Dickson of Buckley to the post. Dickson, Buckley principal for three years, comes highly endorsed.
D. J. Wynkoop writes from aboard the Garonne to Tuk Herato about a June 12 departure back to Dutch Harbor. He details crowded quarters with bunks, pull mans, illness, and storms as the ship nears Nome and then heads to Dutch Harbor for coal and a fresh start.
Horace Fletcher reflects on a southern friend who claims emancipation yet resents impertinence from black porters. The piece argues that antagonism invites itself and that emancipation requires a mind free of prejudice. It ends noting the line about getting it at Metcalf's Paint Store.
The article surveys science topics from absolute zero at 461 degrees below, to major Brewster county silver finds, Italy's import export gains, deep ocean life discoveries two miles deeper, zinc prospecting in Arkansas, and land ownership shifts. It also mentions debates on the oldest European coal mine, stellar composition, and a method to cool water using ammonium nitrate in a looser towel.
A collage of ad blurbs shows 2200 pairs of shoes at half price from Schott Shoe Co and Queen Quality ladies footwear touted as equal to higher priced rivals. Coffin Bros. promotes an Osborne mower at 54 dollars cash. Robert E. Smith’s offers fireworks warnings. Yakima Hardware Co. urges refrigerators freezers and oil stoves as essential for hot weather.
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