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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
4
Miss May Sentel visits Pasco to see friends while county commissioners set an April 2 meeting. Oaksdale visitors look for farm land, St Patrick's Day passes quietly, Fourth Street improvements proceed, Inland Telephone discusses holdings, and Yakima avens gains a new block number 58.
Smallpox cases in the city have driven parents to keep children home, shrinking school attendance and threatening the school fund for next term. Superintendent McCurdy warns of lost weekly revenues estimated at 50 to 75 dollars, with Fairview School dropping from 38 to 7 pupils. He urges proper precautions and notes attendance drives state funding.
The locality boasts a healthy environment and moderate terms for a school providing first-class attention, accommodation, and instruction in useful and ornamental branches. For further particulars apply to the institution.
Smallpox broke out among workers building the Columbia river bridge between here and Kennewick this week. Three or four cases are reported and all patients are isolated in a house by themselves.
Oil was found last week near Cle Elum lake in Kittitas county by Seattle parties. Oil oozed from the ground and samples were sent for testing. If valuable, a company will be formed to test the Cle Elum area.
H M Gilbert a Yakima farmer who excels in potatoes ordered a car load of Early Ohio seed from St Paul. He plans to plant the shipment on his Toppenish farm and previously broke the Yakima valley harvest record by yielding 4300 dollars from a 350 acre tract.
H A Smull buys the Guil land hotel property from Miss Matilda Guilland for 2500 dollars. He plans major improvements including a large rear building for a marble shop and several minor upgrades to present a neat appearance.
An old ad claims August Flower remains the largest medicine sale in the civilized world. It touts the remedy for indigestion biliousness and general malaise, saying it cleanses the system and invigorates nervous and organic functions with a few doses. Green Augustine Flower is linked to Green's Prize Almanac and a North Yakima Drug Store location.
A.P. Sepoy offers weekly Tuesday departures from February 12 to April 30 for Easterners to the Northwest at low rates. He invites readers to send names of friends planning westward so agents can arrange berth reservations and advertise travel. Also recommends One Minute Cough Cure for early cold symptoms to prevent pneumonia or consumption.
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