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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1911
Page
5
Postal note from North Yakima Washington stating second class mail, weekly publication each Wednesday. Rates listed: subscription one year or six months or three months. issue date May 31, 1911. Advertising rates available on application.
A Indiana newspaper clipping reports a widespread shortage of good apples across southern and midwestern states. Prices for poorer fruit rise to 7 dollars and up per barrel while Idaho apples enter the market at 3.50 to 4 dollars per box, and early southern harvests offer limited relief due to freight costs. Bakers and pie makers struggle as dried or canned varieties become common.
A reporter approached Mr. Drummond at the Virginia hotel desk and was told to “go to hell.” The exchange occurred as Drummond tried to pay his bill, with the journalist persisting despite the insult. The incident reflects tense newspaper practices and private matters pushed into public view.
The article notes Americans lack a method for great deeds while French pilots lead in long-distance flight. The Paris to Turin challenge covers 1300 miles, with the Alps and Apennines posing severe hurdles. Endurance and skill will be tested to the utmost.
A critique argues the steel trust dominates major eastern and expanding western construction firms and plans to control cement, building prices, and labor costs. It cites Prouty, Roosevelt, La Follette, and intercorporate control. The piece notes state medical regulation shifts toward school limits and calls for strict qualifications for practice.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch argues for broad personal liberty in choosing healing methods, opposing medical fraud and compulsory enforcement. It contends that non drug and non surgical treatments can advance medicine if sanctioned by sanitary rules and honesty, warning against state coercion in medical practice.
A Swedish astronomer warns the earth may survive about 10 000 more years while observers hope the United States Senate will act decisively before that deadline.
The Los Angeles Express notes a five pound toad found near El Centro and says no comment is due unless the creature attacks children or swallows young cattle, a cautious tone for an odd wildlife item.
A Los Angeles Express note suggests George V could gain a tidy sum from motion picture rights to his late grandmother’s coronation ceremonies, highlighting potential royalties from the historic footage.
The Houston Chronicle quotes Mary Garden criticizing how much attention is paid to women’s clothing, arguing there should be less discussion and more focus on clothing itself.
Reading like a playful note from Atlanta Journal, a loose sentence recalls a summer joy ride under cool evening skies. No guardians or courtrooms intervene as the scene drifts through trees and barns in sleepy rural towns.
A mastodon fossil discovery is announced in Ohio with a witty note on markets. The Baltimore Sun commentary remarks on unearthing the ancient creature, joking that you cannot bribe a mastodon.
Eight partly grown alligators were shipped to W. L. Steinweg for the zoo collection and placed in the building used by concessionaire C. D. Anderson at Sumach park. Anderson, surprised by their snout peering from a dark doorway, fled the scene as the SAURIANS join exhibitions today.
Wiley City fans boast after a rout of the Indian team from White Swan. Jewett pitched five innings and Adams the last four with no hits or runs. Wiley City has allowed no runs in four games and no safeties in two. They plan to meet Sunnyside on Sunday June 11 and seek a game with Toppenish or Payne's Tigers. A fundraiser car trip to Wiley Friday evening to North Yakima aids the team.
The North Yakima Tigers edged the United States Navy team 2 to 1 in eleven innings at Sumach Park. Key plays included Jacobson’s two-base hit to win. Getchell and Rochon contributed in tying and late scoring. Attendance neared 1400 as U S cruiser Philadelphia players praised local hospitality.
The Presbyterian church hosted the commencement for five graduates with music by the joint Methodist and Presbyterian Union Sunday schools orchestra. The program included salutatory, class history, prophecies, a class poem, solos, valedictory, and the presentation of diplomas by J. B. Marly and the Board of Education.
Details from an El Paso telegraph reveal Gen Maderos assassination plot tied to Mexican figures and financiers. Boer General Viljoen says Dunn and De Villiers face charges but name others as potential conspirators, while money supporters named include Adolfo Garcia Galan and others. Local bounty payments for magpies end, and a birth adds quiet contrast to volatile headlines.
Dr Heg urges monthly bacteriological tests of Yakima valley water funded by local authorities and nearby towns to isolate typhoid sources. He cites past malarial theories, favors Lumsden led investigations, and cautions sewage and milk as infection avenues while Pacific Power & Light plans a new clean intake eight miles upriver.
The water system plans to remove foreign matter before reaching the mains. The inlet will be 150 feet higher, increasing head and pressure. Regulation will bring pressure to 75 or 85 pounds, sufficient for downtown fire fighting and other needs, said Mr. Jkingman.
The Potlatch annual was issued today with Galaxy Rose as editor in chief presenting a copy to Miss Elizabeth Prior who is honored on dedication. Prizes awarded for poetry and stories to Eugene Himmelsbach Hylas Henry Adin Gauntt Ralph Sundquist and frontispiece to Elizabeth Wilkinson. The staff lists editors and managers across multiple roles.
John T. Alderson Camp of North Yakima will take a special car to Vancouver Washington in the second week of June for the state encampment. About 25 veterans and several companions will travel from here by the North Bank and Columbia river route. The three day program includes exchanges with Oregon in Portland and attendance at the Rose Festival festivities.
Westbound and eastbound trains on the Burlington road crash head on three miles west of M Cook Neb at seven this morning. Fourteen killed and a score or more injured with two may die. Denver and Omaha Western league baseball players were in a Pullman attached to the westbound train. The car was toppled but players unhurt. Investigators suspect the new running-time change adopted yesterday was overlooked.
May 27 1911 list of unclaimed mail items includes numerous named recipients such as W H Alsbury Mrs Min ervia Barr W A Barreth Mrs Mabel Barnard H Beadle Mrs Henry Best Annie ABlechia Carl Boling Sam Bray Mahlon Brinkley Chas W Bronson Brooks L L Brush Mrs Minnie etc. Postmaster notices due the addressees to claim promptly at the office of W L Lemon P M.
A list of Civil War and Spanish War veterans honored at Memorial Day includes Meade Post members from North Yakima and surviving Civil War veterans. The article names numerous veteran and Confederate entries and notes ongoing grave decoration customs each Memorial Day.
Manager Marsden of the Tieton cafe starts installing electric fans ahead of hot weather. He also noted the new eight hour law for women, adding witnesses and shifts to beat the deadline. Howard F. Thompson from Granger visits after a bakery fire, planning a larger rebuild. North Fourth Street mud woes spurred debate on gravel to ease travel. Wenatchee High’s Leslie Rosser visits family in South Sixth Street. Temperature hits 89 marking the hottest day this season. YWCA general secretary F Vesta Webster resigns effective June 1 and will return to Portland.
Department of the Interior notice states Laura Flickinger of North Yakima Washington filed to claim desert land in section 32 township 14 north range 21 east Willamette meridian. Final desert proof set for July 10, 1911 before the US Land Office register and receiver, with witnesses Swanson Stewart Bacon Day.
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