Local notes and events from Yakima area press
W E Ayres visits from Tampico and Miss Lacey returns home from Tampico after visiting relatives. J N Mull’s second hand shop advertises goods while local families and businesses, including the Berg Sheep Co and Mull’s, list sales and notices. The community reports deaths, church events, real estate plans, and upcoming sales of hats and livestock with multiple named residents and locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Lacey
Puyallup
W. E. Ayres
Tampico
Insect Misadventure Ends With Classified Specimen
A professor chasing a new insect on a doorstep misidentifies and nearly harms it. The family quarrels over naming and the mother refuses to harm the bug, noting she bought it for a bonnet. The animal is ultimately deemed already classified by science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Charlie
Pentamera
Water cure adopted by army to curb sailors' swearing
The water cure or handy-billy washdown is described as a naval discipline for drunken sailors. A deck bolt lashed hands, a pump sprayed a face until the sailor stops swearing. Commanding officers and mates watch as mates laugh at the repeated oaths drowned by water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Philadelphia Times
Insurance pitch and local product ads on one page
An assortment of advertisements offers life insurance from New York Life with a 20 year policy noted as incontestable from issue date. Other ads promote grain sacks from North Yakima Milling Co and cough remedies from Foley’s Honey and Tar via North Yakima Drug Store. Also included are Foley product endorsements, a jewelry gift mention, and eye services by specialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Life
W. A. Erwin
Hrraup Orrer
North Yakima Milling Co
Depot
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IAKT
U. S
C. W. Chamberlain
Sunnyside
F. A. Williams
Toppenish
Yakima
J.N. Mull’s
South Second Street
Coffin Bros
H. B. Rigg
Olympia
Supreme Court
Robert Cissna
Fruitvale
Price
Ino. Anglin
North Yakima
Arthur Mulholland
Sam McCaw
Jim Loudon
Mull
Ahtanum Avenue
R. D. Santorp
J.M. Day
Kendrick
Idaho
J. M. Plank
The
Selah
E. Berg Sheep Co
Kramer Bros
H. P. James
Spokane
General Congregational Association of Washington
James
Methodist Church
G. M. Booth
Moscow
Harry Sitton
South Fourth Street
Bernard Wilkinson
State University
Bernard
Seattle P.I
Seattle
Homer L. Brown
W. R. Brown
Homer
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church
H. M. Bartlett
Belshazzar
Louis Lesh
Erwin
Mrs
T. L. Scott
Justice Taggard
I. L. Robbins
Stone Bros
Arthur Hussey
Hussey
Mabton
F. N. Oaks
Jamestown
N. Y
Foley’s
A. D. Sloan
Foley's
W. A. Herren
Finch, Ark
Foley
Goldman’s
Washburn
Stewart & Bauer
Columbia
Ccs
Dingler & Pusch
Hotel
Yakima Block
Lombard & Horsley
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