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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1900
Page
3
A collection of letters from Seattle and Yakima figures discusses weather outlooks, city finances, and proposed fire protection upgrades. Contributors urge trimming city payroll, extending water mains, and careful spending, while recounting personal ties to the area and noting recent cold spell impacts.
The speaker recalls a winter four years ago near Thanksgiving in 1886 when a northwester and a blizzard from the Great Lakes swept the area. Farmers and stockmen hastened to protect cattle as the storm crossed the region.
G H Wauson of Lima Ohio reports engineer L.K. of the WLR line was troubled with backache. After using POLEY'S KIDNEY CURE one bottle relieved him. He recommends it to train men and friends. Sold at North Yakima drug store.
A historical guide lists equivalent measures for common kitchen items. It covers liquids with spoon to cup conversions and weights for flour cornmeal butter sugar and meat, plus small quantities like pepper and eggs.
In Cambridge England butter is sold by the yard and each yard yields a pound. Dairywomen roll butter into cylindrical yard lengths wrapped in white cloth and placed in baskets for market sale. A single knife stroke lets them cut a yard into halves or quarters with exactness.
A Columbus Missouri visitor quizzed a lower grade class on the earths axis and an imaginary bonnet. The exchange showed a playful, small town moment. Also promotes Mull s Lightning Cough Cure 25 cents by Taft Taft and W J Roat. A joke about Jack Sheppard and Atlas closes the page.
A peculiar advertisement touts dollar drafts in each dollar box if Matt's Pronger Curls fail. It markets separate medicines for various ailments from kidney to rheumatism, including chocolate tablets for female complaints, priced 25c and 1.00, with Taft & Taft and W. J. Roaf listed and a hint about millinery at Mrs. Towne's.
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