State fair funding clash sparks Yakima opposition
A bitter campaign claims rivals plot to strip Yakima of state fair funds, shift money to King county, and back a Kent race track rehab while denigrating Yakima’s dairy and beef exhibits. Critics label the scheme as theft of state resources and urge public disapproval.
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Yakima
Tacoma News
Spokane
Walla Walla
Seattle
Tacoma
King County
Vandevanter
McGraw
Wilson
Kent
Post-Intelligencer
McNeil
Recitals and Shows At Local Halls This Week
William Baxter Perry will perform at Congregational church Saturday November 24 under the Ladies' Musical club. Larson’s theater hosts Human Hearts on November 24 with a strong touring company led by Fred Fairbanks and others. Fitz and Webster’s A Breezy Time comes to Larson’s November 6 featuring top talent and light entertainment with no moral lesson.
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William Baxter Perry
Congregational
Ladies’ Musical Club
Larson
Fred Fairbanks
Tom Logan
Mr. Sully Guard
Armidale
Mr. EdgcHugh
Jem Mason
Bertha Green
Ruth
Fitz and Webster’s
Larson’s
Tennessee's Pardner Illicitly Returns To Yakima Stage
Alba Heywood and his company presented Tennessee's Pardner at Larson's theater drawing a large crowd in Yakima during their second appearance, following Mason's engagement before the new opera house was built. Heywood impressed as an impersonator, elocutionist, and vocalist with first class talent, though the audience response was cooler due to weather and competition from larger troupes.
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Tennessee
Pardner
Larson
Yakima
Mason’s
Opera House
Alba Heywood
Heywood
Paper editor cancels all content to print only a blank sheet
A dreamt newspaper caused a satirical issue where every submitted item was killed and the paper printed a blank page at press time. The eccentric stunt ends with the editor sleeping, satisfied no one was offended.
American Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial Seeks Charter
The American Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial applies for a New York charter. It argues doctors too easily certify death without thorough life absence tests and proposes measures such as arterial incisions, burned breath tests, and a crystal mirror held to lips to prove no respiration.
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American Society For the Prevention
New York
Scotch farmer elected to school board tests class
An old Scotch farmer newly elected to the school board visits the school and probes pupil intellect with questions. He asks the class to define nothing. A backseat boy answers that nothing is what an aged farmer gives you for hand in his horse.
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Briggs & Dam
Telephone
South First Street
Northwest
Benedict Arnolds
Perry
J. W. Whitlock
Second Street
Jackson
R. J.curry
Mr. Curry
Blankville
Quiett & Ayres Drug Store
Mull
Taft & Taft and
W. J. Roaf
Tom
Bartlett
Aalseneats
Rae Sagstey
Washington Medical Dispensary
P. O. Box
Duced
DeWitt’s
Quiett & Ayers Drug Store
Thomas W. Evans
Paris
Philadelphia
Prosser
Woodcock Academy
Ahtanum, Wash
Robinson Manufacturing Co
Rushford
General Hardware
Fawcett Bros
Washington
North
E. M. Harris
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