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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1903
Page
3
Local notices report Judge Rudkin expected to return home to open the superior court next Monday. D. B. Ely named drainage commissioner for district No. 1. Numerous community updates follow, including marriages licenses issued, businesses expanding, and local events at Yakima.
Chester Grissom seven year old son of Mr and Mrs W H Grissom died at the Ahtanum October 12 from diphtheria.
B F Cameron aged 35 was buried from Sessions chapel on October 25 under the auspices of the Order of Red Men. A brother and two sisters of the deceased reside in Virginia.
A casket was bought in the city on the 25th for a young man who died on the Cawiche. A report on antecedents and cause of death has not yet been filed.
J O Trainer aged seventy years seven months and twenty days died at his home on the Ahtanum last Saturday from injuries suffered in a runaway. He was a longtime resident and well known in the valley.
David H. Jungst aged 19 years 5 months 20 days died Monday October 26 in this city at his mother's home Mrs Elizabeth Tungst. He recently returned from Seattle after an attack of typhoid fever and had attended the state university preparing to be an electrical engineer. He was popular and a longtime local student and graduate of the high school. A mother several brothers and sisters survive him. The funeral will be held this Wednesday afternoon from the Episcopal church.
Sebastian Lauber aged 76 died at home in Yakima City on October 26. Funeral held yesterday afternoon at his home. He lived in the county 32 years and was well regarded. A widow is the only surviving relative. Also, Frank Winchel died at Medical Lake yesterday of brain hemorrhage. He was about 50, had lived in North Yakima 18 years. Interment at Tahoma cemetery with Odd Fellows services tomorrow. He had no local relatives.
Yakima markets list fruit shortages with Spitzenberg and Grimes Golden apples and prices for various varieties. Winter pears, potatoes, alfalfa hay, clover and timothy per ton are noted. Hop sales detail bales and prices across multiple buyers with comments on market strength and European demand. The piece also mentions local advertisements and a closing note on a sale and bakery location.
The Yakima Tribe No. 24 IOR M notes the death of Brother Frank Cameron and extends fraternal sympathy to his bereaved relatives. The lodge acknowledges a vacancy in the group and emphasizes the enduring values of Freedom Friendship and Charity in this solemn tribute.
A San Francisco letter reports claimed cures for Bright's Disease and Diabetes using new diuretics tested by John J. Fulton. It cites Edward Short and a Call editor's mother as recovered cases and notes an ex Supreme Judge in the Call building as a late recovery. The letter urges public proclamation of these cures to combat the deadly diseases.
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