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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1907
Page
3
City council approves a tax levy of 1151 mills for the coming year and adopts a detailed financial plan. The report by City Clerk J C Brooker lists bonded and funding debt, current warrants, and unpaid balances, forming the basis of the levy.
A 125 volume library in a handsome case will be awarded to the Lodge Society Church or School in North Yakima with the most votes. Merchants will credits votes for each cash purchase. The contest runs July 8 to December 8 1907 ending at 7 p.m. Votes are deposited at Pioneer Drug Store. Current accounts in good standing earn votes.
The advertisement notes an X ray laboratory linked to an office with treatment and examination by X rays. Services available day or night for all cases. Residence listed at 3 Natches Ave with two phone numbers 1903 and 1904 for Dr Nagler.
City council adopts levies for interest on 60 000 of bonds and 30 000 refinancing bonds with a one mill tax and a separate three tenths mill library tax, directing the clerk to file with Yakima county for tax rolls. Also notes a Durkin obituary and controversy over a ministerial quote, plus a brief ad for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
Star service mail routes set between Nile and Natchez and Gross and Waitsburg with service starting November 2 and 5. Nile route flies three times weekly, contract to George M. Dunham of Niles for 470. Gross to Waitsburg runs twice weekly by John H. Coe of Gross for 210 annually. Civil service exams for clerk in North Yakima on November 20. J. W. Caldwell of Port Townsend named clerk in San Francisco naturalization bureau.
Spokane in October reports Jim mie Durkin railroad president and temperance lecturer angered as the Greenwood Cemetery association with Judge A B Dunning former Senator George Turner and Col William Ridpath denounce his engraved monument. The granite cube weighs two tons and bears a disputed inscription.
Yakima Valley Transportation Co applies for a right of way franchise starting at West Yakima Avenue and Turner Street to Linden Lane then along J A Adams Road to Summit View Road. A hearing is slated for Monday. Moxee drainage district hearing adjourned to November 9. Wapato incorporation delayed to November 9 due to doubts over required voters or residents. attorney G G Lee represents petitioners.
A Westfield Iowa man, G S Clark, credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving his life from severe lung disease. He details a dramatic recovery after using the medicine, claiming it cured a dry hack and throat and lung complaints. The remedy is sold by C C Case, druggist, with 50c and 1.00 prices and a trial bottle free.
A fragmented report notes a failed coup attempt in Faile Ora. Names or precise entities are unreadable in the surviving text but the context indicates a political upheaval failed to unfold as planned.
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