Pasco Wins Big Rail Upgrade with Northern Pacific Plan
North Yakima contractors expect bids on a quarter million dollar project by Northern Pacific to improve Pasco. The plan includes a 45 stall roundhouse, freight depot, coal bunkers, oil storage, and track work. Increased payroll and regional expansion are anticipated as Pasco secures its division point status.
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North Yakima
Northern Pacific Railway
Pasco
C. Burdick
Pase
Columbia River
Pacific Coast
Great East
Burdick
Boston Chamber of Commerce Delegation Tours Europe
Paris gossip notes a Boston Chamber of Commerce delegation touring Europe with receptions in Geneva Franks Vienna Prague and Hamburg. The trip features dinners fireworks and civic honors as well as opposition to a Filipino dog sacrifice at Paris Magic City. Foreign receptions include a baby born dead in Magic Crt and Zionist delegates returning from Basel amid multilingual discussions. Charles Page Bryan sails from Brussels to Washington with Belgian officials bidding farewell.
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United States
Geneva
Alabama
Boston
Franks
Imperial Hall
Romer
Frankfort
Vienna
Prague
Hamburg
Paris
Magic City
M. Lepine
Police
Basel
Germany
Charles Page Bryan
Brussels
Polio
Washington
Japan
Belgium
Bryan
Picking Apples Peaches and Pears Hints From an Expert
An expert advises growers on the timing of harvest for apples pears and peaches. It discusses varieties that drop early or hang long and how color size and flavor relate to picking. It covers handling to avoid bruising and disease and notes differences for local versus long distance shipping.
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qWealthy
Waener
Minesap
Grimes
Spy
Ben Davis
Jonathan
Baldwin
King
Tompkins County
Blackberry jelly and preserves from under ripe fruit
Recipes for jelly preserves and dried blackberries from Lilian Tingle. Notes on selecting berries, adding lemon or tartaric acid, using apple juice for color, and testing the jellying point. Includes instructions for blackberry preserves, drying, muffins, and quick pudding with berry syrups.
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Lillian Tingle
Portland Oregonian
Onions Then Bake Them Till Tender for Supper
A narrator recalls choosing onions as a supper side with Peter. They bake whole onions in the oven until soft, then peel and serve with salt pepper and cream. The dish is praised as wholesome and convenient, especially on a cool day with ironing in progress.
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Peter
The Humble Onion Praised In Rural World
Mrs. Peter Pepper extols the white onion for its sweetness and delicacy over red varieties. She suggests stewed onions with white cream sauce as a versatile dish and lauds the plain onion as an honest, unpretentious staple, a prince among vegetables.
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Peter Pepper
Cantaloupe Disease Linked to Foliage Parasitic Plant
Professor W. S. Thornber reports a serious cantaloupe disease caused by a parasitic plant on foliage. Brown spots kill leaves and vines, lowering flavor and yield. prevention relies on Bordeaux mixture spraying and removing diseased plants to protect the patch.
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W. S. Thornber
Marriage Licenses Index for Yakima County
County Clerk Barr and staff work on six volumes to create the most complete marriage license indexes in the state. Using the Thorn system, the books will cover marriages since 1877, entered and checked to prevent errors. The indexes will aid abstract companies and attorneys by providing quick access to a couple’s marital status.
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Barr
Yakima County
Dean's Kidney Pills Offer Back Pain Relief
The ad claims kidney fatigue causes back and hip pain and fatigue. It promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as strengthening kidneys and easing distress, citing Anton Hansen of North Yakima as a testimonial and noting price 50 cents per bottle from Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Remember the name Don’sand take no other.
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Dean
North Yakima
Anton Hansen
North Yakio
Wash
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doun
Yakima Fruit in Chicago Auction Prices Report
Five cars of Bartlett pears from the northwest sold on the Chicago market with North Yakima Medford Bartletts praised for quality and packing. Prices ranged 1.50 to 1.55, one box at 2.10. Elberta peaches 0.90 to 1.10, average 1.06. Philadelphia New York Boston showing similar fruit prices. overall deciduous market prices advanced and market said to be very strong.
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Northwest
Chicago
Daily Report
Denney & Co
Medford
Peacock Court at Forest Park Zoo Draws Remark
A Boston Post quote describes a Springfield Forest Park Zoo display featuring three or four handsome peacocks. One bird's plumage is noted as especially gorgeous with greens golds reds and blues. A young woman viewing it for the first time quips about Thanksgiving turkey.
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Forest Park
Springfield
Boston Post
Boosting Chance Sees Good Govs Special Train Plan
North Yakima Commercial club is asked to participate in a governors special train to be run from Omaha to New York for land shows. The plan includes five exhibition cars two sleepers a diner and a business car with railroads Panama Exposition and states funding. North Yakima would get half a railcar divided into ten exhibit sections at a cost of 100 each.
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North Yakima
H. P. James
Commercial Club
J. B. Barnes
Centralia
Panama Exposition Company
Omaha
New York
St. Paul
North Yakima Commercial Club
Cardus Woman’s Tonic Praised In Ferris Letter
Mary Kilman of Ferris writes she was bedridden three months with womanly troubles before trying Cardus. She says an operation was once considered but she recovered, gained strength, and can work again. Thousands of women testify to Cardus’s benefits and relief from pains.
Boosting the Yakima Valley With Lantern Slides
Yakima Valley will be shown to Mississippi valley residents in colored stereoptical views with a lecture by P. and Maranlaia. Directed by A. Sawyer, the effort aims to boost Yakima Valley by displaying orchards rivers mountains and North Yakima streets. Sawyer notes the lanterns have attracted fifty families to settle or start businesses in the valley.
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Yakima Valley
Mississippi Valley
P. & Maranlaia
A. Sawyer
Sandyside
Yakima
Sawyer
McGees Baby Elixir Soothe Sick Babies in Heat
Mothers who stay with ill babies value McGees Baby Elixir in hot weather for quieting fever irritation soothing stomach easing bowels and helping mother and child sleep. Priced 26e and 50e per bottle sold by D H Fry and Co W Camp corner 3rd and Yakima aves.
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McGee
D. H. Fry and Co
W. Camp, Cor
3Rd
Yakima Aves
Cardus touted as cure by Valley Heights reader
A Virginia reader Mrs Jennie B Kirby writes from Valley Heights that she suffered nine months with womanly troubles and grew weak after using Cardus she could rise and work all day. The letter claims Cardus as a tonic for weak women and the best for fifty years.
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Valley Heights
Jennie B. Kirby
Cardus
World’s Fair beauty Nellie Helmick dies in New York hospital
Nellie Helmick once Urbana’s belle and Chicago World’s Fair beauty prize winner, has died destitute in a New York hospital after a period of friendlessness.
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Bellefontaine, O
Nellie Helmick
Urbana
New York
Cardui Promises Relief for Womanly Ailments in Timberville
Mrs Gertrude Gatlin of Timberville writes that Cardui cured T suffering from two years of womanly pains. The advertisement claims Cardui relieves headaches backaches dragging feels irregularity nervousness misery and weakness and promotes safety and reliability.
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Timberville
Gertrude Gatlin
Cardus
Cardui
Importers’ Odd Scheme Behind Lemons Trade Tactics
New York papers speculate on why lemon importers ship boxes from Sicily to New York then re export to Canada and other markets. They suggest tariff pressures in Washington and deliberate diversion to create scarcity to push New York prices higher and retain market control.
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New York
Sicily
Canada
Hamburg
Washington
Mississippi
Self Defense Confession in Bar Shooting Leads to Acquittal
In a barroom trial the prisoner admits to killing after claiming self defense. The magistrate asks for the attack description and notes the defendant had just returned from Italy. The case involves Camorra law enforcement and ends with the jury delivering a unanimous not guilty verdict.
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Italy
Rome
Harper’'s Weekly
White’s Cream Vermifuge Advertisement Claim
An old advertisement urges sickly children to use White’s Cream Vermifuge to destroy worms and serve as a strengthening tonic for the stomach and bowels. It lists a price of 2 and notes sales by D. H. Fry and W. Camp at the corner of 8rd and Yakima avenues.
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D. H. Fry
W. Camp
Cor
Yakima Aves
Typhoid Report for August Shows North Yakima Clean
City and county health officer Dr. Thomas Terreau reports August typhoid totals: one county case from North Yakima, six city cases, one death. Alice Montgomery, city bacteriologist, tests 60 city water samples. 10 positive for colon bacilli. Lab totals 185 examinations. Public health actions included 741 notices and 706 written orders to fix nuisances, with 135 toilets and 145 garbage cans addressed and 175 manure piles removed.
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Thomas Terreau
North Yakima
Alice Montgomery
Van Deman Named Judge for New York Apple Contest
Gilbert McClurg of the American Land and Irrigation exposition says Professor H F Van Deman of Washington DC will judge the New York apple contest next November with a $1000 prize from the Northern Pacific railway. Van Deman, longtime head of the pomological division of the agriculture department, has judged many fruit shows including six national expositions and the Madison Square Garden fruit show in 1897. he is also engaged as judge at the Indiana Apple show this year.
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Gilbert McClurg
H. FE. van Deman
Washington, D.C
New York
Northern Pacific Railway
van Demun
Department of Agriculture
America
Madison Square Garden
Indiana
Wanted Copies of 1910 Weekly Herald for Sugar Campaign
Advertises a missing issue request for the June 16 July 13 November 28 and December 7 1910 editions of the Weekly Herald. Offers two million dollars' worth of sugar to the newspaper for information leading to recovery and notes a nationwide campaign in England.
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Weekly Herald
Herald
Tfx
England
Busy day in county court with many divorces and damage suits
The county court clerk’s office saw a crowded day with new cases, answers and motions. Susan Hart seeks a divorce from Dan Hart and an order restraining the Central Bar of Toppenish from handling marital funds. Michael Witka and wife sue Miner Costow and wife for 800 dollars over overflow damage to their land near Sunnyside. John Brand sues August Lietkaemper and L Arpke for 1500 dollars for four years of waste water runoff. The city of Toppenish seeks condemnation to open Union Street. Coast Trading sues B L Way Bohannon and wife for 1120 dollars over non delivery of thirty tons of Timothy hay with 90 dollars in earnest paid. Guardianship for Ange Line F Johnson appointed with bond set at 2000 dollars.
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Superior Court
Susan Hart
Dan Hart
Toppenish
Michael Witka
Wand Ford Google
Miner Costow
Sunnyside
Wo Oal
Stephen B. Chaffee
John I Brand
the Coast Trading Company
BL Way
Bohannon and
Timothy Hay
Wapato
Grady
G. C. Lee
Sam Johnson
Angeline F. Johnson
Mother Goose Rhyme Note in Louisville Courier Journal
A brief item cites an old woman with seven children and a plan for a flat, linked to a Mother Goose verse in the Louisville Courier Journal.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Old Papers for Sale at Merald Office
Merald office advertises old papers for sale at 0c per bundle. The terse listing notes bundles available and a price point, with no additional details.
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Merald
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