Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-08-27
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loaded and discharged
Few like the pawnbruker, but
many. especially in vacation time,
must pat up with him.
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In England, there is a strong move
mcnt for law compelling the hold
ing of Coroner inquest in cases
where a person dies under a surgical
operation.
The folks who live next door to me
must surely own their own home. |
heard the wife scolding her husband.
the other afternoon, for driving Il
picture nail into the plaster.
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Good Friend: " have reason TO
suspect that your husband is flirting
with other women. You ought To
follow him wherever he goes -
Olympia Wife: Great heavens!
My husband is mail-carrier -
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The cold storage warehouse is no
longer regarded as merely a recepta-
Gle for meats and provisions Ii is
now a formidable rival of the cam
phOr ball, tobacco and tar paper, a
state of affairs that causes the de-
Structivc moth to gnaSh his teeth in
rage.
"A New York Baptist minister be-
lieves he has invented Il means by which
eastern thunderstorms can be bottled.
That's all very well, but who in thunder
does he suppose will be willing to hold
the bottle'-Los ingeles Times.
Besides, there will be those mean
enough to say that the contents OF
the bottle has baen adulterated.
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An Olympia young man sat down
the other day and wrote two letters.
bur in addressing them got them
mixed AS a result shirt factory
in Seattle got an invitation to an
entertainment, while the girl was
made frantic by receiving the fol-
lowing: Please send me sample
of the stuff your shirts are made of. -
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Amongst the lucky ones at the
drawing for the Coeur d. Alene res,
ervation was one Miecyiplawadoli
Jaklewiez, of Aberdeen, this State.
Gee! All this time Aberdeen having
such musical artist - pianist or
viOlinist, of course-in her city. and
its newspapers never mentioning the
fact! It's an insult to the musical
world, that's all. Aberdeen. how
could you be so cruel?
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Food Commissioner Mains, of Ne
braSka, has ruled that medicines
containing opium, morphine, CO.
caine, acetanilide. alcohol, and so on,
dispensed by physicians who put up
their own prescriptions. must be la
beled as to the quantity of the drugs
specified By the law, just as the
preparations sold by the druggists
must be labeled. This is reasonable.
Poison is no less a poison because it
is prescribed by a physician.
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Arecent dispatch from Bellfontain,
Ohio, announced the death, at the
advanced age of 1l5, of. Mrs. Rebecca
Burns, who claims to have seen
George Washington when she was a
child. She attributed her longevity
to eating onions twice a day. If
this custom would become general,
some people who object to the frag-
rant perfume of the onion, might
prefer an early death. The onion is.
however, according to physicians, a
wholesome vegetable, even if it does
smell a little loud.
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The will of Dennis Kearney, of
San Francisco sand-lot notoriery,
whose saying, "The Chinese must
60 became famous throughout the
world. was recently probated. He
left an estate of $1,000. If Kearney
had receiveda tenth part of the money
from Chinese going" that some
people in San Francisco are reputed
to have secured for their coming"
he could have visited Paris before
death claimed him, and incidentally
played roulette at Monte Carlo, along
with the rest of EN-.
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John D. Spreckles, of San Diego.
Cal, has, at an expense of several
million of dollars, built a chain of
dams in the mountains which i'm
pound the winter floods and then de-
livers the precious fluid through
miles OF pipes and conduits, during
the summer months to that CITY.
San Diego buys pure mountain water
at four cents per 100 gallons, de-
livered in its reservoir distributing
system owned by the city, being the
CHEAPEST rate that water is secured
by any city on the Pacific Coast.
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A man in the prime of life recently
presented himself in hospital in
Baltimore, begging to be locked up,
o keep him away from laudanum.
he had begun taking the drug sew