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E. E. Reid

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Nov 9, 1907Newport's $300 City Hall Was a Secondhand Newspaper OfficeThe council accepted the Idaho Washington Northern's offer of the old Miner building, then appointed a committee to move it to Washington Avenue for use as fire apparatus storage, council chambers and police court.Newport, WA
Jan 2, 1908Newport’s Bank Comes Through the Panic Still Paying DividendsDirectors of the First National Bank of Newport report a clean balance sheet, a 5 percent dividend and a 17 percent year despite the financial stringency.Newport, WA
May 14, 1908The Newport Hardware Man Who Went Through Johnstown — and Kept the River Mud to Prove ItIn his store window, E. E. Reid displays a gilded St. George torn from a clock and a rocking chair pulled from the 1889 Johnstown flood — silt still hardened in the crevices — and jokes that he is still selling hardware because the flood only went through him, not over him.Newport, WA
Dec 10, 1908A Panic Year Boom: Newport Built Through Hard TimesDespite a national financial panic, Newport added 87 homes, six concrete business blocks, new depots, churches, and a reshaped downtown—proud evidence of a town betting on itself.Washington Avenue, Newport, WA
Apr 1, 1909Newport's 1909 Boom: New Additions, Orchards and Fifteen Houses at OnceReal-estate agents opened fresh tracts on the edge of town while a land company put thirty men and ten teams to work clearing apple orchards.Newport, WA