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- Budget Cuts Silence Washington's Farmers' Institutes
A Pullman college president tells The Ranch that six or seven faculty posts were cut, leaving no one free to carry agricultural lectures into the countryside in 1903.
- Klondike Hero's Company Folds, Creditors Left Short
A Seattle commission firm fails, and its famous president T.S. Lippy claims no moral obligation to creditors who trusted his name.
- The Cream Check That Didn't Add Up
A Whatcom County dairyman shipping cream to Seattle says the buyer's statement shorted him on butter fat and price — and he wants the other side to answer.