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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Description: life
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    • State history. Stocks & bonds. 1934-09-01


    • Giannini people buy medical life
      Stockholders O. K. Deal with transamerica Corp.
      $300,000 involved
      Means forst entry of big Southern company into this State.
      Look for dividend
      Growth of Spokane group rapid -- assets $152,540 in 1929,...

    • 1934

    • Giannini people buy medical life
      Stockholders O. K. Deal with transamerica Corp.
      $300,000 involved
      Means first entry of big Southern company into this State.
      Look for dividend
      Growth of Spokane group rapid -- assets $152,540 in 1929,...
    • State history. Stocks & bonds. 1934-09-01
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1937-02-07


    • Guardian Life gains.

    • 1937

    • Guardian Life gains. - A gain of $6,606,014 during 1936 brought its total assets up to a new record high of $115,737,356, reports the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America in its 77th annual statement to policyholders.
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1937-02-07
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1924-12-15


    • Metropolitan Group Life policy totaling $730,000 is issued.

    • 1924

    • Metropolitan Group Life policy totaling $730,000 is issued. - One of the largest group life insurance contract ever closed in Idaho has just been completed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to cover members of the Idaho National Guard who...
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1924-12-15
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1937-07-04


    • Life delights Dill's mother
      Mrs. Amanda Dill, 73, here with ex-senator, proud of two sons.

    • 1937

    • Life delights Dill's mother
      Mrs. Amanda Dill, 73, here with ex-senator, proud of two sons.
      Two things have made life sweet for Mrs. Amanda Dill. Talk with her for two minutes and you'll discover what it is which makes her look 10 years...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1937-07-04
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1937-09-02


    • Rolland H. Denny 86 years 'young'
      Life of pioneer Seattle citizen has kept pace with city's growth

    • 1937

    • Rolland H. Denny 86 years 'young'
      Life of pioneer Seattle citizen has kept pace with city's growth.
      No history of Seattle will ever be written without the name of Rolland H. Denny in its pages, for his life parallels the growth of the city.
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. D. 1937-09-02
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. H. 1935-01-04


    • Pioneer writes own story-Spokane matron, 79, reviews life in inland empire

    • 1934

    • Pioneer writes own story-Spokane matron, 79, reviews life in Inland Empire - Mrs. Blanche Higbee, W1811 Shannon, who will be 79 on January 20, has written the story of her life under the title, "The Autobiography of a Pioneer Woman," dealing with...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. H. 1935-01-04
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1936-08-12


    • Rough, ready life at fort
      Drinking tolerated but excess frowned upon by company officers.

    • 1936

    • Rough, ready life at fort
      Drinking tolerated but excess frowned upon by company officers.
      The original Fort Walla Walla, located near the present site of Wallula, was a Hudson's Bay company trading post in the early days, and history...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1936-08-12
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1938-01-07


    • Woman enjoys life at advanced age

    • 1938

    • Woman enjoys life at advanced age
      Celebrating her 97th birthday last week didn't mean that Mrs. Julia Stevenson, W906 Fairview, is growing old. Mrs. Stevenson has always been in perfect health and has never been in a hospital. She spent 37 years...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. S. 1938-01-07
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1937-09-21


    • Life's span best over northwest.

    • 1937

    • Life's span best over northwest. - People of the northwest live longer than people of other parts of the nation, consequently life insurance companies are unusually anxious for business from this district.
    • Northwest history. Insurance. Life insurance. 1937-09-21
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. J. 1938-01-09


    • Little old lady enjoying life at the ripe age of 91

    • 1938

    • "Little old lady" enjoying life at the ripe age of 91
      Mrs. Margaret Emline James, a resident of Spokane for 30 years, truly is "a little old lady" as she is 91 years old and weighs about 80 pounds.
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. J. 1938-01-09
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. J. 1931-06-28


    • Present beats good old days

    • 1931

    • Present beats "good old days"
      Colfax pioneer, visiting Spokane, can recall real "hard time"--she likes modern conveniences--all make life better than it used to be.
      How times have changed.
      Born at Dallas, Oregon, April 27, 1847, Mrs. Mary...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. J. 1931-06-28
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. K. 1931-08-02


    • Life of John Morgan Knight just one pecuniary parade

    • 1931

    • Life of John Morgan Knight just one pecuniary parade
      Ever eager to make a dollar, his purse was always open to friends.
      Midas and Samaritan
      Pinched county on pauper burials, but clothed poor, stranged children.
      J. M. Knight, undertaker,...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. K. 1931-08-02
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. G. 1937-03-15


    • Mrs. Edwin A. Smith tells of life of city's founder

    • 1937

    • Mrs. Edwin A. Smith tells of life of city's founder - "He was a man was his bond, and he never failed to keep it." James Nettle Glover, the "father of Spokane," who if living would be just 100 years old today, was paid this high compliment by his...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. G. 1937-03-15
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. M. 1937-06-18

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    • 1937

    • "Method of air conditioning 100 years ago and now are widely divergent," said M. G. Martindale, pioneer Spokane clothier, as he posed with Mrs. Martindale in their home. "This bellows, about 1837, was just about the only known means of moving hot...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. M. 1937-06-18
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1918-12-11


    • Born Near Walla Walla in 1838

    • 1918

    • Born Near Walla Walla in 1838 - Cyrus Hamlin Walker, oldest living white man born west of the Rocky mountains, reached the 80th milestone in his life today. The four score mark found him yet active in many of the affairs of life. Mr. Walker was...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1918-12-11
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1919-06-13


    • No yearning for yesterdays for globe trotter Webster; would life same again.

    • 1919

    • No yearning for yesterdays for globe trotter Webster; would life same again. - Early day Spokane attorney pulled down his sign at 50, started out to see world; visits every country having flag ; starts history at 71. The worlds champion...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1919-06-13
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. M. 1930-11-28


    • Lived vivd life in early west

    • 1930

    • Lived vivd life in early west
      Deadwood, South Dakota, in the spring of 1880, was hardly the town one would pick as the site of a young ladies' seminary, according to Mrs. Ellen Frank McIvor, 70, now residing with her daughter, Mrs. O. L....
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. M. 1930-11-28

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