“There may be someplace in the world equal to the Puget Sound, but I don’t know where it is.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Let us all start the new year with the determination to work for the progress and growth and upbuilding [sic] of our city and countryside. Let us invite, nay, urge our friends and acquaintances in other parts of America to come join with us in the further development of our great resources. Let us extend the hand of welcome to strangers who would come into our midst and make them “one of us.”
Let us learn more fully of the many opportunities which exist outside our own individual fields of activity, and truthfully proclaim those facts to all who will listen. By so doing, we will be serving toward the accomplishment of a bigger, better, busier Bellingham and Whatcom County.”
Excerpt from The Show Window: Publication of the Chamber of Commerce of Bellingham, Washington. January 1921
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