100 years ago in Spokane: Nettie Oppenheimer, known for her generosity and parties, dies at 48

From our archive, 100 years ago

Mrs. Nettie Oppenheimer, 48, “perhaps the best-known Jewish woman in the city,” died after a long illness at her home on Pacific Avenue.

She was known for two qualities: Her fun-loving sociability and her many acts of charity. She often told her close friends that she had only one hobby: “having a good time.” Her home was “always open to her friends” and “ever the scene of merrymaking.”

She was willing at all times “to help anyone in distress and did not confine her charity to those of her race and faith.” She gave generously to the needy “with ever an admonition not to disclose the fact.”

She was the widow of Mose Oppenheimer, a prominent Spokane real estate and insurance man, who died a year earlier.

From the railroad beat: Spokane railroad magnate D.C. Corbin announced that he had sold his Spokane International Railway to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Soo Line.

The Spokane International, begun in 1905, ran from Spokane to Eastport, Idaho, where it connected with the Canadian Pacific. Corbin said the current employees would be retained.