Tricked an Officer by a Snowbound Smuggling Trick
A Canadian side bootleg tale ends with a customs officer chasing smugglers across the line. A man drives a sled with a large box full of contraband toward the American side and hides the loot in a snowdrift after a dramatic chase. The officer crawls into the box to inspect it, the horse bolts, and the trunk is later taken away by night.
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United States
Canada
Samuel
Grexis
Maine
Uncle Sam
Hoxs
Lewiston Journal
Raspy poker claim and Atlantic bird migration note
A Detroit Free Press excerpt shows Dewberry Jones bluffing over a pot with a five-deuce hand as he calls a cloud of trouble. The second item notes geese and cranes wintering in the West Indies and Amazon valleys, with large autumn migrations across the south Atlantic toward Africa.
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Dewberry Jones
North America
West Indies
Amazon
Orinoco
South Atlantic
Autunn
Africa
Jetties Plan and Land Offers Spark Harbor Trade Hope
The article notes broad room for mills factories and farms including sawmills, canneries and dairy ventures. It argues funds exist to build one million dollar jetties to admit large vessels, boosting export trade, with near town plots offering better value than distant claims and promising farming profitability.
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Congress
There’s No Room In Grays Harbor for Boomers Subsidy Seekers
In Grays Harbor the region has insufficient demand for new subsidy seekers and many sites may be unsuitable for legitimate enterprises. The text lists retail stores bakeries shoe shops clerks bookkeepers stenographers lawyers newspapers labourers and notes men without means.
Union Pacific steam heated cars run Portland to Chicago in 3 days
Citizens are urged to consider travel on the Union Pacific system with steam heated cars illuminated by Pintsch light. The line runs from Portland to Chicago without change in about three days. Inquiries can be made through E. B. Benn, agent, Aberdeen.
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Chicago
Union Pacific
Portland
E. B. Benn
Aberdeen
Church union notices of services across multiple denominations
A list of weekly services for Catholic Congregational Methodist Presbyterian Swedish Mission and Danish Lutheran churches. Times include Sunday morning and evening worships with pastors names Rev George Lindsay Rev M A Covington Rev J Sallstrom Pastor I Skeundal Rev R Kors and activities like Sunday School Young People B Y P U and prayer meetings.
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Congregational
George Lindsay
Christian Endeavor
M.a.covington
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
Ladies
Resbyterian
Union Christian Endeavor
Wedish Mission
Fs and
Market Streets
Odd Fellows
J. $Allstrom
Candinavian Lutheran Church
I. Skeondal
The Desterey Spotlight Promoted in Magazine Pick
Readers are urged to choose The Desterey among magazines for broad appeal and reliable content. The note highlights its diverse features and enduring popularity.
Water for infants in warm weather and teething relief
A prominent pediatrician advises that in warm dry weather infants should drink water hourly to prevent fretfulness and feverishness. Teething spoonfuls of water soothe the gums and help cooling evaporation. When a child is uneasy, offer water. if it calms, continue as needed. Ensure the water is reasonably pure to avoid harm from too much at once.
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Dr. Peters
Africa
Tana
British East Africa
Saturday Review
Corrected by E. 3. Taser. Frove-Washington
Wesat $1.25 per hundred oats White side oats common 4 0 California 4 25 34 00
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Washington
California
Wholesale price list and piano advertisement mixed items
Wholesale figures for dairy, produce, and feed plus a dealer note on cheap pianos. Lists prices for flour butter cheese bees poultry vegetables hay and grains with many figures and a Wing piano sales pitch offering a twenty day trial and return option.
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West Coast
Washington Fall
California
Yakima
Orion
French statistician estimates a life in numbers
A French statistician calculates a person aged a certain number has lived 6.40 days working 6.00 hours slept 4.000 hours amused themselves 14,000 miles walked 500 days ill eaten 35,000 meals consumed 16,000 pounds of meat and 4.60 pounds of fish eggs and vegetables and drunk 7,000 gallons of fluid. The totals imply a lake of scant surface if three feet deep.
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FE. H. Bucklen & Co
Dr. King
W. B. Paine & Co
Hashcroft
Detroitt Free Press
New Orleans
Mojave Desert
Tophet
Desert
Tehachap Pass
San Francisco Post
the “Explorer
Macdonald
London Chronicle
Toski
Major Macdonald
Detroit Free Press
Ely
ELY Brothers
Werren Street
New York
Denver
Omaha
Kansas City
New York City
ST. Louis
Chicaco
San
Francisco
O. R.4
N. Apert
E. B. Bess. Aberdver
Wash
W. H. Heerecer
Gen'l Pass
Portiano
EB. McNeill
Grays Harbor
Boomers
Third Street
Father Deichman
Creatorthern Railway
Puget Sound
St. Paul and the East
America
Delft
Seattle
Ives
W. Waprzsystem
Abeedeen
Wasi
R. C. Srevess
Western Pass
F.J. Wrrrxey
St. Paul, Minn
Tomber Lend
Orezon Sereda
William A. Dudicher
Chebslis
Bastais Cay
Olympis
Teotis Obrien
Hampesius
Wesh - Albert $ Yeate
James H. Bowlend
William F. Barer
Wyacnebe
Jessz F. Meerut. Reciser
Wizttax
M. Heiser
H. M. Satten
U. & Circuit Court
District of Washington
Montesano
Willian T. Cameron
Humptutips
Range
Johnn G. Harver
Thomes J. Myers
Alex ¢ Miller
Aresfieid Morrey
Hempethlipe
Jesse FP. Mearin
Register
the Century Magazine
Baltimore American
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Mark Twain
Rudyard Kipling
Marion Crawford
Alfred T. Mahan
George Kennan
Henry M. Stanley
Prof. Sioan
Napoleon
Napoleon 1
Emperor OF the
Desterey
Aberdeen Herald
Free Press
M.guad
Merry Times
Sarople
Henan
Post-Intelligencer
News of the County
News of the State
News of the World
James F Girton
Cemenica
Prssa
Munn & CO
Aberdeen Markets
California Creamery
Correr
Arbuckle’s
Japan
Asa
Utd
Berg
H. Storexe
Tacoma
Fice
North
North Beach
Lewis
James F. Girton
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