Break to Journalism Career in Oregonian Banquet Scoop
In December 1903 in Portland I pursued a reporting job at The Oregonian after repeatedly visiting city editor Dr. Leiter. A private banquet for railroad executives at the Portland Hotel yielded a decisive scoop declaring Mr. Worthington’s successor as Mr. O'Brien, reported first by The Sunday Oregonian, triggering a confrontation with railroad men and a confirmatory call from The Oregonian.
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Portland
Leiter
Watson
Woertlington
Oregon
Martinnan
Northwest
New York
Worthington
Oregon Short Line
Pacific Coast
Journal
Jane
Mr. Worthington
Harriman
J. P. O'Brien
O'Brien
Coarge
Mr. O'Brien
I Found a Swell Memory of The Oregonian Days
The narrator recalls four intense years at The Oregonian in Portland, working across departments under Mr. Scott and meeting editors and reporters. He describes late nights interviewing refugees after the San Francisco fire, a paid vacation to Yellowstone, and a homeward return to The Atchison Globe after his twenty first birthday. He cherishes the staff, the hotel banquet room, and the lasting memory of the newspaper life.
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Salem Statesman
Salem
The
Oregonian
Mr. Leiter
School of Journalism
University of Illinois
Oregon
Statesman
Portland
Mr Short
News
Lester
Mr. Piper
Mr Scott
York
Marine
Mr. Scott
San Francisco
Yellowstone Park
Atchison Globe
Father
Leavenworth
Portland Oregonian
Assassin of Trotsky Confronts Lover in Mexico City
Frank Jackson the Trotsky assassin faced his Brooklyn sweetheart Sylvia Ageloff in a staged room at the Green Cross Hospital where Trotsky died. Ageloff denounced him as a murderer and Jackson pleaded for a gun before a secret service officer removed her from the scene. Jackson, wounded, is held for murder. Ageloff is a material witness.
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Mexico City
Frank Jackson
Leon Trotsky
Sylvia Ageloff
Brooklyn
Trotsky
Ogou
Secret Service
Jackson
Miss Agel
Missing Scotty dog found and sought owner
A black Scotty dog was found last week and likely belongs to someone missing a pet. A reader asks for the owner to contact them to reclaim the dog, with continuation noted on page 11.
Southwood Rites Set For Carson County Judge
Funeral services for Judge J. E. Southwood, Panhandle pioneer, will be held at 3 p m tomorrow at Panhandle Methodist Church. Burial in Panhandle cemetery. Surviving wife, two sisters in California and Virginia, a brother in Washington. He came to Carson County in 1887 and was 86 at death after a major operation. He served as tax assessor and county judge and helped drive Herefords into the Panhandle.
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J. E. Southwood
Carson County
Panhandle Methodist Church
Panhandle
Judge Southwood
Howard Paul
Jim Trolinger
I. H. Davies
Prank Paul
R. F. Surratt
Vern Wisdom
A. A. Callaghan
G. F. Crow
First National Bank of Panhandle
Martinsburg
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Mrs Anne Williams Services Held In Clovis
Funeral services for Mrs Anne S Williams sister of City Manager H R Smith were held at 2 pm New Mexico time in Clovis. Interment was beside her husband W H Williams. She died Saturday evening at Northwest Texas Hospital from a broken back after a car overturn accident. Surviving relatives include the Clovis mother Mrs Wallace V Smith and another brother W V Smith.
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Anne S. Williams
H. R. Smith
New Mexico
Clovis
W. H. Williams
English Boy Seeks Refuge as War Rages in Britain
An Amarillo family receives a letter from a British father who plans to place his 11 year old son in their Texas home for safety. He praises British resolve despite air raids and Dunkirk and expresses desire to contribute to the boy’s upkeep while acknowledging wartime financial strain.
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Texas
Britain
Dunkirk
Tony
England
Germany
Phy
Amarilloan
O'Daniel Tax Measure Backers Lose Ground in Texas Primaries
In Texas the tax measure S. J. R. 12 failed to gain support as voters backed incumbents and opponents differently. Among the 56 former House members seeking reelection, 61 percent lost, while 94 percent of Senate supporters who ran again saw 45 winners and 22 losses. Governor O'Daniel urged voters to investigate candidates, without endorsing individuals, as outcomes varied across races.
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Austin
House of Representatives
W.L. O'Daniel
Senate
J. R
O'Daniel
Rec
The
John Paul Jones’s Varying Flags and Final Resting Place
Born in Scotland, John Paul Jones served as a US Navy captain and later a rear admiral in the Russian navy. He died and was buried in France, and his body was moved to Annapolis, Maryland, about a century after burial. The National Gallery for Art in Washington, DC, now nearing completion, cost $15,000,000.
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Oddity
inScotland
John Paul Jones
United States Navy
France
Annapolis
National Gallery For Art
Washington, D. C
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Aenees
TEXIY
Beattie
Harvey Scott
Dr. Leiter
Abou
Sunday Journal
Sunday
Howe
Mr. Watson
Seattle
Ontario
Canada
Santa F
Louisiana
R. F. Gill City Ticket Agent
H. C. Vincent
Amarillo, Texas
Iie Tage
Blackstone Hotel
Tack
Southwood Rites
Mrs
Anne Williams
Floyd V. Studer
Amarillo
America
Auto Supply and Service Stores
Tyler
Troy
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