Meeting Called For Third Annual School Board Convention
The county superintendent schedules a December 10 Pendleton gathering to convene the third annual school board convention. All school officers should attend to better inform themselves on duties, laws, and district conditions. the event aims to improve governance and public accountability. Oregon apples win Spokane sweepstakes with Hood River Spitzenbergs taking top prize. Rogue River districts also win at Vancouver. Minor of Heppner fosters notable Shorthorn cattle exhibits planned for Chicago.
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Pendleton
Oregon
Spokane
Hood River
H. Sproat
Northwest
Rogue River
Vancouver
B. C
Dog Poisoner Strikes Again in Athena
Reports say a dog poisoner is active in Athena, causing several dogs to die. Angry owners demand the culprit be caught and punished.
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Athena
Portland Leads Nation in Wheat Exports for 1910
Portland tops the United States in wheat exports for the first ten months of 1910 and may finish the year first nationwide. Growth in tributary production and new railroad lines extend Portland’s reach as an export hub, boosting Oregon’s marketing prestige. Oregon Highway association forms to push a north-south main highway across the state, part of a coast-to-coast route Granada to Mexico. A state good roads convention is set for December 12 in Portland to draft highway bills for the next session. Secretary Williamson of the state board of Horticulture foresees Panama Canal opening wider markets for Oregon apples via Portland. The Umatilla-Morrow Poultry Show will be held December 13–18 in Pendleton, promising a larger exhibition than any Eastern Oregon show, with birds judged by an eastern graduate poultry judge.
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Portland
United States
Beaver
Oregon Highway Association
Good Roads
Granada
Mexico
Panama Canal
Williamson
State Board of Horticulture
Oregon
Europe
Umatilla
Last Call of the West in Sneet Magazine
Walter Y. Woolke presents The Last Call of the West in four color illustrations for November Sneet Magazine now on sale at newsstands. The Xman Doll is offered at wholesale by the Athena Department Store.
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Oregon
Walter Y. Woolke
Athena Department Storo
Arizona Road Runner A Desert Bird Defeats Rattlesnakes
The Arizona road runner, a long legged desert bird about ten inches high, is famed for its neighborly sociability. It is revered by Arizonans as a deadly foe of rattlesnakes, with tales of driving snakes into crevices and pecking them to death. Reports of actual snake-killing stories are rare, but the tradition persists.
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Arizona
St. Patrick
Arizona Republican
Brainy Baby John Stuart Mill a Child Genius
The article recounts John Stuart Mill as a child prodigy who studied Greek at three, Latin and Euclid by eight, logic and political economy by twelve, and learned French during a long continental visit at fourteen. He tutored others, spoke with adults in debate at sixteen, contributed to the Westminster Review at eighteen, joined the India Office at twenty-one, and claimed never to have been a normal boy.
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John Stuart Mill
Samuel Bentham
France
Westminster Review
India Office
Pat Will
The Green Fish of Suns
An excerpt discusses the rare green flash seen at sunset or sunrise, noting its scientific interest and the eye’s response when focusing on the sun’s rim. It cites authorities who report occasional observations at solar sunset and at bright stars, and mentions complementary colors as a possible explanation.
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New York Herald
Blame Revealed in Striking Ocean Bathing Oddity
A detective cites guilt showing itself as a man confesses amid a comic seaside scene at Atlantic City. A forty cent bathing outfit, blue Gunnel, and a companion’s flirtatious remark about the water frame a curious incident.
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Atlantic City
How to Look Pleasant at Social Functions
A Western senator's wife hosts with grace and cordial ease. When a guest approaches, she mentally imagines speaking to someone she genuinely likes, a trick that helps her make everyone feel at home.
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Chicago Record- Herald
Up the Rhine and a View From the Top
Fragmentary newspaper snippet shows an exchange about travel up the Rhine and a reflection on views from the top. Mentions Mrs Tobkinson and Mrs Nurich Gust with a belief that the view from the top is remarkable.
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Tobkinson
Nurich Gust
Riepean Rip
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