Barrett Seeks Joint Senate Seat On Platform Not Yet Formulated
Hon A Barrett of this city announces candidacy for re election to the joint state senatorship representing Umatilla Union and Morrow counties. He has not fixed his complete platform but would run on his eight years record. He favors shifting tax payment timing to fall and removing penalties on unpaid taxes until fall. He also seeks changes in the corrupt practices act, aiming to drop hotel bills and railroad fare from deemed campaign charges.
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A. Barrett
Peppleton
Charles A. Barrett
Umatilla
Union
Morrow
Barrett
Hhe
Barrett proposes broader petition circulation under reform
Mr Barrett argues campaign costs are part of a man life and buying a railroad ticket isn t money spent for notes. He suggests improving initiative referendum petitions by placing them in county clerk offices and at peace and notaries public where voter registration occurs to give all a chance to sign without favoring any candidate or measure.
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Barrett
Justices of the Peace and Potaries
Learning a Language Is An Eagier Task The Younger It
An Atlantic essay argues that learning a language is easiest in childhood and becomes harder with age. It discusses brain localization, suggesting learning a new language exercises a different brain area and that switching languages changes the tongue’s controlling center. It notes awakening unused brain regions grows harder with time, making twenty three late.
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Atantic
No Escape Crawford If you friends poke fun at you
Fragmentary OCR style note mentions rivals and mockery around success and opens with a quip about friends and theatrics. Mentions names or terms unclear due to garbled text but implies social sniping tied to achievement and public reaction. The source reads like a literary clipping with partial phrases and dated prose.
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Crawford
Penfeld
York ‘Times
Nation Honors Dead of the Maine at Arlington Cemetery
The nation marks the sixteenth anniversary of the Maine's explosion in Havana harbor on February 18, 1X. Sailors who perished lie buried at Arlington as annual exercises are held there. a photo shows Maine graves and the wrecked ship raised and sunk on March 16, 1912, drawing veterans' interest nationwide.
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Havana
Cuba
Nation
Arlington
Sheen
State School Boy Smokers Treated By Silver Cure
W F P Hale superintendent at the State Training School for Boys announces a six week trial of nitrate of silver to cure cigarette smoking. He reports the treatment ends cravings, with boys unable to smoke afterward, and suggests it could work for adults too.
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W. F P. Hale
State Training School For
Becwuse
Millers win in Supreme Court on bleached flour case
The Supreme Court ruled federal inspectors cannot condemn bleached flour under the pure food law unless injuries from added poisonous ingredients are proven. The decision stems from Western Missouri litigation over Lexington Mills bleached flour and argues that any poisonous addition must be shown to be injurious. Justice Day noted the government’s complaint centered on trace poison levels in the flour.
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Supreme Court
Department of Agriculture
District Court of
Western
Missouri
Lexington Mills Company
Justice Day
Withycombe to Quit the Oregon College Station
After sixteen years as director of the Oregon Agricultural College experiment station Dr. James Withycombe resigns to devote time to his campaign for the Oregon governor Republican nomination. He notes station work will close soon and praises continued support for the institution amid statewide growth in enrollment, staff, and crop value. Separately, indictments against Laura and H. H. Alexander proceed. charges involve alleged false pretenses in land leases linked to an Indian reservation. John Banister reports as complainant. defense cites legal limits on leasing Indian lands. Back at the farm, Arnold Wood has leased the Henry McBale place southeast of town and will relocate next week.
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James Withycombe Bag
Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station
Board of Regents
Bis
Oregon
Withycombe
Withycombeenya
Commonwealth of Oregon
Bia
Corvallia
Astoria
Barns
Hermiston
Hood River
Moro
Union
Inlent
H. J. Watts
Will M. Peterson
Demarrera
Laura VY. Alexander
H. H. Alexander
East Oregonian
John Baniiter
Alexanders
Arnod Wood
Richards
Henry McBala
First US catsup seizure case tests pure food law
The Portland court hears the first contest by a shipper against seizures under the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The Sault Fruit Company of California challenges the destruction or sale of 2400 gallons of Lux ury Brand catsup valued about $1000 seized in Portland warehouses. Other shipments were abandoned or to be brought into similar actions by Pacific Vinegar and Pickle Works. Government experts testify to dangerous contamination including 15,000,000 spores and 86,000,000 bacteria per sample.
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Portland
United States
Catanp
Sault Fruit Company
Gal
Paciflc Vinegar & Pickle Works
San Francisco
Albert Schneider
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Cove precinct dry vote prompts county court action
The governor's private secretary notes Cove in Union County voted dry in the general election and the county court misinterpreted the local option law. The governor has directed the court to declare Cove precinct dry and order the saloon closed.
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Cove
Union County
Mise Hobbes
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Maine
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American Press Association
Oregon Training School
Walla Walla
Baker Store
Fred Soll
Baker City
Soll
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Gampaign
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Tharp Brothers’ Garage
J. J. Case Machinery
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Emerson Express
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