Inaugural Parade Draws Half Million To Washington
Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Marshall led the grand inaugural procession through Pennsylvania Avenue in the largest parade in history. 60,000 soldiers sailors and civilians marched, with 300,000 Washingtonians and visitors watching from grandstands and windows. 100 bands, cadets from West Point and Annapolis, veterans, governors, and college crowds filled the capital in a scene marked by novelty and pageantry.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
White
White House
Court of Honor
Broad Avenue
Fakers
Virginia Foxhounds
Van Slyke killed in Weston row. Couch held on bond
John Van Slyke died after an altercation with S. B. Couch in Weston on Wednesday. Couch surrendered to the marshal and is held on eight thousand dollars bond. An inquest considered Van Slyke’s intoxication and possible role in his death, but did not excuse Couch’s act. Homer J. Watts is retained as Couch's attorney.
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John van Slyke
Weston
S. B. Couch
van Slyke
Couch
Homer J. Watts
Quarrel Over Water Rights Ends in Death
Fred Beller died at 2 AM Sunday after a quarrel over water rights near Free Water. A coroner and Pendleton investigators convened a jury which found Beller died from a brain concussion caused by a shovel blow delivered by D A McCarty. McCarty is jailed in Milton awaiting a possible manslaughter charge. both men were noted fruit growers.
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Fred Beller
Freewater
Garfield
Steiner
Pendleton
D. ©. Sandercop
Fred bin W. Johnson
J. H. West
H. H. Ellington
George Propeck
Eugene Cochrane
McCarty
F. ©. Baller
A. McCarty
Beller
D. A. McCarty
Milton
Patents Highlight Odd Gadgets and Animal Traps
A report from the patent office discusses unusual inventions including a gum locket and a tree supported elevated railroad. It describes a controversial live-bait cat trap devised in Kobo Oregon intended to catch lynxes and panthers with a collar and chained traps surrounding a stake.
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Gilson Gardner
Technical World Magazine
Kobo
Oregon
Abe
Pasay
Real Estate Transfers Near Adame and Athean
W. 5 Ferguson and wife transfer to F. 8 LaGrow 240 acres in section 8 two three four RB area east of Adame on the reservation. Lydia Chittenden Verna Estes and W. G. Kates sell to George D. Meneko lot 10 block 5 Athean.
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Ferguson
LaGrow
Sores
Adame
Lydia Chittenden
Verna Estes
W. G. Kates
George D. Meneko
Athean
State Fair prizes announced for youth garden and livestock classes
Over $3000 in prizes will be awarded to boys and girls competing this year at the State Fair. Superintendent L. R. Alderman notes the garden and livestock divisions are assured with more prizes expected. A Shetland pony prize from Union Stock Yards goes to the top exhibitor of three chickens or ducks, two pigs and one sheep, with eligibility for other classes. The notice highlights juvenile industrial education and cites a letter from C. D. Nairn urging renewed school garden work.
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L. R. Alderman
Euper
Union Stockyarde
Alderman
C. D. Nairn
Wallowa County
Oregon
Mr. Nairn
Nairn
McQuary Bome Ball Player Emerges From Northwest Soa
Leo McQuary, a 17 year old from Milton and son of Mr and Mrs J B McQuary, is listed on the pitching staff of the toria team in the Northwest soa per East Oregonian dispatch. Manager Mike Lynch expects him to rise to the big time. The Umatilla county youth moved with his parents to Tacoma years ago.
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Tacoma
Boy Wonder
Brown
Vancouver
Moosejaw
Winnipeg
Lynch
Young McQuary
McQuary
Leo McQuary
Umatilla County
Toria
Soa
East Oregonian
Tat
Mike Lynch
J. B. McQuary
Milton
Open River 19 Opened After Congress Approves Funds
An open river may be realized within a year as a $1,250,000 appropriation funds the Celilo canal completion. Dr N G Blalock, Joseph N Teal and Professor W D Lyman hailed the news, noting river navigation could bring cheaper freight, irrigation and potential electric line prospects for Inland Empire communities.
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Inland Empire
Congress
Blalock
Joseph N. Teal
Portland
Columbia
Celilo Canal
Congrege
N. G. Blalock
W. D. Lyman
Whitman College
Lyman
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Tum-A-Lum Lumber CO
A.M. Johnson
Athena
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Dell Brothers
U. of O. Extension
Kebeo
University of Oregon
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William Haywood
Dalles
LaGrande
Baker and Athena
Bourne
Senator Bourne
Joint Commission On Federal
Sultor
Johnson
Ethel
Worn van Slyke
Echo Ctizen
New York World
Tiedeman
P. B
Everett
Wash
Daily Herald
Colby Avenue
Tiedeman & Woodburn
Pra
Tore
Moline
Maoh
Edwarda and
Merritta
Fourteen Peoples
Athens Opera Hoos
Arethur Joa
San Francisco
Oakland
Los Angeles
Branch Asylum
East
Boro
Walla Walla
Charles Gerking
Janis Mariel Gerking
Celilo
the Rosell
Athena Opera
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