Portage Rail Open to Boost Pacific Northwest Growth
The Portage Railway will open vast country across Washington Oregon and Idaho boosting Columbia and Snake river regions. It promises higher land values and fuller markets for grain hay fruit wool and livestock with transport savings and stronger domestic industry. A Schwab visit aided naval plans and Ashland citizens pledge funds for promotion and a Portland expo while wage garnishment debate considers workers families.
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Portage Railway
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Columbia
Snake Rivers
Columbia River
Hire Teachers Early Urges County Superintendent of Schools
Pendleton Oregon May 3 1905 County Superintendent of Schools Frank K Welles urges district boards to hire teachers early for the next school year. A letter stresses planning contracts with good teachers, avoiding late hiring, and ensuring school begins on schedule. It notes benefits to teacher morale and school stability and cites per pupil funding and district finances.
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F. K. ‘Welles
Frank K. Welles
Welles
Pendleton
Ore
District School Board
Stranga
Umatilla County
Warning on Portland Exposition Hiring and Wages
A county superintendent urges careful teacher hiring locally and warns unskilled workers, especially young women, against moving to Portland for expo related jobs. The piece cautions about overcrowded labor markets and high living costs, urging prudence and moral steadiness to avoid hardship during the exposition year.
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Portland
Exposition
Portland ‘Travelers’ Aid Association
Pleika
The Brilliant Sheep Herder
Two old sheep herders in a Louvre saloon discuss Lewis Clark and the Portland Log Cabin saloon. They mention a Roweinn bartender named Bacajewea and hint at a large circus in circulation, noting lawmakers from Yakima county.
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Freewater
Louvre
Lewis Clark
Portland
Yoas
O’ Bacajewea
Yakima County
Foreteller’s Grim 1906 Predictions Stir Readers
A famed prophetess casts dread forecasts for 1906 naming a red year global wars and stark deaths. She warns England Germany and France face grim events as the year unfolds with notable figures dying and upheaval across nations.
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Mme
England
Germany
France
Predictions of Grim Crises in 1906 Foretold
Fragmentary OCR notes claim political and cosmic turmoil will unfold in 1906. Mme de Thebes predicts widespread distress and that the truth of her forecasts will become clear to all by year’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Planeta
Mme. de Thebes
Notice to Creditors in estate of Elijah Ingle
Notice to creditors for the estate of Elijah Ingle deceased. John W. Ingle is named executor by Uma tilla County Oregon County Court. Creditors must present claims with vouchers within six months to Hailey Pendleton Oregon or Corvallis Oregon residence. Dated April 18, 1905.
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Elijah Nice
Elijah Ingle
Umatilla
State of
Oregon
Hailey
Pendleton
Corvallis
John W. Ingle
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LM. Kemer
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Peebler & Chamberlain
Ed Barrett
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