Weston Notables and Visitors Fill Athena Scene
Dr Ely of Weston and multiple Pendleton visitors populate Athena notes. frost alarms and local comings and goings mark life across Walla Walla, Adams, and surrounding areas. Attendees include Mrs N A Miller, Pete O Harra, Miss Freda Carlstrom, and many others in social rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Dudley
Walla Walla
F. A. Lumeden
Pete’* O’harra
Weston Merchant
Freda Carlstrom
Adame
Frost
Pendleton
Mra
Jesse Smith
B. Richards
K Morisette
Athena
D. P. Matheny
Seattle
Jobn Walter
Parcel post by mile in England to deliver a person
An Englishman, needing urgent delivery of a customer in Balham, learns at St Martin le Grand that parcel post can send a person to any address for a mileage fee of three pence per mile. A messenger, guided by a printed slip, carries the customer with signatures on the delivery form. The article notes weight limits but permits express delivery to any address for mileage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Balham
London
St. Martin le Grand
Boucicault's Profits Showed Rich Fame and Extravagance
The London Post recalls Dion Boucicault earning £300 from London Assurance and spending it on two horses a cab and seven coats. His lavish spending climaxed with Babball and Bijou at Covent Garden in 1872, a costly fiasco that left him abroad. He later found lasting fame in Irish drama with The Shaughraun Arrah na Pogue and The Colleen Bawn. London Express notes Young Jack Tabbs returning from navy leave prompting a comic doorway scene with his mother in Camberwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dion Boucicault
London Assurance
Covent Garden
Lord Londesborough
Boucicault
Kim Planche
London Post
Jack Tabbs
London
Jacky
London Express
Fall of Rome and a Staged Stairway Gossip
The excerpt notes Odoacer becoming king of Italy in 476 and the fall of the western empire, while contrasting the Byzantine empire’s rise and fall to 1453. It shifts to a domestic exchange where a worker confesses an injury after a fall and a wages deduction joke, quoted from the Sydney Bulletin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Odoacer
Italy
West
Constantinople
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Dr. Ely of
Weston
City
Mr. Bosher van Pendleton
Mrs. van Slyke
Chance Rogera
George Woodward
Panama
Opera House
L. J. O'Harra
Minnie Lalande
Madden
Smith
Will
Leon Miller
Myrick Station
Wright
Misa Irene Clark
Portland
John O. Walter
Matt Mosgrove
Corvallis
College Town
Charles Coomans
Gen Harris
DePeatt
EB. W. Queener
Weaton Vicinity
Velva Mansfield
A. C. Worthington
A. Bennett
F. Swander
Eugene
E. A. Bennett
Jerry Stone Place
Roseell Piergol
Maggie la Bracche
LeGrow
Mra. Read
Luke Read
Wi, Winship
H. A. Barrett
Sam Haworth
Foss-Winship Hardware
Adams
Misa Dora Bennett
Athi
Henry Keen
Bre
J. M. Swaggart
Swaggart
Pastore
Manson-Claman
Union
Elgin
En- Sseptines
Harry Sayer Ia
Uma Iver
June Osrden
G.W. Bradley
Phelps
Lissis Warren
Charles Warren
Williams
H. H. Hill
Ohio
Mr. Hill
Exat
Mrs. W. Stroble
Victor Burke
Lillie Miller
Martha van Winkle
Lizzie Watts
Bert Wilson
Bible School of the Christian Church
Joseph N. Scott
A. M. Meldrum
Geo. Gerking
Holdman
Arthur Scott
William Kissler
Weiser
Idaho
Kiseler
Joe Hodgson
Greta McIntyre
Neil
Katherine
St. Joseph's Academy
Dreamland
Ed Sebasky
Eales
Fix & Radtke
Emery Achilles
Lawrence Sharp
Umatilla
Pearl Hales
Adama
Pearl
Judge Phelps
Garden City
Gustave Vollmer
Waitsbury
Yompking
Henry Schmitt
Paterson & Bishop
Freewater
Fim
J. H. Neal
G. H. Bishop
Ellis B. Harris
Christian Ohoroh
Waitsburg
Wash
Spokane University
Harris
Max Dodley
Tig
Glen Dudley
James Ritchie
Corneline
Oregon
Ritchie
Charley
Cornelius
Norra
George Gerking
Willi McBride
McBride
Gerking
Ida Kelly
Walla Walla Hospital
A. Mackenzie Meldrum
Lola Tharp
Hiarl Ross
Kamas Creek
Ross
Grand Ronde
Middle Cold Spring
Scott
Enterprise
Dreamland Theatre
Pathe
Vitagraph
Easanay
Arthur Stone
Mins Nelle Molkey
Bhugene
Jerry Stone
Athena Echools
Basher Hustand
Stone
Eugene Guard
Bennett
E A. J. Parker
Steel Coaches
Tacoma
J.D
Mathers
Athens
Sarah Jane
Mistress T
Sydney
Peoples Warehouse
the Peoples Warehouse
Foley
James Coffee
Raymond
Missouri
C.J. Bishop
Agnew, Mich
N. Jackson
Danville
Lance
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