Portland Metropolis and Pacific Northwest Trade Power
The Portland metropolis is described as the trade and manufacturing center of Oregon and Washington, with vast agricultural lands yielding abundant crops, rich mineral and timber resources, and a climate deemed healthful. It is portrayed as the world’s richest city by wealth per population and the largest trade hub in the region.
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Boston Post
Portla
Oregon
Washington
Pacific Northwest
Portland
United States
Pacific North
Idaho Portland Described as Established City With Modern Growth
Portland Idaho is presented as a fully formed city with over 70 000 residents and rapid annual growth. It features city owned water works supplying 6 000 000 gallons daily, extensive streetcar and electric lines, 60 miles of paved streets, 40 miles of sewers, and 50 miles of water mains plus abundant public schools and churches, reflecting comprehensive urban development.
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United States
Portland the Metropolis of Pacific Northwest Trade
Portland is portrayed as a booming yet steady metropolis with vast trade and growth prospects. The city is described as the center of commerce for a large region, offering substantial opportunities for merchants manufacturers and investors due to its rich resources and rapidly expanding population.
The Position of Portland as Pacific Northwest Metropolis
Portland must remain the Pacific Northwest metropolis and grow with national population. As a seaport it equals any on the coast, open to navigation year round, admitting sea-going vessels of all sizes. Its commerce shows lower loss rates than the Golden Gate and Puget Sound, and it is the cheapest port nearer to production of exports and imports.
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Columbia River
Golden Gate
Puget Sound
Pacific Northwest
Great Mountain Ranges
Portland as West Coast’s Chief Railroad Centre
Portland has rapidly become the greatest railroad centre west of the Rockies, surpassing San Francisco. The city hosts three major transcontinental lines Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific, plus extensive local lines to Pacific Northwest producers. Northern Pacific effectively terminates at Portland with trains arriving and departing daily beyond Tacoma, linking East, North and South regions.
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Rocky Mountains
Union
Southern
Northern Pacific
Portland
Portland as Pacific Coast hub of river and rail lines
The Columbia River system of interior water transportation extends over 1000 miles, linking Portland with producing regions and rivaling rail networks in importance. Major Northwest streams flow into the Columbia, providing easy transport to Portland where river, rail, and wagon routes converge with deep sea lines to ship surplus products globally.
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Pacific Coast
Columbia River
Portland
Pacific Northwest
Columbia
Portland Trade Grows Over Twenty Five Percent Annually
The Trade of Portland shows rapid expansion with over 25 percent yearly growth. In 1888 wholesale and jobbing trade surpassed 75 million dollars, with one third of this coming from growth since 1886. A record of trade for 1886 87 88 follows.
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Portland
Portland Banks Capital and Deposits Totals Revealed
The record shows capital figures over fifty million to seventy five million across years 1286 1887 and 1888 with current employment in the trade at over fifty five million six hundred thousand dollars. Portland hosts fourteen banks with paid-up capital surplus and undivided profits and daily deposit averages.
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Portland
Portland Trade Growth and Banking Stability
The text notes Portland's rapid trade growth driving demand for new business houses and capital. It asserts a strong banking and wholesale sector history with no bank or wholesale house failures. It attributes growth to settlement and a large immigration surge, estimating about 200,000 new residents in 1888, likely doubling in 1889.
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Portland
Portland Industry and Wealth: A Pacific Northwest Growth Story
Portland is presented as the leading manufacturing center in the Pacific Northwest with rapid output growth and high output value. The text cites 1886 through 1888 figures, estimates 18 million dollars for 1888, a powerful Willamette Falls water power, abundant raw materials, and notes free power for ten years and favorable costs. Full city and country information offered on application.
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Portland
United States
Willamette River
Minneapolis
Pacific
Harvard College Necrology 1888 1889 List of Deaths
Harvard College Necrology 1888 1889 records 199 deaths with 113 in the year between commencements. It lists college medical dental law theological and honorary deaths, notes ages and senior alumni, and invites corrections to the list. It gives long entries for graduates from 1817 onward with birthplaces dates and death dates, including William Winthrop Allen Samuel Sewall George Bancroft and M Chevreul among others. Information to supplement may be sent to W. H. Tillinghast, assistant librarian.
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William Winthrop Allen
Samuel E. Sewall
George Bancroft
Bancroft
Warren Goddard
F. A. Farley
W. Withington
George Salmon Bourne
Thomas Leaming Caldwell
Mr. Snelling
M. Chevreul
Harvard
W. H. Tillinghast
Harvard College
Memorials of deceased residents with birth and death details
A compilation of obituaries listing birth and death dates and places for numerous individuals from 1801 to 1889. The records include names such as Shadrach Atwood James Stone William Read Elijah Baldwin Henry Barrett and many others, with birthplaces across New England and in Canada and deaths in cities like Philadelphia Boston Salem and Portland.
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Hastings
George Russell
Boston
Townsend
Samuel
Bovina
Miss
Flint Charles Louis
Middleton
Hilman
Gould Francis James
Charlestown
Jacksonville
Fla
Winsor
Frederic
Bermuda
Trimble
David
Davia
Baltimore
Carroll
Charles
New York
Gage
William Leonard
Philadelphia
Penn
Huntington
Charles Whiting
Northampton
Quincy
Emmerton
James Arthiar
Salem
Slin la Roland Crocker
Roxbury
Blake, Stanton
Forster
George Henry
Riverdale-on- Hudson
N. Y
Foote
Henry Wilder
Barrett
Witham
Wilton
N. H
St. Paul
Minn
Atkinson
Henry Martyn
Mendon
Passaic
N. J
Kidder
Jerome Henry
Saweee
Curtis
George Ticknor
Lefavour
Edward Brown
Beverly
Herrick
Watts Hayden
San Francisco
Cal
Asheville
N.C
James Fulton
Frederic Gray
Chicopee
James Beebs
Sanborn
Thomas Parker
Concord
Wilson
Charles Abbot
Washington, D.C
Pay Harbor
Ise
Paul
Spleywood Mason
Atwood
Shadrach
Carver
Franklin
Stone
James
Read
William
Nashua
Baldwin
Elijah
South Canterbury
Conn
Henry Augustus
Norfolk
Dixon
Robert
Plainfield
Damariscotta
Harlow
James Frederick
Quincy Point
Jones
Ralph Kneeland
Stockbridge
Bangor
Taylor
John Bimker
Hinsdale
East Cambridge
Pray
Thomas Jefferson Worcester
Lebanon
Dover
Page
William Hussey
Rochester
Los Angeles
Pond
Erasmus Allington
Rutland
Breck
William Gilman
Berkshire
Neilson
Belfast
Cushing
John Samuel
Broomfield
Skowhegan
Fuller
Henry Horton
Lowell
Coolidge
Joseph Franklin
Westminster
Groton
Fay
George Wyman
Grafton
East Weymouth
Maxfield
James Gardner
Wilder
Rufus Lawrence
Leominster
Gunter
Leverett Duncan
Queensbury
N. B
Whelsea
Keith
Theodore Scott
Bridgewater
Newton
Burke
John
Halloren
Robert James
Ambrose
George Booth
Gore
John Flint
Bennett
Luther William
Pepperell
Wolcott
Willard
Wethersfield
Manchester
Jordan
Herbert Stanton
New Lebanon
Upper Gloucester
Enghammer
Jerome William
College Hill
General Cameron’s Condition Worsens at Bedside
Lancaster Pennsylvania report notes General Cameron’s health continues to decline as his family gathers around his bed awaiting the end. The article records the elder statesman’s precarious state and the imminent possibility of death.
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Lancaster
Penn
Cameron
Climate image of Pacific Northwest healthful region
The Census returns designate the Pacific Northwest as the most healthful part of the United States. It notes a mild climate without extreme heat or cold, rare storms, and little seasonal variation. Outdoor work lasts year round, supporting high soil productivity and robust development of people and livestock.
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United States
Pacific Northwest
Oregon Immigration Board Notice Portland
The Oregon Immigration Board at 10 Ash Street Portland Oregon issues a public notice. The document lists the board address and underscores the agency’s role in processing immigration related decisions and hearings.
Highland Club House Dedication At Highland Station
Last evening the Highland Club house at Highland Station was dedicated after completion begun in January. The 105 members include West Roxbury business and social leaders. Major Charles G. Davis presided with wife hosting in the ladies parlor as the orchestra played and guests toured the two story building with billiards, library, card rooms, bowling alleys, kitchen, and a 33 by 60 foot hall seating about 260. Notables present included Boston customs officials, clergymen, and local officials.
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Highland Club
Highland Station
West Roxbury
Charles G. Davis
Frank A. Davidson
Rew J. Robinson
P. R.lripp
Jacob Naschold
Jamaica Plain
Centre Street
Goodnow
C. G. Davis
Richardson
Dyer
Boston Custom House
Beckwith
Haskell
Roxbury
Haynes
C. W. C. Rhodes
United States Customs
Harry French
Solomon Stebbins
Harles A. Hewins
Henry R, Beal
Spalding Score Book and Guides Released
Spalding's yearly score book and minor league ball guide are issued by A. G. Spalding & Bros. The feather covers are durable and the volumes follow new scoring rules with printed instructions. Also published is Warman's Core Training detailing body conditioning with full illustrations.
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A. G. Spalding & Bros
Spaldings
Ano Ece
Warman
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Transportation Lines
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Harvard College Necrology
Allen
Oration Avinthrop
Medfield
Sewall
Samuel Edmund
Bern
Bartlett
Sidney
Plymouth
Brinley
Francis
Newport
Newington
Torrey
Ibenezer
Fitchburg
Amory
Calvert
Prince George Co
R. J
Park
John Cochran
Dillaway
Charles Knapp
Baeenty
Bradlee
Frederic Halil
Cend
Shrewsbury
Caldwell
Jacob
Lunenburg
Cambridge
Sohier
Edward Dexter
Bigelow
Horatio
Gay
Sidney Heann
Hingham
West Yee Brighton
Tucker
Nathaniel Saville
Peoria
Ill
Dwigit
Os Field
Agawam
Felton
Taname
West Newbury
Pann
Sargent
Joseph
Vonicahes
Leicester
Worcester
Werren
Charles Newell
Stowd
Louisville
Wilkinson
James Withers
Charleston
S. C
Florida
Eop Fence
George Hawkins
Kneeland
Paty
Hamburg
Germany
Parker
Hervey Isaac
Cavendish
Ae Yoni Cal
Jateant
Henry Osgood
Bellows
Abel Herbert
London
Eng
Knapp
Frederic Newman
Walpole
Rogers William Ormenidh
Dalton
John Call
Chelmsford
Brewer
Rufus Franklin
Edward Southwick
Brookline
W Eline
Henry Austin
Fence
Whitcomb
Adolph
Pennn
Medical
Smith
John William
Canon City
Jane
Myron William
Shombere
Iil
Mt. _ Clemens
Mich
Stark
Kenry James
Chicago
Jil
Pasadena
Fraser
John Sullivan
Blount’s Ferry
Boamer
James William
Amite County
Mashop
Roland
Shreveport
Herbert
Bushrod
Prospect Hill
West Va
Pugh
Alexander Franklin
Louisi-ang
Bradford
James Monroe
Hancock
Sebrary
Lewis
Robert Samuel
Paducah
Gillespie
Thomas Lindsay
Butler
Franklin Jenness
Nelich
Neb
Gallagher
George Ailsin
Little Rock
Ark
Lerry
Sagesville
Ala
Bragge
Bailey
William Gardiner
R. L
Nye
William Fessendep
Oliver
Alexander Lancelot
Brookville
Ind
Port Jervis
Rives
Deans
George Wheaton
Easton
Joy
Albion Keith Parris
Limington
Winchester
Jenkins
Joshua Brown
Robinson
Frederic Witte
Marblehead
Barnes
James Nelson
Indiana
Houston
Tex
W Oor
William Irvin
Dry Run
Alaig Fe
Ticknor
Stone’s River
Tenn
Desobry
Charles Aloysius
Plaque- la
McCulloh
Antony
Fort Gaines
Talbotton
Paca
John + aleman
Queen Anne Co
Eineiins
Goshen
Tillotson
Geadiah Horsford
Northfield
Jaenetune
Arthur
Bellows Falls
Claremont
Higgins
N.Y
Bigger
Robert Hamilton
Chattanooga
Lilly
Henry
Chunkey River Bridge
Peirce
William Ambrose
St. Johnsbury
Stanley
Bey Gastat
Whiteville
N. C
Noble
Guy ‘Chaplin
Calais
Warnes
Aaron Edwards
Gilmanton
Cosmo Bailey
Scott
Benjamin Franklin
Memphis
Pollock
Robert Hanna
Leesburgh
Brooks
Charles Joseph
Howell
Morris Guest
Hubbard
Lewis Kelley
Winterport
Parsons
William Henry
Johnson Co
Ellijay
Waserer
Charles Henry
Wichendon
Cumings
John Osgrood
Westford
Austin
Ivers James
Bowditch
Jonathan Ingersoll
Cooke
Edward
Bethlehem
Newton Centre
Rebustat
Alexander
Kaschin
Russia
Konegsberg
Prussia
Ink Cheereul
Michel Eugene
Angers
France
Faris
The
Immigration Board
Ash Street
Highland Club House
Spalding
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