Soaking the Docs Indictment tests medical pricing fairness
The Emporia Gazette editorializes on the AMA trial as a national stage for medical ethics. It argues reform is needed to address rising costs affecting middle class access to care, while acknowledging doctors’ training and social value. It questions socialized medicine as a solution and envisions a forthcoming equitable outcome from public debate and patient care reforms.
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United States
American Medical Association
Emporia Gazette
Foreign Highways and the Dutch Road Design Trends
The piece surveys European highways with wide two carriageway designs and separate cycle paths. It highlights Dutch plans for lawn bordered medians, practical parking lanes, and bridges avoiding intersections. It contrasts with German roads and U.S. caution about safe turnoffs and bicycle infrastructure.
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Europe
United States
Holland
London Times
Alsa
Echoes of the News From a Dreamy Patchwork of Quotes
A fragmentary column clips musings on crime and marriage, liberal politics, fashion, and religion with aphorisms and questions. It cites police, prison life at Sing Sing, and notes rayon’s rise over silk. The item ends with a Feature Syndicate byline and Greensboro North Carolina address.
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Cleveland
Ohio
America
Europe
Carter Glass
Virginia
Rooseri
Sing Sing
Meee Feature Syndicate
Summit Ave
Greenebers
North Carolina
Test of Love and Car Troubles on the Lone Road
A gallant husband teaches his nervous wife to drive on a country road as moonlit calm and stars fill the night. The engine sputters and dies leaving them stranded with notes due and a sigh for the lonely stretches and changing roads ahead.
Witty sketches of romantic and social mishaps
A collection of brief jokes and humorous scenarios. Topics include family objections to a fiancé, smug reactions during a busted romance, a captain on a ship lamenting the moonrise, a musician who does not play an instrument, a doctor and patient billing quirk, a boy’s fear of becoming his father, a banker’s alleged theft, a hostess planning a reception, vocational training and Harvard, a squash champion, a reckless driver’s alibi, and wedding delays caused by the bride’s father a plumber.
Thirty Years Ago From the Wallowa Chieftain Jan 7 1908
B F Miller sworn in as assessor with Arthur Pace assisting in book work. Joseph Methodists near fund for a $4000 church. Enterprise defeats Joseph 9 to 0 with a drop-kick by Arthur Pace. Postmaster warns against cashing P O money orders 1401 to 1600 stolen in Bellingham Dec 18 1908. Sixty nine carloads of livestock shipped from Enterprise since Nov 17. 15 carloads received. Agent Harman sold $1000 in December passenger tickets. 83 sold last Friday morning. Pratt district 20 votes half mill tax for nine months of school. C T McDaniel of Farmers & Stockgrowers Bank in Enterprise Monday. Morgan & Poley shipped 440 hogs. feeding 700 now. Diphtheria quarantine lifted. no new cases. school resumes Monday.
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Wallowa
B. F. Miller
Arthur Pace
Joseph Methodists
Enterprise
Joseph
Ben Weathers
Bellingham
Wash
Harman
Pratt
T McDaniel
Farmers & Stockgrowers National Bank
Morgan & Poley
Prairie Creek
Local residents travel and visit across towns in burn region
A crowded roster of visits and movements across Eden, Dry Gulch, Bartlett, Fairview, and Wallowa includes the Scotts and Richmans from H L Finley, George Courtney and Arthur visiting Spokane, and numerous family gatherings. Several residents, including Roy Carper and the Richmans, plan trips to Walla Walla and Bartlett for holidays and chores. Roads remain passable though storm work slows river road clearance.
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Ercell Richman
Fairview
Eden
H. L. Finley George Courtney
Spokane
Wash
Arthur
Arthur Knight
Wallowa
Bartlett
Enterprise
Fiora
Roy Carper
Bud McNeil
Harry
Irene
Robert
Lewis Carper
Ernest Mallory
Eugene Shafer
Eugeneia
Loretta Russell
Dry Gulch
Bonnie Teel H L. Finley
Fet Wilson
Arlo Richman
Burns Place
Robin Danley
Tom Bacon
Flora
Glenn Courtney
Fred Shafer
Gene Shafer
Beby
Irene McNei
Marvin Holloway
Alva Fordice
W W Burns
Dewey Boston
Walla Walla
Owell Friddie
Elbert Nel
Henry Bosley
Charlie Neal
Paradise Elects Local Officers At Annual Meeting
The Paradise telephone company held its annual meeting in the hall on Monday afternoon electing Harold Kuhn as president and Clifford Kuhn as secretary. Tony Cline won a board vacancy, replacing Leonard Beard. A social wash followed with a watch party hosted by the Women's club and a noon lunch. Local residents shared visits and casual events as neighbors hosted and travelled.
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Paradise Telephone Company
Harold Kuhn
Clifford Kuhn
Tony Cline
Leonard Beard
Women's Club
Cordelia Beach
Ruth Berland
Ruth Bodmer
Randall Rallis
Mike McFetridge
Halsey Hollaway
W R. Frazier
Jake Berland
Joseph Creek
D Beach
Roy Balls
Beall
Beulah
Claud Fleenor
Fleenor
Oren Foster
F O Clark
Weldon Rallis
Dorothy Wilson
Joseph
Albert Wilson
Misa Wilson
School Girls Take Vacation Stage At Local Schools
Miss Barbara Norkos at Bart ett school Miss Daisy Whipple Eden school Miss Margarette Anderson Hunt school and Miss Margarette Duff Fairview school participated in a Monday stage. Weather stays warm with occasional spring like showers. Last week a correction noted Arthur Knight was mistaken for Arthur Smith in La Grande visit to his parents.
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Barbara Norkos
Bartett School
Daisy Whipple
Eden School
Margarette Anderson
Hunt School
Margarette Duff
Fairview School
Arthur Knight
Arthur Smith
la Grande
Flora Local Social Roundup Shares Holiday Visits
Flora residents list visitors and travel over the holidays. Families from Elgin Lost Prairie and Hilgard join locals for gatherings. Road work resumes, New Year winds bring storms, and a Flora High School vacancy is noted with teaching staff changes.
Flora Social Scene Notes Visitors Attend Local Dance
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Conrad and Mrs. Hazen attended the Flora dance on Saturday night. The Conrads visited the James Berner home Sunday and Monday while Mrs. Hazen visited Mrs. Mabel Martin.
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Wallace Conrad
Community notes from Imnaha bridge area social week
Clyde Harsin spent several days at the Bridge last week. Evelyn Falconer and Glenn Wagner from Enterprise were dinner guests at Ross Falconer. Mrs. Chet Lewis and Mrs. Tommy Rayburn were Enterprise callers. Grace visited a physician and remains in poor health after the flu.
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Clyde Harsin
Evelyn Falconer
Glenn Wagner
Enterprise
Ross Falconer
Chet Lewis
Tommy Rayburn
Co. E. Thompson
Fred Zumwalt
Grace
Ferman Warnock
Sam Shinh
Idaho
Kit Warnock
Sam Lovell
Bridge
Gale Isenhart
Helen Falconer
la Grande
California
Rose Falconer
Verne Warnock
W P
Bailey Maxwell
Bin
Grange Hall
Elsie Lewis
M. E. Strite
Lou Warnock
Roberta Moore
Kelzay Simmons
Joe Clemons
Portland
Jess Warnock
Bruce Lydells
Ivan Lathrop
Park
Snow melts to warm spell amid social week in Smith Mountain
A week of snow followed by springlike warmth includes visits by Bernard Wise and family to the J F Gregorys, travels of Geo Wise and Foster Wise, and guests from Payette Idaho. The Wise household hosts a New Year Eve party for Audra and Marvin Abreas with wedding cakes from relatives.
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Bernard Wise and
J. F Gregory
Geo Wise
Foster Wise
Wallowa
Marvin Ahrens
Payette
Idaho
Mra. Ahren
Geo. Wise
J F Gregory
Harley
Isora
Bernard Wise
Ralph Wise
J . Gregory
Clifford Johnson
Wayne Shuster
la Grande
Audra
Marvin Abreas
Otto Abreus
Girdome
Island City
W A. Elmer
Losatine
Mildred Hopper
Enterprise
Greene Returns to Asotin for County Court Meeting
Roscoe M. Greene traveled to Asotin with his mother and sisters to attend the monthly county court session as a commissioner. The Washington county court customarily convenes on the first Monday. due to a holiday, the meeting was held on Tuesday.
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Asotin
Roscoe M. Greene
Tin County Court
Washington
Plays Santa Claus in Idaho School Heist
Milton Flower, who was near Whitebird Idaho, paid a stranger dressed as Santa Claus at the school Christmas Eve event and got away with it. Flower had recovered from a fall, and Want Ads reportedly yielded results.
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Santa Claus
Milton Flower
Warking
Whitebird
Idaho
Milton
Pew
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Geiger
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Bill Fordice
Willard Fordice
Jessie Cole
Grandma Barnes
Armel Cole
Lost Prairie
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Sam Evans
Clyde Wulff
Johnnole Lampkins
Bils Curry
Gertrude Holloway
College Place
Bill Curry
Lewiston
Joe Shelton
Roy
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Niclson
Homer Margaret M Chase
Myrtle Point
Flora High School
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Moscow
H W Baker
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Chet Peeuch
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Albert Veet
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