GeorK Chamberlain Accepts Nomination for Oregon Governor
Geok Chamberlain delivers a concluding acceptance speech at the Se avoratio State Convention. He attacks high public salaries and school fund mismanagement, vows vetoes against bills he opposes, and pledges transparency. He lauds his prosecuting record, contrasts himself with W J Furnish, and asserts he will win the June governor’s race.
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Geok Chamberlain
Oregon
Chamberlain
Portland
W. J. Furnish
Furnieh
Time difference between Greenwich and Paris narrowed
An effort by French and British experts will unite the clocks at Greenwich and the Paris observatories. For the next year or two a large staff will work to resolve the exact time difference of six ten one hundredths of a second, the sole remaining divergence between the two institutions.
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Sacientiata
France
England
Channel
Varia
Greenwich
Scalp bounty law sparks tax repeal push in Oregon
Western Oregon taxpayers fund coyote scalp bounties as Eastern Oregon counties benefit. Wash ington County paid 2870.94 to the state treasury last week. local leaders urge repeal of the bounty law and allow counties to set their own rewards.
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Oregon
Forest Grove Times
Washington County
Salem
Brace of twins highlights local politics and irony
The piece mocks a State Democratic platform praising expansion of trade at the expense of a weaker people and fears of concentrated power. It then shifts to a local anecdote about Mr Brace of The Dalles, whose wife recently gave birth to twins for the third time in ten years, illustrating a lighthearted juxtaposition of politics and personal news.
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Oregon
Mouli
The Irish in South Africa War Demonstrations at Home
The Irish are a peculiar race with Irishmen fighting in South Africa against two republics while at home they protest the government, demonstrating in support of those same republics.
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South Africa
Prohibition Party Ends Silence By Again Fielding Ticket
The Prohibition party arrives smiling but remains doomed to fail in elections. It never elects anyone yet still issues a ticket, offering no real hope of victory.
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Prohibition Party
Importing a fad drives up horse prices in New York
A seller offered twenty eight Russian coach horses in New York for 3400 dollars total, averaging just over 1200 dollars per horse. The buyers were described as those who can afford fashionable investments.
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New York
Undertaker claims petrifying embalming fluid reported
The report that a Michigan undertaker has compounded a fluid to petrify flesh and preserve features is questioned. The piece warns against debasing mortality and mocks the idea, calling for dignity in death and the natural end, dust to dust.
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Michigan
Rhodes Will Left Cousin Forty Atherington Gift
Cecil Rhodes bequeathed fifty thousand dollars to a poor New Jersey cousin who had long clashed with him. He once sent a note saying there were already enough Rhodeses in South Africa. The gesture, though, recalled Rhodes’ charitable side toward the relative.
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Cecil Rhodes
New Jersey
Rhodes
South Africa
Reprieve Arrives Too Late for Missouri Boy Execution
A colored boy was hanged in Missouri after a reprieve arrived too late. The sheriff received the message thirty minutes too late, and the governor woke after sunrise to learn the decision had not been delivered by eleven the previous night.
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Missouri
Park Row tunnel wreck prompts $1.8 million claims
Claims totaling 1.8 million dollars have been filed against New York Central Railway over the Park Row tunnel derailment and fire involving the New Rochelle suburban train. The accident caused deaths and injuries, highlighting the cost of unsafe management versus preventive safety measures for passengers.
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New York Central Railway Company
Park Row Tunnel
New Rochelle
Land Laws and Acreage Provisions Mentioned for Homeseekers
The text outlines eligibility under the Homestead Act for 160 acres and the Desert Land Act options. It notes 430 acres total entitlement for compliant homeseekers, with 320 acres available if they never filed on a homestead, otherwise 160 acres. It also mentions 160 acres of timber land and asserts no desert lands in Western Oregon but deserts exist across the Cascade range for settlement.
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United States
Oregon
Cascade Range
Panama Canal Sale Spurs Colombian Lease Offer
The Colombian government supports a sale of the Panama canal to the United States and offers a perpetual lease of land for canal uses. It is understood the annual rent would be 1,000,000, a price Colombia deems fair for the strategic ground regardless of potential value if the United States were not involved.
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Panama Canal
United States
Colombia
Abe
Ingalls on Delaware Joke Stirs Congressional Humor
A congressional exchange recalls Senator Ingalls mocking Delaware. Representative Hall admits Delaware’s humor while noting Ingalls’ quip that the state had two counties at high tide and three at low tide, a famous sarcastic remark preserved in debate.
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Delaware
Representative Hall
Tax turnover transfers county taxes to treasurer
Sheriff Withers today turned over 62503.88 to County Treasurer Patterson, allocating 850,645.44 to Sinte sed COUDLY tax, 3808.42 Eugene city tax, 109.25 Cottage Grove city tax, 19 Junction city tax, 10T 22 Eugene school district tax, 3183.43 Eugene school district tax, with the balance distributed among other county school districts. This is the third turnover by the sheriff. Delinquent taxes are expected to total about 15000.
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Withers
Patterson
Eugene
Cottage Grove
Junction City
Springfield
Sherif
Remembrance to Friends from Maxis A Dohner in UAKLanND
A note from Maxis A Dohner in UAKLanND Oregon dated April 11 thanks friends in Eugene for kindnesses and favors including Father Beutgen for repeated help. He mentions missing a visit on a Portland to Eugene trip as circumstances prevented a meeting with pupils and friends before departure to California.
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Uaklannd
Oregon
California
Eugene
Father Beutgen
Portland
Maxis
Dohner
Courthouse Lodging House Offers Fresh Rooms in Eugene
In Eugene travelers may find clean new beds at the Courthouse Lodging House behind the courthouse. Rooms are freshly papered and painted with clean painted floors and Brus sels carpet rugs at each bed, avoiding dusty worn carpets.
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Eugene
Courthouse
Twins Three Times At Mrs Brace Births In City
Yesterday morning Tae Dalles reports two twin boys delivered to Mrs Brace, wife of Mr Brace. This marks the third set of twins she has borne to the same family in roughly ten years, following earlier twins of both sexes. The article notes Mrs Brace’s repeated double arrivals and the curious family pattern.
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Tae Dalles
Mra Brace
Mr Brace
Mra Brae
Strikes a Rich Find
A Lan caster man F J Geen describes chronic indigestion and nervous debility improved by Billenie Bitters. He credits his wife’s excellent health to the tonic, praising it as a superior female remedy and overall invigoration. Sold by W L DeLano with 50 cent guarantee.
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F J Geen
Lancaster
Satie
W L DeLano
Oregonian Sparks Football Coach Near Missoula
The Oregonian features Fred Herbold pictured with a sketch of his football career. He will leave his Batty Montana business to coach the press agricultural college pigskin kickers this season. Miss Stella Day works as night operator at the central telephone station under manager Miss Irene Applegete.
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Oregonian of Today
Fred Herbold
Bie
Herbold
Bia
Batty
Montana
Press Agricultural College
Stella Day
Weak Women Made Strong and Fainting in Victorian Novels
An exposé of fainting as a fashionable female device in past fiction and a promotion of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The piece argues modern heroines abandon fainting, cites testimonials from Mrs. Milton Grimes and Miss Ella Sapp, and extols cures for womanly diseases, urging women to try the product and its companion Golden Medical Discovery.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Ella Sapp
Jamestown, Guilford Co
N. C
Elmer D. Sheare
Mount Hope
Lancaster Co
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N.Y
Final Consignment Turns Romantic for Gear and Belle
In a Chicago commission office a tense dispute over onions and tomatoes leads to a temper flare and a threat of legal row. A year later Jack Gear falls for Belle Fithian, sister of his rival, and a moonlit lake scene ends with a hushed vow as she reveals her true initials and motive to marry.
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Gear
M. G. Finntan
Commission
John T. Gear & Co
M. G. Fithian
Fithian
Rosedale
Ted
Theodore
Belle Fithien
Belle Fithian
Jack
Miss Pithian
Melle
John T. Gear
Hecht
John Theodore Gear
M. G
Ile
Mirabelle Gwendolyn Fithian
Sach
Belle
Jim
Chicago
Old Worlds and New Ones: Stars and planetary evolution
Excerpts from Popular Science Monthly compare the moon and Earth as worn out stars, noting the moon’s desolate surface and barren air, while Earth shows ongoing evolution despite halted condensation. The text contemplates cosmic problems and the vast complexity of life arising from a single drop of ditch water.
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Solar System
Earth
Popular Science Monthly
Pedestrian Trek Through Two Kingdoms and Six Jurisdictions
The text describes a five hour ten minute walk starting in Steinbach in Oberfranken. It traces stops at Lichtentanne in Saxony Meissen, Reuss v 1, Gleima, Altengesess, Drognitz in Prussia, and final Saalthal in Saxe Altenbourg, illustrating a cross region hike through multiple realms.
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Steinbach
Oberfranken
Gera-Saalfeld-Lichtenfeln
Saalthal
Saxe Altenbourg
Editor's Advice to Young Writers From a Trusted Editor
Franklin B. Wiley argues editors are human and swayed by appearance as well as merit. A neatly presented manuscript can seem superior, influencing acceptance even if its content matches poorer submissions.
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Ito
Franklin B. Wiley
Ladies’ Home Journal
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Reet
Dalles
Ingalls
Preston
McClure
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