30 Aug 1906
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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
1
A store invites throngs of buyers to visit daily, stressing growing friendly business relations with the public. The message urges customers to keep coming and tell friends, promising faithful service as confidence grows, and invites readers to read the fall offerings.
A catalog note highlights ladies heavy coats in Cravenette rainwear. Black and color options are emphasized as top choices for rain protection and style from a leading clothing line.
Readable sale items include children's coats at 1.50 and various hosiery options. Listings cover women's fine hose, children's fine hose, boys ribbed hose, fleeced hose, ladies gray ribbed hose, black wool hose, apron gingham at 25c and 5c. Items suggest a small-town store ad with multiple garment types and low prices.
New York Aug 2 Farley launched another special train to San Francisco with streetcar strikebreakers. Three Farley trains are en route aiming four day trips, another tonight and one tomorrow. Expeditions carry ammunition medical supplies and seventy five thousand rounds plus eleven hundred revolvers. San Francisco Aug 2 The strike remains firm with mutual no yield. Public sympathy favors the car men as a hired Japanese worker aided tracks under Fillmore street barns. Ten unions representing all United Railroads crafts unite to oppose the company.
New York August 20 The Illini yacht sails to greet William J Bryan off Sandy Hook with a small party of reception committee heads and reporters The Princess Irene is sighted off Fire Island as Bryan plans to board the Illini and Moran to visit Nebraskans before returning to the Illini and landing tomorrow afternoon A formal reception is set for Pier A North River at 4 pm with Governor Folk Acting Mayor McGowan and a six car carriage escort An overflow meeting is planned for Madison Square Park for those unable to gain garden admission.
Attorney Jerome enters Democratic race for New York governor as backers who backed Parker two years ago push to control the state convention next month. Hearst plans to run regardless, and Jerome signals similar aims though publicly filed as a candidate.
In the Mays land fraud trial in Portland Oregon August 20, 5S. B. Ormaby a former forest superintendent was recalled and admitted his appointment hinged on Binger Hermann. He said he sent all letters to Washington marked personal and that a government agent threatened to indict his con if he did not tell what he knew. J H Dobbin of Joseph testified about Congressman Williamson's role in securing a wool growers convention to support an addition to Blow Mountain reserve containing land he was interested in.
Chicago officials expose a factory reprocessing eggs antedating old quarry, deodorized and pulverized for bakers and even a trans Atlantic steamship line. The operation used trap doors and secret passages to ship goods to initials only, avoiding purchaser names. W. D. Seobert returns from Woodburn after overseeing construction of Seoberts lodge hop house, with hops harvest planned around September 10.
Salem reports that the Willamette Valley Construction Co plans a test run of the first car over the Portland Salem electric line from Salem to Chemawa on Sunday September 9. Work has progressed for six weeks with track nearly complete. completion by September 10 risks voiding the city ordinance. Cars from Portland Railway Co will be used until Pullman equipment arrives.
A circulation claimed Oregon Coast & Eastern railway surveyors from Florence were unpaid and dismissed. The report was denied. pay checks were delayed but expected via the morning mail. Surveyors will proceed to Portland next morning and continue work as instructed.
The Post reports Russian secret police seek plotters from high Russian families to abduct the czar and place a grand duke on the throne. They may attack foreign consulates to force intervention. Consul Laptev shot and gravely wounded by a Russian contractor. Baltic uprisings feared as German residents predict worse unrest and prewar preparations surge.
Aug 2 Philadelphia crowds gather in front of Real Estate Trust Company in a tense scene at Broad and Chestnut. Police reinforcement arrives as threats rise and rumors swirl about debts and president Hipple. Bank seeks receiver after liabilities reportedly reach seven million. efforts to raise funds fail. Police rescue Warden Hipple amid hostile crowd. stock market explodes in panic. bank plans to resume business within forty eight hours with court dismissal sought.
The steam schooner Celia laden with lumber from Santa Cruz to Monterey went ashore on the rocks at Point of Pines. A boat carrying Mate Anderson, Bishop of Albion Lumber Co, his wife and three children, and Brigham Kiuton has not been heard from.
St. Paul August 2 The American Bar Association opened today The insurance committee report favors federal supervision of all concerns.
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