Oregonian weighs Philippines stance after Furnish defeat
The Oregonian argues the Philippines stance shifted after Furnish’s defeat, noting prior campaign talk of “no Furnish, no Philippines.” It suggests Roosevelt would see Oregon voters’ choice as sound, comparing figures with past elections and implying successful political judgement by Oregonians.
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Oregonian
Philippines
Furnish
Portland
Roosevelt
Pendleton
Oregon
Unjust insinuation over Eugene votes in county race
The Cottage Grove Leader is accused of bias as the Eugene precinct gave J P Carrin 300 votes against H D Edwards. The article lists state office results with Moore 307 in Eugene, Dunbar 295, and Edwards 302 in Eugene, arguing the Leader misrepresented Eugene voting.
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Cottage Grove
Eugene
J P Carrin
Carrin
Henry Blackman
Morrow County
Charles S Moore
Klamath County
Moore
Frank I Dunbar
Clatsop County
D W Sears
Polk County
Woobar
H D Edwards
Springfield
Edwardo
How Chamberlain Won the Governorship
The piece analyzes the governor race, comparing 1900 McKinley Bryan votes to the Chamberlain Furnish contest. It argues Furnish’s absence hurt the result, estimates Chamberlain’s Republican backing at about seven and a half thousand votes, notes county splits, and credits Furnish with the decisive showing before defeat.
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Chamberlain
McKinley
Bryan
Furnish
Marion
Umatilla
Portland
Volcanic Kinship in Mount Pelee Alarm
A Northern report notes ongoing eruptions of Mount Pelee and Mount Blackburn. Five and thirty-three days before Pelee's deadly event, Alaska’s highest peak Mount Blackburn was in active eruption, indicating synchronized volcanic activity across distant regions.
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Pelee
la Souffriere
Globe
Mount Pelee
Alaska
Mount Blackburn
Glacier eruption and later volcanic disturbance reported
A fragment notes a dense black smoke eruption from the famed Muir glacier in Southeastern Alaska, followed twenty two days later on May 3 by a similar volcanic disturbance at Mount Reoubt on the Cook Inlet coast.
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Alaska
Mount Redoubt
Cook’s Inlet
Portugal Woman Leaves Rooster All Wealth After Death
In Lis bon a wealthy Portuguese woman Siliva died and left her entire estate to a rooster, claiming her late husband’s soul inhabited the bird. A fowhouse was built and servants urged to attend the master. Relatives protested but one heir killed the rooster to become heir himself.
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Portugal
Siliva
Lisbon
Republicans Face Rift Over Geer Senate Bid
Republican members elect are urged to refuse voting for Governor Geer as U S senator to honor the majority of their party. Those who yield risk a political coffin. Furnish rests, and Geer’s potential victory could drive other Republicans eyeing the seat to lament, He who laughs last laughs best.
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Geer
United States
Ats
Elim cayuse and the gubernatorial chair debate
The Register mocks a political figure likening him to a cayuse that eats range grass and reduces feed for stock. It notes the figure’s alleged illness and contains sharp, figurative barbs about political seating, fertilizer pasts, and the meshing of politics with rural life.
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Oregon
Ex Governor Boutwell recalls Grant horse tale
In Boutwell's Grant reminiscences a Washington butcher owned a horse that President Grant bought for 500 dollars. He later rode with Senator Conkling and asked his opinion of the horse. The senator quipped that he would rather have the money, while the butcher reacted with a curt remark attributed to the President.
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Boutwell
Grant
Washington
Senator Conkling
Trikee
Weil
New Farm Telephone Line Connects Walla Walla Areas
A Walla Walla dispatch reports a fifteen mile barbed wire telephone line linking five farmer residences to the centre exchange. The system offers city life benefits with low cost and a line running to homes at a price around three hundred dollars.
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Walla Walla
Taymera
Walla Walla Centre Exchange
Florence and Willamette River Travel Through Coburg
Travel notes indicate a Florence route with steady passenger movement. Stages depart around six in the morning on weekdays, with travel up the McKenzie and Willamette rivers toward Coburg noted as part of routine travel.
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Eugene
Florence
McKenzie
Willamette
Coburg
Farnish Unsuccessful Across All Precincts in Election
The candidate Farnish ran in Union county near Umatilla but failed to carry a precinct and lost Umatilla by 597 votes, with the farther from home the poorer his showing in this unusual political race.
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Farnish
Union County
Umatilla
Barrell Begins East Side Residence Finishing
Walter F Barrell’s new East Side residence nears completion but awaits water pipe installation to access the barn, delaying move-in until plumbing is ready.
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Oregonian Eaye
Walter F Barrell
University of Oregon President to address Astoria high school
P L Campbell newly elected president will leave Monmouth for Astoria to speak to the Astoria high school graduating class. He resumes duties July 1 after finishing at Monmouth around June 10. He heads the Western Oregon division with the State Teachers Association as its annual meeting nears in Eugene June 25 to 28. An expected 600 to 700 teachers will attend with William S Crane of Dayton Ohio among the speakers.
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Oregonian
P. L. Campbell
University of Oregon
Monmouth
Astoria
Professor Campbell
Western Oregon Division
State Teachers’ Association
Eugene
Campbell
State Teachers Association
Ier
Etween
William S. Crane
Dayton
Furnish lacks fit for large politics despite wealth and support
Portland Journal notes Mr Furnish is doubtfully suited for big politics. He enjoys wealth, a strong party base, backing from the state’s most influential and widely circulated newspaper, yet his strength of ideas faces counterforce from rival views.
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Portland Journal
Furnish
Mre
Buy a Bain wagon at Chambers Hardware
Buy a Bain wagon and you have one that tastes. See them at Chambers Hardware for practical, sturdy wagons.
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Chambers Hardware
Oregon Governor Considers Special Legislative Session
Governor Geer weighs calling an extra session of the Oregon legislature a few days before the regular session to implement a Republican plank on salaries for state officials. He would urge a law to enforce salaries before new officials are sworn in and back an operative initiative and referendum as approved by voters.
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Patemm
Geer
Oregon
Guer
Mulkey Probable Man for Monmouth Normal Presidency
Reports from Portland indicate Professor Eric Mulkey of Monmouth Normal School may become the next president after P L Campbell resigned to join a state university. Mulkey, longtime Pook County educator and three term county clerk, also taught and chaired at Monmouth Normal School.
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Portland
Eric Mualkey
Monmouth Normal School
P L Campbell
Normal School
State University
Mulkey
Pook County
Wool Purchase Spurs Circulation at Hulbart Nicklin Co
The Hulbart Nicklin Mercantile Co. bought between 25,000 and 39,000 pounds of wool Saturday at 14 cents a pound. The bulk purchase injected a large amount of money into circulation previously held by outside buyers.
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Junoinet Times
Hulbart Nicklin Mercantile Co
Pat's Philosophy on Dyspepsia and Reform
An essay on Irish wit and philosophy links humor to wisdom, then argues that stopping bad habits and treating stomach disease matters more than fleeting relief. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as cures, with a testimonial from Preston E. Jenstermacher of Egypt PA, and urges readers to seek the Common Sense Medical Adviser.
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Pat
Preston E. ‘Enstermacher
Egypt
Lehigh Co
Pierce
The Education of the Parrot
Guidance on teaching a parrot to talk emphasizes humane treatment with good food water and a large cage. The trainer should stay hidden while patiently repeating the target words, noting that female parrots do not talk.
Cicero as Model for English Style Says Cardinal Newman and Bishop Wordsworth
Cardinal Newman notes Cicero as his sole great model of style and also credits him for English writing. Bishop Wordsworth adds that his best lessons in composition came from Cicero, though he valued learning from Addison Swift Bolingbroke Johnson Burke Hume Gibbon Macaulay and Horace Walpole as well.
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Cardinal Newman
Cicero
Bishop Wordsworth
St. Andrewa
Beneft
Addison
Swift
Bolingbroke
Johnson
Burke
Hume
Gibbon
Macaulay
Horace Walpole
Long Flight of the Humming Bird
An exploration of the ruby throated hummingbird the smallest bird in the region and its remarkable migratory journey from Central America to Labrador and back each summer. The piece ponders how such a tiny creature travels vast distances beyond human perception and its endurance amid tropical relatives.
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Mississippi
Central America
Labrador
Yucatan
New England
Ladiles' Home Journal
Lack of Clothing In Uganda Wa Kavirondo Society
A colonial observer notes extreme nakedness among the Wa Kavirondo near Uganda. Villagers gather around missionary camps, displaying no cloth except bead necklaces or hippo teeth behind the ear. The Wa Kavirondo are described as buoyant, contrasted with the Waganda in bark cloth.
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Uganda
Monsieur
Madame
Bebe
Madagascar’s Dual Climates and Ruling Interior Natives
Madagascar shows two climates and two native classes. The coast is tropical and darker peoples dwell there, while the interior high tableland is cooler and lighter. Interior natives are said to be more intelligent and rule the island.
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Madagnascar
Madagascar
France
McSwineys Gun at McSwineys Gaon Ireland
A sea cave near Horn Head in County Donegal features a rock hole known as McSwineys gun. When winds drive the sea at half flood, waves rush into the cavern and jet water over 100 feet high. Explosions accompany the jets and can be heard for miles.
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Horn Head
County Donegal
Ireland
McSwiney
Fragmentary sports note on rapidity and movement
A garbled passage describes brisk travel and an advance movement of twenty five feet. It mentions common house tasks and a best datum, suggesting a comparison of speeds, likely from a historical sports or mechanical section with unreadable context.
He Was Sorry Told In A Curious Exchange
A brief skew humor piece quotes a caller asking to see someone for a horse whipping. The reply states the person is sorry and at home, deflecting the threatening inquiry in a wry domestic line. The source uses a German phrase Der Dorfbar to frame the anecdote.
A Good Housekeeper Wife Arthur Breakfast Cancelled
A brief wartime era exchange shows a wife telling Arthur they must skip breakfast because the cook is sick at Woman's Home Campaniou. The line captures domestic humor and social routine in a historical home setting.
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Arthur
Campaniou
Oldest World Royal Lineage Traces 140 Years
The statement notes the Japanese imperial line as the world’s oldest uninterrupted dynasty, claiming a continuous 140 year span of heritage.
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Japan
Book Flates and the Heraldic Book Plate Debate
A Century article discusses the use of heraldry on book plates in America. It notes the risks of incorrect arms and suggests Americans avoid coat armor on plates. It mentions copyright possible for plate designs and refers to two examples already protected in the country.
Wanted Crude Eggs and Shredded Biscuit on Boston Boat
A Boston passenger requests crude eggs with shredded wheat biscuita and milk. The waiter lists boiled fried poached and scrambled options, then the man insists on raw eggs. The moon breaks the yolks as the waiter notes the scene as a quirky food crank tale from the New York Presa.
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Boston
New York
Stone Tree of Mexico Turns Wood to Stone
A colossal Mexican tree called chijol or stone tree grows extremely large with yellow green leaves and many spreading branches. Its wood remains soft when cut but hardens over years until it becomes practically petrified, enabling fireproof, stonelike houses after time.
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Mexico
First Railroad Charter of 1819 and Its Legacy
The first charter granted in 1819 by the Pennsylvania legislature authorized a railroad from the Delaware valley to the headwaters of the Lehigh river along the route later used by the Delaware Lackawanna and Western from the Water Gap to Scranton. Before steam, wagons would be horse powered. The charter and its rights were later bought by the original Delaware and Lackawanna company for $1,000.
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Henry Drinker
Pennsylvania
Delaware Valley
Lehigh River
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Water Gap
Scranton
Delaware and Lackawanna Company
Widow Outwits Bachelor in Checkers Lesson
A well to do bachelor volunteered to teach a young widow checkers. He argued she must capture again after taking one man. She responded with charm and then captured him, turning the game in her favor.
Georgia proverb echoes censorship on tobacco and power
A garbled Georgia newspaper line reflects harsh language about race and authority, listing phrases that mock policing and social hierarchy. The excerpt shows distorted terms linked to political titles and control, illustrating sensational or prejudiced speech typical of early 20th century press.
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Georgia
Atlanta Constitution
The Golden Manual of Prayer carried by Queen Elizabeth
A costly 300 page prayer book bound in hammered virgin gold was used by Queen Elizabeth. It featured the Judgment of Solomon on one side and the brazen serpent on the cross in the desert. The volume was suspended by a chain of pure gold.
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Elizabeth
Desert
A Boston Editor Distinguishes Cult from Fad
A Boston editor defines the difference between a cult and a fad. He states a fad arouses evanescent mentality while a cult inspires permanent mentality.
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Boston
Visitor notes painting by old master in updated frame
The scene from New York Weekly shows Mrs McShoddile acknowledging the painting is by an old master while admitting the frame is new. The exchange highlights the contrast between provenance and presentation in a gallery setting.
No one reads the Bible aloud in a newspaper voice
A quip from the Atchison Globe notes that reading sacred text shares no rhythm with reciting a newspaper selection. The remark comments on tone and public reading style. It highlights differences between religious and journalistic narration.
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Atchison Globe
Fragmentary rail news item from OCR page
Incomplete OCR text describes a railway event or feel of a bad day with unclear names and details. The readable fragments hint at trains and possible incidents but lack concrete facts, dates, or places to form a full summary.
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