Gazette Sale and Staff Move Spark City Talk
Five carloads of machinery for Cascade Water Power & Light arrived last week. G Earl McCarter, late Gazette editor, will leave Saturday for Pendleton Oregon to join the East Oregonian. The Gazette sale to E D Hall of the News has most Grand Forks talking. A curious fish story and literary notes complete the snippets.
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Cascade Water, Power & Light Company
G. Earl McCarter
The
Gazette
Pendleton
Ore
East Oregonian
Grand Forks
E. D. Hall
News
A Profitable Investment
A former college man named Bays Harvey spent freely in business and later worked a farm. When asked about income he replied that farming is not profitable for him, but he is losing money more slowly than before, calling it the top wave of prose security.
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England
Alfred Austin
Dorothy Nevill
Austin
Henry Pye
Pye
Bays Harvey
The Deacon's Parable A Church Pulpit Incident
A conscious egotistical young clergyman supplied the pulpit of a country church after an adult deacon asked him to. The excerpt notes the tension between duty and self-regard within the clerical setting and hints at communal oversight.
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Country Church
Parable on Tracking from an Old Man
A grizzled speaker offers a parable about Tank Weatherbee’s early deer chase, recalling how he tracked the deer all day but in the wrong direction, illustrating stubborn misdirection in a plainspoken morning tale.
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Tank Weatherbee
Weel lad in the mud appeals for aid on a misty evening
A Scotch minister sank into a deep mudhole on a misty Wednesday night and shouted for help. A passing laborer looked down and said he need not raise such a din as he would not be needed before Sabbath.
Desperate Seeker Bets on Known Servant in Job Hunt
A desperate searcher tells an employment agent he knows Mary well and will take her. The agent asserts a ten year acquaintance and notes Mary has been seeking new positions every ten days. The exchange hints at a pattern of job changes and raises questions about reliability.
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Mary
Next Election Parable: Donkey Visits Store Prompting Conversation
A donkey enters a rural store, asking for the proprietor after spotting an advertisement on a pasture fence. The proprietor is puzzled by the donkey’s claim that only donkeys read live newspapers, highlighting a neighborly nontypical encounter. Flora notes her brown suit and squirrel toque in the scene.
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Dora
Flora
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