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Newspaper
Heppner Times
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1904
Page
8
Dr Charles Conrad Abbott, famed naturalist, on a fishing trip encountered a pike containing a mud minnow which hid another pike inside it and then a mud minnow inside that. He likened the discovery to a Chinese puzzle of nested balls. The tale illustrates a remarkable chain of predation observed in a single catch.
Tennessee statesman Senator W B Bate, aged, declines writing memoirs. A former Mexican War youth and Confederate Army member, he led from the front, commanding in Shiloh where three horses fell and four family members bled. His valor earned him major general rank and broad public respect.
An English writer recalls meeting Alice Roosevelt at a small Washington gathering. He describes her as lively rather than beautiful, with high spirits and moments of excitable energy. The scene includes jolly romping among youngsters and Roosevelt dancing with a playful display involving blank cartridges from a small gold trinket pistol once gifted by her father.
Terse anecdote recounts a Dublin politician John Dillon on tour in this country. Dillon, slight in frame and somber in look, shared a platform with Parnell in an eastern city during famine fears. Afterward the chairman confessed tears at Dillon’s appearance, saying hunger is in his face.
A Bal lieney Sun quotation discusses clergy warning about wicked ministers doomed to eternal punishment in a house being cleaned. It contrasts spring cleaning with moral ruin caused by the demon rum, noting that for every home harmed by the drink, at least two are ruined by cleaning.
A physician should be called for pneumonia as it arises from a cold or grip. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is claimed to ward off threatened pneumonia and is used by physicians with reportedly good results. Dr. W J Smith of Sanders Alabama endorses its use in pneumonia cases. Buy from Blocam Drug Co.
A string of church notices invites parishioners to Christian, Baptist, Methodist and Catholic services with times and pastors listed. Also includes a legal summons from the Circuit Court of Oregon for Morrow County, ordering defendants to appear by March 10, 1904, in a mortgage foreclosure suit initiated by J. A. Thompson.
In the county court of Morrow County Oregon a final report as Executor of the last will of James Jones deceased has been filed. The court has appointed Saturday March 14 at 10:00 a.m. in the County Court room for the settlement of said account.
The guardian of Ruby Brock and John F. Brock will sell at public auction on Saturday March 10 at 10 am at the courthouse door in Hoppner Morrow County Oregon an undivided two seventh interest in the NW quarter of section 19 Tp 3 R 12 W M to the highest bidder for cash. Sale made under license by the County Court dated February 1 1904. Hurry Howett Guardian. In the matter of James H Long deceased the administrator has filed a final report and the court sets April 4 at 10 am for final hearing and settlement of accounts Hapvey Banken administrator.
A nationwide claim touts radium as the greatest remedy from God, curing all diseases as germs flee its contact. It promises a written contract guaranteeing cures and invites readers to return a filled form for information worth hundreds of dollars, asserting banking firms support its reliability.
Notice is given that ASH Baron, administrator of the estate of L. P. Jones deceased, has filed a final report in Morrow County Court Oregon. The court has set Saturday the th day of March 1004 at 10:00 a m for final settlement of the account at the County Court room in Morrow County Oregon.
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