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Newspaper
Heppner Weekly Gazette
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1890
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text appears to mention a place or event with unclear names and numbers. Readable elements include a stray numeric 14 and references to a ste and a raid or rave. Context remains too garbled for a precise summary.
Stage leaves for Qanyon City daily except Sunday at 652 am and arrives daily except Sunday at 900 pm. Route promises 16 hours saved and 310 savings by taking this line to Canyon. W Jeanlar & Co Portland Oregon invited to make calling contracts for this paper and to handle collections.
Hay sells for 20 dollars a ton as DP W Kinnaird the engineer and Rhine and Hobner arrive from Fremont Nebraska to buy sheep. Local items mention births marriages weather and commerce, with notes on The Model store, The Gazette, and various residents, visitors, and conditions around Heppner Oregon.
A periodical from Portland Oregon touts large colored plates and a yearly subscription for fifty-two numbers. It notes competition with a rival paper over advertising and space, reports on local events including a furniture shop mischief and a coroner's finding in a murder case in McMinnville, and mentions social scorn toward the Arlington Times.
A collection of promo notices and medical cure claims appears across the page. Prominent items include cures for consumption and lung ailments, free prescriptions, and advertisements for seeds and garden catalogs. The pieces promote tonics and tonics with claimed health benefits, featuring named advertisers and locations.
Mayor Henry Blackman and Recorder A A Roberts along with Treasurer W J Laezer were declared legally elected. Council adjourned after a recount upheld clerks and judges' report and named councilmen O E Farnsworth Wm McAfee and C M Mallory.
A Japanese reader argues that Europeans and Americans confuse Chinese and Japanese due to similar appearances. The piece cites anti Chinese policies in America, stereotypes in Europe, and calls for a distinct national hat system to avoid mistaken identity. It reflects on travel experiences, ridiculed insults, and the desire for respect through visible, predefined signs.
The advertisement asserts Electric Bitters grant happiness and health, claiming thousands seek it daily and spend much money. It promises relief from dyspepsia and liver stomach and kidney issues when used as directed, with prices and a local druggist retailer named A D. Johnson & Co.
Market reports show hesitations in wheat with slow demand and mixed prices, Chicago trading rooms listing modest moves in May and March futures. Cattle receipts around 6,000 with weak tone and lower hides. hogs dull and off about 10 cents. sheep steady to higher on Western and Texan stock. Eggs decline due to California supplies. potatoes firmer with ample stock. other produce largely unchanged amid supply disruptions. Oregon and Heppner markets note scarce poultry and tentative prices. several local buyers quoted for onions and beets. a local dealer advertises a catarrh cure with endorsements.
Editor notes a local fuss about a Portland sensational paper accusing a traveling detective, F. E. White, of staging a stage robbery and attempted blackmail. The piece questions motives and mocks sensational reporting while defending Heppner residents from hostile intrigue.
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