Coming Day Rose Festival to Shine in Portland History
Independence Enterprise notes Charles Edward Hicks entry at Independence Oregon post office and discusses the June 7 Coming Day event, expected to draw record Rose Festival attendance. It also reports on a State Editorial Association meeting in Portland with calls for uniform advertising policy across the state and praise for the convention’s sessions and luncheons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frome
Portland
State
Entireiate
Commercial Club
Chicago business leaders to visit Pacific Northwest June 2 to 7
A delegation of Chicago businessmen will tour the Pacific Northwest from June 2 to June 7 under the Chicago Association of Commerce. The trip follows an invitation that previously met with disappointment from Chicago school children and will highlight the region in advertising efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Childern
Chicago Association of Commerce
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Pacific Coast
Oregon Development League meetings raise funds across towns
Last week Roseburg committee raised 5000 dollars for the campaign doubling subscribers. Central Point drew delegations from Rogue River towns and collected 1000 dollars in under thirty minutes. Oakland Cottage Grove Eugene and Oregon City also reported strong turnout and support.
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Oregon Development League
Roseburg
Central Point
Rogue River
Oakland
Cottage Grove
Eugene
Oregon City
Monthly community publications gain artistic edge in Oregon
The article notes monthly editions in Oregon growing more artistic than prior issues. Hood River and Medford receive abundant compliments on illustrated literature, Polk county prepares a similar edition, and editor changes at Dallas and near Willamette valley papers are mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Hood River
Medford
Polk County
Massachusetts Attorney General rules on farm hunting licenses
The attorney general’s office says a man living in the city cannot be a farmer for license purposes. A farmer with land under his domicile may hunt on that land without a license if the land is adjacent to cultivated fields and strictly under his domicile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Attorney General
Harmony Community Life Activities This Spring
The town begins planting potatoes and making gardens as spring tasks. Families gather for Sunday events at Mr Blair s home. Easter Sunday was spent by Kate McLean Cora McLean Carmen Sears John Talbot Allen McLean and Ray Goldsmith in the mountains. Goldsmiths visit McLean family at W A McLean s. Clifford Wanless family moved to Nestucen. Arbor Day saw the school yard cleaned with leaves raked and burned.
Push-don't knock motto guides stock dealer door
A door sign misreads a philosophical motto advising pushing rather than knocking to reach the ear of stock dealers. The piece extols the rule as a life guide for the hotheaded, comparing it to a safe, practical maxim echoed in a Baltimore American item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ming
Baltimore
Foley's Honey and Tar Advertising Blurb
A merchant advertises Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs cold and lung trouble warning against substitutes. The notice stresses genuine product in a yellow package and lists P. M. Kirkland as the seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Avold
Foley's
P. M. Kirkland
Zelaya Attacks U S as Nicaraguan Dictator Holds Diplomat
Mobile Alabama April 13 John H Gregory Jr the recently posted American charge d affaires at Managua Nicaragua was reportedly kept under constant guard and shadowed by soldiers and minions of the Nicaraguan ruler. Dispatches were intercepted and confiscated as part of Zelaya's drive to eject Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
John H. Gregory, Jr
Managua
Nicaragua
Recluse Miner Visits San Bernardino Learns of World Events
Albert Courtney a 70 year old recluse from Southern Nevada arrived in San Bernardino and learned that Queen Victoria had died. He expressed surprise at the news and had never heard of Theodore Roosevelt or King Edward, assuming reporters joked about "Teddy."
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San Bernardino
Cal
Albert Courtney
Nevada
Queen Victoria
King Edward
Great Britain
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy
West contractor Alfred W. Burrell dies after illness
Alfred W. Burrell of Oakland California, a leading western general contractor, died in Missoula after a ten day illness. He played a major role in erecting many Lewis and Clark Exposition buildings in Portland and had contracts for Seattle exposition structures.
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Missoula
Mont
Alfred W. Burrell
Oakland
Cal
West
Portland
Burrell
Army reaches full strength as recruiting paused
New York reports the United States Army has reached full strength for the first time since the Spanish war. An adjutant general order declares all recruiting temporarily discontinued except for time expired men who may re-enlist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Army
Army
Markets report from Portland and Seattle prices
Wheat prices range from 1.08 to 1.26 for various grades in Portland with rye oats and barley noted. Hay prices show timothy and alfalfa values across Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon, butter and eggs quoted, potatoes listed for White River and Yakima markets.
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Portland
Timothy
Willamette Valley
Oregon
Wool—Valley
Washington
Puget Sound
Washington Creamery
White River
Yakima
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J. C. Hayter
Dallas
Enterprise
Hayter
Observer
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Cora Kilgore
McMinnnyville
Wathens
Leo Maine
Seymour
Salem Woolen Mill
Salem, Oregon
Zelaya
U. S
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Seattle
Imperial Furniture CO
Imperial Furniture
Liberty Street
Salem
Suns
Symnasium G
Jackie
Jun
Watt Shipp
the Bicycle Man
Jacob Voqt
State Street
Commercial Book Store
Commercial St
Salem, Ore
Polk County Bank
Monmouth
Pald Capital
J. H. Howley
Powell
I.k
3. V. Butler
Ira C. Powell
Cash
J. B. Stump
I. M. Simpson
W. L. Bice
Oregon State Board of Health
Bice & Calbreath
Independence, Oregon
Bell
Southern Oregon Commission CO
W.H. McCorQquooace
Magasine
Splendid Magazine
Chamberlain
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