Northwest States News Roundup Highlights Local Incidents
Spokane flour mills produce about 60 000 barrels of flour annually. Ellensburg bans gambling. A decomposed man’s body found north of Spokane. Palouse City to pave more Main street blocks. Porter stabbed at Puyallup. likely fatal. Thrall and wife jailed for mail interception. Cusick dies by self-inflicted gunshot at Chewelah. Hostesses named for Lewis and Clark fair events. State Bar to meet in Spokane in July. Dr. Overmeyer retained on medical examiners board. Accidental self kill near Northport. Harrington postmaster vacancy eyed. Almonta four-horse carryall accident injures Buck and Pearl Lake. Riverside hotel leased for Benton county courthouse. Ada Staley dies from clothes fire. State property valued at over 2 million. university share 1.29 million. Nellie Bell horsewhipped over alleged attentions. Whitman Declamation winners named. Hyde misreported as appointed commandant. Calvert considered successor. Echo hosts 350 Pendleton visitors and crowds for farmers market picnic.
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Washington News
Spokane
Ellensburg
Palouse
Charles Allen
Puyallup
Frank W. Thrall
Bellingham
United States
Jeremiah Cusick
Chewelah
Frank Norsley
Fechter
Yakima County
Hopie Hunt
Gilbert Hunt
Walla Walla
Harry
Elwood
Kittitas County
State Bar Association
North Yakima
Mead
George W. Overmeyer
South Bend
State Board of Medical Examiners
Roy R. Underhill
Onion Creek
Northport
Post Office Department
Congressman Jones
Harrington
F. M. Lighthizer
Almota
Colfax
J. S. Buck
Pearl Lake
Riverside
Benton County
Ada
Freeman Staley
Chattaroy
Oregon News Highlights Town Initiatives and Elections
Eugene plans to raise 1000 dollars for a Fourth of July celebration. Mayor George H. Williams of Portland is renominated for mayor by the republican party in a direct primary by a 1000 vote plurality. C K McIntosh identifies William Barrett as the man who tried to rob San Francisco bank $20000 from a September attempt. Hood River residents subscribe 20000 dollars in stock to run Union woolen mill. plant to be moved immediately. Colonel R W Richardson calls Pendleton road meeting May 15 16 the most important before the national convention in Portland June.
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Eugene
George H. Williams
Portland
C. K. McIntosh
First National Bank of
San Francisco
William Barrett
Hood River
Union
R. W. Richardson
National Good Roads Association
Pendleton
Twin Falls adopts saloon license at two thousand a year
Idaho notes include new juvenile court law effective May 4 and large building plans in Pocatello. Cadets depart for annual Idaho University encampment at Coeur dAlene. Mine accidents and dividends, Kellogg postoffice burglary, and Idaho Montana notes wrap a busy regional update.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Pocatello
University of Idaho
Coeur d’Alene
James Wing
Mullan
J. R. Field
Payette Valley
Drexel van Arsdale
C. C. van Arsdale
Clearwater River
Wallace
Bunker Hill & Sullivan
Wardner
Kellogg
D. Price
Coeur d’Alenes
Nevada
Historic Fort Herkimer Church Stands as Valley Refuge
Fifteen miles east of Utica near Kayaderosseras and Mohawk river the Fort Herkimer Church once served as a stockade and haven for settlers. Built 1722 for Palatines with Sir William Johnson fortification, it witnessed 1775 liberty pole raising and Brant era bloodshed, later modernized yet preserving a rare pulpit and high board platform.
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Fort Herkimer
Summer Home of President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill
Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s summer home, sits two miles from Oyster Bay with a two story eight and a half structure, red and yellow plantings, broad piazzas, and three red chimneys overlooking Long Island Sound. The lawn is open with a willow shading the front, vines on the walls, and beds of bright flowers. Deer and moose antlers and bear elk skins line the halls as trophies of the President’s rifle.
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Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Long Island Sound
Not a Good Operator
A satirical remark contrasts a gunner with Dr Quiller as an appendix doctor. The piece questions expertise and uses humor about who removes an appendix from a dictionary. It mocks showy pride and suggests competence over vanity.
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Gunner
Quiller
Guyer
Philadelphia Record
Filipino 18 an odd type in paradox and contradiction
Portrait of the Filipino as a bundle of opposites from a Chicago Record-Herald piece. It claims the Filipino loves home yet avoids improvements, hoards wages, and neglects family needs while displaying fanatic patriotism, dishonesty, and a readiness to plunder for personal whim.
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William B. Curtis
Chicago Record-Herald
Philippine Islands
Tel
Value of Store Mirror Detecting Thieves in Plaster Heists
A druggist praises a back shop mirror for catching plaster thieves who repeatedly target boxes of plasters. Two young men were jailed for the offense, released, then caught again when a suspicious waiter identified them. The mirror’s vigilance plus staff recognition halted further thefts.
Laby Brown the Tin Times Millionaire
The Rhode Island Brown heir John Nicholas Brown age four stands as a wealth figure with $10,000,000 plus potential. He is pampered with multiple residences a yacht a personal staff and strict health care including fumigated travel to guard against germs. He attended the dedication of a $25,000 library willed to Brown University by his father.
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John Nicholas Brown
Rhode Island
Baby Brown
Nicholas Brown
Europe
Brown University
Cures Consumption Claim by Dr Cain of Rouen
French physician Dr Cain reports electric treatment cures tuberculosis without sun baths or drugs. He says four classes of TB respond to his method, with 4 to 8 months usually needed, and alcohol forbidden during treatment. Consular testimony supports successes across social grades and hospital patients.
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Cain
Rouen
France
Lash-Driven Bossy New Yorkers at Coney Island
Carstairs lampoons average New Yorker as a lash-driven slave in a New York World piece. An observer recounts using a brusque voice to clear a crowded L train and Luna Park entrance, noting how assertive orders moved crowds and even prompted a joking sighting of officials.
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Coney
Coney Island
Luna Park
New York
Maccydoo
Rise of Rhyming Dictionary Promises Verse Boom
Lorin Lathrop, a Bristol based United States consul, plans publication of a new Rhyming Dictionary. The work aims to spark verse abundance and rhyme driven ideas. His leisure industry includes pseudonymous newspaper stories and clothed novels. His surname hints at a Yorkshire origin over a century ago.
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Lorin Lathrop
Bristol
United States
Yorkshire
A Small Matter and Iceberg Scented Town Tales
A comic exchange features a French maid mispronouncing a diagnosis and revealing Madame has smallpox. In a Newfoundland note, fishermen reportedly sense approaching icebergs by a sudden atmospheric chill, while a gendered car crowd quip highlights seating norms.
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Madame
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Nellie Maude Bell
James S. Mitchell
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Samuel C. Hyde
State Soldiers’ Home
S. A. Calvert
Calvert
Mr. Hyde
Echo
la Grande
Echo and Vicinity
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Teton County
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Kidd
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Livingston
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Augustine Slaughter
Anaconda
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Maurice Howard
Custer County
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Malcolm
Glasgow
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Jesse C. Bond
Denver
President Roosevelt
Atlas
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Scotland
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TIN Times
Canu
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