Finley Fruit Growers Meet Plans Straw berry Festival
The Binley Fruit Growers Association held a lively meeting at the school house. They left the school question to directors and announced a Straw berry Festival at the Finley depot with a full program. Included are musical selections by the Finley Orchestra and readings by Mrs Brown and Mr Koerner.
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Binley Fruit Growers Association
Godfrey
Finley
Mrs. Brown
Mr. Koerner
K. A. Fisher
America
Jealous lover shoots Daisy Hickey then commits suicide
In Portland on May 25 J Edward Blum killed Mrs Daisy Hickey by shooting her in her lodging house room and then shot himself. Intervening accounts say Blum had courted Hickey for years and hoped to marry but could not divorce his wife. The tragedy follows a seven year affair that ended in death.
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Portland, Or
Daisy Hickey
J. Edward Blum
Blum
Troutdale
Hickey
Union Meat Co
Hickeys
Strawberry Festival Brings News of Berry Growth
A reader reports bountiful berry crops with growers praising first rate results. Kennewick residents are invited to the Strawberry Festival on May 30 as locals celebrate perseverance and progress in agriculture. Norling sold his desert garden to R B Hubbard for 10000 dollars and plans to move to Ellensburg with his family.
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Finley
Kennewick
Norling
R. B. Hubbard
Michigan
Michigan, For $10,000. Mr. Norling
Mr. Norling
Ellensburg
Priest Stabbed Twice in Salisbury Church Attack
Father Joseph Lubeley of St. Joseph’s Church Salisbury was stabbed twice by Joseph Schuette a farmer while 400 worshippers watched He was taken to a nearby residence for treatment and is in critical condition Schuette a devout church member reportedly became deranged after a prior reprimand to him.
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Joseph Lubeley
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Salisbury
Joseph Schuette
Schuette
St. Joseph’s Church
Father Lubeley
Loaded vehicle slides down mountain with students injured
San Jose California May 24 Twenty one Santa Clara High School graduates were carried down Mount Hamilton road after a carrier toppled at midnight. Most slid safely to cover. A physician and nurses were dispatched. Some girls walked 25 miles to reach safety.
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Ce Yall
San Jose
Cal
Santa Clara High School
Mount Hamilton
Death by own action Pact With Daughter
Los Angeles May 23 Mrs Mary Jane Frame proprietor des petty reverses led to a desperate act. She killed herself in a plan involving her daughter as the pact and motive referenced in police notes.
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Los Angeles
Mary Jane Frame
Last Libby Tunnel Survivor Godwin Scuda Dies at 83
Lakeport California obituary notes death of Godwin Scuda the final survivor of Union prisoners who escaped Libby prison via the tunnel. He died at his Lakeport area home at age 83.
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Libby Tunnel
Lakeport
Cal
Godwin Scudamore
Libby
Miraculous Escape After Giant Airship Crash in Berkeley
In Berkeley a trial flight of a giant airship rose 300 feet before 10,000 spectators, then tilted and crashed. Sixteen crew members were injured but all survived, with seven seriously hurt and nine bruised.
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Oakland
Cal
Berkeley
Cleveland Strikers End Strike With 640 to 61 Vote
In Cleveland on May 24 the streetcar workers voted 640 to 61 to return to work as new men. The decision, announced after midnight, meets the Municipal Traction Company's demand.
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Cleveland
Municipal Traction Company
Portland Markets Report From Wheat to Mohair Prices
Market notes list wheat track prices for Club, red Russian, bluestem, and Valley. barley for feed and brewing. oats prices. Timothy hay from Wilamette Valley and Eastern Oregon with quality grades. butter prices. eggs examined with a loss. hops from the 1907 crop at 4 5 percent. wool prices for Valley and Eastern Oregon with shrinkage. mohair at 17 18 cents per pound.
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Portland
Wool—Valley
Oregon
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Hester
Caldwell
Nichols
Mr. Webbster
Mr. Godfrey
Bachelors Row
Billy Moore
M.ssrs. McPhee, Stanton & Nolte
Setz R
Mr. DeSellem
J. E
Daisy
Baker City
Salisbury, Mo
Mountain Side
Harry Thaw
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Supreme Court
Joseph Morschauser
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Matteawan Insane Asylum
Justice Dowling
New York
Kennewic
Blacksmith
N. A. McPhee
A. B. French
G. D. Hunter
Jne
Nus
Lari
Newnner Effor
Kingsbury
J. E. Tull
H.a.howe
Kennewick, Washington
H. A. Howe
Spokane
Wash
Kootenai River
Nelson
B. C
John Sharpless
Coldstream Guards
John Miles
Kootenai District
Richmond
C. A. Smith
Ian
Minnesota
United States
John McCourt
Smith
Frederick A. Kiibs
Mealey Brothers
Linn County
A. D. Puter
St. Helens
George W. Barger
Barger
Photograph Gallery
B. Lodge & Son
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