Post Office Deficit Cut as Rural Routes Work Expands
Washington reports a dramatic deficit reduction from seventeen and a half million to five million as postal facilities expand. The Postmaster General cites efficiency gains, savings, and new measures including a postal savings plan and planned parcel post on rural routes to boost service and cut costs.
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Dediedt
Washington
Post Office
Post Master General Today
Postal Service
Board of Trustees
Tles
Ee Onl
Ans Cael
Post Office Department
Congress
Post-office Department
Ths
Annaa
Milenberg Buys Snodgrass Farm Near La Grande
A Milenberg of Cove buys the 160 acre Snodgrass farm three miles northeast of La Grande from the W J Snodgrass estate. Currey real estate agency handles the sale and Milenberg will take possession about March 1. Purchase price is 6500 dollars.
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A. Milenberg
Cove
Tittle
Currey Real Estate Agency
la Grande
Snodgrass
W. J. Snodgrass
Olympia wreck passengers rescued as vessel pounded
Local Alaska Steamship Co officials say 108 passengers and crew aboard the Olympia were rescued and taken to Valdez after the ship struck Blights Island in Prince William Sound. A U. S. revenue cutter and two tugs began aid efforts from Valdez. reports from Cordova indicated all aboard were safe.
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Seattle
Alaska Steamship Company
Olympia
Valdez
Nore Bean
Cordova
Blights Island
Prince Wiliam Sound
Hays
Weagel
Valdebo
Dora
Cordova Satuday
Naval
Calla
Alaska
Northwestern
False Bay
San Juan Island
Aldez
Donaldson
Vancouver
B. C
Disappearance of Key Eye Witness Dominates Elgin Trial Rebuttal
In a lengthy rebuttal at Judge Knowles court, prosecutors press the disappearance of an eye witness and a suspicious partner named Myers as central to the Porter homicide case. Testimony tracks road dust and gravel conditions while defense probes dust evidence and the identity of the drunk man linked to Myers.
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Knowles
Chee Cynan
Witd Bane
Kirby
Wills
Jenly
Myers
Porter
Plein
Bond
Elgin
Parker
D. M. Carr
Thant
Cochran
D. A. Barnes
Carr
Charles A. Flescar
C. ©. Cochran
Chadwick
E Porter
Chadwicks
Jewel Galloway
Galloway
E. B. Jones
Lee Tuttle
Elgin Recorder
al. Wills
Funeral Return to La Grande After Loss of Son
Mr and Mrs Vincent Palmer returned to La Grande with daughters Clarel y n and Margaret after their son James Frederick Palmer died in Red Oak Iowa at his grandfather's home. Interment was in Brodhead Wisconsin. The boy was healthy before leaving for the east in the fall.
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la Grande
Vincent Palmer
Clarelyn
Margaret
James Frederick
Red Oak
Iowa
James Frederick Palmer
Brodhead
Wis
Mra. Palmer
Palmer
East
Insurance on Hot Lake Sanatorium Noted
Walter Pierce president of the Hot Lake Sanatorium Co announces placing 125000 of insurance on the sanatorium today. The total is being divided among local insurance men.
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Hot Lake Sanatorium
la Grande Insurance Men
Walter Pierce
Hot Lake Sanatorium Co
Poultry Show Attracts Large Entries In I O O F Auditorium
Poultry entries surge for the annual show opening tomorrow morning in the I O O F auditorium. Millar Purvie will arrive to award scores and judge the birds. Daily raffles give away a pair of chickens with entrants receiving numbers. Purvis, editor of poultry journals, will lecture during his stay.
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Millar Purvie
Purvis
Municipal Election Turns In Heavy Ballot Across Precincts
Voters turnout looks strong in four precincts as the city holds its annual municipal election. Many old time voters are being sworn in and the total tally by 7 PM is expected to exceed registered strength. Supporters pursue a heavy turnout to influence outcome, while few predictions are offered.
Democrat Chef Justice Aims at Highest Position on Bench
Page note reports Judge Hughes seeking top court post amid a political shift. Mentions White displacement of 607 votes as context for the contest.
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White
Hughes
Taft Backs White For Chief Justice Over Hughes
President Taft, after a conference with Attorney General Wickersham and party leaders, chose Edward White as Chief Justice over Charles Hughes. The nomination marks the first time a president has named a justice of opposite political faith to the party on the high court. White, on the bench since 1904, would head a court lineup including Lamar and Van Deventer among others.
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Willis Vanderventer
Eighth Circuit Court of
United States
Joseph Lamar
Georgia
Georgia Supreme Court
Taft
Hughes
Wickersham
Seger
Bdward White
Chlef
Justine
John Marshall
Harlan Joseph McKenna
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Willam Day
Charles Hughes
Willis van Meventie
White
Cleveland
Commerce Court Names Five Judges for New Bench
President Taft nominated Martin Knapp and Julian Mack along with Robot Archibald Wim Hunt and other jurists to form the new commerce court. The commission will appoint Q C McChord and B H Meyers to fill vacancies on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Washington
W. H. Taft
Martin Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Julian Mack
Illinois
Robot W. Archibald
United States
Central District of Pennsylvania
Customs Appeal ‘Court
Wim, Hunt
Montana
the Customs Appeals
Commerce Court
Knapp
Archibald
Hunt
Hunt, Cartland and Mack, __Q. C. McChord
Kentucky
B. H. Meyers
Wisconsin
Interstate Commerce Commissi
deer slaughter probe spurs cross county inquiry in Oregon and Washington
Union county game warden Charles B Oral and Wallowa county warden Joe Clemons return from Tu Kanon in Columbia county Washington to investigate reports of deer slaughter on the Oregon side of Wennaha forest preserve. They met with the district attorney and J L Rand. findings will be released when permissible.
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Chas. B. Oral
Union County
Joe Clemons
Wallowa County
Tu Kanon
Columbia County
Washington
Oregon
Wennaha
Forest Preserve
Clamonste
Oral
J. L. Rand
Aldrich in Rubber Trust Shares Revealed
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island reportedly holds 346 shares in United States Rubber, the so called rubber trust, per the New York World. The story rests on an examination of the company's books.
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New York
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Talents
United States Rubber Company
The
Rubber Trust
New York World
Population figures for Washington cities released
The census bureau lists Centralia 7311 Hoquiam 171 Olympia 6996 Walla Walla 19264 Aberdeen 18660 Bellingham 24298 with the state capital highlighted among others in the report issued December 16.
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Washington
Cenans
Centralia
Wash
Hoquiam
Olympia
Capitol
Walla Walla
Aberdeen
Bellingham
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