Chautauqua Tentative Contract For La Grande July Dates
A tentative contract was signed between the La Grande Commercial Club and the Chautauqua Managers Association of Chicago covering July 3 to 15 for La Grande’s first Chautauqua. The plan includes four major attractions plus additional numbers from other companies, with Governor Folk of Missouri as a lecturer and acts from The Doctor Sadler Company and Castle Square Intertainers among others.
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la Grande Commercial Club
Chautauqua Mannagers Association of
Chicago
Chatauqua
Ashland
Oregon
People
Folk
Missouri
Lectur
Doctor Sadler Company
Castle Square
Brush
Hermann
Fever Delay Delays Transfer of Two Elgin Boys
Two boys from Elgin scheduled for commitment to the Boys and Girls Aid Society in Portland could not be moved due to one having scarlet fever. They were adopted by Mr Hall and later left as orphans. Mrs Hall, widowed, cannot raise all three children and contemplates returning the two adopted boys to Portland.
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Elgin
Boys and Girls Aid Society
Portland
Ben
Hall
Eigin
Port Burwall Ferry Disaster Sparks Hunger Suffering
Port Burwall Ontario reports a car ferry ran aground on shoals near the city. Thirty sailors are stranded and suffering hunger after the incident and grounding.
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Port Burwall
Special Lodge Meeting for Master Mason Degree
La Grande lodge No 41 A F and A M will hold a special meeting Friday evening with work in the Master Mason degree.
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la Grande Lodge No
A. FP
A. M
Cunningham Comes Home From Baker City Hospital
Injured conductor Cunningham was brought to La Grande from Baker City last evening and is now at home. He had rallied enough to ride, while Mrs. Cunningham had returned with him after the accident at Pleasant Valley a few days ago.
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Baker
Cunningham
Pleasant Valley
Baker City
la Grande
Rabies Outbreak Report From California University
University of California reports a virulent rabies outbreak in California with fourteen suspected cases confirmed by lab tests. Disease has spread from Pasadena to Stockton and may affect other towns in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys.
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Berkley
Cali
University of California
California
Pasadena
Stockton
San Joan
Sacremento
Haskell in Guthrie Suffering Ill From Illness
Reports from Guthrie state Governor Haskell is ill with a serious condition. Physicians administered opiates to induce sleep and ease pain through the night. Toward morning the governor gained a few hours rest.
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Tion
States to be admitted soon amid Taft objections
Washington December 15 Chairman Hamilton of the house committee on territories said Arizona and New Mexico will be admitted as separate states this session if their constitutions avoid the section Taft objected to in Oklahoma's. He believed the President would withhold approval if that feature remains.
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Washington, D.C
Hamilton
House Committee On Territories
Arizona
New Mexico
Congress
Taft
Oklahoma
Train Plunges Into Creek Killing Dozens Near Greensboro
A Southern Railway passenger train No 11 fell into a creek four miles north of Greensboro killing about twenty people and injuring up to forty. Conductor George Cable crawled two miles to warn the station after his leg was broken. Engineers and fireman were trapped beneath the engine as divers and rescuers recovered bodies from three feet of water. Victims include John A Broadax of Queensboro and A Holcomb of Mountain Air North Carolina.
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George Gould
Jay Gould
John A. Broadax
Queensboro
A. Holcomb
Mountain Ain N. C
Unconfirmed Battles as Zelaya Crisis Deepens
Wireless fragments report Marines landed at Corinty and fighting near Zelaya's forces. Managua mob rule grows as Zelaya and Madriz face unpopularity. U S consular dispatch says Zelaya may resign to Madriz, risking no clear solution to the crisis.
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Panama
U. S
Corinty
Managua
Zelaya
New York
Insurgenta Zelaya
Estrada
Champoro
Washington
Caldera
United States
Senor Madriz
Madris
Sugar men pay fines to settle sugar duties
New York December 15 Arbuckle Bros the largest rivals to the American Sugar Refining Company paid 695573 in back duties to the government treasury after exposure of irregularities in weighing sugar at the docks.
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New York
Arbuckle Bros
American Sugar Refining Company
City Orders Turner Oliver Sidewalk on O Avenue
City issues official notice to Turner Oliver to restore the sidewalk fronting his property on O Avenue along the street line. The action refers to a sidewalk torn up by the city earlier.
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Turner Oliver
O Avenue
Stret
Wood Promoted to Chief of Staff of U.S. Army
Secretary of War Dickinson announced Major General Leonard Wood will succeed Major General J Franklin J Bell as chief of staff. Bell will retire next April after serving as head of the staff. Wood currently commands the Department of the East.
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Washington
Dickinson
Leonard Wood
Department of the East
J. Franklin J. Bell
United States Army
Bell
Lynchers Threaten Mob at Osceola Jail
Osceola Arkansas December 15 sheriff and a large posse guard the jail as a mob from Shawnee's arrives to lynch six negroes held on charges of barbaric cruelties. The report notes the men had allegedly organized a gang.
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Osceola
Ark
Shawnee's
South La Grande Man Injured by Horse Kick
Don Turner of South La Grande was kicked by the family horse Sunday night, striking his knee. The injury is painful and swollen but not fractured. Dr. Bigger says Turner may walk again in about three weeks.
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Don Turner
South la Grande
Mr. Turner
Bigger
Pioneer Mrs Shearer suffers arm fracture in fall
Mrs Maggie Shearer a North La Grande pioneer sustained a simple fracture of one arm in a fall at her home this morning. Doctor Bacon set the break and, owing to her age, she will need considerable time to recover.
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Maggie Shearer
North la Grande
Doctor Bacon
Strikers Return to Work as Copper Mines Open in Butte
A conference involving W. M. Clark of Indianapolis and Hubert McIntyre led to 40 striking workers returning to the Butte yards. Amalgamated Copper Companies local mines also resumed operations this morning.
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Butte
Mon
W. M. Clark
Indianapolis
Railway Conductors Organization
Hubert McIntyra
Brotherhood of Railway
Amalgamated Copper Companies
Leopold Sinks Again Amid Health Worsening
Brussels reports King Leopold’s condition worsened after a renewed stroke. Doctors were summoned as the aged monarch neared a critical point. A separate crime note alleges white victims including Mrs. Cummings Whim, with violence and arson reported during a robbery.
Lone Thief Strikes Twice In Frisco Drug Store
The mysterious bandit, active since December 4, robbed Gleason Corner Drug Store and nearby Charlotte candy store within moments, taunting officers and proving elusive as police fear his boldest crime yet. He operates openly in busy city streets, challenging pursuit.
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San Francisco
Gleason Couneen
Charlott
Margaret Cundiff Wither Dies at 35 in San Francisco
Word from San Francisco reports Margaret Cun diff Wither former La Grande High School faculty member died last Sunday of pneumonia. She was 35, had married soon after leaving La Grande, and is survived by her aged mother living in Eugene. Cun diff Wither graduated from the University of Oregon in 1907.
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San Francisco
Margaret Cundiff Wither
la Grande High School
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Chicago House
AID Society
ING Recovery
Ald
Haskell
Guthrie
North Carolina
Hero OF the
City OF Corinto
Wood
Mrs. Shearer
Leopold
Brussels
Cummings
Gity
Frisco Drug Store
Margaret Cundiff
Frisco
Hills’s Drug Store
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