Telephone adoption rises as Oregon line installs telephony
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation company orders Western Electric gear for a Portland to The Dalles circuit nine miles long. Telephones replace telegraphs on vast railroad networks, with many trunk lines already using the system and promises it will largely supplant telegraph use for train movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Western Electric Company
Portland
Oregon
Dalles
Boston
Not Easily Caught in a Strange Tale of Worry and Drugs
A fragment reads like a distressed monologue about worry and deadly drug use. The text mentions a wife, a guitar, and fear of an unsafe mind, but the passage lacks coherent events or clear subjects to form a full news item.
La Grande Chautauqua Impresses Boise Reporter
Judge J D Flenner reports La Grande Oregon as a lively growing town with a $150000 monthly payroll. He notes 45 blocks of bitulithic paving, a new high school on the old university site, and a fine city park funded by local women led by Mrs. W H Bohnenkamp. The La Grande chautauqua features the Young family orchestra and is praised by visitors including J A Arbuckle and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise Statesman
J. D. Flenner
la Grande
Ore
la Grane
Fleiiner
Blue Mountain University
Blue Mountains Ain
Longfellow
Wilbur
Hines
Strong
Abraham Eads
Grangeville
Abraham Mads
W. H. Bohnenkamp
McMicah
William Miller
J. van Buren
C. J. Black
C. P. Newlin
van Buren
Sadie Snodgrass
Northwest
Frank Coffin
Portland
Chautauqua
Chautau
Smile When You Lose and the Good Loser’s Aim
This piece argues that success comes from calm perseverance and a positive mindset. It notes that many praise winners but despise perpetual losers and warns that dwelling on defeat brands one as a grouch while a steady, undramatic effort earns respect.
Freedom of the City and Fatal Scaffold Tales
A fragmentary discussion of medieval city freedom rules and the path to citizenship through guilds and seven years' apprenticeship. It recalls Montrose and Warristown on the scaffold, and More at the tower, with a Victorian voice recalling daring, fate, and personal wit in executions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eijset
Thomas More Askell
Fraternal Lodge Meetings Listed With Attending Members
Local notices list La Grande Lodge 433 meeting Thursdays at % o'clock in the club corner of De pot street and Washington avenue visiting brothers invited. Hebekahs Crystal Lodge address meetings Tuesdays in LO. G. F. hall with visiting members welcome. Red Crowe Lodge 27 Knights of Pythias meets Mondays in Custis hall with a cordial Pythian welcome to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Grande Lodge No. 433
Depot Street
Washington Avenue
H. J. Ritter
Rai
H. BE. Coolidge
Woodmen OF the World
la Grande Lodge No
Hebekahs
Itrystal Lodge No
LO. G. F
WRS
Satie Ardockle
N. G
Miles Anna Alexander
Knights OF Pythias
Red Crowe Lodge No
Custis Hall
All Heights
la Grande Camp No
C. F. Hall
Hope Chapter No 13 G B C Holds Biweekly Meetings
Hope Chapter No 13 and G B C host stated communications on the second and fourth Wednesdays each month. Visiting members are invited, with Carrier Hunter serving as Worshipful Master and Mary A Warnick as Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E
Hope
Cor Mally
Carrier Hunter
W. M. Mary A
Warnick
See
Women of Woodcraft Circle 47 Meeting Report
Craus Ronde Circle No 47 held a Friday gathering with visiting members from the local Woodcraft group. The event featured a social evening and brief circle activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craus
Ronde Circle
Cecil Rhodes Buried in Matoppo Hills in Rhodesia
The diamond king Cecil John Rhodes lies buried in Matoppas Rhodesia as per his will, on a hill once known as View of the World. He died March 26, 1902, at age fifty seven, with a brass plate marking the site and his final resting place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Rhodes
Africa
Rhodesia
Matoppas
Cecil John Rhodes
Rhodes
Parisian Sage Promises Baldness Cure and Hair Growth
An ad claims Parisian Sage stops dandruff itching and hair loss in two weeks. It emphasizes hair root nourishment, urges men and women to use a 60 cent bottle with a money back guarantee and lists Newlin's drug store as a retailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Newlin
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Q.w
Perry Pneumatic Water Systems
Samson Wind
Richardson & Boynton
BAY & Heaters
Zweifel Sheet Metal Workers
LA Grande Iron Works D, Fitzgerald
Hack and Ambulance
Uptown
E. L. Bussey
Walla Walla
Pendleton
Baker City
Huntington
Park
Wallowa Lake Park
Wallowa
Willowa Lake Amusement Co
Joseph
Oregon Town
Oregon City
Old Man
Jim
J. A. Arbuckle
Charles Arbuckle
Montrose
Scotland
Warristown
James Graham
the Fraternal Orders
Jess Paul
C. C. R Kl. Lincoln
M. of H
B. Dantels
HEATH
Clerk
O'Connell
Cigar Store
Observer
Jefferson St
LA Grande Investment CO
Bell Phone Main
Foley Hotel
LaGrande Coregon
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