Laundry marks spark curious headlines in local notes
Fortunes, good nights, and moonlight weave through a string of community notices. Sheriff and Mrs. F. P. Childers camp at the lake with Mrs. Chester Hanson visiting North Powder. Mrs. J. F. Campbell plans a Milton trip to visit kin. Reuben Zweifel heads to Wallowa Lake for a month of camping as Achie Bacon returns home from the same area. D. C. Brisehoux of the Savoy hotel is in Wallowa county on business. Sid Hallgarth of Elgin visits Portland for the republican assembly though not a regular delegate. Fireman Hugh Conley returns from the Midwest trip. Judge Knowles and Court Reporter Hanna arrive from Enterprise after a week away. Deputy State Consul J. C. Alsbury, ill at Hot Lake, plans return to La Grande after six weeks.
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J. C. Alsbury
The
Woodmen of America
Hot Lake
la Grande
Joseph Oregon Park Visit and Lake Amusement Activities
Several travelers arrive for a park visit at the lake while bids open tonight for the new water works project in Joseph. Contractors in town await bids as Wallowa Lake Amusement Co purchases dances at the lake. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Anderson of Walla Walla vacation at the Lake. a boy born to Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Adams of Joseph.
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Joseph
Oregon
Wallowa Lake Amusement Co
L. F. Anderson
Walla Walla
T. P. Adams
Miss Felice Lyne to Sing With Hammerstein Company
Kansas City singer Felice Lyne, once in La Grande with Dr. and Mrs. F B Moore, studied under Mme Marchesi in Paris and at 22 earned prima donna status. She signed with Oscar Hammerstein for a London company next season and U S tour. Her father is Dr Sanford T Lyne of the Virginia hotel, a Central High School graduate.
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Felice Lyne
Kansas City
la Grande
F. B. Moore
Hammerstein Grand Opera Company
Felicia Lyne
Inugear
Miss Lyne
Paris
Mme. Marchesi
America
Oscar Hammerstein
London
United States
Tetrazzini
Sanford T. Lyne
Virginia Hotel
Central High School
Kansas City Star
Funeral Costumes and Mourning Laws in England
A historical survey notes sumptuary mourning laws restricting funeral attire ranks from dukes to commoners. It cites yardage limits for gowns and hoods, mentions Margaret countess of Richmond’s later reform efforts, and recalls a London anecdote about a colored silk merchant who weighed royalist sentiment in dealings.
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England
Margaret
Richmond
Henry VII
London
Addison
Europe
London Chronicle
Mental influences and health as mind affects body
A Indianapolis Star article argues mental serenity protects health, noting worry and anger disrupt blood flow, appetite, and digestion. It warns chronic negative emotions can cause deeper illnesses and even cancer, urging preventive calm to preserve health.
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Indianapolis
Lordly Disraeli and the Umbrella Tale
Disraeli once told a lady that two possessions indispensable to others he had always done without a clock and an umbrella. When asked how he timed a room without a clock he rang a servant. For the umbrella in rain he joked he sought shelter under the umbrella of the first pretty woman he met.
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Disraeli
Lear sketches jam pot to remember jambul trees
A London Spectator note recalls 1871 when Edward Lear, staying with Bombay's governor at Mahabaleshwar, asked for tree names. The author told him the trees were jampbul, prompting Lear to sketch a bull looking into a jam pot to aid memory.
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Edward Lear
Bombay
Mahabaleshwar
Bombay Presidency
India
London Spectator
Pleasant Prospect Dialogue at Palace Hotel
A colored porter questions a traveler about reaching the Palace hotel after arriving by train. The exchange suggests familiarity with the route and local humor as the traveler confirms plans to go there.
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Dhe Palace
Amiability Rules in Close Friendships
A proverb on harmony in intimate relationships asserts that closeness elevates the need for fact and courtesy over disagreement. It stresses that true friendship strengthens through considerate speech.
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Holmes
Admitted, She-Oh on Selfish Love and Unselfishness
A terse dialogue reveals a claim that affection is tainted by self interest. The speaker accuses the other of desiring exclusive possession rather than true selfless love, prompting a defensive or reflective reply.
The Utopia of today is the reality of tomorrow
A succinct quotation attributed to Passy states that today’s ideal society becomes tomorrow’s concrete reality, reflecting on the progress link between imagination and future development.
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Passy
A Placid Merchant And His Folks Wants
A seaside shopkeeper in a small port town keeps a mixed display of candy and cigars with a motor engine on display. He rejects hard sales tactics, preferring informal chats and letting customers decide what they want. The summer visitor notes the unusual, human-centered approach.
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Boston
Portland
The Rise of the First Universities
The passage traces how early universities formed rather than being founded on a fixed date. Salerno Naples and Bologna emerge as among the first centers, with Salerno established by 1060, Bologna by 1160, Naples by 1200, and Paris around the same period, linked to Abelard.
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Salerno
Naples
Bologna
Italy
University of
Paris
Abelard
New York American
The Stage as a School in Early Theater
The elder Pitt dismissed Shakespeare but valued the labor of reading plays. He enjoyed hearing them and said he learned more English history at the theater than at the university.
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Pitt
Shakespeare
Opfce
The Suk Tribe Hair Alteration and Cape Use
The Suk people fashion their hair into a baglike matted echignon stiffened with clay, reaching near the waist. They wear a cape made from monkey skin rubbed smooth, used not for warmth but to protect clay in the hair when trains pass by, preventing washout.
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Africa
Thia
Pocket pickings and odd book design quirks
A humorous quip about pocket picking from a Chicago Record-Herald reader and a note on Japanese books describing their unusual formatting. The excerpt highlights a marriage remark and a peculiar practice of starting paragraphs with a full stop.
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Chicago Record-Herald
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Gaaph
Edison
Lone
F. P. Childers
Lake
Mrs. Chester Hanson
North Powder
J. F. Campbell
Milton
Reuben Zweifel
Wallowa Lake
Achie Bacon
D. C. Brisehoux
Savoy Hotel
Wallowa County
Sid Hallgarth
Elgin
Republican Assembly
T Lough
Hugh Conley
Middlewestern States
Knowles
Hanna
Enterprise
DR. Mendelssohn
M. P. Mendelssohn
Adams Ave
the Golden Rule Co
Ates
Balbrigan
Jessie
Hammerstein
Innel
Puck
Royal Axminster Rugs
F. D. Haisten
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