Local Happenings Highlight Regional Visits
Master Mechanic Wm Ladd arrived to inspect shops and handle business. E E Lewis, formerly of La Grande now in Union, traveled by automobile. Helen Currey and Carroll Currey visit uncle and father Fred B Currey at Hot Lake.Traveling Passenger Agent Jack O Neal passes through en route to Baker City with plans to return tonight. Charles Baker, clothes cleaner, trusts the Observer ad leading to a $100 order from Lostine and heads to Wallowa county to deliver goods.
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Wm. Ladd
Jack O'Neal
Baker City
Charles Baker
Observer
Lostine
Wallowa County
Rapid Progress on Ditch for Water Main
Digging of the trench on Second street for an eighteen inch water main progresses quickly. Each day the crew nears the city reservoir as the contract nears completion in less than a month.
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Second Street
City
Rangers Protect Strikebreakers on Gulf Road
Texas Rangers guard sectlor and pump crews on the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio road as strikers threaten violence near El Paso. The situation prompts heightened security and potential disruptions to rail service today.
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el Paso
Texas
Texas Rangers
Galveston
Harrisburg & San Antonio Road
Strik
Breakers Driven by Masked Men Seek Shelter in Marfa
The breakers fled their homes after attacks by masked men and reached Marfa seeking protection. They were escorted back to Alpine and remain under ranger protection while continuing work.
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Marfa
Alpine
Roosevelts Start Home From England
Colonel Roosevelt with wife and children depart on the steamer Kasserine Augusta Victoria from South Hampton for New York, due June 18. A large crowd and many notable Englishmen bid them farewell as Roosevelt expressed pleasure at the trip and eagerness to return home.
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South Hampton
Roosevelt
Kermit
America
New York
Sir Edward Gray
Western Union Indicted on Buckets Shop Charges
A federal grand jury indicted Western Union Telegraph company on forty two counts for bucketing practices on March first. The wire service is accused of feeding data to Edward Artemus and Lewis Cella who ran grain businesses in DC and other cities. William Price and company face similar bucket shop charges. Earlier indictments named twenty eight brokers from firms in New York St Louis Cincinnati Jersey City Boston Baltimore Philadelphia and Washington.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Company
Hdward Artemus
Lewis Cella
District of Columbia
William Price and Company
New York
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Jersey City
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
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of Fashion
Fabrica
Alwave
ASH Brothers
the Clothiers
Grande Ronde Cash Co
W. Baker
U. S
Union County
C. J. Black
Edison Records
J. T. Scott Kurtzmann
Steinway, Wellington, and
Ludwig Piano
E. E. Lewis
la Grande
Union
Helen Currey
Carroll Currey
Fred B. Currey
Hot Lake
Rangers
Western Union
Oregon
Siegrist & Company
LA Grande Cre
Lea & Perrin’s Sauce
Pattison
Heagock
Newlin
Bell Phone
LA. Grande Inv. CO
Smith & Green
Depot Street
Tiffany
J. H. Peare
Land Office
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