Fire Destroys Pendleton Block in Early Morning Blaze
Pendleton pursues a major fire that gutted part of the Matlock Taylor block known as the old La Dow building. An explosion near Dablen Date Hotel caused flames to spread, burning the Pendleton cigar factory and Plitzoder’s meat market. Mayor Matlock cites $676,000 in building value with about $25,000 insured. Investigators deem the fire incendiary with evidence pointing to a lamp from a rear window. no suspect is identified.
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Matlock- Taylor
Tribune
Jt le
A. J. McMullen
Matlock
Urmatilla Meat Company
Matlock-Taylor Bo
Secret Society Hall
Taggart Divorce Case Nears Custody Ruling
Wooser Sept 4 Taggart expects the custody decision in the divorce case by tomorrow noon with plans already in Columbus for custody, while Mrs Taggart also anticipates securing the children and has arranged care in Chicago.
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Wooser
Taggart
Columbus
Raggart
Chicago
Variety of writing tablets and pencils advertised
A historical advertisement lists ruled and unruled tablets for pen and pencil in various sizes. Specials include a 5¢ tablet with a 5¢ pencil free for a 10¢ tablet and up. Faber wood covered slate pencils at 1 cent and scholar’s hardwood pen and pencil cabinets at 5 and 10 cents.
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Faber
School Shoes Offer Quality Guaranteed for All Students
For boys and girls our school shoes use top stock and are guaranteed solid inside and out. We carry the shoe awarded highest prize at the St Louis Fair with very reasonable prices.
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St. Louis
Revolt in Petarsburg Sparks Massive Casualties
A revolt erupted in Petarsburg on September 4 affecting OCavonate state. Reports indicate as many as 6000 casualties with chaotic conditions as the government struggles to respond. Details remain scarce and official confirmation is pending.
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Petarsburg
Adrioos
Ocavonate
Viosroy
Cove Orchardist Reports Wind Storm Damage
Cove C M B Stackland, an orchardist, visited the city to say last week’s wind storm caused limited damage in the Cove. He notes about five percent of fruit blown from trees and in some areas as much as twenty five percent lost.
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Stackland
Cove
Thrice Nominated Mayor Schmitz by Union Labor Party
Eugene F. Schmitz of San Francisco receives a unanimous nomination for a third time from the Union Labor Party, continuing his bid for mayor.
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Eugene F. Schmitz
San Francisco
Union Labor Party
Treaty Now Complete After Far East Peace Accord
Scrippe News Association reports President Roosevelt received a note of thanks from the Emperor of Japan for peaceful negotiations ending hostilities in the Far East. Tokyo details show mutual appreciation and commitment to peace based on essential principles for regional stability. Assist Secretary of State Pierces noted a red tape session confirming engrossing of the Russia Japan treaty, with signing expected.
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Roosevelt
Japan
Far East
Tokio
Thief in Dead Letter Office Confesses Theft
Charles F Moore a former Dead Letter Office clerk from Colorado admits stealing railroad tickets and foreign stamps from letters. He held a minor branch position earning 1400 dollars yearly and was dismissed. officials say prosecution is unlikely.
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Washington
Charles F Moore
Colorado
Post Office Department
Moore
Weil
Cholera Spreads in German Provinces
Berlin dispatch reports a worsening cholera outbreak with eighteen new cases in the provinces of Posen and Silesia, amid concerns of wider spread across the region. The situation highlights rising health risks and urgent containment needs.
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Berlin
Bept
Posen
Silesia
Prooaia
Revolt Reported in Japan Sparks Alarm in London
From Rome the Scrippa News Association reports a revolution has started in Japan amid dis satisfaction with the peace terms. In well informed circles in London the reports are regarded as absurd.
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London
Rome
Japan
Novo Vermin declares alliance to paralyze Russia in Asia
The Novo Vermin today claimed the American Japanese alliance exists to paralyze Russia in Asia, a statement reported by the Scripps News Association in St Petersburg.
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St Petersburg
The
Novo Vermin
Rusaia
Asia
Grist Mills Backlog as Threshing Beats Supply
The La Grande Milling company runs a double shift to fill large orders for Oriental and foreign markets using old wheat while new crop harvest delays. The mill holds about 12 000 bushels of old wheat and awaits farmers to free teams for moving grain. Island City and Alice report thinning new wheat as threshing accelerates.
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United States
la Pot
la Grande Milling Company
Island City
Alice
Fast Train Wreck Near Boone Injures Passengers
The Banta Fee passenger train No 9 was wrecked one mile east of Boone at about 2:25 this morning. Hundreds of GA and excursion passengers were aboard. forty were injured as the engine’s tank left the track and the train, traveling at high speed, could not be stopped. Two engines and five coaches overturned. a wrecking train was sent from La Junta and Pueblo to assist. The Santa Fe train was brought over the Missouri Pacific tracks.
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Pueblo Col
Banta Fee
Boone
la Junta
Pueblo
Missouri Pacific
Tax official seeks road reassessment in Umatilla
Tax Agent Morrow of the U.K. and N. company asked the county board of equalization to cut road reassessment from 2000 to 5500 dollars per mile. The board refused the request.
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Pendleton, Or
Morrow
County Board of Equalization
Rights of Citizens Cited in Man’s Conversation
A reader quotes a speaker asserting broad political and civil rights for men. The statement emphasizes the right to breathe live express opinions vote pay taxes and critique others, urging courteous exercise of all rights.
Steamer wreck on Lake Superior claims eleven lives
Scrippa News Bayfield Wisconsin reports the steamer Sevena struck Ban falrod reef in a Friday storm on Lake Superior. Eleven crewmen drown after remaining aboard to save others. four women and several crew rescued. Captain Kck McDonald and Louis Darwin among the dead. rescue party endured 24 hours of wilderness travel.
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Bayfield
Wic
Ban Falrod Reef
Analog
Eafeby
Kck McDonald
al Northonet
Louis Darwin
Pakpows
Couiies
Volun
Vessal
China Eyes Restoring Kigb chan and Woibla Wei
The Chinese government sought to open negotiations with Germany and England to restore Kigb chan and Woibla Wei to China, aiming to reestablish sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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China
Pekio
Germany
England
Kigbchan
Woibla Wei
Storm Ravages Central New York Causing Heavy Losses
A severe midwestern style storm hit central New York last night causing over 200000 dollars in damage across the region. Widespread wind and flooding disrupted travel and damaged homes and crops.
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Scrippa News Association
Russia
Scripps Nowe Association
Beripps News Association
Umatilla
Lake Superior
Scrippa News ‘Association
New York
Scrippa News
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Newlin Drug CO
City Grocery and Bakery
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