Unitah lands deemed worthless in Oregon lottery tale
Baker City residents recounts of a land lottery where many refused to file claims as they judged the Unitah lands near worthless. Officials, land sharks, and boomers profited while ordinary settlers faced inflated fees and dubious claims on scattered tracts.
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Earl J Sheeta
United Land
Baker City
Mary
Sheats
Sheets
Neguse
Oregon
City Herald
Convention report highlights suffrage event and narcotics stance
The account describes a Noonday luncheon and afternoon and evening programs at a church gathering. Mrs Exton reports on a Portland suffrage convention. discussions focus on law enforcement against narcotics and temperance. Officers were elected, and local union leaders praised the convention's strength and national sympathy.
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Exton
Portland
Potter
Eigin
Wolfe
Wright
Morton
Union
Agen
Anfom
School Saving Banke
Mining Congress to Include Governors from Southwest States
Pasco Texas Sept 27 The American mining congress will convene November 14 with a concurrent congress of gomor a possible misread. Governors from Texas New Mexico Arizona Chihuahua Sonora and other territories are expected to attend along with large mineral interests and major delegations.
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Pasco
Texas
American Mining Congress
Gorcemora
New Mexico
Arizona
Chihuahua
Sonom
Lanbem
Otero
Killobey
Oreal
Yeabol
Outbreak of Typhoid Fever at Walla Walla Penitentiary
In the Walla Walla penitentiary 59 of 765 inmates are ill with typhoid fever. No deaths reported and most cases are mild.
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Walla Walla
City to vote on $200000 water works plan at October election
EKossbharg announces city wide vote on October 4 to elect mayor recorder and treasurer and councilmen. Voters will decide a $200000 proposition for the city to own its water works.
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Ekossbharg
Lockout Hits Portland Shingle Plant Over Labor
The big shingle plant at University Place in Portland has been shut down repeatedly to operate with non union labor. The plant runs 250000 shingles per day, marking 100 straight instances of lockout of organized labor.
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University Place
Portland
Nll
Notice to Property Owners on Shade Tree Limbs
Notice to property owners owing shade trees with limbs over sidewalks. If not removed within ten days, the street superintendent will trim them and charge the cost to the owners. Fred Eynhorst, Street Superintendent, La Grande. Dated September 27, 1906. Also an advertisement for Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea cure claims no money needed unless cured.
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Joss
Fred Eynhorst
City of
la Grande
Holliser
Nevlia Rag Co
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Larsen & Norrie
Unitah
Tey
Shantdinaee
Ash
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AmEriica
Linas
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