Lincoln Centennary Observed At Local Celebration
A Lincoln centenary program featured Meeker Brothers Quartett music and remarks by Professor Emmett L J Nelson and Rev Mr Davis. General Hamlin shared firsthand recollections of Ford's Theatre and the Lincoln assassination, including Booth's dramatic exit and the famous line Sic semper tyrannis.
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Meeker Brothers Quartett
Emmett
Lincoln
L. J. Nelson
The
Echo
Mr. Davis
General Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin
Ford’s
President Lincoln
Mr. Lincoln
Booth
Stanton
Seward
Oregon plan to advertise West via school letters
The Portland Commercial Club promotes sending letters from schoolchildren to relatives in the East and South about Oregon and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Rates to Missouri, St. Louis, Chicago, and other cities are cited, with leaflets and free samples offered to readers.
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Portland Commercial Club
Oregon
Washington
Pacific Northwest
Missouri River
St. Louis
Chicago
United States
New York
Boston
Cleveland
Birmingham
Jacksonville
Northwest
Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition may open early
Seattle reports ninety percent completion for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition with May 1 target floated as opening date before official June 1. Exterior work on main buildings is largely done, paving crew ready, and government building is the sole major unfinished structure.
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Seattle
Proposal to exhibit local products at Great Northern station
A letter from Max Bass, immigration agent for the Great Northern Railway, suggests establishing a permanent exhibit of local grain and fruit samples at Seattle during the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition year 1909. He offers co operation and asks Leavenworth’s Commercial Club to select specimens and prepare descriptive material for distribution.
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Commercial Club
Echo
Bass
Great Northern Railroad
Leavenworth
Washington
Str
Seattle
Great Northern Railway
Seattle Exposition
Max Bass
General Immigration
Advertised Letters Remaining in Post Office February 8 1909
List of uncalled for names including Clark James Jordan Peter Kidder Chas Kenney Wm 3 Perkins Ortie Parkinson Wm Shipley W E 3. Postmaster J C Davis notes in calling for same to say advert is required.
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Clark James Jordan
Peter Kidder
Chas Kenney
Perkins Ortie Parkinson
Shipley
J.C. Davis
Weather Reflections From Oregon Report On Winters
The piece notes severe western weather with washouts snow and landslides in January in Shasta County. It contrasts this with two to three weeks of ideal conditions locally, with sun daily, temperatures from 25 to 70, frosty mornings, and rapidly disappearing snow. Ground should be bare by early to mid March.
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Oregon
Wilson
Webfoot
Shasta County
Southern
Oregonian
Father of Leavenworth Dead
Captain C. F. Leavenworth a Civil War veteran and longtime valley resident died in Jacksonville Oregon on February 2 1909 from brain paralysis He leaves a wife and two children The town of Leavenworth was named after him and he previously lived in Washington state His death was noted by D C Wilson in Medford Oregon for readers familiar with local history
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Southern Oregonian
Medford
Oregon
D. C. Wilson
C. F. Leavenworth
Jacksonville
Leavenworth
Washington
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Bob Sleds
Geo. Keating
Tumwater Light and Water CO
Debord & McCoy
Valentines
Wheeler’s
Woldenberg
Buster
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Lincoln Centennary
Congregational Church
Douglas County
Big Bend
Ephrata
Rusty Mike
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