International diplomacy advances amid era of reform and trade
The document outlines ongoing diplomatic mediation among nations including the United States, Argentina, Chile, and Honduras, highlighting efforts to settle debts, preserve peace, and expand commerce. It notes naval base planning, Panama Canal funding, tariff reform, and calls for civil service and judicial procedure improvements.
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Argentine
United States
Dominion of
Canada
Cidtmerce
Une Coultrion
Atate
American Banke
Atreet Mall
Puesenger
Tns
Lalin
Panama Canal
Postage, Alaska governance and forest policy outline
A government address argues parcels post should be limited to essential rural routes with a higher rate for advertising, envisions Alaska governance by a commission with broad powers, and urges rail and coal development. It highlights Alaska rail loans, forest protection, reforestation, census integrity, timber ownership concerns, and eight hour work rules for federal contracts.
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Justice
Portal Savigs Bank
Portal Savings Bank
Alnake
Philippines
Alaska
United States
Pacific Coast
Secretary of Agriculture
Forest Service
Red Cross
Ite
Congress
Hove
Bilis Island
New York
Michigan capitalists buy Lownsdale 300 acre Oregon orchard
Oregon pioneer apple grower Lafayette Lownsdale sells his 300 acre Willamette Valley orchard near Lafayette to Michigan capitalists. The $300,000 sale caps his 21 years of reviving apple cultivation from Portland to Eugene, with plans for a Willamette Valley Fruit Growers' Association. Normal schools face maintenance cuts. Monmouth may be the only one kept next year as the legislature provides no funding for others.
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Lafayette
Millard
Lownsdale
Oregon
Northwest
Layfayette
Michigan
Willamette Valley
Great Valley
Portland
Eugene
Monmouth
W. B. Ayer
Board of Regents
State Normal Schools
Drain
Ashland
Weston
C. E. Spence
State Grange
Stephen Newell
Grants Pass
Henry J. Maier
The
Dalles
E. Hofer
Salem
C. L. Starr
Ayer
Reclaim 15000 Acres In Wood River Valley
Senator Abner Weed of Siskiyou California leads a project to reclaim 15000 acres in the Wood River valley through a 24 mile levee. About half the levee is finished to protect Weed land from lake overflow during wet seasons and drains the wet land along the ditch.
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Klamath Falls
Wood River
Abner Weed
Siskiyou
Cal
Senator Weed
Sevenmile Creek
Bright Star Shorthorn Tops Chicago Show Auction
Oregon breeder W. C. Minor of Heppner sold the two year old Bright Star Shorthorn cow at the International Livestock show for 700 dollars. Minor had previous top prices and prizes with his cattle. W A Forbes of Sacramento attends the show aiming to buy 300 dairy cattle for his coastal dairy operation.
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Chicago
W. C. Minor
Heppner, Or
Minor
W. A. Forbes
Sacramento
Cal
California
Three New Post Offices Open in Crook County Oregon
Prineville Crook county adds Hat Rock Rolyat and La Pine post offices on December 1 with new postmistress Louise E Becker and postmaster Schrad er. Hat Rock lies 11 miles from Prineville near Powell Buttes while Rolyat is in Ireland valley about 50 miles south of Prineville. La Pine replaces Rosland on the Oregon Trunk railroad line with daily mail from Prineville Silver Lake line.
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Prineville
Crook County
Hat Rock
Powell Buttes
Louise E. Becker
Rolyat
Ireland Valley
Schrader
Mill In Operation Again At Bandon Broom Handle Mill
The Bandon Broom Handle mill is operating through the winter under Glen Cox Harold Nelson and Walter Farrier. M F Shoemaker supplies material and handles output and has arranged with local sawmills to secure a steady supply of squares.
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Bandon
Glen Cox
Harold Nelson
Walter Farrier
M. FP. Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Cows Pay Well Profit Scheme Highlighted
Monmouth Frank Loughary earns 100 dollars monthly from 16 cows product. He feeds skim milk to his pige and plans to sell eight month old birds at 200 pounds. Hog market at 90 dollars per hundred underscores profitable, low outlay.
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Monmouth
Frank Loughary
Oldest Oregon peach tree dies after snow in Jacksonville
On Thanksgiving day a heavy two inch snow caused the first peach tree planted in Southern Oregon to bow and die. Peter Britt planted the tree in 1857 in Jacksonville, and it bore fruit continuously since 1860, likely one of Oregon’s oldest fruit trees.
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Jacksonville
Oregon
Peter Britt
Oxford Accepts Papers From Oregon and McMinnville
Oxford University in England has notified that the examiners were satisfied with Cecil Rhodes scholarship papers from Dean Collins and William E John of the University of Oregon and Henry R Bowler and Carroll H Wooddy of McMinnville college. Examinations held in Eugene in October covered Latin arithmetic and higher mathematics.
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Oxford
University of Oregon
Eugene
Oxford University
England
Cecil Rhodes
Dean Collins
William E
Postmasters Appointed in Oregon Counties
Washington Postmasters were appointed as follows James M Erickson Cove Union county Helen M Ramadell New Pine Creek Lake county Henry Nendt Jr Willamina Yamhill county Ora Godsey Barlow Clackamas county details indicate new appointments across multiple counties with focus on local postal leadership changes.
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Washington
Barlow
Clackamas
James M. Erickson
Cove
Union County
Helen M. Ramadell
New Pine Creek
Lake County
Henry Nendt, Jr
Willamina
Yamhill
Ora Godsey
Portland Markets Record Prices Across Wheat to Hay
Portland market prices show Bluestem at 84c, barley at 22 23, bran 24 25 per ton, hay timothy in Willamette Valley 20 22 per ton, alfalfa 14 15, corn whole 29, oats No 1 white 27.50 28.50, poultry and eggs with varied figures, butter around 87c, pork and veal quoted, apples like King at 40 7c per box, vegetables and fruit prices listed, cattle and hogs with ranges, lambs and sheep values included.
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Timorthy
Willamette Valley
Oregon
Oregon Ranch
City Creamery
Eastern
Wolf River
Baldwin
Northern Spy
Spitsenbergia
California
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