Fort Peck land lottery opens vast 160 acre farms
Washington D C Aug 26 Nearly 9 000 160 acre farm homes will be drawn from 8 406 parcels on the Ft. Peck Indian reservation in northeastern Montana next month The Interior Department will register settlers at Glasgow Havre and Great Falls starting Sept 1 and filing continues to Sept 20 The land valued about 25 per acre will be offered at 2 50 to 7 per acre with one fifth down and five annual payments or a three year homestead option Early numbers win land by rotation with settlement beginning May 1 1914.
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Washington, D. C
Ft. Peck
Montana
Sam
United States
Interior Department
Glasgow
Havre
Great Falls
Mont
Coeur D'Alene
Flathead
Spokane
Ft. Peck Reservation
Community notices and social gatherings in Chehalem Center
Victor Hendrickson and Don Peterson of Portland visited home folks over Sunday. Mrs. Thayer's Sunday School class held a surprise party for her. A large W C T U meeting at Mrs. Meyers featured reports and delegates for county and state conventions. A birthday party for Wardie Miller marked August 12 with games, ice cream and cake.
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Victor Hendrickson
Don Peterson
Portland
Hazel Fickus
C. W. Thayer
Tommy
Kansas
Thayer
Miss Maude
Claude Wright
Rex
Elizabeth Meyers
Newberg
Mary A. Hodges
Mary Johnson
S. W. Newhouse
Mildred Wills
Edna Everest
Corvallis
Maude McGuire
Edith Walton
Miss Wise
Chehalem Center
Wardie Miller
Goose craving echoed in poultry shop encounter
A customer asks for a nice fat goose as she enters a poultry shop. The small boy replies that mother will be down in a minute, hinting at a domestic scene and a gentle humor moment.
Mixture of Hoodlums and Bad Whisky Rattle Rex Area
Residents around Rex report nightly auto parties with yelling and shooting. Last Friday night early Saturday at 2 o clock a machine passed J W Moore’s home and Elmer Wright’s house was struck by rocks. Glass shattered on the floor and a ball hit N L Wiley’s front door during the disturbance.
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Rex
J. W. Moore
Elmer Wright
N. L. Wiley
Newberg
Real estate transfers noting various property conveyances
A list of real estate transfers shows buyers and sellers including S V Allen, J R Ivie, G W Buchanan, Pearl Garland, Joseph H Feltwell, F Garlick, S E Hamberton, Oregon & California R R Co, Leota Hart, J F Garlick, Mattie Hess, CG Mack, James F Hutchens, Sarah Hutchens, Frank R Kenney, OA Eastman, C M Menzies, C M Van Vleet, Mary Millard, Sheridan State Bank, Hans G Miller, J A Breeding, AB Watt, William Payne, Mary Millard, AL Powell, C W Lowe, Nettie V Lowe, George Ritchey, D L Evans, Grace A Udell, Alma Stabell, Sarah Thobro, Lakeview farm subdivisions, R M Thurston, and others with tract sizes and prices ranging from $1 to $2000 Newberg area.
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Joseph H Feltwell
Sarah J Garlick
Frank R Kenney
Chapman
AL Powell
Lakeview
R M Thurston & Wf Et al
Oregon & California
R R Co
Hurley & Sarges
Newberg
Opal Miller to Paul Blackstone in mariage notice ends
Opal Helene Miller age 19 plans marriage to Paul Blackstone age 26. Maude E Switzer age 21 appears in the notice as related party.
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Opal Helene Miller
Paul Blackstone
Maude E. Switzer
Harold Waldron Age 23 Noted in Local Record
A brief entry lists Harold Waldron, aged 23 years, in a local records summary. No additional context or events are provided in the fragment.
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Harold ¥. Waldron
A Girlish Scheme Reveals Hidden Family Tensions
A father accuses his daughter of a girlish scheme as he overhears her playing robust music and suspects a young man in the drawing room. He grumbles that the loud tunes mask her mother’s dishwashing, revealing domestic friction and parental control.
Hats and Bald Heads A Fashioned Cause of Baldness
A New York World report attributes male baldness to tight hats that constrict scalp blood vessels. It notes women wear heavier hats but protect the scalp by hair and ventilation, while men's hats trap heat and dirt, promoting hair loss. The remedy urged is light ventilated soft brimmed hats and strict cleanliness.
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New York World
Name Tree Memorial Marks Livingstone Visit at Victoria Falls
A Livingstone memorial near the Zambezi’s Victoria Falls is the “Name Tree” where he carved his initials and 1855. A notice board explains the relic and asks visitors to help preserve it as tourists arrive by train and continue northward.
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Livingstone
Victoria Falls
Zambezi
Falls
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Virgin Farms
Uncle Sam's
Great Northern Railway
Allen
Mattie S Hess
Reece
United States National Bank
Victor
Sheet Metal Works
First Street
F. H. Griffith
Oregonian
Daily
Graphic
ARES
M. H. Pinney
N. Main St
Newberg, Ore
The
Newberg Transfer Co
Zumwalt’s Feed Store
the Graphic Office
E. H. Woodward
Newberg, Oregon
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