Social notes from Dundee and surrounding area
A stream of visits and homecomings fills the Dundee social page. Guests include Mrs. Otto Kutter with Mrs. Clark Noble, Mrs. G. A. Dearborn in Portland, and California visitors to A. J. Palmer’s family. New arrivals include Helen Ruby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Herring, and the Stephens birthday gathering at H. R. Stitt’s.
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Otto Kutter
Clark Noble
G. A. Dearborn
Portland
H. F. Cutting
Marguerite Eutler
Sylvan
Lee Herring
Helen Ruby
Flaughry
California
A. J Palmer
Palmer
Bisconner
Mr. Foot
Iowa
Alford
Elizabeth Piggett
Willis Robertson
Pullman
Ashnal Vedder
Dundee
Wm. Culton
San Diego
Cadwallader
Oregon
Cecil Emerson
Newberg
Dundee Woman's Club
H. R. Stit
Mrs. Stephens
Ezra Hayes Offers Special Attention to Pension Claims
Ezra Hayes promises focused help on pension claims with 24 years of practice. The ad notes Indian war claims featured and urges claimants to pile their paperwork now. Office located next door east of the Electric Light office on First Street in Newberg.
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Ezra Hayes
Pensiot
Electric Light
First Street
Newberg
Fished With a Gander Ends in Water Phobia
A gander developed a fear of water after a boy used a frog baited hook to lure the bird. The gander dragged in a six pound pickerel during the struggle and then refused to return to the water for weeks, quarrelling with the flock at the water's edge.
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Los Angeles Times
Proper Rifle Aim by Walter Winans Inspires Marksmanship
The essay details Winans advice for aiming a rifle including replacing the front sight with a white ivory edition and proper alignment of sights. It stresses matching sight focus to moving targets and swinging the rifle with the target’s motion, plus tips on practice and deterrence of overfocus on sights.
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Walter Winans
England
Scientific American
Eagles on the Hunt Steal Prey in Coordinated Flight
A fragment describes eagles hunting in pairs with one distracting the target and the other striking as it attempts to flee, illustrating cooperative predation in flight during a hunt.
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Eagies
Connecticut Western Reserve and Trumbull County History
The article traces the Connecticut Western Reserve origin in the northwest from the 18th century charter to land sales, noting Trumbull's role and the Washington era. It mentions the naming of Trumbull in Ohio, a Connecticut connection, and a tale of a compliment to a famed belle. It then describes extinct sea mammals whose fossils inspired sea serpent legends.
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Cut
Trumbull County
United States
Connecticut
South Sea
Pennsylvania
Connecticut Western Reserve
New
Jonathan
George Washington
Washington
Brother Jonathan
John Bull
McFingal
Hudibras
John Trumbull
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr
Ohio
Trumbull
Philadelphia
National_museum
Nep Voington
Somnambulist Ned and the London Punch Plot Twist
Fragmentary dialogue references marriage, a somnambulist named Jane and a jokey aside about a London Punch. The text veers into tangential notes about a supposed Rus sell story and a remark on Java coffee, lacking a clear single narrative.
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Jane
Arry
London
Islanders fashion a makeshift island after shipwrecks
A survey of curious islands and salvage tales chronicles a Briton crew near Melekula in the New Hebrides rebuilding a tiny island after cannon fire destroyed the original. It was later dubbed Ten Stick Island after the chief’s bargain.
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Stanley
New Hebrides
Melekuls
Prom
Ten Stick Island
Philadelphia Ledger
Wit and wedding rumors from a gossip page
A clipped gossip sketch hints at an unlikely marriage between Litt Binka and Kate Riewirt. The dialogue toys with social approval and maternal permission, finishing with a quip about a freewheeling future.
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Mrs
B. F Hunter
Wm. S. Allan
Cornwall
Loviaville Courier Journal
Bohemia
White Mountain
Austria
the Western Reserve
Fontenellé
Mme
George Russell
Arinder
Ry Tate
Java
Florida
Silver Spring
Ocala
Oklawaha
St.Se
Geological Survey
Russia
Napoleon
France
M. Churchill
Great B
Sayes
Chachi
Duke
London Chronicle
Anal Ehicel
Victor
F. M. Griffeth
E W. Bodsom
Amo OO
Cmelras
Moline
Adriance
Newberg Feed & Seed Company
Cinerarias
John Gower
Binka
Kate Riewirt
Pouer
Boston Transcript
Louis Post-Diapateh
Prenah
Cervantes
Louis Jasper
Virginia
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