Agricultural Fair Pavilion Plan Promoted in Oregon
The Agriculture Fair association urged a permanent pavilion and a state funded budget of 1750 per year to support premiums of 1500 and 250 for printing and advertising. Umalia and Merrow counties would establish a headquarters, with a public educational movement to benefit farmers and home-makers through sericultural horticulturns industrial and educational exhibits.
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Agriculture Fair Association
Umalia
Merrow
Umatilla
Morrow
Pendleton
Stat of
Oregon
Umatilla County Scenic Plea for Tourism Development
The county boasts Blue Mountains and Meacham Creek scenery that would attract dust-choked tourists and campers from hundreds of miles. The piece envisions a future monster hotel and sanitarium built at the mountains to exploit natural resources, needing a wealthy organizer to start the enterprise.
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Umatila County
Blue Mountains
Yellowstone Parks
Yosemites
Meacham Creek
Matilla
Umatilla County
al Uhat
Oregon Money To Europe In Flow Of Immigrants
An analysis notes how Oregon funds often finance European relatives' travel to the state to establish settlement. It argues kinship drives immigration, with funds routed via post offices and express systems. The piece claims the United States benefits from incoming settlers who bring free government ideals and civic involvement.
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Oregon
Leters
America
United States
Scotland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Ireland
Finland
Germany
France
Two Types in Idle Rich and Working Class Life
A fragment outlines contrasting views on work from Wilton Mizner who derides labor as a curse while Min Lole Bosworth, heiress to mito, favors labor as pleasure and necessity. Bosworth travels with a chaperone and faces her father’s horror before a climate of temptation intervenes.
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Wilton Migner
Helv
Mr. Mizner
Min Lole Bosworth
Vicetar Fir
Mito
White Mountain
Miss Bosworth
Work is Life and the Good of Labor
A speech extols work as life’s wholesome force. It declares that work develops the body mind and heart, raises people toward angelic heights, and separates value from wealth or poverty. It condemns idleness as ruin and praises diligent, hopeful labor as everyone’s duty.
Denver letter on women seeking work and domestic roles
A Denver Post letter critiques the modern courting of domestic help as women seek paid positions in homes, while a second note lists funeral pricing for Andrew O'Brien and a cemetery arrangement, including charges for graves and pet interments.
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Denver Post
Denver
Good Night Poem From Richard Johnston’s Verse
A fragmentary lyric poem speaks of bidding the Pur breath and winds to hush for night. It conjures dreaming of golden bowers and a farewell kiss as the light fades. The piece closes with a coda of heavenly waking.
Henderson's first big fee story from Harper's Weekly
The late David B. Henderson, future Speaker, faced early hardship as a lawyer. He considered charging heirs for estate work, then a heir paid $500 and offered $600 more, leaving Henderson astonished. He asked for another fee to make it square, a moment noted for his later fame.
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House of Representatives
David B. Henderson
Harper's Weekly
Henderson
Coes
Ft Square
Washington's farming innovations under George Washington
A fragmentary account details George Washington as a leader and farmer who shifted from tobacco to grains after the Revolution. It notes Mount Vernon’s 16,000 acres, divided estates, and daily crops and experiments for agricultural improvement. It lists livestock, plows, and labor as part of his sustained farming regimen.
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George Washington
Tobarcco
Maine
General Wasehinion
Mount Vernon
Mieten
Lst
Wenge
Onte
Origins of Dog Dats and the Great Heat Myth
The piece discusses an ancient belief around a summer heat event termed hog dase or the dog star wake. It notes varied descriptions from red stars to pure white light, linking the heliacal rising to rumors of harmful influence on people and livestock, and connects it to Orion in astrology and meteorology.
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Cania
Orion
England drinks less as wine per capita falls
Budget speech notes wine consumption in Great Britain at about three pints per person annually. Exchequer data show a 69 percent rise in wine imports over six years, while imports from France Spain and Portugal drop sharply. Also: Thomas Taggart, former head of a democratic nations group, plans a Monte Carlo style casino in Corrido mountains, with Bret Sulphur Springs optioned for a $500,000 hotel development in Midville Park Grand County.
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Great Britain
France
Spain
Portugal
Thomas Tagrart
Democratic Nations Committee
Triuana
Corrido
Midvifle Park
Grand County
Navy Seeks Immediate Enlistments Ahead of Christmas
The secretary of the navy wired the Chicago recruiting station for rapid enlistment of young men. About three thousand must be secured before Christmas as several new battleships and armored cruisers near completion, with states including Georgia Nebraska Minnesota Kansas Mississippi Idaho New Hampshire reportedly ready to supply recruits. The fleet expansion will demand crews across many ports and shipyards including Washington Milwaukee St. Louis South Dakota California North Carolina and others.
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Secretary of the Navy
Naval
Chicago
Georgia
Nebraska
Minnesota
Kansas
Mielesippi
Idaho
Christie
Teahoe
Washington
Milwaukee
St. Louie
South Dakota
California
North Carolina
Stontank
Catarrhal fever hits Taroma horses in crisis
A catarrhal fever sweeps Taroma affecting hundreds of horses. Many die or suffer serious illness as stalls are shut and veterinarians work amid widespread casualties. Pink eye symptoms appear in some animals, prompting urgent care.
First Dog Cemetery Opens in Ohio With Funeral Director
In Woonter, Ohio a dedicated dog cemetery has been laid out for exclusive canine burials and Nkewlee appoints the first official dog funeral director. A town council created the junter office following a long controversy over official duties.
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Mayvor van Nest
Andrew O'Brien
O'Brien
Woonter
Ohio
Thas
Nkewlee
Junter
Countou
Officiale Av
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