Short Weston notes recap returns and arrivals
Weston Ore August 10 Special Correspondence reports Gorge B Baker returning to Alberton Mont to operate on the Missoula division of the Chicago Milwaukee R R with his brother Ward. The Methodist church interior finishing proceeds while Italian grading gangs move to Athena for roadbed repairs. Major local updates include temperate fever illness of H A Dowd, 50 bushels fall sown and 40 bushels spring sown wheat from DeGrow ranch, a birthday party for Hortense Baker, and several residents visiting or working in town.
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Ore
Gorge B. Baker
M. A. Baker
Alberton
Mont
Missoula
Chicago & Milwaukee R. R
Ward
E.G. Brehm
Alba Country
H. A. Dowd
J. Culley
Hortense Baker
Ruby Price
Mamie Barnes
Minnie Ross
Pearl Beathe
Ruth Smith
Hope Beeler
Bonnie Barnett
Maude Couch
Ruth Reed
Blanche Beeler
Athena
Maude Wright
John Hager
Gibbon
F. i Pitman
Jasper O'Harra
Southern Oregon
Marion
Ivan
William T. Hastings
Turner
Sarah Powls
John E. Walden
Weston Mountain
Paris Funerals Inspire Le Petit Corbillard
The French humor weekly Le Petit Corbillard debuts in Paris offering funeral themed laughs with humorous articles and pictures. It features an epitaph competition and plans summer tours to major chapels and cemeteries across France conducted by the paper's proprietors.
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Paris
le Petit Corbillard
France
Adams Grainmen Sell Their Wheat in Pendleton
Mark Butler of Umatilla sold seven thousand sacks of wheat to Kerr-Gifford Warehouse at 74 cents a bushel in Pendleton. Frank Curl sold nine thousand sacks of this year's crop to Kerr-Gifford at 74 cents a bushel, hauled to Adams. Various locals made business trips and visits in Adams and Pendleton, including B A Marquis, Pete Murray, G Marquis, Lew Murray, S. E. Carr, Tom Robinson, Henry Colling, Mrs. James Snow, Mrs. Bell Brodell, Will Holdman, Lennie Watrus, Muriel Watrus, and Helen Marquis.
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Adams, Or
Mark Butler
Umatilla
Pendleton
Kerr-Gifford Warehouse Company
Frank Curl
Umatilla County
Kerr- Gifford
Adams
B. A. Marquis
Adame
Pete Murray
G. Marquis
Frank Whitely
Lew Murray
Athena
E. Carr
Blue Mountain
Tom Robinson
Interior Warehouse Company
Henry Colling
Balfour-Guthrie Company
James Snow
Portland
Bell Brodell
Echo, Or
Clara Blake
Will Holdman
Mountains
Lennie Watrus
Walla Walla
E. G. Marquis
Muriel Watrus
Echo
E. G Marquis
Helen
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Office
Be Sure to Take Chamberlain’s Remedy on Summer Trip
Be sure to take a bottle of Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with you when starting on your trip this summer. It cannot be obtained on board trains or steamers. Changes of water and climate often cause sudden attacks of diarrhoea, and it is best to be prepared. Sold by all dealers.
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All Dealera
King George May Visit Uncle Sam
Americans in London push for a bill to allow King George to leave his realm during incumbency to visit the United States in 1912. Progressive statesmen oppose rigid royal travel traditions as Parliament meets next winter.
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King George
Uncle Sam
Canada
London
United States
Hundreds gathered in Walla Walla for apple crop work
In Walla Walla hundreds of men women and youths are now employed in valley fruit packing as the apple harvest proceeds. Orchardists prefer girls for neat faster packing while prune shipments rise and eastbound fruit cars depart regularly. A packing school helped owners and workers improve methods, boosting expected shipments and wages.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Galley
Orchard
Daily East Oregonian by carrier only 65 cents per month
Advertisement notes the Daily East Oregonian is available by carrier for a monthly rate of 65 cents. It emphasizes convenience and local accessibility, targeting readers to subscribe for home delivery.
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East Oregonian
Umatilla Opposes Private Projects in West End
Umatilla and western county residents press for federal work on the West Umatilla project, arguing private firms have failed in such ventures. The completion would unlock new land between Umatilla and Hermiston and aid both towns, with Eastern capitalists eyeing the area as a potential commercial center. Local officials and visitors from Pendleton and Portland are noted, along with health ad for Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy connected to a dysentery note.
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Umatilla
Ore
West Umatilla
Tme
Hermiston
B. T. Erickson
A. B. Stephens
J. H. Means
Portland
City
H. L. Paul
Mrs. Paul
Redfield
E.C. Albright
Chicago
G. H. Munroe
Kokomo
Ind
J. J. Halligan
New York
J. W. Hale
W. P. Ligon
W. E. Brunbank
P. J. Hegeman
Broklings
D. Cc
J. Forsythe
Pendleton
David Emerson
ER. H. Brown
Stanfield
Jeff Stephens
T. H. Chung
Chris Christensen
Scott, Jones & Co
Walla Walla
A. L. Pierce
Governor Hay Offers Cup For Dry Farm Exhibit
Spokane news notes Governor Marion E. Hay of Washington offers a $260 solid silver trophy cup as grand prize for the best state exhibit at the International Dry Farming exposition during the fifth Dry Farming congress in Spokane October 3 to 6. Competitors include Montana North Dakota South Dakota New Mexico Texas Oklahoma Arizona Nevada Utah Wyoming western Kansas Nebraska Idaho and Oregon. The board of governors limits eligible exhibits to U S territory west of the 50th meridian to the 21st meridian with annual precipitation under 20 inches and excluding seepage irrigated or sub irrigated land. Mr Barnes expects large delegations from the continent. Also a medical reminder advertises Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for sluggish livers and bilious indigestion.
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Spokane
Society of Dry Farming
Marion E. Hay
Washington
Hay
Colorado
Cheyenne
Wyce
Billings
Mont
John T. Burns
Congress
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
New Mexico
Texas
Oklahoma
Arizona
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Utah
Wyoming
Kansas
Nebraska
Idaho
Oregon
Board of Governors of
The
United States
21St Meridian
Barnes
Canada
Mexico
Engaged for Sixty Years Aged Couple Wed
Sotian. The marriage was solemnized at Braila of Maria Liega aged 80 and Joseph Stolesco aged 5 to whom she had been engaged for nearly sixty years. As a girl of twenty Maria consented to marry Stolesco but her father opposed the match and she agreed never to marry while he lived. The father has just died aged 118, and the couple were united after the funeral by the bishop of Bralla.
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Sotian
Braila
Maria Liega
Joseph Stolesco
Maria
Stolesco
Bralla
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