Freewater and Milton Notes Highlight Peach Day Plans
Freewater preparations for peach day include potential Pendleton band music and a visit by Bishop Keeler for revival meetings. 14 acres of watermelons and cantaloupes near the state line, plus 25 acres to be irrigated with a 200 gallon per minute well. Milton reports light grain damage from rains, a new sack stacker at Farmers' warehouse, and travels of local merchants to Chicago and New York for fall trade.
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Fendcton Band
Bishop Keeler
Freewater
Wm. Gent
Salem
Pendleton
Fulton
W. L. Bowers
J. B. Herr
Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints
Seattle
Helen Love
la Grande
Della Samuel
C. W. Wilkes
Sunnyside
Milton
Mender’s Park
J. F. Slover
Chicago
New York
EB. W. Phelps
Inez
Walla Walla
Schlede
Tollgate
J. H. Hadley
North Milton
Jennie Dykes
New Canning Works
Memorial unveiled for General Sumter in Stateburg ceremony
In Stateburg on August 14 an elaborate memorial to General Thomas Sumter was unveiled at his grave. The event drew state representatives, troops, patriotic society delegates, and visitors. Speakers included former Virginia Governor Montague and H. A. M. Smith of Charleston. Sumter, last surviving Revolutionary War general officer, helped lead partisan forces and Fort Sumter was named in his honor. He was born in Virginia in 1784 and died near Camden, South Carolina, in 1822.
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Stateburg
D. C
Hennor
Thomas Sumter
Montague
Virginia
H. A. M. Smith
Charleston
General Sumter
Fort Sumter
Charleston Harbor
Sumter
South
Marion
Camden
A. C
Renovated Butter Regulations Start Tomorrow in D C
Washington Aug 14 The renovated butter regs go into effect tomorrow requiring manufacturers to hold a $60 annual tax certificate and display owner business details and establishment number above the door. Each package must bear a 1 cent per pound tax stamp and wrappers must read Renovated Butter.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Animal Industry
Miona stomach tablets touted by Tallman Co claims cure
A guaranteed Tallman Co advertisement promises Miona stomach tablets will relieve headaches nausea and indigestion with a money back guarantee if health is not restored. The copy urges use for nervous gut distress and sleeplessness, claiming complete relief from digestive ills.
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Tallman & Co
Early Aerial Telegraphy by Amontons in the Fifteenth Century
The Philadelphia North American reports that Amontons in the fifteenth century devised an early telegraph system. Messages from Paris to Rome could travel in about three hours with signal codes shown at alpine posts. The sender and recipient alone knew the key, but authorities hindered further work.
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Amontona
Avril
Amontons
Worl
Morse
Bell
Paris
Rome
Alps
Paria
Amontong
Guily
Philadelphia
The Cottage and the Concept of Honest Simplicity
A reflection on cottages versus mansions, arguing that true cottages are modest, economical and well proportioned homes. It condemns ostentatious seaside mansions and praises simple design, quiet color harmony, and unpretentious living as the essence of cottage charm. Robert C. Spencer’s comment in House Beautiful anchors the view.
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Absard
Robert C. Spencer
Draftsman and trainee apply at Pendleton office
A competent draftsman or a boy with drawing reasons may apply to T. F. Howard, Deapain block, Pendleton, Oregon.
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T. F. Howard
Deapain Block
Pendleton
Oregon
Arctic Outlets and the Fragile Balance of Earths Poles
The Arctic oceans channel vast volumes through the Bering Strait and Baffin Bay to prevent landlock and cataclysmic climate upheaval. Polar locations instinctively ease gravitational shifts, shielding Earth from mass reorganizations that would erase life’s history and delay human evolution.
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Arctic Ocean
Bering Strait
Baffin's Bay
Greenland
Europe
The Hotel Clerk Described as a Fortune for Some
A Chicago view argues hotel clerks face bleak prospects as wages barely cover board, age limits force replacement by younger workers, and options degrade to cloakroom work or other jobs, risking poverty or almshouse. Collier's Weekly.
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Chicago
Collier’s Weekly
Keep Yourself Young Exercise Daily Across Sports Limits
The New York Medical Journal argues that universal age limits for sports are futile. Individual limits vary widely and depend on lifelong physical education, diet, sleep, and restraint. It advocates daily strenuous exercise and a simple natural life to expand personal limits across athletic endeavors.
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New York Medical Journal
Indian Punishment by Elephants in Baroda Past
A description from Exchange recalls Baroda’s cruel practice where a condemned man was tied and dragged by an elephant through the city, sustaining brutal injuries before his head was crushed on a block. The state maintained many elephants for executions, reflecting harsh historic justice.
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Baroda
India
Sun Spots and Magnetic Storms linked in Sunspot study
Astronomers lack a generally accepted theory on sun spots. They note a suspected link to terrestrial phenomena since the frequency curves of magnetic storms and the aurora borealis closely resemble the sunspot frequency curve, suggesting a common underlying cause.
Real Binkers Catching a Thief at the Railroad Eating House
A Milwaukee Sentinel quip shows how the thief, weighed down by plunder, could not flee. The joke notes money and silverware, as well as doughnuts, were taken, leaving the culprit unable to escape.
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Milwaukee
Fragments Reflect Curious Dialogue On Aid And Value
A garbled antique dialogue describes a dramatic scene where a child urges aid for a fainting mother and a father offers a ten dollar bill, followed by a misread claim about needing more. The text then veers into philosophy about defense, justice, and innocence attributed to Adam Smith in a brittle, uncertain form.
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Adam Smith
Skull Wounds Reveal Bullet Effects On Bone And Brain
The article explains how bullets affect skull bone versus brain tissue, noting that bone fractures with minor particle displacement while brain fragments scatter due to tissue fluidity. Kocher experiments with water-filled vessels and skulls show fluid contents amplify bursting and suture separation, illustrating content differences drive wound variations.
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Kocher
Sponge Divers of Himla Girls Reach for Sponges
A globe trotter recounts diving history in the Mediterranean where Himla island girls from Rhodes gather sponges. The divers, nearly nude and graceful, plunge with stones to depths, returning with harvests while awaiting marriage in accordance with depth quotas.
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Mediterranean
Globe Trotter
Himla
Rhodes
New York
Presa
Believed Cat Curse Leads to Tragic Chinese Tale
A traditional tale explains that harming a cat invites the animal spirit to avenge the offense until purification. A servant girl kills a cat and bears three kittens as misfortune erupts. Her mistress confronts the cat’s spirit through the girl who speaks in the cat’s voice before dying in convulsions.
Elephants Carry a Grudge in Far East Tale
A Bangkok mahout once faced an elephant that routinely attacked him despite warnings. After being discharged, years later the elephant and his former torturer met again in Burma. The elephant grabbed the man by the neck and crushed him to death with a forefoot in a forest clearing.
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Bangkok
Siam
Maulmalo
Burma
Traveller's tale of a self operating saw mill
Bewitched Morrison describes a mill at Dantate Prusala with a great iron wheel that drove the saw and turned logs without human hands. He compares it to a Prague mill noted by Dr John Dee where he claims the devil himself was master of the mill.
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Morrison
Dantate
Prusala
John Dee
Prague
The Result Magistrate What Do You Mean
In a courtroom exchange Mia testifies that her husband struck her. Maloney confirms he has been a physical wreck since the incident, provoking a tense, terse hearing with no clear resolution.
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Mia. Maloney
Geologist Mention Sparks Biscuit Exchange Tale
A fragment from the New Orleans Picayune shows Mrs. Newedde-Coriathely inviting someone to share biscuita with a hungry friend. The exchange hints at a habit or jest rather than a full story.
East Oregonian quotes and playful wordplay in diary like excerpt
A fragment from a page includes a whimsical parenting exchange about sharing an apple and a quip on sharing and value. The piece then shifts to a satirical line about dress and perception before noting the paper’s broad news claim in the East Oregonian.
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Freewater Adviges
News OF
Senator Fulton
E. C. Kelly
Frank Rawson
A.M. Blam
Miss Bertie
Misa Jessie Frazier
Yellowstone Park
Gen. Sumter
Arctic
Johnnie
Mamma
Papa
Island of
Himle
Jean
Breele
East Oregonian
Northern Pacific
Northern Pacific Railway
Adams
Ore
Charlton
Portland
Northwei Stern
Matlock Building
Byers
Byers Bret
Pendleton Roller Mills
W. S&s, Byers, Proprietor
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