Fire Destroys Meat at Vancouver Market
In Vancouver Washington a fire in the rear smokehouse of the Peterson Bros meat market at Thirteenth and Kauffman caused a loss of 40 dollars in bacon and minor damage to the building. Neighbors and a bucket brigade extinguished most flames before the fire company arrived due to excess wood fueling the blaze.
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Vancouver
Peterson Bros
Thirteenth and Kauffman
Balem
J. B. Reynolds
Railroad Commission
O. R. & N. Company
Condon End
Shaniko
Arlington
Biggs
Portland
White's Fight for Red's Rights in Yakima Waters
North Yakima Washington water users of Preservation organize an association to enforce rights of the Yakima Indian reservation under the 1885 treaty. Indians are said to be entitled to half the river flow to the reservation. Some land successors seek to gain more from the water, while not all needs are met by the 1906 agreement. Court action would likely take years to settle.
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White
Red
North Yakima
Wash
Yakima
Indian Service
Reclamation Service
Auto Goes Over Bluff near Eugene in McKenzie Road Crash
A car owned by 8. B. Finnegan of Eugene, carrying three men, plunged over a bluff on the McKenzie road four miles above O'Brien's Sunday. The driver and occupants sustained injuries, with details incomplete from the fragmented report.
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Auto
Bluff
Eugene
8. B. Finnegan
McKenzie Road
O'Brien
Automobile accident injures Four A. C. Cornelius
Four A. C. Cornelius sustained a fracture of the left leg below the knee when a road edge bank caved in as a machine toppled into a deep drop of ten to fifteen feet. It was pulled back to the road with a block and tackle and driven to Eugene. A similar incident on the McKenzie road two weeks earlier left occupants unharmed.
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A. C. Cornelius
Bulch
Eugene
McKenzie Road
Aberdeen investigates its city departments
Aberdeen Washington opens a broad inquiry into city offices after a council vote to probe City Engineer W. Ewart. Residents of Terrace Heights cite grading changes amid renovations, while tension with the water department suggests further investigations of multiple departments beyond firefighting.
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Aberdeen
Wash
W. Ewart
Terrace Heights
Filso
Old Gentleman Halves Walk In St James Park
An elderly man tells a friend he can no longer walk full rounds in St James Park. He now goes only halfway around and back, explaining his reduced mobility to his housekeeper.
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St. James Park
Milton Personal Notes and News
Milton notes from Aug 16 report the Milton public schools will start Sept 5. Local residents and visitors are listed with social and moving updates including Misses Maud Shibel Katherine Duffy and Fred Shibel of Walla Walla, Roy Renick’s Portland trip, C N Lewis of Hillside seeking a location, and various arrivals and departures. Mattie Taylor suffered a minor injury in a Portland streetcar collision.
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Milton, Or
Milton Public Schools
Maud Shibel
Katherine Duffy
Fred Shibel
Walla Walla
W. E. Miller
Mesers
Fred Petorff
Jasper Sams
Ernest Hudson
Roy Renick
Portland
C. N. Lewis
Hillyard
E. Breadenridge
Lewis
C. Wilson
Coos Bay
Musgrove Company
Betella Overman
Cadallac
Idaho
Edith
Dry Creek
Della Danner
Armstrong
Danner
Theodore Danner
Butte
Montana
G. A. Winkler
Hatton
Wash
A. R. Patrick
Eugene
Mr. Patrick
Milton
Mattie Taylor
Miss Taylor
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Promoted for Colds and Coughs
In buying four cent cough medicine, consumers are urged not to fear Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The ad claims no danger and relief is sure to follow. Specially recommended for coughs colds and whooping cough and sold by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Aiding Moscow Poor
Berlin reports a forthcoming life story of Grand Duchess Elizabeth widow of Sergei of Russia. Born German, sister of the Grand Duke of Hesse, her husband was killed in Moscow in 1905. She then dedicated her fortune of about a million dollars yearly to hospitals nursing homes and charitable work near Moscow. She works as a nurse and keeper visiting the poor, often in plain dress and unseen by others.
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Berlin
Elizabeth
Sergius
Russia
Grand Duke of Hesse
Ang
Moscow
McGee’s Baby Bilixir Promoted as Safe Teething Remedy
An advertisement extols McGee's Baby Bilixir as free from injurious or narcotic drugs and claims it as a safe cure for disordered stomachs bowels and fretfulness. It contrasts with other soothing syrups containing opium and narcotics and mentions A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
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McGee
A. C. Koeppen & Bros
PIED PIPER WANTED TO DRIVE RATS FROM TOWN
Greenwich Connecticut seeks a pied piper akin to the Hamelin legend as rats invade after a dry spell. Merchants fear losses as rats damage fruit and melons, cats fail, rat poison useless, and a special town meeting may be called to act.
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Greenwich
Conn
Hamelin
Hanover
Prussia
R. Browning
Greenwich Board of Selectmen
Acton Nigalnet
Disagreeable at Home and the Liver
An old advertisement notes that irritability at home stems from the liver. It urges readers feeling cross at home to restore liver health with Ballard's Herbine. The copy promotes the remedy and lists A. C. Koep pen & Broad as distributors with price stated as 0 cents per bottle.
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Ballard
A. C, Koeppen & Broa
Adams News and Personal Items from Adams Oregon
J T Lieuallen, a major Umatilla wheat grower, sold this year’s crop to Interior Warehouse Co. for 80 cents a bushel. Fourteen thousand sacks are in Adams Interior Warehouse ready for shipment. Various local visits and travel note residents including Mrs Clara Nelson, Lime Watrus, Mrs A Barker, and J T Liewallen. Some Pendleton and Athena connections noted. legal notice text appears fragmentary.
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Adams, Ore
J. T. Lieuallen
Umatilla
Pendleton
Interior Warehouse Co
Adams
Clara Nelson
Briggs
E. G. Marquis
Pomeroy
Camela
Lime Watrus
Walla Walla
A. Barker
Milton
J.T. Liewallen
Jimmie Arbuckle
Charles Owens
Sam
Charles Smith
Athena
Sultan's dog nearly starts nation clash
A terrier once owned by the Sultan of Turkey caused a diplomatic incident in Kopenick when the dog ran loose. US and British diplomats were involved as a dog catcher tried to seize the animal. The chauffeur pursued and a clash occurred with a blow to the catcher’s jaw. The tale ends with an ad urging Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for travelers.
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Berlin
Turkey
Forlen
United States
Laughlin
Kopenick
Seymour
Nizam Pasha
Mr. Laughlin
Monoplane Project Formed by McCormick Ties
Harold F. McCormick son in law of John D Rockefeller forms a corporation with Romme to develop a new monoplane. Williams Romme a New York mechanic is the inventor. McCormick serves as president with himself as vice president and John A Chapman as treasurer. The machine won first prize for flight length stability and originality at a recent contest in the East. Romme is assembling the machine in a tent at Stanford Connecticut.
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Chicago
Harold F. McCormick
John D. Rockefeller
Williams
Romme
New York
Mr. McCormick
John A. Chapman
McCormick
Stanford
Conn
Hoods Sarsaparilla described as cure-all tonic
An advertisement touts Hoods Sarsaparilla as a remedy for all humors catarrh rheumatism and fatigue. It claims to restore appetite cure paleness and nervousness and to build up the whole system with liquid or Sarsatabe tablets.
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Aduit Mother Health Remedy
Kidney trouble preys the mind and saps vigor with weak kidneys common in children and adults. Swamp Root offers a mild immediate remedy sold in bottles and available as a free sample by mail with a pamphlet, from Dr Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York.
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Tess of
Sellaphoe
Binghamton, N. Y
Inventor withholds description of machine amid pending patents
The text notes a closely guarded day and night security, a fierce bulldog among guards, and that the Inventor will not disclose details of his machine until patents are secured. Mr McCormick travels to Europe and will return to witness the Kéw monoplane trial flight in September. He shows interest in both the aeroplane and automobile, and admired Romme's model as it developed. The East Oregonian touts itself as Eastern Oregon's representative paper and advertising medium.
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McCormick
Europe
America
Chapman
Romme
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