Four Coast Artillery Companies Authorized for Pacific
The War Department orders on September 1 create four new coast artillery companies to be stationed on the Pacific coast. Telegraphers striking in Boston sign contracts to move to the Canadian Northwest where transport is paid. Three Armenians wanted for Father Kaspar Vartanian’s murder in New York reportedly located in Bulgaria after fleeing via Montres and Marseilles.
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War Department
Coast Artillery
Pacific Coast
Palouse
Boston
Canadian Northwest
Kaspar Vartanian
New York
Bulgaria
Montres
Marseilles
Grain Yield About Lewiston Light This Season
Lewiston area farmers report lighter grain yields due to severe early spring cold. George A. Smith says the corn and oats will average 20 to 30 bushels per acre, barley 30 to 40. Harvest is largely complete within two weeks despite labor tensions.
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Lew Inton
George A. Smith
Enya
Lewiston Teller
Legal Advice Moral: Don’t Try to Get Free Counsel
A story shows a young lawyer in a town with one old judge charging five dollars for legal advice. An old farmer seeks free counsel but must pay both the young lawyer and the judge, ten dollars, after the judge confirms the fee. The tale ends with the moral to exchange payment for legal advice.
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Ernils
The Postage Stamp Adoption Across Nations Through Time
The article traces the first use of stamps in Paris in 1663 and outlines when countries began issuing postage stamps from England in 1540 onward. It lists early adopters such as Blood & Co in Philadelphia and various cities, notes the 1874 International Postal Union formation, and ends with a banking sector update about a national banks condition statement due August 22.
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Paris
England
A. M. Grieg
City Dispatch Post
Blood & Co
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Haven
New York
Brazil
United States
France
Belgium
Bavaria
Hanover
British Guiana
Prussia
Spain
Switzerland
Italy
Denmark
Baden
Wurttemberg
Saxony
Canada
Chile
Turin and Taxis
Germany
Portugal
India
Norway
Uruguay
Mexico
Russia
Newfoundland
Sweden
Greece
Turkey
Ecuador
Egypt
Bolivia
Paraguaay
International Postal Union
Jute mill profits at Walla Walla prison mill
Walla Walla penitentiary reports a January to August jute mill profit of 9,163.34 with 3500 bales bought for 1907 season. Output reached over 1.6 million grain bags, production aided by convict workers and improved by waste savings and by-products sold to mattress factories.
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M. F. Kineould
Walla Walla
Mead
Washington
Deafness Cured by Constitutional Remedies, Not Local
An article discusses deafness caused by ear tube blockage and declares local applications ineffective. It states a constitutional remedy exists, with catarrh as a common cause. A reward is offered for any catarrh case cured by Catarrh Care from F. Hale & Co. Toledo, Ohio. Nearby, state horticulture officials visited La Grande to inspect fruit districts, praising growers and noting general orchard health and limited pear blight concerns.
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F. “Ie Aout & Co
Toledo
Grand Ronde
W. K. Newell
State Board Board of Horticulture
Judd Geer
State Board
la Grande
Mr. Newell
Mr. Geer
May Park
Fruitdale
Inspector Dickinson
Mont
Cartagena's Ancient Walled City in the Americas
The oldest walled city in this hemisphere is Cartagena Colombia. The wall spans miles with moat top sentry boxes and a coastal government prison now visited by tourists for shell and wood carvings. The project cost about 50 million dollars in its era.
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Colombia
Hemisphaere
Cartagena
South America
New World
Intervile
Spanish Main
New York Herald
In Case of Fire and the Lodging Joke
A well known father once wandered Arkansas seeking local color and found a frame hotel on the third floor. When asked how to escape a fire, the landlord replied to show the night watchman a receipted bill and have the bulldog tied up, a grim joke in rough frontier humor.
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Arkansas
Waal
Cleveland
A Mission That Failed in Antique Tale
The Sire de Joinville recounts Brother Yves meeting a pious aged woman while crossing toward Damascus. She carries a bowl of fire and a bottle of water, declaring she intends to burn heaven with the flame and hell with the waiters. She seeks to do good purely for love of God.
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Sire de Joinville
St. Louia
Yoes
Forgotten hotel keys and a goose tale emerge
A New Orleans Times-Democrat anecdote recalls hotel guests forgetfully returning keys with a printed slip thanking the guest for the return. The other excerpt notes the goose as an emblem of id- iocy and a profitable fowl, tracing domestication back to Homer and ancient Egypt.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Egypt
Giving Thormselvee Away and Old Memories
The exchange notes a marriage between Blanche de Smythe and Walter Wellington Boore as Mr Younghusband recalls past engagements. Mrs Y blushes while he chillingly hints the Blanche memory. A Mrs Chatters line about a minister's wife reveals a joke on vacation absence.
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Thormselvee
Mr. Younghusband
Blanche de Smythe
Walter Wellington Boore
Mrs. Y
Walter
Mr. Y
Blanche
Message of pain and care from a kind old man
A short, cryptic exchange shows a kind old man asking a boy about pain and the boy replying the pain is in him. The clipping ends with a homespun line about giving and loving without regret, reflecting a moral mood in a local East Oregonian page sample.
Cure for Eczema Claim by Mrs Maggie Smith
Mrs Maggie Smith of 614 W Crosler St reports using Cuticura products to treat eczema on her son. She says the disease vanished within three weeks after starting the regimen and has not returned for six to seven months. She urges others to try Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent.
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Ecrema
Maggie Smith
W. Crosler
Aes
Julya
Arn Hong
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