City Brevities Reads Like Local Classifieds
Broad list of ads and notices from dry wood to furniture, pianos, milch cows, hats, hardware, and lodging. Mentions Minnis, Ellers offers, Eilers Piano House, Goodman Hardware, Campbell Millinery, Oregon Wine & Liquor, and Robinson's Laundry. Includes a search for a coachman, a found timber story near North Powder, and a help-wanted for garment ironers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellers
Ross Carey
East Oregonian
W. A. Leathers
Goodman Hardware Company
Electric
Campbell's Millinery
Campbell
Cole
Judd
Petaluma
California
Anton Nolte
Peoples Warehouse
Oregon Wine & Liquor Company
Main Street Bridge
Bowman's
Pendleton
Morrison Street
Portland
Ore
Personal mentions bundle from Walla Walla area
Wm. Rahe and daughter return from Tacoma visit. Several local figures depart for Portland trips incl Dr F W Vincent and Dr B Ringo. Typhoid patient John Armstrong at St Anthony's hospital. Others visitants from Pendleton and Meacham towns return or plan short stays, with multiple families arriving from Walla Walla and Meacham for visits. Local movers and shakers, including judges and bankers, circulate through city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Rahe
Tacoma
F. W. Vincent
Bingham Springs
BR. B. Ringo
Portland
Charles Cole
Sibyl
John Armstrong
St. Anthony's Hospital
RB. H. Patton
Milton
Miseee
Winnie Struve
Jennie Cole
Judge
Mra
G. A. Hartman
W. J. Stockman
Lehman Springer
M. A. Rader
H. J. Bean
Hastings
Pendleon
Eagle Hotels
Walla Walla
Margaret Tatum
Robert J. Diven
Presbyterian Country
California
T. D. Oliver
Kh. L
F. M. Oliver
Mia
T. M. Keller
Misa Blanche Badley
Meacham
Dan Kelly
Spokane
la Grande
Wm. Lowell
A. Lowell
Eugene
State University
Dean Tatom
Columbia Produce Company
Coeur -Alene
Idaho
Tatom
W. L. van Nuys
W. H. Bleakney
Louis Boliwage
Mise Sheba Miceli
Wallin Walla
A. W. Bennett
Follwage
Forest City
Arkanana
Arthur Lambert
Pendleton Savings Bank
High Street
Robert McGee
Tustin Street
J. Engle
PF. P. Rounds
Newport
Mr. Rounds
The Limit of Life and Electric Bitters
The article argues human life can extend beyond current limits with advanced knowledge. It highlights the 60s as a critical period and urges proper care, claiming Electric Bitters revitalizes every organ. Tallman & Co guarantees the tonic's benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Tallman & Co
Star Theater Tonight Shows New Program and Attractions
A new program opens at the Star theater tonight featuring Preston Cage Breaking Mystery where a man leaves a jar with perfect cast. The bill is entirely new. Next week a goo company from Portland will perform in a finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star Theater
Preston Cage
Portland
Sixty New Engines Delivered to Union Pacific
The Union Pacific receives 60 new freight engines to be distributed across the system from Cheyenne west, expanding locomotive capacity and freight movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Eytem
Cheyenne West
Planting Trout Tale From Youths Companion
A Rural Youths Companion excerpt recalls a railroad trout planting plan where Conelly the gardener questions whether to plant fry tails up or down. The exchange turns to a muddy stream map and the agent’s sharp reply as the scene underscores the folly of grand advertising versus practical detail in a light moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conelly
New York East Side Pennies and Suspicion Over Big Bills
A New York Press quote recalls East Side life where large sums fuel suspicion and pennies dominate change. A woman notes the prevalence of pennies from grocers and shops, lamenting tiny change and fear of counterfeit tens. She recounts an Austrian masseur returning 60 cents of a dollar in pennies, reflecting local attitudes toward money and trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
England
First Avenue
New York Press
Cannon misfire tale and barber tipping anecdote
A Philadelphia Ledger quote recounts two enslaved workers misfiring a cannon signal at a southern plantation, causing a disappearance scare when one man goes to fetch water. London Truth notes a man who shuns barber tips ends up traveling 100 miles yearly and growing a beard. The St Louis Post Dispatch explains the strawberry’s pulp is not the fruit but a seed-bearing receptacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Jim
Philadelphia Ledger
London
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Speed Mania Reaches Bacon Ridge in Chicago News
Miss Polly notes Aunt Matilda and Jason Hamlapple finally call on Bue Waggs after two years and last night he proposed. Aunt Matilda urges more details as the town plays speed mania up to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly
Aunt Matilda
Jason Hamlapple
Bue Waggs
Bacon Ridge
Chicago News
Obeyed Instructions Man of the House-Verona
Fragmentary headline style text with quoted lines and scattered phrases from the Chicago Tribune and other sources. The readable portions mention a call at 7 o'clock sharp, waking difficulties, and a mutable cloud reference, all attributed to various sources including Verona and Kimerson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verona
Chicago Tribune
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oregon
Eilers Piano House
Hutchinson
North Powder
Littleowder River
Robinson
Louis Hunziker
Havana
Deppens
J. W. Kennedy
Union
Mra. Kennedy
William Kennedy
Famil
New York’s East Side
Sie
Kimerson
The
Pendleton Cloak & Suit House
Eton
Pendleton Investment Co
Nebraska
South Dakota
Minnesota
Towa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Office Savings Bank Building
Frank B. Clopton & CO
E. Court, St., Pendleton, Ore
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