Pastime pictures please all in Want ads today
Locals note Want ads for Mark Patton sanitary barber and United Orchestra, chimney sweep, wood, piano and furniture for sale, various wants including a milch cow and furnished cottage. The Pendleton college announces new typewriters and courses as draper pres. urges enrollment and positions.
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Mark Patton
United Orchestra
Snyder Chimney Sweep
Oregon Lumber Yard
Rein & Weaver
Pendleton
Ore
L. K. Blakeslee
Union County
Bath
L. B. Ryan
Pendleton Business College
Draper
Pacific Home Mutual Pays First Fire Loss in Oregon
The Pacific Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Forest Grove represented by George W. Coutts was the first to pay its fire loss of 500 dollars on the Seibert and Richmond blacksmith shop.
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Pacific Home Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Forest Grove
Oregon
George W. Coutts
Seibert & Richmond
September Sunset on sale at newspapers stands now
The notice promotes the Sunset magazine issue for September featuring three pieces by Richard KE Sloan and William Simpson. It highlights the stories Arizona, the 47th Star and Fremont and the Rear Flag War. The issue is available at newsstands for fifteen cents and asks if readers subscribe to East Oregonian.
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Arizona
Richard Ke, Sloan
Fremont
William Simpson
Pendleton Sees Wide Flow Of Visitors And Residents
A flurry of short-term and long-term visitors appears in Pendleton and nearby towns. Elmer Richmond from Walla Walla arrives while Hermiston residents Thom and Brownell translate business and visit. Local residents travel to Baker City, La Grande, Umatilla, Athena, Reed, Portland, Spokane, Sunnyside, and Seattle, with many guests at the Hotel Bowman and family visits to relatives in Pendleton and Weston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Thom
Hermiston
FE. C. Brownell
Pendleton
George R. Gerking
Athena
Down
R. L. Jackson
Pat McKee
Portland
D. R. Brownell
Umatilla
Columbia
Lyman Rice
Adams
A. C. Hampton
A. M. Meldrum
Christian Church
Smith Stanton
West Court Street
Spokane
Edward Roberts
la Grande
W. R. Ellis
Ernest Knight
Newport
Charles Follensbee
Arthur Knight
Twin Falls
Idaho
Retta Wombaugh
Echo
Ernest Wells
Athena High School
Seattle
Frank Murphy
Belle Wilmer
Mary Murphy
Meacham
Will Jamieson
Weston
Roy Hall
Tacoma Wash
F. M. Richardson
Elizabeth Hall
A. . Poffenberger
Delano
Mina
Taft shuns Roosevelt trip talk as backers vent concern
Beverly Aug 20 President Taft declined to discuss Roosevelt western tour saying it is none of his business. Taft boosters complain the colonel talks like the president and worry over Roosevelt press entourage of fifty five journalists versus their dozen on Taft’s swing, hinting at a 1912 style presidential boom.
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Beverly
Taft
Rooesevelt
Roosevelt
Skene to be tried in Albany on road contract indictments
Former State Engineer Frederick Skene faces trial in Albany today on an indictment for grand larceny. Seventeen indictments accuse irregularities in road contracts. John B. Russell, head of Russell Contracting Co. of New York, is named as a defendant in the first indictment.
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Skene
New York
Frederick Skene
Albany
John B. Russell
Russell Contracting Company of
California Rate Tearing Hearing Opens In LA
Los Angeles jobbers will present their elite in the San Francisco Los Angeles freight rate controversy at a California railroad commission hearing that began today. San Francisco merchants have already concluded their testimony.
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California
Los Angeles
Cal
San Francisco
Echo Newscrumbs Then and Now in Oregon
Special correspondence from Echo Oregon notes county road work under County Road Master Lavender supervised by John Sailing, with crews building pilings and a bulkhead to shield the Umatilla river bridge west wing. Other items include local visits by Ralph Howland and T D Matthews, and residents traveling or visiting in Echo and nearby Butter Creek.
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Echo
Ore
Lavender
John Sailing
Umatilla River
Western Land & ‘Irrigation Company
Ralph Howland
First National Bank of
Pendleton
Matthews
Buttercreek
T. D. Matthews
Butter Creek
A. K. Hammer
Anna Mendenhall
College Place
Levy Matthews
Echo Friends
Wm. Gulliford
Meadow Farm
Vina Houser
Eugenie Scholl
Walter Hinkle
Camas
Butte Irrigation Company
The Lady and the Burglar at the Orpheum
At the Orpheum on Tuesday listings a feature titled The Lady and the Burglar follows Dr. Edison 1000 feet. The plot centers on a middle aged professor, a devoted wife, an unwelcome suitor, and a burglar whose fate intertwines with a young wife who befriends his daughter. Also shown are The Lord's Prayer Gaumont 1000 feet Teneriffe the Gem of the Canaries Gaumont Ah Sing and the Greasers Lubin 1000 feet a cow boy comedy with real novelty, and Song Cupid's I, O. U.
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The
Orpheum
Dr. Edison
Gaumont
Teneriffe
Gem of the Canaries
Ah Sing
Lubin
An Unfair Game and Other Pastime Film Highlights
A Tuesday program features Vitagraph's An Unfair Game a drama about a cruel society girl preying on an innocent backwoodsman. Kalem presents Brave Hearts 1000 feet with a mother and daughter heroism sequence. Lubin offers Wifle's Mamma a 1000 foot comedy packed with cliffhanger laughs and an encore.
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Vitagraph
Wifle
Lubin
New York Father Distraught Over Barrymore Marriage Plan
Sidney Harris, father of the bride to be, arrived aboard the French liner La Provence at Sandy Hook distressed by the planned marriage of his daughter to Jack Barrymore. He learned of the engagement only from pilot papers and said at Quarantine he could not block the union and did not wish to express an opinion, noting the law allows a sixteen year old girl to marry.
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New York
Sidney Harris
Jack Barrymore
la Provence
Barrymore
Sandy Hook
Also Mentioned on This Page
F. E. Livengood & Co
the Ladies’ and Children’s Store
Ity
Koontz
Sharon
Eddings
Elders Mansic
Main Street
Pendleton’s Home Store
Lee Teutsch
East Oregonian
Fulper
Koep P
Elmer Richmond
Walla Walla
Edgar Smith
Smith Wheat
Vansycle
Kansas
Mrs. H. R. Newport
W. E. Piersol
O. 3. Gray
Ukith
Arthur Means
F. C. MecNurter of
Mary Baer
Baer
Sunnyside
Washington
W. A. Finnell
Huntington
Snake River
TAPS
Harris
Dan Kemler
W. Bluff St
Pendleton, Oregon
Wohlenberg
Oregon State Fair
Salem
Frank Meredith
Sacramento
Taylor Hardware Co
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