Railroads Probing Track Upgrades and Mogul Engine Plans
Spokane reports heavy expenditure on BR and N track realignment from Huron to Pendleton to support 90 ton engines for freight. Bridge strengthening and thousands of new ties accompany new turntables and temporary yard equipment as Baldwins’ 300 class locomotives with triple cylinders rise to the task. Railroad officials forecast rapid identification of soft track spots as work continues.
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Ballanting
Huron
Ferth
Umatilin
Pendleton
Ballas
Mmne
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Newell Talks Irrigation at Denver Forestry Meeting
F H Newell, geographer with the Geological Survey, outlines forest water benefits at the American Forestry Association gathering in Denver. He stresses full development of resources via water alignment for irrigation, power, and municipal use, and calls for forest protection and careful headwater treatment to reduce pollution and runoff.
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Denver
Ecasion
American Forestrysaasociation
F. H. Newell
Pooeecal Survey
United States
Raote
Weat
Congress
Alaskan Indian teacher Miss Mann visits Pendleton on route east
Miss Francie N Mann slater of Dr BE Mann arrived in Pendleton from the Aleutian islands after two years with the Indian Service at Unalaska where she led the Indian School. She plans to return next summer or seek a position in Manila while studying English and literature in New York and visiting the Buffalo exposition.
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Francie N. Mann
Slater
BE. A. Mann
Pendleton
New York City
Miss Mann
Indian Service
Unalaska
Aleutian Islands
Nome City
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Tallman Drug Store
Mike Mann
Alrira
Maoila
New York
Columbia College
Buffalo Exposition
Entertaining Newspaper Features Highlight Chicago Record Herald
A promotional note extols the Chicago Record Herald as a merged diverse daily rich in features. It touts foreign and New York dispatches, market and finance pages, sports, editorials, humor, stories, society, fashion, book reviews, and club coverage aimed at discerning readers in Chicago and the Northwest.
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United States
Cilienge Record- Herald
Wiviell Eoubieee
Cilienge Record
Chicago Timee-Herald
Chic
Oninday
Chicago Record-Herald
Washington
William E. Curtis
Record-Heralde
New York Dispatches
New York Herald
New York Tribune
Associated Preas
Ite
Markete
Huanca
Commercial Intelligencer
Kiser
Department of Rarroade
Mosaic
Efora
Mae
Great Lakes
Chicago
Northwest
Trifling Black Person and Wedding Tale From Rural Kentucky
A narrative from a Louisiana or Mississippi era locale recounts a Black person’s tale of a young woman returning from a rural Kentucky region. At a friend’s house she is given a colored girl as a personal attendant who later attends a wedding and recounts a night of eating ice cream cake dancing and a bride in white. The account uses racial language and portrays social dynamics of the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kangae City
Kentucky
Mandy
East Oregonian Urges Fair Mining Taxation Reform
The East Oregonian calls attention to mining taxation equity, noting Laker county mines lack proportional tax share. The writer labels taxation of mineral wealth as a real, knotty issue, matching debates on intangible wealth and urging the paper to address the problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Oregonian
Laker County
Boer War Tale of Kruger and a London Commissioner
During the height of the Transvaal conflict a Kruger commissioner sent to England reported 4,000,000 people in London with no excitement and men begging to be sent to battle. Kruger replied Go North. The commissioner wound up in Newcastle and sent a final plea that England is bringing up men from hell, eight at a time, to cages, noting he had been a coal mine.
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Transvaal
Paul Kruger
England
London
Kroger
Newcastle
Hell
Fragmentary wartime reminiscence quoted in a half remembered text
The passage recalls a young girl confronted by an elder who is silenced by a quotation about treating others as you wish to be treated. The narrator hints at memories of old times and a vague sense of atmospheric conditions near the earth’s surface.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiss
Ewestheart
Hankdineer
Euch
Portland Jailer Accused of Taking Bribe in Release Deal
A Multnomah county jailer, Mitchell, is accused of taking 38 dollars from a prisoner to secure her release after a 60 dollar fine. The incident involved Judge Cameron and the county physician’s advice. Mitchell plans to return the money amid an inquiry by Acting Judge McDevitt.
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Portland
Ang
Naylor
Aohine
Mitchell
Multnomah County
Cameron
McDevitt
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Exhast
Harriman Properties
Spokane
Spokesman-Review
H. Garriman
Charles M. Cage
Southern Pacific
Great Transportation
Grand One
Chicago & Alton
Kansas City & Southern
Union Pacific
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
Oregon Abort
M. Felsoni
A. L. Mohler
M. Haye
St. Louis Poat-Dispaten
Clarian Hays
Southern Pacific Railway
Louie Frien
BR. & NS
Salt Lake City
Cowan
Penuh General Agency
Vo RK & N
Markham
Miller
Prmney
Pao Vergeer Passel
Iter
Stubbs
Soutdern Pacific
Union Reet
Obicago
Ayetoma
W.J. Neimyer
Twin
Newell
Irrigation
American Forestry Association
W. E. Garretson
Pendieion
Mat Taylor
W. W. Pangburn
White House
Wits Uume
F.S. Younger & Son
F. Wamsley
Pall
Oregon
Jesse
Magnet Cash
Clements & Wilson
Corner Court
Cottonwood Streets
F. Frank
Mgr
J. Gollober
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