Jamestown Tercentennial Fizzle Ends In Losses
Jamestown Tercentennial clos ed Saturday night with a record of one of the most complete failures in expositions. Debits amount to 2 500 000 dollars and investigation shows mismanaged funds delays and jealousy among officials. Attendance averaged 20 000 to 60 000 with North Carolina drawing 60 000 on its day. Government loans and private backing left debts of about 2 500 000 with little prospect of reopening next spring.
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Jamestown
North Carolina
Commonwealth
Georgia
Old Dominion
Expo- Mio
Abdic
Elte
Exposition Company
Tdl
Ontraight
Coffee time as a quip on tea and coffee
Odd printer line mocks preference between tea and coffee with fragmented phrases about croeer memer and Nike Schilling's Peet, suggesting a humorous or garbled adage rather than a clear event.
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Croeer
Nike Schilling
Lecturer Urges Child Involvement in Forestry Plan
Enos A. Mills, lecturer for the United States Forestry Department, speaks at the high school on Our Friends the Trees proposing that children vote on national and state trees, with weekly classroom forestry studies and essays. He favors a Washington forestry commission and a university chair, arguing science and patriotism grow from loving nature and saving forests. The talk aims to reach city teachers as well.
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Enos A. Milla
Forestry Department of the United States
Spokane
Mille
Mr. Mills
Mills
Chamber of Commerce
Tormey
Land Brings 425 Per Acre In Yakima Valley Sale
The 66 acre tract west of Yakima sold for 23800 at 425 per acre to J N Huxtable and W Ross Stuart, through Tennant Miles. The buyers, noted orchardists, plan immediate planting and water from Congdon ditch until Treton canal supply is ready.
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Yakima
Theodore Weisberger
Tennant
Summit View School Road
Messrs
Huxtable and
Stuart
Yakima Country
John E. Johnson
Congdon
J. I. Huxtable
W. Rogs Stuart
Inter est to football boys stars of season and teams
Wisconsin has played a great game since resuming football. A 17 to 17 tie with Minnesota marks strong play. Harvard loses Starr Newhall Yajo loses Jones Dines. Yale Tad Jones plans post-graduate return for coaching. Michigan leads Western teams with 107 points for and 6 against. Yale and Dartmouth both scored on for 10 points, Yale 208 and Dartmouth 160 total.
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University of Wisconsin
Minnesota
Harvard
Starr
Newhall
Yajo
Jones
Dines
Tad Jones
Yale
Michigan
Dartmouth
Tragedy in Fraser River Rapids Claims Seven Men
A party of seven white men and an Indian attempted to pass rapids on the Upper Fraser river yesterday. six drowned. The survivor reported the wreck occurred amid dangerous currents and rocky channels, with rescuers unable to reach others in time.
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Fraser River
Walla Walla Traction Plans Electric Line Franchise
Attorney John L. Sharpstein outlined an ordinance to grant Washington and Oregon Traction a franchise to build an electric railway through Walla Walla from Ninth Street to Hesse and beyond toward the Blue Mountains. The route, surveyed along Mill and Cottonwood creeks to government meadows, requires street committee review with right of way secured on most farms. A separate note reports $50,000 fire damage to the British ship Montana in Philadelphia.
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Washington & Oregon Traction Company
Walla Walla
John L. Sharpstein
Ninth
Hesse
Bine Mountains
Mill Creek
Cottonwood Creek
Blue Mountains
Government Meadows
New Booster Hartog Plans Immigrant Attraction Office
John H. Hartog, named booster, will begin work immediately. He will use space in the Commercial club building formerly a ladies room, with front and second floor areas prepared. Furniture will be installed, roof fixed, and two stenographers hired to start nationwide immigrant recruitment.
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John H. Hartog
Eugene Guard
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Board of Governors
J. M. Barr
Seahoard Air Line
H. W Kohlmat
Harry St. George Tucker
Donne
Barr
Alyah M. Martin
Bankere
Capital
Norfolk
Rexall
Pendleton
State Forestry Department
Yakiena County
The
Hunter Furniture Store
Crockery
Hunter
Montana
Philadelphia
Polytechnic Business Collerata
Oakland Cal, (Inc
Capital Stock
West
U.S
Oakland Chamber of Commerce
Southern Pacific Railroad Co
Booster
the Alexander Department Store
Electric Bakeries
Dean Tatum
Main ST
Hotel
St. George
St. George Ia
Northwest
Golden Rule Hotel
Corner Court and
Johnson Streets
Pendleton, Oregon
H. C. Means
Portland
Oregon
H. C. Bowers
Judd
Hohbach’s
Oyster House
Court St
Alwasy
City Brewery
Schultz & Strickler
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