Mary Baker Eddy Dies at 90 Founder of Christian Science
Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science dies at age ninety in Boston after a long life of teaching and writing. News outlines her birth, marriages, and rise from student to leader of the church, noting no successor named and suggesting natural causes likely. The obituary details her fortune, family, and the Mecca status of her Lynn Broad Street home to followers worldwide.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Alfred Farlow
George W. Glover
Deadwood
Mrs. Eddy
Sibyl Wilbur
New Hampshire
Mark Baker
Bow
Shoe
Pembroke Academy
George Washington Glover
Concord
Samuel Baker
Mary Baker
Tilton
N. A
Glovers
Patterson
Eddy
Daniel Patterson
Phineas Quinby
International Hotel
Portland
Maine
Quinby
Mecca
Broad Street
Lynn
Asa Gilbert Eddy
Mra. Eddy
Church of Christ, Scientist
Christian Science Journal
The
Christian Science Sentinel
du Herald du Christian Science
Pleasant View
Merrimac
Addy
Eastern Oregon to host state asylum site meeting
The state board plans a western Oregon to eastern Oregon visit next week to select a site for the eastern Oregon Insane asylum. John Cochran says the board, including Acting Governor Bowerman and Treasurer Steel, will review 17 options with Baker City Pendleton La Grande Union among submissions. Steiner, Lem president of Salem asylum, may join, and Cochran aims to finalize reports after touring Condon Fossil and other locations.
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Joly Cochran Sass Bowerman
Oregon
Steel and Steiner
State Board
Eastern Oregon Insane Asylum
John Cochran
Cochran
McCarthy
Jay Bowerman
Steel
R. BE. L. Steiner
Insane Asylum of
Salem
Condon
Fossl
Baker City
Pendleton
la Grande
Union
Garment Workers March After Slain Striker Funeral
In Chicago and Den, thousands of garment workers followed the body of Charles Lazginskas, a striker shot during an alleged assault on a guard. Banners proclaimed "Shot by Bosses, Who Will be Next" as the procession wound through main streets amid security precautions to curb unrest.
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Den
Charles Lazginskas
Panama Canal
Alaska
Natural Resources and Railroads
Bureau of Public Health
Canal Zone
Congress
Taft
Canal Commission
George W. Goethals
Tommy Burns Retires From Boxing Over Bad Knee
Tacoma Washington December 5. In a letter received today Tommy Burns former heavyweight champion announces permanent retirement from the ring due to a bad knee.
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Tacoma
Wash
Tommy Burns
Chicago Deliverymen Strike Threatens Christmas Trade
Three hundred drivers from department stores in Chicago strike amid holiday rush. Union claims fifteen thousand members may quit. stores refuse wage rise from fifteen to eighteen dollars a week. Disorder and storewide impact loom as extra police patrols begin. Bert Mays of Walla Walla plans a week’s visit.
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Chicago
West selects Ralph Watson as private secretary
Governor-elect Aypolits announces Ralph Watson, political editor of the Ortland Journal, will serve as private secretary to Governor West. Watson, longtime newspaper figure in Pendleton and Salem, aided West’s campaign and will arrive in Salem in a few days to assume duties during the governor-elect’s California trip.
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Ralph Watson
Ortland Journal
Governor West
Watson
Pendleton
East Oregonian
Portland Oregonian
The
Tribune
E. P. Dodd
Portland
Journal
West
Salem
California
Watton
Moran Enters Ring With Picture of Dead Fighter
Owen Moran arrived in New York for a theatrical engagement and bragged that his punch that knocked out Battling Nelson came with a photo of the dead fighter Tommy McCarthy watching. Moran had delivered the fatal blow to McCarthy last winter in San Francisco.
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New York
Tommy McCarthy
Owen Moran
Nelson
Moran
McCarthy
San Francisco
Fatal Train Collision in England at Willensten Junction
London December 5 A collision on the Northwestern railroad at Willensten junction today injured forty people with several fatalities reported.
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England
London
Northwestern Railroad
Willenstenden Junction
County Good Roads Meeting Sets December 17 Session
At a county good roads association meeting held in the Commercial Club rooms, discussions covered movement problems and plans. The next gathering is scheduled for Saturday afternoon December 17 with invited attendees including Umatilla county delegates, county court members, and others interested in the road levy issue. A committee was formed to study a county levy and report at the following meeting.
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County Good Roads Association
Commercial Club
Umatilla
Oregon Entitled to Another Representative in Congress
In a letter to the editor Stephen A Lowell argues Oregon could win a third House seat under a larger apportionment. He cites 672765 population, current 194182 per 1900 census, and suggests units of 226000 to 250000 may grant Oregon an additional representative despite Cannon opposition.
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Oregon
House of Representatives
Cannon
Congress
Stephen A. Lowell
Congress Opens With Snow In Washington After Party Struggle Likely Looms
The sixty first congress convened in Washington amid a snowstorm with limited business. Leaders anticipate a clash over central banking and apportionment as Republicans lose chamber control. Aldrich pushes for a U S central bank while debates grow over population-based representation and the canal zone governance.
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Congress
Aldrich
Central Bank
Republican, RI
National Monetary Commission
England
France
United States
Wall Street
Elurope
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Pierce
491
Representatives
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Wickersham
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