Plan to Unite All Conservationists
National Conservation Association's executive committee considers Phillip P. Wells draft to bridge federal and state water power regulation. The plan seeks to speed development, ensure fair prices, and secure public interest with state or national franchising, condemnation, and regulated leases while preserving federal land use. Gifford Pinchot presides, aiming broad consensus and orderly, honest financing.
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Washington, DC
A&a
National Conservation Association
Gifford Pinchot
Phillip P. Wells
Association
Forest Service
Back to the Farm Movement Aids Rural Education
The Department of Agriculture under Secretary Wilson plans a Back to the Farm campaign to boost rural education through Farmers Institutes. Contests with prizes like calves, chickens, medals, or a county fair trip will reward skills such as milking, grooming, haying, cooking, and shearing.
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Education Children of
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Farmers Institutes
United States
Cancer rising as a major death cause in some nations
A report from Dr. Reid Hunt of the United States Public Health Service on an international cancer conference in Paris notes that cancer mortality is rising and in some countries ranks second to death causes. The conference president Czerny cited high cancer death rates, especially stomach cancer in the United States, with non surgical treatments seen as limited in use and no evidence of transmission from lower animals to humans for cancers.
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Reid Hunt
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Paris
Haa
Czerny
United States
British Women Aid Schemes in London for Culture
A Lincoln message notes quiet efforts for women beyond suffrage campaigns. The University des Latras Francaises in London's West End offers French culture with French student guides, libraries, and readings in a French language ambiance. The central bureau for the employment of women launches the Students Careers association to steer graduates toward higher work and avoid clerical oversupply.
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London
Lincoln
Universite Des Lattras Francaises
West End
Universite Des Annales
Paris
Students’ Careers Association
Alfonso Helps Maiden Use Royal Photo as Wine Trademark
Spain's young monarch Don Alfonso grants permission for a maiden to use his photograph as a mark for her sherry. She explains the wine belongs to her uncle, a Jerez vintner, and the king smiles at the request during a guard change near the Royal Palace.
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Spain
Alfonzo
Alfonnso
Almeria Real
Europe
Leutenant
Alfonso
Jerez
Don Alfonso
Oregon Christmas Trees For California Children
Oregon Christmas trees are shipped to California to brighten the holidays for residents. The steam schooner Yosemite carried 1000 trees amid a deckload of lumber, presenting an afloat forest as it departed Portland. The Yellowstone also took 100 trees, with deliveries planned for Los Angeles.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
California
Golden State
Yosemite
Yellowstone
Los Angeles
North Powder Ice Crop Secures 15000 Tons for Northwest
Dr S A Herring of Pacific Express Fruit Co. finalizes a contract with Andrew Lun of North Powder to supply 15000 tons of ice for the northwest summer. Major deliveries include 6000 tons to Huntington, 2090 to Riparia Washington, 1000 to La Grande, with shipments planned to The Dalles Pendleton Umatilla and other points. Labor costs at North Powder are projected not less than 2000 dollars for the period.
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North Powder
S. A. Herring
Pacific Express Fruit Company
Andrew Lun
Northwest
Mr. Dan
Huntington
Riparia
la Grande
Dalles
Pendleton
Umatilla
Building boom at Ontario continues in Ontario Oregon
Ontario Ore T H Moore plans another brick store building with a 70 foot frontage on Main street and 100 feet depth. The north wall will form the south wall of the opera house to be built next summer. The fifth story of the $100 000 hotel building nears completion as part of a substantial northwest hotel block.
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Ontario
Ore
T. H. Moore
Main Street
Moore
Northwest
Comfort in a Husband's Swearing Expresses Shared Feelings
A lighthearted remark notes that while no woman approves of swearing, a husband voicing her sentiments through blunt language can be a comforting expression of shared feelings.
Macedonian Cry Heard At Last
Greek Patriarchate reports Turkish officials in Macedonia exiling and torturing Greeks. Accounts describe flogging, imprisonments, and killings, with monasteries and villages suffering. The Patriarch petitions Constantinople and foreign powers for swift action to end the abuses.
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Maccedonia
Saya
Constantinople
Macedonia
Monastir
Greyena
Tista
Spelalon
Athanasos
Athanasios
Arap
Greneva
Alphabet Twist on Baseball Legends
A playful alphabet verse from the Journal catalogs 24 players and figures with initials A through Z and related nicknames. It names Archer Bender Comiskey Davis Evers Ferris Flick Griffith Hedges Isbell Lapp Murphy Napoleon O Connor Plank Quaker Red Doom Roger Sheckard Thomas Upp Vaughn Wallace Young and ends with Zelder, in a humorous, old-time tone.
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Archer
Bender
Comiskey
Davis
Might
Evers
Ferris
Flick
Griffith
Old Cincinnati
Hedges
Isbell
Honey
Walloping
Lapp
Murphy
Napoleon
O'Connor
Goose Hill
Plank
Red Doom
Roger
Sheckard
Thomas
Upp
Vaughn
Wallace
Young
Zelder
Journal
Dr F A Clise Optical Specialist In Pendleton Sat
Dr F A Clise optical specialist announces he will be in the John Schmidt building Pendleton Oregon every Saturday until further notice. He offers careful examinations and lenses ground to fit each case. With over twenty years of practice he grinds his own glasses.
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John Schmidt
Pendleton
Ore
People Discuss Winning a Husband Like Prize
People talk about "winning" a husband as if each man were a prize. The remark hints at social pressure and gender expectations in relationships, reflecting attitudes about marriage as a conquest rather than partnership.
Oregon pioneers saved the 49th parallel claim
Dr. Joseph Schafer of the University of Oregon argues in a forthcoming essay that British officials shifted their view after studying American pioneer settlements in Oregon in the forties. The pioneers, he says, pushed the boundary toward the forty-ninth parallel and ensured the United States secured the Pacific Northwest.
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Great Britain
United States
49Th Parallel
Oregon Territory
Joseph Schafer
University of Oregon
Oregon
Oregon Boundary
Pacific
Washington
Idaho
Wm. Peel
Puget Sound
Schafer
Circular stable economizes space in Oregon
Independence Oregon reports the first circular stable finished on the S S F Carmack farm by McNamee Bros. The 60 foot diameter barn has 20 foot high walls and a concrete foundation with a ground floor. It provides stalls for 12 horses six cows and a cargo of feeding cattle. The haymow holds 1000 tons of hay and features a circular track and fork. The roof is self supporting with no center post and stalls face the center to ease feeding and waste removal.
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Independence
Ore
Oregon
S&s. FE
Carmack
McNamee Bros
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Geo. W. Proebster
Weston, Oregon
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Best Claim
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Pendleton Iron Works
Pendleton, Oregon
Marion Jack
Pres
M. L. Akers
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First National Bank
Pendleton,oregon
McKillip Vet. College
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