Chicago Northwestern to build massive Chicago depot
The Chicago & Northwestern plans a $20 million depot in Chicago. Other early 1908 news items include 180000 totalisms entering the United States, a homicide in Hazelton Pennsylvania, severe cold in western panhandle Nebraska, high coal prices near Rosebud, and notable obituaries and legal cases.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Hazelton
Soberta Anasiack
Western
Pan i
Nebraska
Rosebud
Monsignor Adams
Rome
Monsignor
Adam
Leo Nit
Pius X
Potomac
Bay of Inlands
Newfoundland
Christmas Gift Guide Promises Easy Family Presents
Readers are invited to simplify holiday shopping with a broad selection labeled as suitable for every family member. The notice suggests there is a gift for everyone and emphasizes saving time and worry in choosing presents.
Fire damages Fairbanks business district. seven figures in losses
A fire in Fairbanks Alaska caused about 12000 dollars in damage to the town’s business area on December 16. The report notes rising lumber charter rates from Sound Pointe to San Francisco and San Diego, a planned 100000 foot daily sawmill by Stokes of Portland and Johnson of San Francisco, and amid health concerns nine typhoid cases linked to water from Asylum springs. Several other local items include a pet-poison incident in Vancouver BC and missing boy Walter Hopkins.
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Fairbanks
Alaskan
Soundpointe
San Francisco
San Diego
San Pedro
Yaguing Bay
T. R. Stokes
Portland
P. H. Johnson
Asylum Springs
Hawthorne Park
C. H. Wheeler
Henrietta Leeds
Miss Davis
Oregon City
Vancouver
B.C
Recluse Hans Kohlen Sells Ranch Moves to Civic Life
Hans Kohlen of Stevens county a renowned recluse sold his four mile west Fruitland ranch for 2500 dollars to Davis and plans to return to Germany. After 22 years with little social contact he intends to reenter civic life. He built and fenced the place alone kept his hair uncut and slept in a hay filled bed.
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Hans Kohlen
Stevens County
Hunter's Wash
Kohlen
Loge
Ralis
Davis
Germany
Mormonism in Tennessee spreads in Chattanooga
Chattanooga Tenn December 19 Elder Brigham ex Congress man from Utah expelled from the house and Elder George Albert Smith one of the 12 apostles with 85 other Mormons are here to spread the Mormon doctrine Roberts a speaker said adoption of Mormonism would help solve the race problem and there was no reason why Mormons should not establish stakes and wards of Zion in Tennessee and Georgia as they were in Utah
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Brigham
Utah
George Albert Smith
Roberts
Zion
Tennessee
Georgia
Utih
Jews Organize for Protection in Chicago
In Chicago at the West Slide Auditorium Annex, Jews held a main meeting to organize the Hebrew Protective Association. The group aims to guard Jews from mob attacks and to bring offenders to justice, with badges issued and instructions provided on how to seek aid when needed.
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Chicago
West Slide Auditorium
Hebrew Protective Association
Rowdloe
Japanese Laborers on Mexican Central Railway Extension
In Guadalajara Mexico on December 16 the Hast Oregonian reports over two thousand Japanese laborers are now employed on the Manzanillo extension of the Mexican Central railway with a further shipment of two thousand daily expected.
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Mexico
Guadalajara
Manzanillo
Mexican Central Railway
Freight rate fight pits Spokane against Seattle over fair funding
Spokane mobilizes against Seattle to oppose a 1 million dollar Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition appropriation in 1909. Eastern Washington towns like Walla Walla weigh joining in a united effort to demand fair freight rates, amid a wary business community and questions about open river policy.
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Washington
Seattle
Spokane
Walla Walla
Walla Wallin
River appropriation drive gains statewide support
Walla Walla hopes to secure a Washington legislature appropriation to open the Columbia River. Professor W D Lyman of the Walla Walla Commercial club tours the state to gain cooperation from residents and lawmakers. In a Vancouver letter he says success is likely and the project will benefit before he returns. Rallies are planned at Lewiston and Clarkston, with both cities eager to back the open river effort.
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Walla Walla
Willan Walla Union
Washington
Columbia River
Profesor W. D. Lyman
Lewiston
Clarkston
Long Tennessee Fight Ends With Arnica Salve Claim
W L Rawls of Bella Tennessee reports twenty year battle with naval catarrh. He says swelling and soreness in his nose vanished after applying Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to the sore surface and did not return. Sold 2c at Tallman & Co. druggists.
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Tennessee
W. L. Rawls
Bella, Tenn
Tallman & Co
Gins Ware and Water Sets Sale at Clark's Grocery
Consignment sale offers gin ware at wholesale cost with a water set priced at .15, claimed to be cheaper than remst 2.50 elsewhere. Berry dish sets highlighted as Christmas gifts. DeWitt's Little Early Risers recommended by Tallman & Co.
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Clark's Grocery
East Oregonian
DeWitt's
Tallman & Co
Hotel Portland Offers Modern Facilities and Rates
Portland hotel advertises American plan from two dollars per day and up, inviting tourists and commercial travelers. Special rates for families and single gentlemen. rooms shown on request. Modern Turkish bath establishment within the hotel. H. Co. Bowers, Manager.
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Portland
Oregon
Imea
H. Co. Bowers
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General News
Yukon
Binger Hermann
Washington, D.C
General Land Office
Baker
Honolulu
Nevada
Ogden
Tonopah
Goldfield
London
House of Commons
Commons
F. J. Donaldson
Red Cross Pharmacy
Johnson
Walters’ Flouring Mills
Northwest News
Powder River
W. H. Downing
State Board of Agriculture
Boringsea
Lampson
Victoria
B. C
Walter
W. F. Hopkins
Meda
Cloverdale
Titamook County
Littlesturn
Big Bend Parm
Oregonian
Phone Malin
HOTEL
Peoples Warehouse
Pendleton, Oregon
Guiotte
The
Iola
Olympia
Sters
Holland
Alaska
Heinz Aulk
Papehs
Tower
Lyman’s
East Court St
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