Portland Social Efforts Aimed at Denver Convention
Portland Commercial Club pushes for a special Trans-Continental Passenger service to Denver for the Democratic National Convention. Rose Planting Day set for February 22 with 5000 roses planted in city parks and 60,000 more in yards. A Spokane Walla Walla excursion will entertain 215 travelers, promoting Northwest routes. Governor Chamberlain attends Hood River banquet. lumber shipments fueling Panama Canal construction. A vivid anecdote recalls Governor William Allen's defiant speech in Mozart Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Commercial Club
Hig Railroad Meeting
Portland
Pacific Northwest
Colorado
Stavion
Coronado Beach
Cal
Bill
Inge, Mont
Gazette
Oregon
Hood River Commercial Club
Metropolis
Chamberlain
Pandima Canal
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertising and Endorsements
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for a catarrh cure. It features J Cheney and a Toledo address, with testimonials from Walding Kleinman Marvin and wholesale druggists. It claims internal treatment reaches the blood and mucous surfaces and promotes testimonials and price per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
J. Cheney
O.toledo
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kienan & Marvin
Wholesale Druggista
Toledo
All Drugglatn
Finll
Conatipa Ton
New Apple Named Copper by Horticultural Group
The Horticultural association at its session yesterday reported a unique apple raised by H. Lt. Fragier of Dixie. A seed planted 40 years ago produced a distinct fruit tree, and under committee guidance it was named Copper, marking a notable local achievement in fruit production. Dewitt's Carbonized Witch Hazel Salve is advertised by Tallman & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walla Walls
The
Horticultural Association
Thornburg
Walla Walla Stuiesman
Dewitt
Tallman & Co
It Is Always Amusing to See a Little Man
A clipped quip notes the sight of a small man swaggering in a momentary perch of power, highlighting the irony of authority.
Tea from New York and San Francisco proximity noted
The note compares tea origins with Japan and the U S West Coast. It mentions a grocer returning money if Schilling's Boston product is not seen, implying a purchase arrangement or guarantee. The fragment hints at trade or advertising language without clear event details.
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New York
Japan
San Francisco
Fascination of Burglary and Oddities of Wall Street
A collage of brief items covers a Holmes remark on a bookbinder burglar, a Cassell note on auctions of obsolete Wall Street securities, Chesterton on simple causes of crime, ethnologist Brown predicting Australia’s future color, witty exchanges on marriage and Wall Street fortune, dialect jokes, Gladstone moral reflections, and a closing flourish about constant news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Holmes
Holmes
Cassell
London Fog Prevention by Explosions Debated
London officials drop plans to fund experiments to dispel fog via explosive disturbance of the atmosphere. An Italian inventor argues fog could be prevented by creating molecular disruption through atmospheric vibrations, as explained by a civil and electric engineer, while the theory of displacing the air is rejected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert J. Wynne
London
Meterological Office
Sleht
Jeforms
Piles Remedy ManZan Sold in Collapsible Tube
Advertises ManZan as an inexpensive piles remedy avoiding surgery. Sold by A. C. Koep pen and Bros in collapsible tube with nozzle priced at 50 cents for all forms of piles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Koeppen & Bros
Petrified Body Found in Ringgold Graveyard
The body of Mrs. Sarah Geist, buried 17 years ago in a Ringgold Pennsylvania graveyard, was unearthed recently and found to be perfectly petrified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Geist
Ringgold
Interview on Cooper's stomach remedy boosts sales
An interview with L. T. Cooper praises a stomach medicine for degenerative stomach illness. Monroe Brown says the treatment cured his catarrh and rheumatism after seven years of suffering, with renewed energy and appetite. Pendleton Drug Co. advertises the preparations.
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L. T. Cooper
Cooper
Europe
Monroe Brown
Hancock Street
Simt
Mr. Brown
Boston
Discovery
Pendleton Drug Co
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Kon
Denver
Tony
Organ
Willim Aten
Ohio
Hin
Senate
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Schilling
Wall Street
Pittsburg
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrated London News
McMillan Brown
Sydney
America
Asia
Miss Primm
Wedderly
Mr. Wedderly
London Telegraph
Washington Star
Misa Kinky
Mr. Jackson
Kansas City Times
William E. Gladstone
Pendleton
Ranchman
St. George
Geonge Hwarveau, Proprietos
Hotel
Northwest
Golden Rule Hotel
Corner Court and
Johnson Streets
H. C. Means
Aftean
American Plan
H. C. Bowers
W. C. Minnis
Henning's Cigar Store
Peoples Warehouse
Rock Springs
Bridger
Vulcan
Lumber Yard
Pendleton Tannery
Alta Street
A. Otke
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