City Brevities: Short Notices and Ads
A collage of local notices requests and ads including dry wood for sale and shelf goods, lodging and room rentals, apprentices sought at a millinery, voice and elocution lessons, hotel rates in Portland, real estate for sale or rent, job seeks, lost item reward, and lumber yard promotions. Includes references to Mrs Campbell Cerenn Driscoll J L Sharon and Oregon Lumber Yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Scrip
Sea Minnis
South Main ‘Street
Logan Street
Wonder
J. L. Sharon
O. F. Hail
Fountain Pen
Wonder Store
East Oregonian
Potlatch Lumber Company
Cerena 8
Driscoll
Thompson Street
Cosby Street
C. A. Eppinger
Alexander Department Store
Portland
Oregon
Thia
Aura Street
Hunter Furniture Store
J. W. Skiles
Garfield Street
Alta Street
Secon
Oregon Lumber Yard
Fatal lamp blast at Miss Masterson's Cleveland home
John Burke aged 22 and Miss Mary Masterson aged 29 sustained severe burns when a gasoline lamp exploded during an evening visit at Miss Masterson's residence in Cleveland. Burke died from the burns while assisting with the lamp, as flames enveloped both.
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John Burke
Mary Masterson
Do Animals Blush and Other Oddities From History
A collection of curiosities notes animal behavior with fur concealing facial flushes, mentions vultures and monkeys reddening, and cites the London Zoo. Also a joke about naming a baby Ananias and a science blurb on the origin of alcohol from cave dwellers consuming fermented fruit.
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Capaally
London Zoologicall Gardens
London Mall
Medical romance line ends with a pun about asthma
A young doctor tells a girl he has a heart affection. She asks how long. He says he will live a troubled life without her. She replies you had better asthma, delivering a light pun.
The Voice of Experience and the Professor Debate
A brief exchange features a professor praising the instruction of youth as a delightful occupation while a woman questions the sentiment. The dialogue reflects light social tones and gendered attitudes in a domestic magazine context.
Rettled and Pepperly Dialogue on Laughing Horses
A brief Chicago News quote notes people discuss a horse laugh, but the speaker insists horses do not laugh around him. Miss Pepperly adds that if horses cannot laugh, that settles it. The fragment ends with a philosophical quote on happiness from Fichte about deserving happiness rather than seeking it.
Gymnasium Benefit Friday Evening for All Ages
A community gymnasium benefit is set for Friday evening February 8 to support both young and old participants. Organizers invite residents to attend events and donate, with gatherings aimed at inclusive participation and local fundraising.
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Gymnasum
Local Whitman County notes report flu like illness and travel
F A Hidwell of Union visited Pendleton today while several residents including C K Cranston, George Hamblen and H A Anderson suffer grip and lumbago. J B McNaught travels for treatment to Hot Lake. PENDLETON officials and workers report ongoing flood effects near Echo and Barnhart with unchanged damage. G Sinclair Moulton, Pendleton hotel figure, cites New York suicide tied to gastritis illness at Grand Union Hotel.
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F. A. Hidwell
Union
C. K. Cranston
George Hamblen
J. B McNaught
Hermiston
Hot Lake
H. A. Anderson
Forster Plating Mill
AR. Capinger
Weston
A. C. Crawford
Echo
Barnhart
Pendleton
G. Sinclair Moulton
Grand Union Hotel
New York City
Park Gate Hotel Company
Manhattan Square Hotel
Beeves From Freye-Bruhn Supplied by Two Carloads
Two carloads of fat beeves arrived for Freye-Bruhn of Seattle, supplied by Beeeves and William Futter with Camas Prairie connections. Dr. W H Wallace Anderson, superintendent of Medical Lake Insane asylum, resigns amid charges of inefficiency. Yakima valley chufiose pheasants die in deep snow. losses believed large.
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Beeeves
William Futter
Camas Prairie
Freye-Bruhn
Seattle
W. H W. Anderson
Medical Lake Insane Asylum
Anderson
Spokane
Yakima Valley
Sheep Dipping In Idaho Continues On Marcellus Ranch
State veterinarian Dr. George F. Noble oversees dipping of many Meridan area sheep at the Marcellus ranch amid claims Idaho is free of sheep scab. In Newark New Jersey Jacob Kunz and daughters Caroline 6 Barbara 20 months died from asphyxiation and Jennie 9 is in peril after a bed incident. General George Rogers Clark survived amputation of a leg in a late 18th century era the drum corps played during the operation.
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Idaho
George F. Noble
Marcellus Ranch
Meridian
Newark
N. J
Jacob Kunz
Caroline
Barbara
Jennie
Kung
George Rogers Clark
Chicago
Lewiston Urged to Contain Smallpox at Home
Mayor Henry Heltfeld received a letter from the president of Washington state board of health warning that failure to keep smallpox patients in Lewiston could lead to state actions against the city in favor of Seattle. The letter asserts Lewiston has no current smallpox cases, and suggests Seattle residents may have misdirected concerns to Lewiston, noting similar cases in nearby Latah county.
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Lewiston
Henry Heltfeld
Washington State Board of Health
Washington
Seattle
Latah County
Lewiston Teller
Neighbors Fooled by Cough Cure Claim
Mrs Eva Uncapher of Grovertown Stark County Indiana recounts a dramatic recovery from a near fatal cough after using Dr King s New Recovery. She credits four one dollar bottles for restoring health and notes Tallman Co druggists offer 50 cent and 1.00 bottles with a trial bottle free.
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Dr. King
Eva Uncapher
Grovertown
Stark Go
Ind
Ty Tallman & Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
National Brokerage & Sales Co
Meaker & Cochran
Lee Teutsch Dept. Store
Alta Sts
Pendleton, Oregon
Louis Hunziker
Malin St
New York
A.groeppen Bros
Pendleton.ore
Ananias
Uncle Ben
George Washington
Washington Star
The
Despain & Bean
Frazer Theater
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