Farmers Week Course at Oregon Agricultural College
The annual Farmers Week at Oregon Agricultural College runs February 13 to 18 with lectures and demonstrations on fruit growth, soils, farm management, pests, butter and cheese making, and home management. A poultry show closes the event with top northwest fowl exhibits. Attendees are urged to bring discussion topics. attendance last year reached about 400 and is expected to grow. Rail and city accommodations are being arranged.
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Oregon Goricultural College
Willamette
Oregon
Farmers’ Institute
Northwest
Dean Cordley
Baby Hands Misuse and First Aid Ad
An old advertisement promotes Ballard’s Snow Liniment for burns cuts and scalds on babies, claiming rapid relief and quick healing. It also markets it for sprains rheumatism and neuralgia with prices 26c 50c and 1.00 by A C Koeppen & Bros.
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Ballard
Koeppen & Bros
State Department blunder over consular name mix up
Washington reports a mix up in consular appointments after the state department sent a Berlin cable naming Gabriel B Hollis as consul general at Constantinople. The actual appointee was Gabriel B Cavandal of Beirut, later corrected before Senate entry. The error sparked diplomatic friction before a correction reached Berlin.
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Washington News
Washington
State Department
Berlin
Chicago
Gabriel B. Hollis
Constantinople
Gabriel B. Cavandal
Beirut
Cavandal
W. Stanley Hollis
Dundee
Senate
Rolla
Nwspaper
White House
Department
Echo Civic league forms public boost for Echo
Echo Oregon February 6 report notes the Civic league organized by the Ladies of Needlecraft held its first public meeting February 3 at L. C. F. hall. Eighteen new members joined with aims to clean and beautify Echo. Also covers local arrivals departures and church services plus a long historical note on leather tanning in America and a Detroit show telecommunication device.
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Echo
Ore
Civic League
Patriotic Ladies of Needlecraft
L. C
F. Hall
Ray Smith
Portland
Iowa
Stella McCullough
Business
L. Willey
Echo, BE
Ware
E. H. Brown
Echo Register
Stanfield Standard
Brown
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. F. McKain
Geo. L. Sprattler
Pendleton
M. E
J. T. Hosking
Bethel
L. Clark
America
Virginia
Wynn
Mass
Old Country
New England
Detroit
Inseria
Exchange
ZEMO Dandruff Treatment Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts ZEMO and ZEMO SOAP as the best economical solution for dandruff and scalp infections. It claims a single shampoo plus ZEMO will stop itching and cleanse the scalp, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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America
Ancient tanning methods traced from Egypt to Americas
The article outlines early tanning practices from Egypt and Rome to native American peoples. It notes bark and plant compounds preserved leather, with Romans using oil, alum, and bark and natives tanning skins with oil, smoke, and clay. It mentions hair removal methods and a note on tanning advances by 1790.
Ship Hay From Freewater to West With 11.50 a Ton
A large quantity of baled hay is being shipped from Freewater to Washington Idaho and British Columbia priced at 11.50 a ton. Homesteaders near Bend Oregon petitioned for a Millican post office with Millican as the oldest settler. A. S. Newland of Ritzville ordered a catapult engine for farm work and plans a sale of horses and 引 Tiles.
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Freewater
Vincent, Hudson Bay
Gardena Diatricta
Washington
Idaho
British Columbia
Bend
Ore
High Desert
Townarte
Postal Department
Millican
Ritzville
Wash
A. S. Newland
Snow depth 23 inches in Walla Walla area
A January report from a weather observatory near the Tollgate in the Blue Mountains notes total precipitation of three and twelve hundredths inches for last month. The current snow depth in the area is 23 inches.
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Waila Waila
Wash
Brand
Tollgate
Blue Mountains
Elgin Ranchers Sell Wheat in Elgin Oregon
Local ranchers dispose of wheat with several carloads shipped in recent days. The going price is about 71 cents, viewed as fair but discouraging after earlier fall prices around 76 cents.
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Elgin
Worn Out Lungs Cough Ends With Ballard’s Syrup
A vintage ad promotes Ballard's Horehound Syrup to stop a nagging cough and heal the lungs. Prices listed as 2hc 60c and 1 per bottle, by A C Koeppen & Bros.
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C. Koeppen & Bros
Uncle Sam Honest As Well As Efficient
Washington announces the Panama railroad annual report shows automatic weighing machines for canal employee supplies. The US government through the commissary department oversees stocks feeding thousands of workers. last year’s value reached 3.913 million dollars.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Panama Railroad
Panama Canal
United States
Canal
Sim
Mother's Friend Promises Comfort for Expectant Mothers
An old advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a penetrating oil that lubricates muscles and nerves, expands skin and tissues, and prepares the system for delivery. It claims to ease suffering, aid natural recovery, and support the mother’s health for rearing children, with a call to write for a free book. Sold at drug stores and by Bradfield Regulator Co. Atlanta Ga.
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Bradfield
Atlanta
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Shoe Department
Cheap Aid
Navy
Ose
Children’s Coats
Rom
Chamberlain
Oregonian
The
East Oregonian
Zemo
Oregon Theater
Poni Weeak
D. F.rt
Duffy
D. F. Sibert
Scotland
Archer Co
Texas
Dutty Malt Whiskey Co
Rochester
N.Y
News OF the Northwest
Petsaey
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