Pastime theater brings best pictures and prizes
Locals advertise pastimes and shops including the Wonder Store with spring goods and a new theater experience. appeals for shoes, rugs, wood, and delivery horses. Lonergan-Kennedy orchestra offers music for events. police report mentions a historical assassination claim and disputed death details.
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Oregon Lumber Yard
Wonder Store
East Oregonian
B. Bluff St
Oakwood
Eable
J. B. Halley
Express
Welch
Half Million Dollars Insurance at Stake in Trial
In Muskogee Oklahoma a federal suit goes to trial over life and accident insurance policies totaling about half a million dollars. Mrs Susie M Burdette, widow of Joshua Burdette, sues Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co American National Provident Savings Life Mutual Life Fidelity Casualty Co alleging claims connected to the estate and coverage. The defendants include Philadelphia based Penn Mutual and New York firms, with Galveston based American National and others named in the suit. The action arises from the policy on Joshua Burdette, a prominent Creek merchant.
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Muskogee
Okla
United States Circuit Court
Susie M. Burdette
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co
Philadelphia
American National
Galveston
Provident Savings Life
Mutual Life and Fidelity & Casuality Co
New York
Hurdette
Joshua Burdette
Creek
Land development in northern Mexico boosts irrigation plans
Consul Clarence A. Miller reports Matamoros press clippings detailing irrigation and agricultural expansion on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Transfers of 2,600,000 acres for settlement, subdivision of 3,000,000 acres for irrigation, turpentine lease rights on 6,000 acres, and sale of 75,000 acres of prospective lands are noted. The Bureau of Manufacturers will loan the article to interested firms.
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Clarence A. Miller
Matamoros
Rio Grande
Bureau of Manufacturers
French naval reforms plan totals forty five million dollars
Paris on February 8 Alfred Picard the new minister of marine in succession to M Thomesen has submitted to the cabinet a wide development program for the French navy. Excluding new ships the plan calls for an expenditure of 45000000 dollars.
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Paris
Alfred Picard
M. Thomesen
Dorondo Pietr Defeats Local Relay Team in 16 Mile Race
Dorondo Pietr Doronido Metri, the noted Italian marathon runner, defeated a relay team of four local men Saturday night in Indianapolis. The 16 mile race ended with Metri clocking one hour, 35 minutes, 35 seconds. Opponents were William Wright, Lester Miller, Ray Aronson, and Joseph Marclay.
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Indianapolis
Doronido Metri
Dorondo
William Wright
Lester Miller
Ray Aronson
Joseph Marclay
Thief Steals Plassan Painting From Lenox Library
A nine by seven inch painting titled Mother and Child by Antoine Emile Plassan, born 1817, was cut from its frame in the Lenox public library and stolen by an unknown thief during the day on February 8 in New York.
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New York
Antoine Emile Plassan
Lenox Public Library
Foley's Ortho Laxative Promises Constipation Relief
An ad from Pendleton Drug Co. touts Foley's Ortho Laxative as a cure for constipation and liver trouble. It claims the product makes the bowels healthy and regular and cites superiority over pile and tablets by avoiding aripe or nauveation, urging readers to not take anything else.
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Foley
Pendleton Drug Co
Pendleton High Prepares Strong Team for Eastern Oregon Meet
Pendleton High School gears up for spring track season with vaulting and jumping poles, practice underway, and last year's stars returning. Cheater Gordon and Kimball lead sprints and hurdles, Hawley Bean tops high jump, Devine handles weights, Wayne Chapman and Tommy Boylen join distances. Home team favored to win the Eastern Oregon high school meet in Pendleton. Boylen narrowly missed first in Denver last year after collapsing near finish. New promising runners also emerge as the squad builds toward the big meet.
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Pendleton
Oregon
Cheater Gordon
Bett
Kimball
Hawley Bean
Devine
Wayne Chapman
Tommy Boylen
Colorado
Denver
Boylen
Oregon Leads at Alaska-Yukon Exposition Building Show
Oregon opens its exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition showcasing a handsome building. Reporters from Washington tasted fresh apples from Oregon, toured the basement cold storage, and marveled at 200 musicianship sized fruit samples. California’s new Spanish style building ranks as a strong rival in popularity.
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Seattle
Feb
Oregon
Oregon Building
Tate
Washington
Exposition Grounds
California
Farm by Power Lillard Engine Ready for Desert Plow
J W and W W Lillard north of Baker City have received a Reeves power engine with gang plows and a large water pump to plow sage brush desert soil, irrigate during the season, and later aid harvest. The outfit aims to keep the engine busy from plowing to pumping and harvest.
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J. W
W. W. Lillard
Baker City
The
Herald
Reeves
Lillard
For Rent 200 Acres of Farm Land in Pendleton Area
200 acres of garden alfalfa and wheat land for rent along McKay creek 3 miles from Elity. Contact Dan Kemler Pendleton Oregon for details.
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McKay Creek
Elity
Dan Kemler
Pendleton
Ore
Woman Wanted for Washing Work
Help wanted for washing duties. Call at 911 Water Street or telephone Main 91 for details.
Pendleton Wins Narrow Basketball Thriller Over Weston
Pendleton high school edged Weston normals 24 to 23 in a tense game that featured three lead changes in the final minute. Star performers were Storm for Weston and Cooley Jordan McDill and Rader for Pendleton, with referee F D Applegate praised for controlling rough play.
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Pendleton High School
Weston Normals
Penditon
Weston
MecDill
Pendleton
Storm
Cooley
Jordan
McDill
Rader
Kimball
F. D. Applegate
Walla Walla
Racgcr
Seach Sis Scies
Man with amnesia found in Passaic General Hospital
A six-foot stranger, about 35, with memory loss is being identified by Passaic General Hospital staff and police. A Pennsylvania timetable bearing the label Tyler Jubal Bagler from Hinton West Virginia is the only clue. He rambles about Greek history claiming to be Leonidas of Sparta.
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Passic
N. J
Passic General Hospital
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tyler Jubal Bagler
Hinton
W. Va
Leonidas
Sparta
Sussex County
Foley's Kidney Remedy Urges Prompt Use For Urinary Health
Hexamethylenetetramine, a German chemical, is cited as a uric acid solvent and urine antiseptic in Foley's Kidney Remedy. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy at first signs of irregularities to prevent a serious malady. Pendleton Drug Co.
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Pendleton Drug Co
Postoffice Empleados Arrested for Theft in Montana
Butte Montana February 8 Richard Hocking and William Martin postoffice employees are arrested on charges of stealing postal funds. Hocking a money order clerk allegedly reduced money orders and pocketed the difference with a $2000 shortage. Martin a chief clerk allegedly took $400 in small sums and later repaid, leaving a six month gap only uncovered in Washington.
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Butte
Mont
Richard Hocking
William Martin
Postoffice
Rideford
Hocking
Money Order Department
Washington
Martin
The Power of Steam and Hair Germ Theory
James Watt noted steam power from boiling water. Modern research links dandruff and baldness to a tiny hair-eating germ. Newbro's Herpicide claims to destroy the germ and restore hair. Sold by Koeppen & Bros in Detroit in two sizes 60 cents and 1.00.
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James Watt
Newbro
Ee Ee
He Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
Koeppen & Bros
Lincoln's Mistake
Henry dismisses Lincoln as brainy but unused for jokes. Helen asks why. Henry says Lincoln never cut a cherry tree or did any stunt to invite quips.
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Lincoln
Henry
Helen
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