Excavation Begins as Smith Building Project Starts
Echo notes work on the county roads will begin next week under John Salling. The Smith building excavation started today. A near beer license was set at 200 a year with a 500 bond. An ordinance for Bonanza street grading and sidewalking was passed. Several residents and visitors are mentioned, including Mrs. George of Ohio and Mrs. Hufford of Oregon visiting F. T. George.
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Smith
Echo Connell
Echo
Pendleton
Elk's Lodge
Echo Area
Blakely
John Salling
Smith Building
Bonanza Street
Thos. George
Columbus
Ohio
Walter, Hufford
Portland
Ore
F. T. George
Violent Deaths in Manhattan Tops City Toll
New York City last year showed 2,632 violent deaths in Manhattan, with 3,051 natural deaths. Surface cars killed 161 people and cars 36. Personal crisis by shooting reached 174, asphyxiation by gas 146, unidentified river bodies 79, abandoned babies 218.
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New York
Manhattan
Jacob F. Bausch
Board of Coroners
Cure a Cold in One Day Claim Drops as Ad
An advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bros Quinine Tablets. It offers a money back refund if it fails and bears the signature of E. W. Grove on each box, with the price listed as 260.
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E. W. Grove
Locomotives Referred as She in Old Rail Jokes
A fragment from Chaparral notes a joke about why locomotives are called she. It suggests the term arises from the trains they drag and the belief they are tended to like a person. The remark reflects cultural language about machinery in historical railroad lore.
Water as nature's remedy for rheumatism and urinary issues
An article urges drinking plenty of water and presents a home remedy recipe using Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. It claims kidney and bladder diseases stem from dehydration and excess medicines, advising daily doses after meals and at night with water, for rheumatism, stomach trouble, and digestion.
Giant Killer Vovaleski and 1909 Baseball Buzz
Pitcher Vovaleski of the Philadelphia Nationals may earn the nickname Giant Killer this season. The Carlisle Indian baseball team is set to hire a professional coach this spring. Owens, President Pullman’s new umpire, is praised by NL players who played with him last season. Tim Jordan of the Brooklyn Dodgers anticipates a strong 1909. he trains daily and plays handball in a gym. Boston National League outfielders all start with B—Beck Bates Beaumont Browne and Becker.
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Vovaleski
Philadelphia Nationals
Owens
Pullman
Tim Jordan
Brooklyn
Boston National
Beck
Bates
Beaumont
Browne
Becker
Wonders of Velocity in Soft Substances
Path finder notes dramatic demonstrations of velocity enabling soft materials to pierce harder ones. A candle bullet versus a board, water stilling a sword, cyclones driving straws into trees, and a Bristol board disk cut by a revolving edge on an electric fan illustrate how speed alters material resistance.
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Pathfinder
TWO MEN LOST IN PRISON INDIANA CASES CAUGHT AFTER MONTHS
Hammond Indiana February 12 Two men from Poland Lao Joseph Malawski and George Holmes languished in Crown Point jail for months without trial. State's attorney Charles Greenwald reopened the cases, ordered their bring into court and both were released. Malawski returned to Gary to find his home burned and his family missing.
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Hammond
Ind
Joseph Malawski
Gary
Poland
George Holmes
Charles Greenwald
Malavsk
Premonition Saves Him From Freezing in Susquehanna River
In Selinsgrove Pennsylvania a husband missmapped his return home across the Susquehanna five miles below town. Hollenbach failed to reach shore after breaking a channel through slush ice. His wife’s alarm spurred a neighbor to search by rowboat and he found the frozen man clinging to his overturned craft in near darkness.
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Husband
Selisgrove
William Hollenbach
Susquehanna River
Hollenbach
Canon
Herndon
Theodore Updegrove
Aunrige
Boy Steals to See Play at Canfield Theatre
Detroit, Mich. A boy named Michels was arrested at Canfield Theatre for stealing 16 gold plated rings from Basil Trippa of 601 Grandy Avenue. Four rings were found on him. he claimed he sold two for a nickel to pay to enter the show, gave away the rest, and said he wanted to see the show but had no money. He was taken to the station and later to the county detention room. case referred to Lieutenant Breauilt.
Lodge fog elimination claim from Liverpool system
News from Liverpool reports Sir Oliver Lodge has cleared fog within a 60 foot radius using electrical discharges. The Marine Journal explains the method drives high voltage electricity from pole disks into foggy air to disrupt fog constituents causing them to fall. A London trial of the apparatus is planned.
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Liverpool
Oliver Lodge
Marine Journal
Lodge
London
In the East Oregonian It’s Zero For Now
A brief note from the East Oregonian states that a referenced metric or count remains at zero. No further context or figures are provided in the readable text.
Roaring Muscles Warn of Hidden Diseases
A Buffalo Express writer cites a physician who explains that contracted muscles emit a roaring sound detectable with a stethoscope, while relaxed muscles stay silent. The physician argues these muscle noises reveal conditions like tetanus meningitis or strychnine poisoning and that silence indicates atrophy or degeneration.
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Buffalo Express
Ely's Liquid Cream Balm promotes relief from catarrh
The spray from Ely's Liquid Cream Balm provides unspeakable relief to catarrh sufferers. Descriptions call it a Godsend as thick discharge is dislodged and breathing frees up. Sold by all druggists for 75 cents including spray ing tube, or mailed by Ely Bros, 64 Warren Street, New York.
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Ely
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Kept Alias Puzzles Inquirer About Identity
A fictional exchange features a candid kleptomaniac refusing real names to avoid compromising others. The Tanglatrate presses for a name, and the thief finally blurts out John Smith. The scene centers on secrecy and the social consequences of stolen credence.
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John Smith
Inquirer
Insect control claim for Ivory Soap gardener notes
A nursery man and florist advocates Ivory Soap as a valuable insecticide, noting it avoids unsightly bushes unlike Bordeaux mixture and has been used for years against a wide range of pests, per Garden Magazine June 1907.
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Garden Magazine
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Wonders OF
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East Oregonian
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