Cement Lecture Highlights History and Benefits
Harold J. Doolittle’s lecture at the Commercial club traced cement’s invention by Joseph Astor of Leeds to its U S development from 1875, with concrete uses on farms and highways. He cited Massachusetts and Spottsylvania County data showing road improvements boost land values, agricultural output, and school attendance, underlining cement and good roads as community catalysts.
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Joseph Astor
Leeds
England
Harold J. Doolittle
John Vaughan
Doolitle
United States
Portland
British Isles
Pacific Coast
University of California
Leland Stanford
U.S
Good Roads Statistician
Virginia
Spottsylvania County
Toppenish Plans Permanent Street Improvement
Toppenish Washington February 10 1913 extensive street improvements will be carried out during the coming summer. The city has carefully considered paving options and unanimously selected hitulithic a material already widely used in the northwest for years. The plan aims at permanency and reduced future repair costs.
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Toppenish
Wash
Congress Declares Wilson Is Elected
Washington assembly declares Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall elected president and vice president after a ceremonial joint session of Congress. Votes counted show Wilson 435, Roosevelt 88, Taft 8, with oath of office to follow. Crowd gathers as proceedings proceed under Speaker Clark and Senator Bacon.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Senate
House
Wilson
Marshall
Bacon
Roosevelt
Taft
Georgia
Clark
North Side Home for Sale Cottage near bridge
Modern five room cottage with gas and electric lights bath hot and cold water shade trees moss rock wall and good cellar Corner lot wellImproved four blocks from bridge Address all communications to A care of East Oregonian.
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East Oregonian
For Sale Pro Model Moving Picture Camera
For sale a professional moving picture camera English make used three months. WA garanti? In perfect order. Address Camera P O Box 577 Buker Ore.
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P. O
Buker
Ore
Newsy Notes of Pendleton Births Licenses and Local News
A daughter eight pounds was born this morning to Mr and Mrs Frank Griggs. A marriage license was issued today to Frank Humphrey and Bessie Campbell both of this county. J A Borie left for Spokane to attend a Western Retail Lumbermen association meeting on the 13th to 15th. John Verts mother Mary Dodds Vert is reported dead. Vert is wintering in Scotland with his mother. Leon Cohen of Peoples Warehouse was fined 25 dollars for selling shortweight butter. Four patients were sent to the new branch hospital from Baker county Pendleton and The Dalles. Dr McNary and officials discuss hospital capacity. Prof James Dryden lectured on poultry at the city hall. He plans talks in Union and Baker counties after Hermiston.
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Frank Humphrey
Bessie Campbell
J. A. Borie
Borie Planing
Spokane
Western Retail Lumberman’s Association
John Vert
Mary Dodds Vert
Francis Vert
Haddington
Mr. Vert
Scotland
Leon Cohen
The
Peoples Warehouse
W. P. Duncan
Baker County
Pendleton
Dalles
McNary
Portland
Salem
Jamea’ Dryden
Oregon Agricultural College
City Hall
Dryden
Union
Baker Counties
Hermiston
Doctor Currey Arrested in Mail Fraud Case
Baker Oregon February 12 Dr H F Currey a prominent physician was arrested by a deputy U S marshal from Portland on a charge of using the mails to defraud. Indicted by a federal grand jury the same day he allegedly sent medicines and apparatus for illicit use through the mails. He manufactured medical specialties and conducted a large mail order business. He expressed willingness to prove innocence and was released on a $1000 bond after appearing before U S Commissioner Patterson.
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Baker, Or
H. FE. Cur Tey
United States
Portland
Federal Grand Jury
Curre
Currey
Spanos and Seymour Stay Execution. Case Goes to Supreme Court
Salem, Feb 12. Mike Spanos and Frank Seymour, sentenced to be hanged for the murder of George D. Dedaskalous in Jackson county, have received a stay of execution on a writ of probable cause. Their case will be reviewed by the Oregon Supreme Court to decide if a new trial should be granted.
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Salem, Or
Mike Spanos
Frank Seymour
State Penitentiary
George D. Dedaskalous
Jackson County
Supreme Court
Epidemic Kills Sheep in Baker Ranges
Baker Oregon February 12. Sheep growers in Lower Power Valley report a deadly epidemic causing several thousand deaths. Goose Creek area alone reports 700 deaths in a short period in a flock owned by Mr. Bunch. Sheep Inspector Dr Lytle from Pendleton and Dr Notz of Baker study the disease to prevent further spread.
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Baker, Ore
Lower
Power Valley
Goose Creek
Bunch
Lytle
Pendleton
Notz
Baker
Nonpartisan judges may soon be reality
In Salem Oregon the senate judiciary committee reported favorably a bill by Senator Butler to nominate and elect judges without party names on the ballot. The measure passed four to three with Butler Dimick Carson and McCulloch in favor and Moser Bean and Thompson opposed. It proposes a separate primary for judges, with the top two advancing to the general election.
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Salem
Ore
Senate
Judicciary Committee
Butler
Dimick
Carson
McCulloch
Moser
Bean
Thompson
Local Pendleton girl in photodrama leads film program
Corinne Leasure, Pendleton native and Nes tor film company actress, plays the principal in The Matrimonial Agency of Roaling Gulch. Her first motion picture, shot in Los Angeles, is being shown at the Cosy theater today and tomorrow, with earlier stage work and a Cort contract shaping her film career.
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Pendleton
Corinne Lensure
Merle R. Chessman
Sam R. Thompson
Nestor Film Company
Los Angeles
Roaling Gulch
Cosy Theater
Leasure
Egan Dramatic School
Kolb and Dill
Leslie Carter
DeWolffe Hopper
John Cort
Nestor Company
Board of Censorship
Objections Mount To New Nickel Design
Washington paused the circulation of the proposed nickel scheduled for February 11 amid protests from slot machine interests. Manufacturers argued the new five cent piece would undermine their counterfeit detectors and chewing gum slot machines. George E. Roberts, director of the mint, traveled from Washington to Philadelphia for talks with mint officials.
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Washington
Treasury Department
George E. Robert
Mint
Philadelphia
Women Wage Inquiry Opens in Los Angeles
The Citizens' Industrial Investigating Committee in Los Angeles began preliminary work to study wages paid to working girls and women. George H. Dunlop is acting president as meetings begin each Monday with 20 minutes public access before executive sessions. The panel must report to the city council by June 1.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George H. Dunlop
Governor Proclaims February 17 as Child Welfare Day
Salem Ore Feb 12 Governor West issues proclamation designating Monday February 17 as Child Welfare day. He urges Oregonians to join the National Congress of Mothers in its child welfare work as part of a national observance.
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Salem
West
National Congress of Mothers
New President Installed in Salvador After Assassination
San Salvador dateline reports Carlos Helendez was installed president today following the assassination of Araujo. The transition occurred as authorities announced the new leadership in the capital.
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Salvador
San Salvador
Carlos Helendez
Araujo
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