Rail network ties Montana ores to Pacific coast shipments
A Lewiston Tribune summary traces railroad plans linking Milwaukee to the O R N with a timber belt extension toward Butte Montana. It notes a possible Montana ore flow to Pacific coast smelters via a Clearwater connection and Huntington project activity, signaling broader Northwest rail consolidation and independent route development. The piece also reports a million dollar Union Pacific shipment of luxury cars and Portland telephones expanding to 15 000 lines by June with 10 000 instruments ready within 60 days.
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Northwest
Pacific Northwest
Lewiston, Tribune
Toléado
Montana
the Tribune
Milwaukee
W. P. Wondehler
Lewiston & Southeastern Electric Road
Clearwater Country
Lewiston Tribune
Clearwater
Titan Northern
Butte, Mont
Great
Pacific Coast
Lewiston
Riparia
Northern Pacific
Snake
Butte
Armstrong
Tink & Northern
Fe Bullfine
National Park
Hias
Huntington
Jorfian
Snake River
Portland
Home Telephone Company
Oregon Daily Journal
Washington County
Hillsboro
Forest Grove
Divorce Evasion and a Trainload of Cars Highlight News
Frederick J. Haskins warns of the growing divorce evil in the United States as statistics are gathered nationwide. He cites 640,000 divorces in 20 years and 1,600,000 children affected, noting only nine states publish divorce data. The piece mocks odd divorce reasons and recounts a flirtation with fashion by corset costs and stoning neighbors. A special train of 91 automobile cars travels from Chicago to San Francisco for exhibition in Cheyenne.
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Frederick J. Haskins Snys
United States
Ing Wecht
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhodereland
Connecticut
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
South Dakota
James Alexander
New York
Cheyenne
Chicago
San Francisco
The
Auto
Wool Shortage Pleads for Government Aid to Sheep Industry
An editor in Textile Record notes a global shortage of wool textile materials, with prices rising for silk hemp jute cotton and wool. He contrasts the urgent activism for cotton with public indifference to wool, urging government action and funding to expand wool supply and sheep numbers worldwide.
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Textile Record
New York
Australia
Ireland
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Conerosa
Congress
Idaho Opposition to Forest Reserve Policy Stirs Idaho House
Idaho lawmakers condemn the forest reserve policy, arguing it strips state control over one third of Idaho and blocks school land. The Boise Statesman notes Representative Glennson of Kootenai County leads the push for Joint Resolution No. 7 urging Idaho to oppose federal rules and seek Senatorial action in Washington.
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Idaho
United States
Boise Statesman
Glennson
Kootenal County
House
Tdtho
Washington
State of
Congress
Inwa
Successful Negroes Long List of Noted Colored Men
The New York Times and Sun summarize achievements of prominent African Americans. Highlights include Junius C. Groves producing a world leading 76,000 bushels of potatoes yearly, Alfred Smith winning world fair blue ribbon and top England prize for cotton, Granville T. Wood’s patented devices in railways and Bell system, W. Sidney Pittman’s design for the Collis Huntington memorial, Daniel H. Williams performing heart surgery, Mary Church Terrell giving Berlin talks, Edward H. Morris’s Chicago suit victory with $10,000 annual practice, and other leaders in music, art, law, and design. The parade of honors notes Kis race figures and Hank Washington as a famed public figure.
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New York Times
Ist
Times
Junius C. Groves
Kansas
Alfred Smith
England
Oklahoma
Granville T. Wood
New York
Bell Telephone Company
W. Sidney Pitman
Collis P. Huntington
Tuskegee
Daniel H. Williams
M.D
Chicago
Mary Church Terrill
Berlin
International Association For the Advancement of Women
Edward H. Morris
Cook County
Mosars
Cole
Johnson
Walter A. Loving
St. Louis Exposition
Edmonia Lewis
Hiawatha
San Jose
Lincoln
Bonton
Henry O. Tanner
Luxembourg
Hooker Taliaferro Washington
Italian miner in Cle Elum suicide case researcher notes
Nicola Musel an Italian miner in Cle Elum Washington killed himself with a large revolver after being despondent for some time. Authorities suppose his mind was temporarily unbalanced at the time of the act.
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Nicola Musel
Cle Elum
Wash
Must
New Building Projects Move Forward With Funds Approved
The wigs and means committee on Monday afternoon agreed to report bills favorably allocating 100,900 to purchase site and buildings for an institution for the feeble minded and 10,000 annually for maintenance. They also favored a 250,000 appropriations bill for buildings for the Agricultural college at Corvallin.
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Wigs and Means
Agricultural College
Corvallin
Refrigerator Car Service to Start Weeky from Portland
The O. R. & N. company will inaugurate a weekly refrigerator car service from Portland. The refrigerator cars will leave Portland every Tuesday and handle perishable goods for all points east of Umatilla. A similar service will be operated on the Washington division.
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0. R. & N. Company
Portland
Umatilla
Washington
Portland arrest of Frank Lewis sparks cocaine probe
Arrest in Portland of Frank Lewis, 21, an employee of the Independent Menenger company, wl, precedes alleged detentions of four or five other messenger force members. They are said to be regular cocaine users, a highly pernicious drug in the catalog.
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Portland
Frank Lewis
Seed
Menenger Company
Police My
Messenger Force
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Madison Square Garden
Forestry Department
Gleason
Kootenai County
J. I. Case
John Nissen & Son
Hotel Pendleton
Pendleton, Oregon
Smith Premier Typewriter CO
Stark ST
Portland, Oregon
Lewis Hunter
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