Havana Sanitation Plan to Spend 10 Million
Governor Magoon outlines plans to spend nearly 10 million dollars on Havana sanitary improvements, including a full water and sewer system. Secretary Taft, Secretary Root, and President Roosevelt express support. work to start immediately with Mc Gibney & Rokeby contract. Four-year goal to complete, with partial progress before U S withdrawal, Cuba to share costs under Plat amendment supervision.
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Havana
Magoon
Taft
Root
Roosevelt
Wood
McGibney & Rokeby
Cubs
Cuba
Taft Whs
Palma
Reilly
Clenfugos
Marhino Telephone Company
Mariano
Crme
Scoved & Co
Labour boom eyed for Salmon River project work
Belxe Capital News reports 1800 men will be employed in Lincoln and Twin Falls counties for contracts on the Salmon River project and the second segregation under the north tide system of the Twin Falls tract. Daily labor cost exceeds 6000 dollars, about 200000 monthly. Water on first segregation planned April 1, with second stage to the west and south of Shoshone and Gooding within a year. electric road expected into Jerome within 12 to 14 months.
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Twin Falls
Lincoln
H. Hays
Belxe Capital News
Hays
Weat
Milner
Shoshone
Gooding
Haya
Jerome
Congressman Ellis Secures Pension Increases for Veterans
The notice reports that Representative W. R. Ellis secured increased pensions under the February 6, 1908 act for many veterans during the past week. Recipients will hereafter receive the specified higher pension amounts.
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Ellis
W. R. Ellis
Tea Claims and Guarantee Prompt Grocer Refunds
Readable text notes a claim about tea varieties growing on the same bush and mentions a grocer policy of refunding money if a product by Me Schilling's Best is denied. The fragment hints at a consumer guarantee and payment to the grocer.
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Schilling
Merchants National bank Opens With Over a Million in Gold
Portland resumes normal conditions as Merchants National Bank reopens after 11 weeks closed. The bank holds over 1.06 million in gold, with deposits exceeding withdrawals by about 458,000, and a large cash balance paid through the clearing house. The reopening, following Oregon Trust merger into German American Savings, is seen as boosting Northwest business morale.
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Portland
Merchants’ National Bank
Wilson
San Francisco
Denver
Wits
Wan
Merchants’ National
BEC Food Bank
Oregon Trust Company
German-Americin Savings Bank
Northwest
Unwatering the Red Boy Mine Progress Report
Pumps in the Red Boy shaft began at noon Saturday and discharge 600000 gallons per day. Management expects the lower level to be cleared in about 40 days, signaling a major mining milestone for eastern Oregon. The Red Boy, once a leading gold producer, may regain prominence.
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Red Boy
Baker City Democrat
Oregon
Wallowa Debating Team to Meet The Dalles February 28
The Wallowa High School debate team will face The Dalles on Friday February 28 at The Dalles. They will debate the question Resolved that the government should own and operate the railroad of the United States with The Wallowa team taking the negative and The Dalles defending the issue.
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Wallowa High School
Dalles
United States
Wallowa
Registration and election dates listed for primaries and general
Registration opens for the primaries January 6 and closes April 2 for the election. The primary is April 17 with registration reopening April 21. The election closes May 16. The general election is June 1 with registration reopening September 20 and the election closing October 20. A presidential election is on November 4.
Lumber Industry Fears Freight Rate Rise at Portland Banquet
Northwest lumbermen at the Oregon & Washington Manufacturers Association banquet in Portland warn that new freight charges threaten to halt eastern shipments. The meeting elected a new board and officers led by President Philip Beuhner. Washington speakers cited railroad strain from rate hikes impacting the trade and urged a return to previous rates to restore conditions.
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Oregon Sunday Journal
Northwest
Portland
Pacific Coast
Oregon & Washington Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
Saya the Journal
Chamber of Commerce
Lrectors
Presdent
Philip Beuhner
L. J. Wentworth
A. Dixon
F. C. Knapp
E. D. Kingsley
E. B. Hazen
George T. Gerlinger
A. B. Wastell
Commercial Club
FE. D. Kingsley
Association
J. 58 Bradley
Pacific Northwest
W. R. Hume
JLN
Teal
Frank B. Cole
A. B. Clark
Victor H. Beckman
W. C. Miles
H. T. Miles
H. T. Langille
Phillip Buchner
Washington
J. N. Teal
Oregon & Washington Manufacturers’ Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kodo Digestive Preparation Promises Quick Digestion
Kodo is advertised as a scientific vegetable acid mixture with natural digestive juices, claimed to digest more than 2000 units of food per dose. Sold by Tallman & 0.
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Tallman & 0
Petition Blanks for Candidates Now On Sale
The East Oregonian office now prints and sells Petition Blanks for Candidates and Electors Nominating Petitions for either party. Available at the newspaper office.
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East Oregonian
Open River And River Traffic Discussed
Lewiston Tribune highlights river navigation economics with figures from the Inland Waterways debate. Rail costs dwarf water rates, urging favored open river policy, citing Ohio Mississippi Missouri and Snake Columbia routes and urging public support over party lines. A closing note mentions a German bringing ants to America circus.
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Idaho
Portland
Mississippi
Snake
Columbia
Dalles
Umatilla
the Tribune
Gulf
Snake-Columbia
America
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