New Girl Thompson Home at Gibbon
Special correspondence from Gibbon reports a new girl born February 17 to Mr and Mrs Millard Thompson at Hine pond. Weston resident Mrs W Fitchell visited, and Mr and Mrs John Thompson returned home after three weeks in Pendleton and Walla Walla. George Brace spent the week in Athens. Mrs Hares Swart and Myrtle Swart and Walter Swart traveled to Pendleton. W H Saver and wife spent time in Adams. Miss Myrie Swart resigned as O W R L & N operator and returned to La Grande. Lyle Bryant and family returned to Pendleton after three months at Gibbon. Ben Rhodes went to Pendleton Thursday.
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Gibbon
The
Millard Thompson
W. Fitchell
Weston
Fred Pittman
John Thompson
Pendleton
Walla Walla
George Brace
Athens
Hares Swart
Myrtle
Walter Swart
HL Saver
Adameins
Myrie Swart
la Grote Mises
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Recognized Worldwide
A belated tribute recalls Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound once made on a kitchen stove from field roots and herbs. It grew from home remedy to a world renowned standard for female ailments, praised for safety and effectiveness over drug combinations.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Wolf Terrorizes Palmyra as Deputy Slays Predator
In Palmyra Missouri armed men and a snapping dog pursue a large gray wolf through town. Deputy game warden Louis Nelson shoots and kills the animal after it bays by a hedgerow. The wolf was captured as a cub with six siblings and later caused trouble on a Phillips farm before being turned over to a local resident.
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Palmyra
Louis Nelson
Salt River Hills
Balls County
Million Phillips
Phillips
Stanfield
Umatityla
Phil Mann
Cold Springs
J. H. Norton
W. H. Copeland
Frank Sloan
Pursuit Ends in Open Country Over $5 Pelts Bounty
Nelson claimed the state's five dollar bounty for pelts after a pursuit across open country. The incident began on the street and extended into rural terrain as authorities chased the suspect who sought the payment.
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Nelson
Hairpin Ring Aids Motorman On Tun Up Hill
In Athol Massachusetts during an afternoon run a resourceful motorman faced fuse trouble on a local car. Women sacrificed hairpins from their hair to supply metal for fuse connections keeping the current on and the trip to School Street hill on time. The incident is nicknamed the Hair pin Ring.
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Athol
Mass
School Street Hill
Siiica
Walker Outwits Asylum Attendant On City Tram
In Trenton Samuel Walker a former leading lawyer and recent state asylum inmate rode a trolley with an attendant who could not pay his fare. The conductor and passengers suspected the attendant, prompting Walker to joke and flee to the station. Walker later agreed to return to the asylum.
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Trenton
Samuecd Walker
State Asylum For the
Walker
Atehley
Camden
PBALLARD'S HOREHOUND SYRUP advertised cure
An old newspaper ad warns that a heavy lung cold can lead to fatal disease unless treated. It promotes frequent doses of Pallard's Horehound Syrup to check progression and aid natural restoration, priced 25c 50c and 1.40 per bottle, sold by A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
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Pballard
A. C. Koeppen & Bros
Farmers Institute Highlights Pruning and Irrigation Plans
The Stanfield farmers institute closes after a productive two days with lectures on small fruit care, dairy farming, poultry, and drainage. Demonstrations showed proper tree pruning at Hurd and Holte orchards. Speakers included Prof R W Allen, Prof Kent, and Walter W Weir. The Commercial club plans a smoker and banquet to boost irrigation outreach and city development.
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Stanfield
Farmers’ Institute
Stanfell
R. W. Allen Oan
Kent
Agricultural College
Corvallis
Dryden
Allen
G. L. Hurd
R. A. Holte
Walter W. Weir
U. S. Drainage Investigations
A. C. Bouquet
Jack Keefe
Pendleton Commercial Club
Papa Cort Ends Son Elopement At Pier Scene
The Cort family aborts a planned transatlantic elopement as Papa Cort halts his son Harry aboard a Bremen voyage bound steamship. Miss Mabel Towers of Miles City Montana, her father James Towers, and the young couple were seen with friends at the quay before the boat sailed. A dramatic scene followed as the enraged father seized the suitor by the neck and ordered an end to the scheme.
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New York
Europe
Germany
Broadway
John Cort
Harry Cort
Mabel Towers
Plains
Miles City
Mont
James Towers
Towers
Prince Friederich Wilhelm
Bremen
Wereson
Min
Father
Cort
Harry
Miss Towers Causes Distress Among Crowds
The rail was the young woman Miss Towers forced to be restrained as she wept, with her father trying to calm her amid the scene.
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Miss Towers
Get Hemroid Tablets for Pile Pain Relief
Fiendish pain of piles is described and a cure is advertised. Hemroid tablets claim to free stagnant blood and heal piles. Available by Penleton Drug Co. and all druggists under warranty, Dr. Leonhardt Co., Station Buffalo, N.Y. Write for booklet.
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Pendeton Drug Co
Dr. Leonhardt Co
Buffalo
Burning engine for German navy could alter naval balance
London reports a German internal combustion engine nearing completion could give future warships a immense advantage. A top engineer says a vessel with 18,000 hp from triple 6,000 hp engines might render dreadnoughts obsolete, cutting boilers and smokestacks and slashing fuel needs drastically.
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Kaiser
London
Germain Furly
Gine
Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad Promotes Purification
An advertisement urges readers to take Hood's Sarsaparilla to aid nature in cleansing the system. It claims the tonic purifies and builds up the body like no other medicine.
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Nature
Hood
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