Melrose System and local services ad roundup
Local classified items listing fuel wood and coal from Kopitzke Gillanders and Burroughs Main 6. District notices on lost dogs and jewelry. Real estate rentals and sales including farms offered by Teutsch Bickers. Also transfer and moving services by Penland Bros and Ben L Burroughs. Taft and Ike commentary snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burroughs
Joerger
I. C. Snyder
Kopitzke & Gillanders
B. A. Morton
Rock Spring
Ben L. Burroughs
Patton’s Barber Shop Advertises Quality Service
A local barber shop advertises efficient service with five barbers, minimal waits, ample hot water and clean towels. The notice asserts the shop does not stock trade with Chinamen, Indians or Japs and invites customers to try their services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ahaove
Patton
Eureka Lodge Installation of Officers at Banquet
Eureka Lodge No. 32 1 0. C. F. announces installation of officers Saturday night with a special feature and banquet. All Odd Fellows invited. W. F. Taylor, Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka Lodge
C. F
Odd Fellows
W. F. Taylor
Grittiest patient undergoes his fourteenth operation
Joseph A Cahalan of Rochester, hailed as the grittier person to enter Boston City Hospital, faces a fourteenth operation since mid 1807. Doctors Willam Mayo of Minnesota will study the case and request records from City Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Cahalan, once a marathon competitor, collapsed after twenty miles, displacing intestinal organs from overexertion.
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Boston
Boston City Hospital
Joseph A. Cahalan
Rochester
Dra. McCullen
Haly
Presbyterian Hosital
New York
Willam Mayo
Minnesota
City Hospital
Harvard University Medical School
Gameness
Cahalan
Won't Reopen Divorce Case After Husband's Death
New York report states Mrs. Bessie A. Hunt failed to win an appeal to reopen the Brooklyn supreme court divorce proceedings with the late John W. Hunt, Los Angeles turpentine magnate. Hunt died in December 1910 leaving an estate over $2,000,000. reopening would have given Mrs. Hunt a share of the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bessie A. Hunt
John W. Hunt
Los Angeles
Hunt
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Mors. Hunt
Boy 7 Injured in Farm Gun Accident Near Dayton
Dayton Washington reports a seven year old boy at the Romane farm discharged an old gun while playing, blowing off three fingers and severely wounding the right arm and shoulder. The hand is critically damaged and this is the second serious incident at the Romane farm in recent months. The lad previously survived a severe skull fracture after a similar incident last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton, Wash
Don Romaine
Here
Romane Farm
Tomaine
Local notices of visitors and old fur trade history
A string of brief personal mentions records visitors in La Grande and nearby towns including C F Dittebrandt Bonifer Armstrong Saunders Cochran Hamley Milnes Caldwell Newcomb Barrett Vert and others. The article then recounts the Oregon fur trade era from Ogden to Wyeth, the Hudsons Bay company, and the evolution of travel from Indigenous routes to the automobile, highlighting explorers and trail names and the opening of the Oregon Trail and related transportation milestones.
Athletes Risk Lives Diving Into Icy Water
Two boys drown during a Melrose hockey game conclusion as six skaters are rescued by students who leaped into icy Dan's Pond. Rescue efforts saved others despite thin ice collapse ten feet deep. notable rescuers include Elmer Wanamaker and Dettmar Jones who repeatedly dived for victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melrose
Mass
Dan’s Pond
Thin Fee
Sargent Flagg
Yene
Hugh McIntyre
Greenwool
Clarence Wannamaker
Edward McCarthy
Dartmouth
Donald Hanson
Harvard
Elmer Wanamaker
Commission closes ticket scalping case after World Series
Cincinnati Jan 6 The National Baseball Commission announced the scalping scandal from the World Series in New York and Philadelphia last October is closed. The evidence shows wholesale scalping occurred in both cities but does not indicate any collusion by New York National or Philadelphia owners managers players or employees.
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Hiall
Cincinnati
New York
Philadelphia
National Baseball Commission
New York Nationale
Mackenzie and the Snake River Fur Trade Rise
Donald Mackenzie, former Astor ally, led Northwest Company efforts to revive Columbia trade in 1815 1819 forging a route up the Snake River from Lewiston to Huntington. He reorganized interior posts and made a bold winter snowshoe crossing from Portneuf trappers through southern Idaho, strengthening Canadian fur power in the region.
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Astoria
Columbia
United States
Oregon
49Th Parallel
Rocky Mountains
Pacific
Snake River
Powder River
Grand Ronde
Donald Mackenzie
Astor Party
Northwest Company of
Canada
Wilson Price Hunt
Northwest Company
Lewiston
Huntington
Box Canyon
Portneuf
Idaho
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Advertisement Claims
A testimonial promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as the quick safe remedy for colds in children and adults. The letter from John Persons of Stewart Ohio describes a severe infant cough cured after using two bottles. The notice urges keeping Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in the house and to refuse substitutes, with sale through all dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FOLEY
John Persons
Stewart
Ohio
Hyomei remedy touted by Tallman & Co guarantees
Tallman & Co advertises Hyomei as a guaranteed cure for catarrh with money back assurance. The ad promotes HYOMEIL inhalers at 60 cents and complete HYOMET outfits at $1.00, claiming relief within minutes and a week to banish mucous and hawking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallman & Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Livengood & Co
Ladies’ and Children’s Store
Noreen
Court Street
Fhone Kopitzke & Gillanders
Orpheum
Bath
Willow Street
W. J. Connor
O'Dell's Cigar Store
Teutsch & Bickers
Dr. C
D. Whitstaker
Aura Street
Taft
Ike
Penland Bros
Main Street
Bentley & Leffingwell
Hubby
Erican
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
C. F. Dittebrandt
la Grande
Bonifer
Gibbon
St. George
H. W. Shaft
Duncan
C. W. Armstrong
Freewater
D. C. Saunders
J. D. Cochran
J. J. Hamley
F. J. Milnes
the & Co
Milan W. Smith
Waltsburg
Wash
Charles Newcomb
Pilot Rock
Charles A. Barrett
Umatia
Morrow
Athena
John Vert
Portland
Southern
California
Fort New Perces
Hudson's Bay Company
North- West Company
Rocksea
Finan Macdonald
Snake Country
Fort Nex Perces
Valey
Bitterroot
Montana
Burnt River
Peter Skene Ogden
Utah
Mount Shasta
Humboldt River
John Worker Wark
Mr. Ogden
Nathaniel J. Wyeth
Fort Hall
Snake
Fort Bolze
Columbia River
Gray
Astor
Plains
Union Pacific Railroad
Oregon Trail
Ume Immemorial
Historical Sociaty
Tallman & CO. Guarantees
Hyomei
Wohlenberg
Pendleton
J. A. Bop
Lumber 60. Co
Endicott-Johnston
Workingmen’ S Clothing Co
Bale Prin I
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