Silent Auction at The Gift Room Near Koeppens Drug Store
A silent auction sale begins Saturday January 1 1910 at The Gift Room next to Koeppens Drug Store. All items in the Wirt Room excluding gold band dinner ware go to the highest bidder with a half price opening bid and a 10 percent rise after that. Bids are recorded on cards and opened by a committee January 12. The sale features cut glass china brass goods and more with special half-price giveaways on white and gold dinner ware. Also notices rails about new pictures at The Pastime and other local entertainments.
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China
Forfeit Bail and Miscellany from Pendleton News
Newsy Notes of Pendleton reports two men John Doe and Mose Johnson forfeited bail of six dollars each for drunk and disorderly behavior. Daughters born to Thom as Denny on College street. Jeff Stevens of Umatilla injured by a locomotive now using crutches. Miss Shdre Hamblen is seriously ill with age related troubles. William A. Johnson travels for Sisks tinware, en route to Spokane. E E Haw of Minneapolis visiting Pendleton to view land with plans to buy, staying through Sunday. Weston dance invites Pendleton musicians. Pythian ball set for February 14. A Mrs John Jordan attempted self harm with antiseptic tablets, case not confirmed. Aaron Funk visits Pendleton to see brother B F Beck after 20 years.
Alexander Named Commissioner of Eastern Oregon District Society
Alexander proprietor of the Alexander department store in this city received official notice from Governor F W Benson appointing him a commissioner of the Third Eastern Oregon District Agricultural Society. He succeeds H M Cockburne of Milton whose term expires. The other expiring term this year belongs to Robert M Hynd of Heppner. Existing board members include EB Roosevelt president Leon Cohen FR W McComas and Addison Bennett of Irrigan with Judge Thomas FitzGerald as secretary.
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Leon Cohen
W. McComas
Addison Bennett
Irrigan
Thomas FitzGerald
Investigation Row Opens In Congress On Ballinger Pinchot
Washington Jan 7 the house adopted a rule to consider immediately a resolution demanding a full inquiry into the Ballinger Pinchot controversy. Representative Fitzgerald opposed the move saying it seeks to pull Taft into the issue and urged narrowing the probe to Secretary Ballinger while excluding the forest service.
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Washington
House
Fitzgerald
Taft
Bal Iinger
Forest Service
Advised Court of Commerce on Rates and Tariffs
A source discusses proposed reforms for railroad rate practices. It urges writing rate quotations to shippers with a 250 dollar fine for misquoting and seeks limited power for the Interstate Commerce Commission to inquire into rate reasonableness. It notes the vast volume of tariffs, nearly 200000 annually, and the impracticality of pre approving all tariffs. It argues for constrained grant of such authority to avoid overreach.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
President Urges Federal Charter for Interstate Corporations
The President outlines proposals to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rail and other transport, curb stock watering, standardize safety appliances, and permit a federal charter to bring corporations in interstate trade under law. He argues against monopolies, emphasizes tax and reporting requirements, and seeks to limit corporate purchases of competing lines. He notes anti trust aims and potential repercussions for wages and capital if enforcement falters. The plan includes preventing watering of stock and requiring full appraisals by the commission. The Attorney General has drafted a bill ready for Congress.
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Atate Commerce
Mesage
Inw
Senate
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wickersham
U. K
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Department of Justice
Department of Commerce and Labor
Gizulisn
Great Britain
Local ads mix coal wood and services in Oregon clutter
A dense OCR of local classifieds lists coal and wood deliveries at Oregon Lumber Yard and Hanscom's jewelry store services for lenses and repairs. It also notes fresh produce at Ingram's grocery, dressed chickens for Central Meat Market, rent ads for homes and rooms, piano lessons, hairdressing, and job or purchase requests with numerous phone numbers and addresses across East Oregonian locality.
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Timothy Hay
Oregon Lumber Yard
Hanscom
Oregon Lumber Yards
Ingram’s
Goodyear ‘West Shoes
Wohlenberg
Vogue
Perkins Avenue
Phone Red
Ingram's
Phone Main
Central Meat Market
East Oregonian
Mat Street
Hanscom’s
Melasd Raises Funds for Soldiers' Widows
Dublin forms committee chaired by Bishop O Donnell to raise an Irish fund for widows and orphans of Spanish soldiers killed in Morocco. Cardinal Logue approves the charity in a letter praising Spain and Ireland's mutual support in the centuries old Christian Infidel conflict.
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Dublin
O'Donnell
Raphoe
Morocco
Cardinal Logue
Moreses
Treland
Spain
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F. E. Livengood & Co
Ladies Home Journal’Patterns F and Publications
Koeppens
Koeppen
Selig
Orpheum
Pathe
Russia
Charity
Tico
Vitagraph
Rosle
Newsy
Pendleton
John Doe
Mose Johnson
Avi Ji-pound
Thomas Denny
College Street
Jeff Stevens
Umatilla
Will A. Johnson
William A. Johnson
Bachelors’ Club
Dwight-Edwards Company
Sisks Tinware Company
Spokane
E. E Haw
Minneapolis
George Hamblen
Haw
Weston Kir
P. Dance
A. H. Jotinson
Weston
Stevens Lodge No. 49
John Jordan
Webb and Cottonwood
Aaron Funk
Woodville
Oregon
B. F. Beck
Peneton
Southern Oregon
Court OF Commerce
England
Germany
London
Hone
Lot
John Bull
Firegibbon
Belfast
Fitzgibbon
Oak Wood
Malan
Hohhbach's
Penland Bros
Miss Phinney
E. Webb
Maine
Main Street
West Court Street
Northen Pacific
Webb Street
N. P
Nelsons
Melasd
Beecham
Rock Spring
Henry Kopittke
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