City Brevities and Local Notices Summary
A jumble of rental offers, sales ads, and notices from Pendleton and nearby venues. Entries mention carpet and furniture stores, shoe makers, a liquor store, billiard tables for sale, furnished rooms, and lodging near Garden and West Webb streets. Also noted are incidents involving a Cincinnati man and poison, and a medical ad for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UC Rader
UC Reader
Nader
Rader—Furniture
Pendleton
Houta Btore
Boston Ware
Aura Street
Headstrom & Greenawald
Teutech's
John Gagen
Farolly Nquor
Court St
Golden Rule
Monigus Resiaaurant
Addreas C
Garden
West Webb Streets
Main Street
Greenawald & Headstrom
Tentsch
Tentsch's
Burns
Boston
Portland
Oregon
al Lewiston
Idaho
Orcard
Brooks
Seed
Grace KR. Redman
Yakima Officials Move Against Gambling and Vice
Yakima Mayor and City Marshal Hunter wage a crackdown on gambling halls pool rooms and billiard halls and on the red light district targeting the macaques. They order closures mined boys sent home and threaten license revocation for future violations. Police to raid resorts to clean up vice amid claims of preexisting gambling and open wheel activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima Republic
Hunter
Moreha
Macques
Red Light
Marshal Hunter
Miyor Reed
Polmatier Sisters to Perform at Eagles Hall
Pendleton Lodge of Elks presents Polmatier Sisters Concert and Orchestra at Eagles Hall on Wednesday night January 10. The touring act is praised as a top class musical attraction and well received by Chautauqua management and Carthage Sentinel reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polmatter Sisters
Eagles Hall
Pendleton Lodge
Ele
Eagles’ Hall
Polmatter Sletora
Carthage
Sentinelus
Polmatier
Polmatier Sisters
Chautauqua
Toad Dispute Hearings Continue In County Court
County court adjourned without a decision on the McCoy road dispute at Milton Freewater. Farmers filled the room as petitioners led by HH Carter argued against the road, while Judge Feehan represented the McCoys who say the road would damage their property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCoy Road
Milton-Free- Witer Countey
Carter
Feehan
City Visits Marked by Dozens of Residents Arriving
Local notes list many visitors and travelers. Martin Anderson of Helix and J C Wattenberger of Heppner arrived for short stays. Mrs E A Schiffler and Mrs M A Ferguson left for Spokane and Adams respectively. The town also welcomed visitors from Walla Walla Milton Echo and more with brief sojourns and ongoing city business. A mix of locals and officials made rounds at the Morning Tribune office and various businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lott
Waltsburg
Thomas Copeland
Wallan Walla
George H. Sutherland
Walla Walla
James Dobbin
Union
Haes
F. B. Holbrook
Irrigoh
Traver Hoxkine
Echo
Pendleton Academy
RR. D. Sayres
Dayton
Wash
F. M. Oliver
Robert Ewing
Frank Welch
Henry Couture
Gillam County
Condon
Ra Berry
Milton
William Hilton
Charles Wo Myers
J. F. McNaught
Helen F. Saver
Hermixton
Arnold A. Sheuerman
Portland
Morning Tribune
W. H. Shannon
Helix
W. F. McMahan
Ed Manangie
Athena
Peoples Warehouse
W. R. Carning
T A. Ryan
Clyde
George Ireland
Freewater
J. L. McCrary
Pendleton-Huntington
H. Co. Grady
la Grandee
H. H. Gilbert
Pilot Rock
Gilbert
Umatilla
Tom Scott Indicted in Liquor and Assault Charges
District Attorney Pheinsfied two indictments against Tom Scott the colored barber this afternoon. One accuses him of selling liquor to Indians and the other of assault and battery. The Indian Willie Skioon says Scott attacked him for giving evidence before the district attorney, while Scott says he used only enough force to eject him from the shop.
Independent telephones widen reach in Iowa boom
W M Bowen of Stromberg Carlson said in Des Moines that independent telephones will let half a million people be reached directly, home to home, on New Year’s Day 1906. He stressed rapid growth of the telephone business and the instant access it provides to a vast audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines News-Rogiter Gontaine
Lowa
Des Moines
W. M. Bowen
Stromberg-Carlton Company
Jist
Talking to You at Home Through the Telephone
A late 19th to early 20th century vision emphasizes personal home telephones reaching 164000 men, predicting Iowa will match or surpass 1904 in 1906. It envisions a developed independent telephone system connecting farmers and towns, enabling nationwide dialogue and reducing rail and other influence. The speaker notes rapid growth, experimentation yielding perfection, and compares past yoked farming to modern electronic communication.
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Iowa
Tawa Hay
Harali
Controversy Over Tax Validity for Timber Lands
Clearwater Timber Co plans action against Nez Perce and Shoshone counties challenging taxes on about 45,000 acres of timber land in Nez Perce county. Taxes from 1903 to 1905 totaling around 24,000 dollars are contested, with Nez Perce County arguing limits from annexation and division of debt. The case hinges on whether lands were properly vested and taxed after boundary changes and prior land selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston Tribune
Clearwater Timber Company
Nex Perce
Shoshone
Nex Perce County
Shoshone County
Supreme Court
Noted Riot Arrests and Coal Fire at Buffalo Nevada
This afternoon Marahil Coffman arrested an ex crowd including his brother for throwing stones at a chicken coop. A man delaying time mocks ancestors. not a joke to his descendants. At Buffalo Nevada the Lahteh Valley tremes, 25 coal cars and 2000 tons of coal burned. Loss, 195,006 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marahil Coffman
Hie Brother
Buffalo
Nev
Trafalgar The Swiftest Moment In The Great Battle
An account from Cornhill Magazine recalls the Trafalgar sea fight with rapid sequence detail. Nelson’s squadron breaks the line within minutes as ships rake and overpower Villeneuve’s fleet, the Royal Sovereign succumbs, and Victory moves to tow in a dramatic fast paced panorama of the battle’s closing minutes.
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Swift
Collingwood
Eurpalus
Nelson
Breadalre
Villeneuve
Blackwood
Royal Sovereien
Euryalue
Royal Sovereign
Cornhill Magazine
FINGERS AND FORKS
Rules on using utensils for bread pastries and vegetables from a New York Press column note practical dining etiquette. It mentions olive forks lemon service and how to handle sugar tongs, ending with a brief nod to Fred A. Busso as Chicago's new nontmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
Fred A. Busso
Chicago
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Thompson ST
RED
George Stevens
Cincinnati
Mittike
Robert L. Gillespie
Steven
Gillespie
Tallman & Co
Victor
Edison
Columbia
J. A. Owenhouse CO
Uotes Lite
Yakima Games
Elks' Entertainment
With & Mood Trade
Cail
East
Alta Street
DeWitt
Red River Valley
Koeppens
Price
Tom Scott
Farmei
New Perce
Trafalgar
Bary
Ely
Marcus
Sri Reero
Haig Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Henry Konit Tke
Dutch Henry
Pendleton Ice £ Cold Storage Company
Colesworthy
East Alta
Ory
Samber T
Gray’s Harbor Commercial
J. Cewell
Pendieton
Polydore Moens, Prop
Walters
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