Local notices and ads from Melrose area page
Classifieds list coal and wood supplies from Melrose System and Kopitzke Gillanders. Real estate: 480 acre wheat ranch for sale at $40 per acre and Teutsch Bickers 160 acre ranch at $3250. Rentals, transfer service, barn boarding, and furniture for sale. Lost necklace found. public snow cleanup notice. Irene Love prophecy story and book delivery note.
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Kopitzke & Gillanders
Teutsch & Bickers
Aura Street
Temple Building
Penland Bros
Main Street
A. Morton
Rock Spring
Ben L. Burroughs
Williams Jubilee Singers at state legislature show
Sacramento Union reports February 6 1911 senators and assembly members forgot their duties as Williams Jubilee Singers performed plantation songs and darkey melodies at opening sessions. The performance drew applause and talk of daily renditions of a proposed state song. The group will perform at the Christian church on January 11.
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William Jubile Singers
Christian Church
Revelations Claim New Bible With Frozen Air Notes
Speaker Champ Clark reports a first volume of a purported new bible by Mrs. Judge who says inspiration came in a nine year sleep. The 400 page revelations ledger includes instructions to petrify and dry ice and burn water and other odd feats claiming to resemble popcorn and cheese from straw.
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Judge
Irene Love
W. J. Bryan
Teddy Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
Secret Service
Trenton
N. J
Washington
Champ Clark
Flirting Case Prompts Six Month Sentence in Trenton
In Trenton New Jersey Magistrate Naer sentenced Sarah Reed to six months in the workhouse for flirting. Physicians challenged the ruling arguing flirting is a disease and Miss Reed may appeal to a higher court. After sentencing the magistrate ordered police to watch for eye contact and love notes in the streets. He said male and female offenders would be treated the same.
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Trenton
N. J
Naer
Sarah Reed
Miss Reed
Dutch Court Whispers Stork Expected to Join Dove at The Hague
In court circles it is said Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands may soon experience a notable family event. The queen, married to Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin since 1901, has a daughter born April 30, 1909. Lame back remedies are discussed, with Ballard's Snow Liniment recommended for muscle or back complaints, pricing 25c, 50c, and $1.00 per bottle from A. C. Keeppen & Bros.
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Stork
Dove
Hague
lIt
Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina of
Theetherlands
Prince Henry of
Mecklenburg-Schweerin
Ballard
A. Cc
Keeppen & Bros
Girl With Hockey Stick Rescues Boy From Icy Water
In Danbury Connecticut Harold Kirch nineteen and Ruth Wilkinson eighteen skated over thin ice on Mill Pond. Kirch saved Wilkinson first then sank. She extended a hockey stick and pulled him to safety. He urged her to stay clear as the ice broke again. Wilkinson, exhausted, was taken home. Kirch had given her a gold watch that slipped into the water during the rescue.
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Danbury, Conn
Harold Kirch
Ruth Wilkingon
Danbury High School
Ol Mill Pond
Kirch
Miss Wilkinson
Ruth
Three Drinks a Day the Limit
New York board of health says three drinks daily is the healthy limit. More than that reportedly raises risk of liver trouble and related diseases. The report links rising death rates from cancer liver trouble and heart disease to lack of exercise overeating overdrinking and car luxuries.
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New York
New York Board of Health
Board of Health
Cold Cure Tablets Cause Death of Utah Child
In Bingham Utah a two year old girl Edith Antell died after ingesting 22 cold cure tablets containing acetoneethyl. A physician could not save her.
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Utah
Bingham
Edith Antell
Personal notices from Pendleton area residents
Ervin is up from Stanfield today. Georgia Wright in from Helix yesterday. A. M. McIntosh of Ontario guest of the Bowman last night. Pearl Robinson in the city yesterday from Umatia. W. J. Donovan of Hermiston a Pendleton visitor yesterday. Don Pruitt returned from Corvallis and Portland. Edgar W. Smith, the Van Sycle farmer, in from his ranch today. Co. P. Myers of Hermiston among visitors from the project town yesterday. L. I. Mann, county representative, went to Pilot Rock this morning. Tommy Robertson, Guthrie grainman, went to Pilot. H. G. Hurlburt, Hermiston resident, made Pendleton a frequent stop yesterday. Lee Teutsch, real estate agent, returned last night from Portland and Willamette Valley. John P. McManus, editor of the Pilot Rock Record, returned home this morning after a city stay. Homer T. Watts, Athena attorney, arrived this morning and is transacting business today. John Vert left for Portland to join his wife, then to southern California. Rev. E. W. Warrington, Presbyterian minister at Pilot Rock, returned home after a city visit yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Means and Miss Hazel Means of California spent yesterday visiting friends, returning home this morning. Ed Buhrer, roadmaster of the Umaita La Grande division of the O W R & N, left for Portland to consult a specialist about an inflamed eye.
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Ervin
Stanfield
Georgia Wright
Helix
A. M. McIntosh
Ontario
the Bowman
Pearl Robinson
Umatia
W. J. Donovan
Hermiston
Pendleton
Don Pruitt
Corvallis
Portland
Edgar W. Smith
Co. P. Myers
L. I. Mann
Pilot Rock
Tommy Robertson
fiaffour-Guthrie
H. G. Hurlburt
Homer TI. Watts
Athena
John Vert
California
E. W. Warrington
Henry C. Means
Hazel Means
Ed Buhrer
Umatila-La Grande
O.W. R. & N. Company
Whale coughs up a fortune on Nantucket beach
Brooklyn man William H. White found a large ambergris mass on Nantucket Beach. Chemist Charles Bolling confirmed it yields ambergris used in perfumery and valued at 60 dollars per ounce, totaling about 19200 dollars.
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Brooklyn
Nantucket Beach
Brockton
Mass
William H. White
Chapel Street
N. Y
White
Charles S. Bolling
Cologne
Bolling
Two New Counterfeit Bills Found by Secret Service
Secret Service reports two fresh counterfeits the discovery of a counterfeit $5 silver certificate and a $10 gold certificate. The crude notes show weak back deception, lack the treasury register mark, and mimic the 1854 series and a 1907 gold certificate, with circulations believed in Chicago and Kansas City.
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Secret Service
Washington
Chicago
Kansas City
Register of the Treasury
This Girl Robs Robber After Rash Attack
Miss Mac O Rourke, 19, near North Racine Avenue, fought off a robber who grabbed her handbag. The assailant shed his hat, coat, neck scarf, shirt and one shoe as he fled after slipping on the ice. O Rourke clung to him and retrieved parts of his clothing before he escaped.
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Chicago
Mac O'Rourke
Racine Avenue
Miss O'Rourke
Hurt Takes a New Engine and Keeps on Hurt
A Baltimore and Ohio mogul engine derailed at Union Station in Washington after hitting a closed switch on a New York bound train. Engineer Edward Nally escaped with visible injuries and urged to rest but insisted on resuming control, piloting the train after a replacement engine was brought forward.
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Washington
Union Station
New York
Edward Nally
Nally
Mindanao Rebels Fight US Troops For Arms
Reports from Zamboanga say a hard campaign between mountain tribes of Mindanao and United States troops is expected before rebels are subdued. Thousands of rifles and ammunition are rumored smuggled into the Moro province. Brigadier General Pershing vows to force surrender while fiercer tribes promise to fight to the finish. Some friendly Moros have already turned in arms, but serious trouble is anticipated when force is used on the wilder tribes.
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Manila
Zamboanga
Minanao
United States
Pershing
Oivil
Mastodon skeleton unearthed near Benton City and Kiowa
At Prosser Washington while working on Benton City townsite G T George and crew uncovered a mastodon skeleton. The jaw bone measured 22 inches across and 18 inches long while teeth reached 12 inches. Bones were shown at a Benton City hotel drawing attention. This follows a prior find by C B Michner last year during survey work.
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C. B. Michner
Carelessness Charged in Ashland Youth Shooting Death
A coroner's jury in Ashland Oregon finds 14 year old Alex Boyd died from criminal carelessness after a shotgun and high powered rifle were mishandled by his companion Raymond Badger during a rabbit hunt. The boys were demonstrating weapon handling when the rifle discharged fatally.
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Ashland
Alex Boyd
Raymond Badger
Italians Buy Collapsible Balloon Hall for Air Craft
The Italian war department purchased a collapsible balloon hall to replace the balloon hall destroyed by a storm in Tripoli. It had housed the airship used by Italian expeditionary forces for reconnaissance and scouting missions.
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Berlin
Tripoli
Italian War Department
Stenographers Strike Halts House Business
Washington. For the first time in the history of the government a labor strike held up the machinery of congressional legislation. The house committee stenographers refused to work because the accounts committee reduced their compensation from 25 to 15 cents a folio. The sugar trust investigating committee had to adjourn until tomorrow.
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Washington
House Committee
Accounts’ Committee
Sugar Truat
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Ladie
Livengood & Co
Ladies’ and Children’s Store
Burroughs
Malin G
Joerger J. C. Snyder
Enquirer
C. J. Whittaker
Kish
John P. McManus
Pijot Rock Record
Hurt
Mindanao
Benton City
ARMY
Wohlenberg Dep’t. Store
Mercury
Workingmens Clothing Company
Golden Rule
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