Melrose System and local services advertisement page
Local notices advertise the Melrose System chimney sweep August Noreen and 217 EB Court Street tailoring. Businesses offer coal and dry wood from Kopitzke Gillanders, horse boarding, moving services, and a Pioneer Livery sale. Lost items include a gold cross pin and a white and tan Scotch Collie. Jobs seek a housekeeper and a general house worker. Real estate ads include a six room rental and a snap house for sale.
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Kopitzke & Gillanders
Rock Spring
Orpheum
Kopitzke & Gillandera
Moose Hall
Tustin Street
C. J. Whittaker
Teutsch & Bickers
Aura Street
Farmers Take Notice Anyons Seek Lumber Doors Frames
Farmers and buyers are urged to note an offer for lumber doors and frames at reasonable prices. The notice invites interested parties to contact the supplier for details on available stock and pricing.
W. C. W. Danca in Engle-Woodman Hall Tonight
In Engle-Woodman hall tonight January 29 music by United Orchestra admission 60 cents ladies free.
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W. C. W. Danca
Engle-Woodman Hall
United Orchestra
Ladlezree
Powerful stimulants bring dead woman back to life
In Bellingham Washington Mrs F C Mercy daughter of ex police chief Hiram Cade, believed dead, woke from a coma during funeral preparations. A physician, doubting death, gave a final resuscitation dose. Moments after a powerful hypodermic injection she regained speech and vowed not to leave her husband and two children.
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Bellingham
Wash
F. C. Mercy
Hiram Cade
Mercy
Horse Saves Its Master in Cold Rescue
George Young of Columbia Pennsylvania owed his life to his horse after freezing in a wagon on a country route. The horse continued to the stable, where a physician revived Young after two hours of effort.
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Columbia
George Young
One Legged Man Dances in Hood River Anniversary
War veteran Donald Ericson of Fir district Hood River celebrated the forty-ninth anniversary of losing his right leg in the Union army. He danced a highland fling at a home gathering with neighbors and recalled Civil War incidents. Ericson rode with Sherman to the sea.
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Hood River
Ore
Annala
Hood River County
Donald Ericson
Fir District
Ericson
Mr. Ericson
Sherman
Woman elected to Kirkland council amid broad support
Seattle high school teacher Carrie Shumway was chosen by Kirkland voters to join the city council. She ran on the administration ticket and will take office at the next council meeting. Her sister Mary Shumway, now teaching at Broadway High School, accompanied her to Seattle in 1884.
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Seattle
Kirkland
Carrie Shumway
Shumway
Miss Mary
Orient
Broadway High School
Pneumonia Claims Baker Business Man
H V Halvorsen a 49 year old Baker Oregon shoe merchant died of pneumonia He was a longtime local business man connected with the shoe store and was a native of Town and a prominent lodge member.
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BAKER
H. V. Halvorsen
Mrs C L Hitman Breaks Lee In Idaho Incident
Mrs Charlea Ty Heltman wife of Idaho Republican State Committee chairman fell on the hill at Mill Street breaking her leg above the ankle in Rathdrum Idaho she was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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C. L. Hitman
Lee. Rathdrum
Idaho
Charlea Ty Heltman
Republican State Committee of
Fee
Mill Street Hill
Town Welcomes Wide Roster of Visitors and Locals
Numerous residents and visitors appear in Pendleton and nearby towns including Ernest Knight of Helix and J. E. B. Marshall of Meacham. Visitors from Hermiston Echo and Pilot Rock mingle with officials such as William A. Dalziel and Dr. F. D. Watts. Local ties span Umatilla, Weston, Union, and Portland as residents travel for business, jury duty, and short visits.
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Ernest BE. Knight
Helix
P. T. Harbour
Weston
H. E. Jacobson
Irrigan
Bowman
J. EB
Marshall
Meacham
Ils
L. E. Etter
Pilot Rock
S Deep
William A. Dalziel
Pendleton
F. D. Watts
Mabel Warner
Col
H. G. Newport
Hermiston
West End
R. A. Johnson
the Right of Way
W. S. Phillips
Bad check artist and hotel clerk in Walla Walla
James R. Cummings night clerk at Central lodging house indorsed a $150 check for Walter O Inman a pleasant stranger who stayed there. Cummings accompanied him to a Bolse bank where a $50 advance was made and the rest was treated as a deposit. Inman disappeared and the bank reports the check worthless.
The Right of Day at Oregon Theater Friday
Sanford Dodge presents The Right of Way at the Oregon theater on Friday February 2. The scenic production, dramatized from Sir Gilbert Parker's novel by Eugene Presbrey, has enjoyed broad appeal since its New York debut and is expected to rival Ben Hur in popularity.
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Sanford Dodge
Oregon Theater
Gilbert Parker
Eugene Presbrey
New York City
Gotham owes over a billion in city debt in 1912
Official figures submitted to Mayor Gaynor show New York City's total debt at the start of 1912 at 1 087 811 718 dollars. The annual increase for 1911 was 71 432 485 dollars, including 44 200 000 for rapid transit and the new water supply system, surpassing the national debt by about 20 million.
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New York
Gaynor
New York City
United States
Milton appoints McEwen as mayor in Mil ton Oregon
At a council meeting Robert McEwen was elected to replace Mayor H A Wilhames and Willy Perkiney named marshal. The mayor formed committees on Light and water, Streets and public property, Auditing, Health and police, Finance, and Ordinance with Manela Johnson and McEwen leading each panel.
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Milton
Ore
Robert McEwen
H. A. Wil- Hames
Willy Perkiney
Light and Water
Childers
Manela
Walters
Johnson
McEwen
Johnson, Gent and McEwen; Finance, Manela
Johnson and
Ordinance
Manel A
Baker Loses at Basket Ball in Oregon High Play
Baker High School fell to Union High School in a basketball game in Baker Oregon. The Hoyas won 18 to 11 while the Baker girls lost 6 to an unspecified opponent.
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Baker
Baker, Ore
Union High School
Baker High
the Hoya
Man Arrested for Coal Theft Echoes Jean Valjean Tale
William Booze a 41 year old Chicago man was arrested for taking coal from railroad tracks to keep his starving family warm He had lost his job as a teamster two months earlier and with six children and a wife depended on him Booze begged not to be jailed saying he needed to convey a message to his wife at 2667 Fulton Street Described as among thousands of workless fathers Booze wandered for jobs and pleaded for mercy at West Chicago Avenue station.
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Jean Valjean
Chicago
Victor Hugo
William Booze
Chicago and Northwestern
Booze
Lee Fields
Fulton Street
West
Chicago Avenue
Boze
New York Faces Threat to Its Foreign Trade Dominance
Figures from the 1911 year show New York handling 46 percent of US foreign commerce at 1.774 billion dollars of 3.788 billion. Imports rose while exports fell. cotton share plummeted to 10 percent, rubber bought here exceeded 8 percent, and duties collected near 196.6 million, down about 16 million from 1910 as other regions increasingly claim New York’s trade share.
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New York
United States
Chamber of Commerce
Questin
Loeb
Singing to put out fires sparks wild experiment in Cambridge
Charles Kellogg claimed human voice vibrations could extinguish flames and even bind a man to a tree. Before firemen he made a four foot flame dance and go out at a specific pitch, suggesting that sound could extinguish large fires through walls from afar.
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Solyist
Cambridge
Mass
Prima Donnis
Charles Kellogg
Kelloge
No Leap Year Wipe Por Jimmie Page And Bachelor Defeat
Los Angeles society reports Jimmie Page quitting the leap year promise and not accepting Miss Virginia Franklin’s marriage proposal at her West Thirtieth street home No 504. Friends are shocked as Jimmie, famed for bachelorhood and boasts of accepting the first proposer, delays the decision with excuses.
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Jimmie” Page
Los Angeles
Cal
MissVirginia Franklin
West Thirtieth Street
Jimmies
Jonathan
California
Jimmie
Timmie
Tuning forks replace hose nozzles in fire drill lecture
The speaker argues tuning forks can improve firefighting outcomes as instructors and choristers the day of the valiant fire fighter is no more. Kellogg demonstrates knotting a man to a tree with only notes to bind him and claims vibration unstudied and may replace electricity as a motive force.
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Kellogg
Jimmie Refuses To Marry In Melancholy California Club Admission
Jimmie showed deep melancholy at the California Club and confessed he cannot proceed with marriage. He whispered I can't and admitted uncertainty about wanting to wed and lack of readiness while Miss Franklin avoided callers and family memory blocked discussion of the romance.
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Jimmie
California
La Grande businessmen return from southern Oregon trip
A group of 25 La Grande businessmen returned from a junket to southern Oregon. The excursion aimed to study western state business methods and conduct. Despite a strenuous itinerary through Portland Salem Corvallis Eugene Medford Grants Pass and Coos Bay they gained state familiarity and praised the hospitality shown during the tour.
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la Grande, Or
la Grande
Oregon
la Grandes
Portland
Siiem
Corvel
Eugene
Trosebure
Medford
Eiland
Damaged OCR Brief Describes Lodge Reception Plans
Incomplete text notes a reception by Bate' t. Damon Lodge No 4 of the K P F in honor of P G Co W LT Bradshaw. Mentions refreshments and seating. The rest is garbled with references to horses and vehicles.
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Bate
T. Damon Lodge
K. of
Hoger
P.G. Co
Bradshaw
Atao
Ra of Kitts
Bredge
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New
F. E. Livengood & Co
Ladies’ and Children’s Store
Burroughs
I. C. Snyder
Joerger
August Noreen
Court Street
Maccabees
Knights of the Maccnabees
Penland Bros
Main Street
B. A. Morton
Ben L. Burroughs
Winder
Pioneer
W. W. Steiner, Jr
Geo. G. Pail
J M. Hays
Schmidt Building
Chas
Cole
Pendleton High School
W. Court
East Court
Herbert Boylen
State
Pitot Rock
B. Casteel
Patrick McKee
John W. Campbell
F.be. van Dusen
Pasco
van Dusen & Doughty
Fred Wilson
Athena
Gotham
The
Moose
City Relief Association
Lee Ching Wo
Ida Herring
West Alder St
Walla Walla
Washington
Leo Ching WO
Chinese “Medicine Coo
Fe, Main St. Walla Walla, Washington
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