Oregon Life Ins Co Promises Dividends to Policy-Holders
The article promotes Oregon Life Insurance Company as a mutual firm with a 100000 dollar guarantee fund, offering cash dividends to policy-holders at year end and urging readers to investigate its rates before applying. It also notes the Fifth floor of the Macleay Building in Portland Oregon as the contact point.
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Oregon Life Insurance Company
Oregon
Macleay
U86
Washington Street
Portland
Samuel
Weather and growth woes and town plans in the Northwest
Eastern central Oregon basks in warmth as fruit growers fear a harsh rebound. La Grande's new Mormon church to cost $40,000 with a 2000 seat auditorium and pipe organ. Montana ranch purchases and Oregon land deals involve figures around $40,000. A Canadian steamer rescues an American schooner near Burns Bay. Portland Faithfuls plan a $125,000 A M temple with a $25,000 furnishings block. Astoria remains musically underserved despite local talent and a morning paper characterizes the city as mostly voiceless in song.
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Oregon
la Grande
Hiram Goddard
la Crosse
Puter
McKinley
K. JL. Wiley
Ithe Valley
Iya Ogo
Union Meat Company
Portland
Queen City
M. Turner
San Francisco
Bunsbey Island
Turner
British Columbia
Dominion
Victoria
Pridleh Columbia Land & Co Company
Montana
Dalles
A. F
A. M. of
West Park
Yamhill
Astoria
Keep Your Money in Oregon Oregon Looks Good Alaska Man Returns
C W Porter formerly of Baker and Grant counties visits Baker City to buy horses for his Fairbanks trading business. He praises Alaska’s prospects, details winter travel by Nome and Yukon, notes Fairbanks with 7000 inhabitants, high telephone rates, wages for laborers, and the prevalence of saloons funding government expenses. He recalls mining efficiency along Tanana, the river traffic, and extreme cold but mild summers with heavy rainfall.
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Puker County
Oregon
Oregon Generis
Baker City
Alaska
John Day
United States
Baker
Fairbanks
Nome
Yukon
Tanana
Ceat
Fairhbanks
Fairbanks News
Valdex
Overland
Enmay
Eheeiff
Institution
Salem
Wafety
Fates Banks
California Prune Wafers Marketed As Laxative Aid
A historical ad notes California Prune Wafers as a pleasant and effective laxative prescribed by physicians and recommended by druggists as an invaluable substitute for mineral pills and castor oil. Sold by Tallman & Co. at 022 Main St, Pendleton, Oregon.
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Tallman & Co
Main St
Pendleton
Ore
Alaska Yukon Exposition Postponed to 1909
Jamestown promoters cheer delay of Alaska Yukon exposition to 1909 freeing Jamestown to proceed. Seattle Alaska Yukon club leaders J E Chilberg and W E Sheffield had pushed for an Alaska Yukon event in 1907 but agreed to postpone after Jamestown requested relief from competition. The decision followed broad DAR requests for postponement and aims to avoid conflicts between northern shows.
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Richmond
Alka-Yukon Club
Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution
Lead Company to Expand Its Capital Stock
One stockholders of the St. Joseph Lead company will meet in New York to vote on increasing capital stock from 4,000,000 to 20,000,000. Officials deny any link to a merger of United and American lead companies. The firm operates mines and smelters in Francois county Missouri with 1904 output of 34,000 tons and a par value stock of 10 dollars. Directors are mainly New York and Brooklyn residents.
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New York
St. Joseph Lead Company
United
American
St. Joseph
Francois County
Miaskvalop Silver and Bowne Terre Railway
Dow Run Lead Company
Brooklyn
Political views and health cures in a fragmented era
A garbled slice of letters and quotes discusses Dr. Withycombe’s stance on public questions and a predicted primary election outcome, interwoven with a testimonial praising Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds. The piece blends political opinion with medical advertisement from local druggists.
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Eugene
Withycombe
Molle Hore
J. O. Tt. Hooper
Woadford
Tenn
King
Tallman & Co
Brock & McComas
Dance by Pendleton Woodmen at Bogien Hall Feb 6
Pendleton Camp No 41 Woodmen of the World to stage a dance at Bogien Hall Monday evening February 6. All Woodmen invited. ladies invited by friends. Card games and dancing, refreshments. Studio notes list organizers and ticketing details. Sale ends Saturday February. Kilers Piano House advertises 513 Main Street.
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Pendleton
Camp No
Bogien’ Hall
corMally
Mach Woodman
Nota Woodman
Caramittes
A. J. Gibwon
Gharine Cale
W. Stroeble
Kilers
Main Street
Question of dependre about egg cookery at table
A waiter asks Flow whether to boil or fry eggs and a cautious customer with a brimless faded beard asks if it affects price. The customer replies no and requests cooking the eggs with slices, showing relieved mood.
Breakfast Table Nepartee at the City Journal
A playful City Journal excerpt features a fanny boarder asking for milk and a landlady quipping about guiding a cow to where the calf cries, capturing a humorous wartime cadence and domestic scene on a rural breakfast table.
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Nepartee
Fanny Boarder
Kanson City Journal
Mystery of City Life Echoes in Jewell Dispatch
In the Jewell Republican from Kansas City crowds and city life spark reflection on how diverse people sustain themselves. The piece notes how urban experiences reveal both complexity and shared humanity as observers confront daily life amid a bustling populace.
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Jewell
Kan
Bell Telephone Executive Salary Stirs Debate
A Bell Telephone company executive received an annual salary of 100000 dollars. The statement, quoted in a clipped historical text, raises questions about executive pay in a period when telecommunication firms expand nationwide.
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Prowdent Vieh
Bell Telephone Company
Vast Northwest News Mix Touches Tacoma to Deadwood
The report recounts a Beattle Syndicate paying 9640, 000 for 34 acres near Tacoma at 3500 an acre. Northern Pacific deploys 1000 men and 2000 horses along the Columbia between Cello and Kennewick. A San Francisco collision of the Arrow and Aurora forces dumping 600 sacks of potatoes. Miss May Hubbard, driven by despair, ends her life in San Francisco after wandering from Seattle, Portland, and friends. Six months show 66 polygamy convictions in Arizona and New Mexico. Congressman Bede of Minnesota warns admission will sharpen Mormon issues. Petitions circulate in Lead and Deadwood seeking clemency for Rev. Ware in land leasing case. The Deadwood parish rector faces lewd charges amid church turmoil and Dowle’s bankruptcy-linked woes. Russian delegates back Jewish nation ideas in Egypt or Asia at Brussels talks. American delegates pending.
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Beattle
Naw
Tacoma
Northern Pacific
The
Columbia
Cello
Kennewick
Buttery
Arrow
Aurora
San Francisco Bay
May Hubbard
San Franccisco
Seattle
Portland
Arizona
New Mexico
Bede
Minnesota
Lead and
Deadwood
Munger
Omaha
George ©. Ware
Mr. Ware
Episcopal Church
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