Potatoes and cattle market notes from Portland amid rain
Evening trading in Portland sees dull cattle and fat stock demand despite good overall quality from eastern Oregon and California. New potatoes arrive from California with prices around 2.40 per hundredweight, oranges and sweets noted, and a humorous anecdote about a widow in mourning linked to conductor chatter from a New York Times reprint.
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Chicago Wheat closes lower amid volatile July contract
Chicago wheat prices dipped with July wheat opening at 1.1578 dollars per bushel and closing at 1.1314. The session saw a high near 1.1578 and a low of 1.1914 as buyers and sellers battled for direction. Overbeck & Cooke provided the price ranges for July, September, December and May contracts.
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Chicago
Overbeck & Cooke Cn
Portland Market Summary Wool and Hides on 1909 Portland
Wool and Hides report from Willamette valley and eastern Oregon lists prices for wool by grade from 10 to 125 cents per pound, dry hides at 4.5 cents, green hides 10 to 16 cents, calves at 16 cents, barley and wheat buying prices, millstuff prices, flour prices in various grades, and track and grain values. Potatoes and other produce prices shown with ranges and per ton figures.
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Willamette Valley
Oregon
Portland
Lumber contracts for Panama Canal work awarded
In the past ten years the Canal Commission awarded contracts for 1,000,000 feet of lumber to Washington mills with about 6,000,000 feet produced by Grays Harbor mills. Tom mills secured the remaining business. More timber is on the market with bids to open March 12 and 19. A Seattle mill received an order for 466,090 feet for delivery at Manila.
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United States Engineer’s
Seattle
Manta
Monosyllables in Poetry and Irish Courtship
A compact note surveys heavy use of single syllable words in Milton and Paradise Lost and contrasts Irish courtship scenes from London Notes and Queries. It quotes Mary and Laurence exchanges showers of mispronounced adages and cautions about patience and prudence in marriage.
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Milton
Nervous mother takes drastic steps over boys’ deaths
An anxious mother, worried after reading reports of boys killed roller skating, struck fear from her son’s life by burning his roller skates and later removing his clothes and shoes after alarming tales. She fears dangers from shoes, shoes rubbing, streetcars, and flannel shirts. Atehlson Globe.
Fresh eggs spurred by bloom test sparks spirited debate
A housewife notes a white bloom on eggs and claims freshness while her husband, a food expert, counters that the bloom is lime dust indicating pickled eggs. He notes pickled eggs are not as wholesome as truly new laid eggs, sparking a light domestic argument from the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Riddle from Jhansi mentions Colenso and London scraps
A puzzling note from Jhansi India asks to divide 150 by 0 and add two thirds of 10. It then cites Colenso C 100 Su EN two thirds of TEN and 80 ends the riddle, as printed in London Scraps.
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Jhans
India
Colenso
London
Tom Belle and Maud Speak of Friends and Futures
Boston Transcript remarks on a strange girl Tom Belle who cannot name some best friends while Maud jokes about not knowing her own future. The exchange highlights uncertainty about friendships and how people change over time.
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Tom—Belle
Maud
Boston Transcript
Fourth of July Celebrations Across Oregon Towns
In Harpers Weekly a rural family scene contrasts discipline with pride as a boy recalls his father’s stern lessons. The note then shifts to a broad claim that nearly all Oregon towns will celebrate the Fourth of July with festivities and gatherings.
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Oregon
Why US Motion Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin T Ed Stowe Memoir
New York listeners heard Rev Charles Edward Stowe discuss Harriet Beecher Stowe and the roots of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Church of the Ascension. He described her motivation as a mother moved by suffering of enslaved people and by her sister-in-law's death, leading to the death scene of Uncle Tom. He recalled her impulse to write after a vision in church and noted her modest earnings and a proposed memorial fund for an education institution.
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Church of the Ascension
Fifth Avenue
Tenth Street
Charles Edward Stowe
Dr. Stowe
Charles Reecher
New Orleans
Harriet
Uncle Tom
Legree
Europe
Southern industrial development convention opens in Atlanta
Commercial clubs and boards of trade from Maryland and Texas are represented by their secretaries and officials at the southern development convention in Atlanta. Projects to boost the south are under consideration. It is believed New Orleans will host the next meeting, with a possible Panama trip for delegates to inspect.
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Maryland
Texas
Secetaries
South
New Orleans
Panama
Sealed bids for fuel and wood to supply district
Sealed proposals will be received until 6 p m July 6 1909 for furnishing School District No 16 Umatilla County Oregon with 100 cords red fir wood four foot lengths some cut from green timber and seasoned and 120 tons lump coal specify coal type. Board may reject any bid. Fuel delivered to schools as directed by the supervisor of schools. Bids to Lot Livermore Clerk of School District No 14.
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Umatilla County
Oregon
Board of Directors
Echools
Lot Livermore
Great Ditch Linked to Southern Commercial Future
A fragment notes that a great ditch will play an important role in the future commercial greatness of the New South, implying its potential impact on regional development and industry.
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New South
Griscom Sails Home From Paris After Resigning Post
Griscom former American ambassador to Rome sails from Paris for America after resigning his post. John A. Lelshman, his successor, who has served in Constantinople, will spend part of July in Rome and then visit America before assuming duties in Rome.
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Mr. Griscom
Rome
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