Ten Thousand Elks Expect Grand Lodge Gathering
Buffalo July 8 Elks week begins with arrival of national officers and an expected 106000 Elks with companions to attend four day grand lodge sessions. Program includes boat rides urban tours receptions parades grand ball Niagara Falls excursion and post reunion trips to Chautauqua Toronto and Fort Erie with free events for badge holders.
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Willard H. Ticknor
Buffalo Lodge
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Seventy-fourth Regiment
Lackawanna Steel
Epworth League Convention Ends in Denver
The Epworth League convention closes in Denver with no notable feats. Speakers delivered addresses while unfinished business was cleared. A social aspect stood out as delegates, many newcomers from older states, were approached by locals in the streets. Excursions to mountain points and trips to Greeley Yellowstone Grand Canyon Colorado Arizona Salt Lake City and Mexico were planned for the departure.
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Denver
Epworth League
Twins 858 Years Old Celebrate 88th Birthday in Bridgeport
In Bridgeport Connecticut on July 8 Junina N. and Julius H. Benham celebrated their 88th birthday with a shore dinner for relatives and friends. Born July 8 1817 in Middlebury they long stood as prominent builders. They come from a long lived family. their grandfather died at 94 and their mother lived to 96. Both men exceed six feet with snow white hair and beards making them nearly indistinguishable.
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Bridgeport
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Junina N
Julius H. Benham
America
Middlebury
Czar's Gift Of Girls Offer From Persian Noble
A Persian grandee in touch with the shah visited St. Petersburg last spring and made a presumptuously bold offer to the czar. The proposal involved Nicholas eight Kurdish water carriers in a startling barter.
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St. Petersburg
Persian Kurdish Beauties Entertained by Czar Visit
In a Petersburg event Nicholas I hosted eight Kurdish water carrier girls from Teheran sent by a Persian insider. The czar, misreading a gift offer as photographs, learned of the beauty display during an informal interview at Charakee-Selo. The party was returned with an autograph letter of thanks.
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Nicholas
Irrigators Must Reorganize for Malheur Project
Malheur Water Users' association directors met with District Engineer John T. Whistler in Yale as Ontario Democrat reports. Construction and maintenance costs rise to 42 per acre over 10 years, up from 36, with a new $2 per acre levy to buy old ditch and water rights. Affected landowners must sign new contracts while a graduated payment plan is outlined. consultants will decide by July 15 whether full reorganization or by-law changes suffice.
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Malheur Water Users’ Association
Yale
John T. Whistler
Saym
Ontario Democrat
Harper Hasin
J. W. McCulloch
E. A. Chandler
Reclamation Service
Barrack Room Expansion Planned at Fort Wright
The Army aims to complete new barracks at Fort Wright within a year doubling the Spokane port capacity from four to eight companies. A duplicate line of buildings will house soldiers and officers across the drill grounds facing the current structures, according to the Spokesman Review.
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Humphrey
United States Army
Fort Wright
Spokane River
Spokesman- Review
Bucklen’s Amica Salve Cited For Lip Sore Cure
A Concord Kentucky man B F Leek reports twenty years of agonizing upper lip sores that hindered eating and that Bucklen's Amica Salve cured him after other methods failed. The ad promotes the salve as effective for burns cuts and wounds sold by Tallman & Co. drug store.
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B. F. Leek
Concord
Bucklen
Tallman & Co
The Bee HivePromise of Low Cash Prices Draws Crowds
The Bee Hive boasts rapid growth as a cash only store offering large volume discounts. It credits low prices, heavy buying power, and avoidance of bad debts for its success, inviting new customers to investigate bargains and spread the word.
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King
New York
Snall
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