Local notices and ads from Gratz's Hawley Bros and more
A collage of town ads and notices from July 9 1902 featuring J A Howard farm loans hours Gratz's stock Tas Teutsch's summer corsets lunch hours Olden Rule beer and Schlitz at various spots Hawley Bros fresh produce ice cream Dutton's ice cream sandwiches Delta stamp sales and real estate listings Rihorn Cook Soule Bros piano services and room rentals Typhoid warning water safety and a railroad fire alarm note.
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Teutsch's
Gratz's
Hood River
Hawley Bros
Gratz’s
Fendleton
10Cup
Nolf's
McReynold’s
Teutsch’s
Gratz
Delta
Silas H. Soule
Soule Bros
Jane Company
Portland
Tallan
Dutton
Rihorn & Cook
Taylor Building
The
Phillip
Tallman's
Golden Rule
Martin
J. R. Dickson
Oregonian
Withee
Court St
Domestic
Davis
Taylor
East Oregonian
Jackson-Dickson Company
Teutsch's store offers varied goods and sales
Teutsch's ad lists shoe laces and ladies' hose, men’s underwear 60 cents a pair, books and novels traded at Frazier's, with L. L. Starkey visiting from Susanville. Standard Grocery promotes old potatoes at 1.25 per hundred and spring chickens at 26 cents each, claiming it’s cheaper than meat. Free Sunday picnic at Kine's grove with dancing at 2. Music by Kirkman’s orchestra. Francis Jackson fished near the Indian agency on the Umatilla river Tuesday, catching a mountain trout of notable size.
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McReynold
Kine's Grove
Kirkman
Francis Jackson
Indian Agency
Umatilla
Blank Pension Applications Arrive For Indian War Veteran Bill
Advices from Washington to Major T. G. Hailey report blank pension applications under the Indian War Veteran bill will be forwarded promptly. They will be printed and sent to Mr. Halley, where eligible applicants can obtain and fill them out at his office.
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T. G. Hailey
Moody
Washington, D. C
Halley
Lincoln with children on shoulders and the walnuts joke
A juror excusal tale ends with the itch remark as Judge orders the juror struck. The narrative shifts to Lincoln carrying his children, a Springfield neighbor recalls the scene, Lincoln quips about three walnuts needing two each.
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Lincoln
Literary Digest
Springfield
Roland Diller
Winds and Seas Carve Sea Bluffs in Great Storms
The passage describes how wind drives sand and salt spray to erode coastal bluffs and headlands, causing rapid pitting of surfaces. It notes that in a gale in 1890 the life saving station at Truro lost its window panes to wind-driven sand, illustrating the wind’s destructive power alongside waves.
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Truro
Bard at work on monuments and memory
A physician driving by a stonemason site quips about gravestones. The stonemason replies that after finishing inscribed monuments, they wait to see who will need another. The physician notes they proceed if someone is ill, implying a grim joke about medical care and memorials.
Oregon Washington Idaho and Their Resources pamphlet
The O R N Company releases a color illustrated guide titled Oregon Washington Idaho and Their Resources. Eastern readers seek Pacific Northwest information. U S Jackson of Boston proposes a privacy device for telephone use.
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O. R. & N. Company
Oregon, Washington & Idaho
East
Pacific Northwest
O. R
U. S. Jackson
Boston
A Light Heart Under Failure
A quotation from Richard Le Gallienne on success linking blues, courage, gayety, and a quiet mind. The note asserts heart, nerves, and enterprise thrive with gayety and belief in eventual achievement, citing Stevenson prayers for courage.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Gayety
Richard le Gallienoe
Cats Among the Egyptians and Sacred Cats
The tutelar deity of eating was Diana and the cat symbolized the moon, making felines sacred in ancient Egypt. Cat deaths were family misfortunes, with funerals held pompously and owners shaving eyebrows and donning sackcloth for nine days. Moses era laws branded cat killing as a capital crime, with a soldier executed for such an act per Diodorus.
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Eate
Diana
Plutarch
Moses
Diodorus
Sweet Heart series a popular line of novels
The note describes a popular line of romance novels titled Sweet Heart series. The text highlights its appeal and suggests wide reader interest and potential ongoing installments. (If this is a fragment, this item notes a literary series rather than a news event.)
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lee Teutsch
Cleaver Bros. Dry Goods Company
Hast
J. A. Howard
Frazier’s
Hawley Bros. McReynold
Dutton’s
L. Hunziker
Alexander
Koeppen
Main St
Court House
N. Joerger
L. L. Starkey
Susanville
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Peoples Warehouse
Madras
Int Peoples Warehaise
Butterick
Justin
Douglas Aboes
Boston Store Shoe Dept
Mrs. Southworth
Bertha Clay
Mary J. Holmes
Parker Bros
Frederick Nolf
Gus LA Fontaine
Beck
Tiner
Cottonwood Street
St. Joe
Chicago
Jesse Failing
Peter Smite
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