City Briefies and Classified Fragments From Portland Page
A jumble of brief notices and ads lists sales promotions, lost and found, rental offerings, employment inquiries, and service ads. Items reference Malin phone numbers, millinery sales by Mrs Campbell, Trowman’s Studio in Portland, Leathers Transfer & Storage, and Frost & Bowman. Also ads for clothing, hotel rates, wheat ranch lease, and a few personal notices amidst a chaotic OCR read.
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Mazeamioon
Trowman's
Portland
Oreron
Leathers’ Transfer & Storage Co
Gritman's Clear
Temovalile
Ummer
Anguet 1
Mra
Campbell's
Frost & Bowman's
Fast
Oregonian
Fast Oregonian
Dewpain
Hla
Port
Tlen
Atwood Bldg
Chicago
Fh & Wadsworth
Kahlott
Wish
Railroading pays steady work for men seeking advancement
A dated advertisement extols railroading as a stable career for sober and ambitious youths. It traces a worker from harvest pay of about 50 dollars monthly to engine wiper in Pendleton, fireman in La Grande, then engineer at 4.76 dollars per day, highlighting skill, responsibility, and promotion prospects. Also notes a jewelry line and references Brigadier General IL WH Rucker and Hie 70th birthday, with mixed branding and endorsements.
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Umatilla
Pendleton
la Grande
Rucker
Los Angeles
Chitago
L. Hunziker
Two Hacks for Sale and Divorces in Spokane News
Reconstructed notes report two for sale hacks at Thquire Lane paint shop, a divorce suit filed by Calder Bell against Dane Bell, and disputes over custody. Mentions a Spokane branch of the TR and N, a Spokane to Bellingham death, and remarks on regional irrigation and settlement near Ontario. Mentions Prof D Conklin, Pendleton schools, and horticultural society meeting in Salem.
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Calder
Bell Agginet
Dane T Bell
YB. Perry
Hella
Adair
Mikronil
Altower
D. Conkin Tore
EK Th. Conklin
Pendietonm Public Schoo
Onterly Public
Alfaifa
Cie
Sinter Horticulturda
Salem
Tarlo
Ontario
Personal mentions drift through Baker City list of visitors
Baker City Herald records a long list of residents and visitors in Baker City, with items including Harrié departing for Baker City, J. D. Garrett visiting, D. Teel on business, James and Mrs Welch of Portland visiting relatives, G. B. Dewey meeting friends, John Braw of Walla Walla passing through, Mr and Mrs Owenhouse heading to Cheyenne and Denver, Mrs Reavis en route to Elgin, architect C. E. Troutman to Hermiston for lumber yard interests, Mrs Seth Catlin visiting her mother, L. G. Fraxter returning from Bingham Springs, Olver P. Morton leaving for Hermiston, Dick Nye visiting family, Perry Gould in city from Nolin on business, KE Clampver now Chicago broker in town, Captain Maud Williams returning to Walla Walla, A. Alford of Lewiston Tribune in Baker between trips, camping trip planned on Umatilla, Dr F. O. Vincent and T. C. Taylor in town on business with Pendleton, J. S. Downes back from Hideaway Springs, Rev Hall and family en route to Omaha for Baptist Young People's convention.
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Harrié
Baker City
J. D. Garrett
Adams
D. Teel
Echo
James Welch
Portland
Relativen
G. BE. Dewey
Chicago
John Bhaw
Walla Walla
Dick Nye
Cambridge
Idaho
For & Vielt
Mra
A. W. Nye
Perry Gould
Uma
Ulla County Woolstower' Association
Nolin
Ke, Clanver
Fow
Maud Williams
Salvation Army Harricks
BR. A. Alford
Lewiston Tribune
Bowman
Taylor
Umatilla
Tinea Springe Station
F. O. Vincent
The
Light Company
TC. Taylor
Pendleton
Baker
Baker City Herd
J. & Downes
Ellore Piany House
Hee
Hideway Springs
Severil
Bosmen
Hall
Peydillen
Omaha
Baptist Young People's Union
Slike Trande
Baker City Herald
Bottling Works Sold to Baker and Sullivan Firm
Martin Finneran has sold the City Brewery Bottling works to the firm of Baker and Sullivan who will conduct the business in the future. Finneran bought the plant of Conrad Kohler a little over a week ago.
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Martin Finneran
Baker & Sullivan
Mr. Finneran
Conrad Kohler
Kerr-Gifford Warehouse Relocated to Burnhart Yard
The Kerr Gifford warehouse formerly opposite the coal bunkers in the OO BR N yards was moved to Burnhart today. A crew under William Coffman will rebuild it immediately at the new site.
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Kerr-Gifford
Burnhart
William Coffman
Farewell for Captain Withrow Before Seattle Move
Farewell services will be held next Friday at the Salvation Army church for Captain Withrow who departs for Seattle next week. She has been in Pendleton for several months making many friends with her genial disposition as her successor is not yet named.
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Seattle
Salvation Army
Captain Withrow
Withrow
Pendleton
Fe Nok
Kkinewn
Shipment of 100 Horses From Bam Olwen to Minneapolis
A shipment of 100 head of horses is en route over the O. RB. & N. from Poston Minnesota buyer Bam Olwen. The thin morning herd is described as range horses and will be marketed upon arrival in Minnesota.
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Bam Olwen
Poston
Minn
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Prominent Alberta Stockmen Buy Saskatchewan Wheat Land
Hutchivon Reothere of Union and other stockmen recently returned from Canada with three sections of wheat land in Strathcona and Saskatchewan province. Land costs fell from 12 to 10 dollars per acre, with prospects of a strong birmin growth. Prices in Saskatchewan rise as hundreds head north, and summer fallowed land yields heavy grain. They plan to seed next spring and may acquire more nearby, about 59 miles north of Calgary.
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Alberta
Hutchivon Reothere
Union
Canada
Prine
Calgary
Take a Phonograph with You Porvons Vacation Plan
A local ad urges travelers to bring a phonograph for mountain trips. It promotes a special machine for the trip and invites readers to call I. A. Owernhouse at 813 Main Street for details.
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Porvons
I. A. Owernhouse
Main Street
Grand Trunk rail survey reaches Point Rupert area
Civil engineer Humphrey Van Alden reports from Ottawa to Portland about the Grand Trunk railway survey from Moncton to Point Rupert. Government backstops the first 1800 miles, with cost limits and a 60 year lease to Grand Trunk, aiming for completion by December 21 1911. Major bridge plans near Quebec and Winnipeg to Edmonton surveys underway. Local marriage notices also noted with two ceremonies performed by Justice Parkes at Pendleton.
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Humphrey van Alden
Ottawa
Monewon
New Brunswick
Point Rupert
Aleka
Portland
Victoria
Moncton
Winnipeg
Grand Trunk Railway Company
Grand Trunk Company
Prairie
Edmonton
Canada
Grand Trunk Railway
St. Lawrence River
Quebec
Richmonton
Montreal
van Alden Feehs
St. Lawrence
Toole
Catade
Caneasda
Oregon Lumber Yard Ad Near Court House Describes Offer
A brief ad offers private individuals or regular contractors lumber of superior sunior quality. It notes frequent consignments of the choicest hard lumber, free from knots warps and imperfection, cut to desired lengths for carpenters. Prices are cheap and demand high. Near Court House Pendleton Oregon. Phone Male Pendleton Oregon.
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Oregon
Court House
Pendleton
Ancient Water Villages of the Spreewald
The Spreewald in Brandenburg is a network of canal towns where houses sit on piles and islands are linked by bridges. Boats carry most traffic from spring thaw to autumn, with letter carriers and police traversing the canals as peasants bring goods, children ride to school, and families row to church for baptisms.
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Spreewald
Brandenburg
Venice
Artificia Terra Firma
Technical World Magazine
Dream Mystery Doctor Dreaming During Call In Dream
A doctor on call battles extreme drowsiness and dreams a strange invention for telegraph poles. The fragment hints at a distracted moment during a St. Louis Medical Record publication, with a telegraph telegram reference and a surreal sequence of events surrounding a supposed invention.
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St. Louis
Depois
Dream of a German Invention Sale Ends in Awakening
A dreamer recounts negotiating with a postal firm for a sale that failed, while authorities of another company pursue a rival German device. In the dream he crosses the ocean to inspect it, explains differences to a buyer, and writes a reply before waking as a companion asks a final question. The dream spans months though only moments pass in reality.
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Thd
Governess Post as Used in 17th Century Europe
Translation of a London Notes and Queries snippet discusses Albert VII, archduke of Austria, marrying Isabella Clara Eugenia from Spain. Her dowry included sovereignty of the Low Countries, and upon Philip V’s 1621 accession he seized the sovereignty but left her governess title. She died in Brussels in 1633 at age sixty six, illustrating early use of governess for a woman governing.
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Albert VII
Archduke
Austria
Isabella Clara Eugenie
Infanta
Spain
Low Countries
Philip V
Brussels
London
Paid For the Opinion in a New Hampshire Case
After Chief Justice Purley of the New Hampshire Court of Appeals retired to practice law, a client sought his opinion on a case. The judge asked for payment and declared the client a scoundrel before demanding ten dollars for the opinion, which was promptly paid.
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Purley
Court of Appeals of
New Hampshire
Rhodesia's Largest Nugget Found Near Bulawayo
A 21.02 ounce gold nugget, five and a half inches long and three inches wide, is believed to be Rhodesia's largest. Found near Bulawayo, it is now housed at the British South Africa Company's museum at 2 London Wall buildings, BE, London Mall.
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Rhodesia
Bulawayo
British South Africa Company
London Wall Buildings
London Mall
The Woman of St Mother and Juanita Interaction
The seven year old Juanita quarrels with the impatient woman who warns of telling her father. The exchange centers on honesty and domestic discipline in a domestic scene.
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St. Mother
Juanita
The Determining Factor Helen Sometimes
New York dialogue capture shows Helen and Ethel debating mood and dance style with witty exchanges about waltzing and partnership dynamics.
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Helen
Ethel
New York
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Oxford
Teutsch’s
East Oregonian
John Gagen
Eagle Building
Court Wtreet
Cupid's
Torn
Mtr
Mire
Campbell
Dem
Ben Campbell
McGilivray
Spokane
Bellingham
Mes Gilivray
Spokine
Rouse
UMA Soda
Koeppens’ Reue Et Rz
the Peoples Warehouse
Republic Coffee
Alaska
Enre
Justis Parkes
West Welding
Justice of the Peace
Joe H. Parkes
Justice Parkes
Luke Cawapod
Julia Dixon
Daniel Flowers
Mire Susie J. Proffer
Golden Rule Hotel
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