Hermiston Notes and Pilot Rock Doings
Local items report Hermiston preparing for a new school house with completion aimed for the term, plus a Baptist church foundation and a canal project update. Austrians arrive to work on the Umatilla dam, rail and road activity progress toward Pilot Rock, and several residents visit or relocate.
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S_ verry Hurt
Spokane
J. HL Riel Wil Buikl
New Baptist Church
Hermiston
J. R. Syfert
J. Agnew
Umatilla
Butcher Shop and Property for Sale in Helix Oregon
For sale a working butcher shop with fixtures and property in a good location. Do ing fine business. For further particulars contact W. H. Albee at Helix Oregon.
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W. H. Albeo
Helix, Ore
For sale cheap runabout bogey and overhaul
Short notice ad offers a single runabout bogey in good condition after a thorough overhaul. Contact F. L. 68 by phone or reach J. M. Cornelison Pendleton for details.
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F. L
J. M. Cornelison
Pendletom
Harvest Begins Soon as Adams Expects Big Yield
Adams of Very Sleep predicts a large harvest with preparations underway and some growers starting by the end of the week. W. O. Ried and wife moved to Hood River for a few weeks, Stella and Lula Lieuallen returned from Spokane trip. Not much complaint of hot weather this season.
Memorable Day Featuring Dr Ging New Life Pills
Matthew W. McGrath of the New York Athlete club reportedly set a world hammer throw record at 175 feet 2 inches from a 7 foot circle in New York on July 16, potentially surpassing John Flannagan's 172 feet 11 inches. The notice also promotes Dr Ging's New Life Pills at Tallman & Co.'s drug store.
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Dr. Ging
Tallman & Co
New York
Matthew W. McGrath
Things He Didn't Understand and a Clerical Encounter
A worldly agnostic and a clergyman share a Pullman dining car scene over a dinner of Hudson river shad. The agnostic presses the clergyman on understanding the Bible, who replies with a homely analogy about bones in shad, then moves on to discuss ancient Egyptian medicine and perceptions of disease. The excerpt also touches on records of the past and the disorienting effects of fog on animals and a London blind man guided by sound.
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Sam
Waterbury
Egypt
Memphis
Africa
Asia
London
Honeymoon Start Sparks Rainbow Tour of Hymen
Entranced, the couple fled through showers of rice and old shoes to the train. The bride asks if the crowd shouts, and the groom jokes that all couples are off when starting their honeymoon. George strolls with his wife toward the parlor car as a lighthearted, personal tour begins.
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George
Hymen
Chicago News
He Couldn’t Bend Aboard With A Devout Family
A young man seeks room and board with a strictly devout family. Each meal begins with a long grace, but he sits bolt upright while others bow. On day two the household cannot endure the rigid pose. When asked if he bends, he replies simply that he is “boll.”
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Athelsma
Boll
Quick Wit Quips About Jewelry Gift Spares Wives
A playful exchange in which a husband notes an ill tempered colleague and a new jewelry set prompts irritation. The wife teases that the man will need a new gift for his wife, calling him disagreeable and suggesting she would annoy him often.
Real Distinction in Mr Seadds and his Degrees
A wry note on Mr Seadds praised for scientific distinction. Miss Cayenne jokes that his many college degrees make it hard to tell whether the card bears his name or an algebra problem. The piece reflects on how friends of friends invite skepticism.
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Gagen
Seadds
Indewd
Miss Cayenne
London
Sweetress and Honeymoon Witty Exchange Cited
An excerpt features a playful dialogue about a honeymoon with a bee sting anecdote and reflections on friendship and fate. A remark on the world being a wheel hints at eventual justice and return of fortunes. The lines praise gentleness and mutual sympathy between lovers and friends in a light, quoted tone.
Literary Curiosity About a Sublet Story End
A Parks newspaper ordered an adventure tale from a famous novelist. The novelist hired an unknown collaborator who charged 25 centimes per line. After the original author’s death, the story was finished by a secondary writer at 10 centimes, saving the publication.
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Parks
France
Bedalda
Why swelling follows a blow in the body
A historical note explains swelling as the body's protective response after injury. It describes small blood vessels leaking fluid, white blood cells and serum surrounding the damaged area, and vessels dilating to increase blood flow. White cells may aid repair, transforming into tissue, likening the body to a colony rushing to seal a breach.
Quaint Scotch wedding custom preserves fees
A Westminster Gazette report notes a quaint Scottish practice in which wedding guests pay in full for food drink and dancing. It recalls a Glasgow notice in Cowdenbeath or Cowdendens stating a soldier would wed and that two pence would be charged for admission and sixpence for the wedding feast, a peculiarly Scotch custom.
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Scotland
Glasgow
Westminster Gazette
The Reader Who Skips
A prose or verse work rewards sympathy with the artist's mind and acceptance of intent. The reader who skips devalues the harmony of composition and the impact of episodes and paragraphs, much like watching a game and missing each alternate scene.
Atmospheric temperature changes with altitude and latitude
The text explains cooling roughly one degree per 300 feet gained and warming similarly with descent. It notes mean polar temperatures near zero and equatorial ranges between eighty and zero degrees, and claims about one degree cooler per eighty miles north and one degree warmer per seventy to eighty miles south.
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North Pole
Water in English courtroom joke cited by Maule
A law anecdote recalls bailiffs denying jurors sustenance with a clerk asking for water. Justice Maule responds that water is not meat and not drink, yet grants permission after all. The quip highlights a famed exchange about juror needs and courtroom etiquette.
Tower of Babel described with Babylon height and walls
The passage describes the Tower of Babel at Babylon as eight square towers stacked to 600 feet high. It states Babylon is a square fifteen miles on each side with walls eighty seven feet thick and 370 feet high.
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Tower of Babel
Babylon
Walla
Hard Luck and References Joke in Bits
A humorous note from Illustrated Bits via the Dev ver Post mocks job hunting. A man asks for references from his former employer who is said to be dead twenty eight years. The quip plays on the difficulty of obtaining posthumous references.
It in the East Oregonian: a brief glimpse of confusion
The note hints at a misread phrase It in the East Oregonian and a stray letter. The fragmentary line suggests an editorial quirk or typographical oddity without clear event or context.
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East Oregonian
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