Various 1903 News Bits From Northwest and Europe
Obituaries note Mrs Abbie Abbott dies in Germany and Theodore Tilton leaves only 3000 in personal property. Maritime and weather events include a steamer collision with a 20 ton whale off Bandy Hook and a small cyclone at Woonsocket causing deaths and property damage. Legal cases span Judge Moody freeing James Hargis in Kentucky. Labor disputes see Boston teams sued for strikebreaker fees. Navy accident inquiry cites a flare back at Georgia. Medical note covers Dr J Hirechberg's magnet eye procedures. Northwest items report drownings in Montana and Idaho, a Chinaman fire in Walla Walla, suicides in Florence Idaho, and local grain and population data from Washtucna and St Maries. Idaho tax notices to corporations and Pullman mill bluestem wheat purchases.
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Bandy Hook
New York
Woonsocket, & C
Atkinson
Theodore Tilton
Paris
Tilton
Sandy Hook
Moody
James Hargis
B. D. Cox
Hargis
Cyrd and Jouett
Tts Witneses
Answers Every Call Kidney Pills Claim Pendleton Proof
Pendleton residents extol Doon’s Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney pain backache and urinary irregularities. Mrs J Krassig testifies her son found relief after three boxes bought at Pendleton Drug Co. Dean’s Kidney Pills priced 60 cents and sold nationwide by Foster Milburn Buffalo, sole agents. Remember the home Dean’s and take no other.
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Pendleton
J. Krassig
Lee Street
Ore
Dan
Pendleton Drug Co
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
For Sale or True Buffalo Pitta horns power
For sale or true. One 14 horse Buffalo Pitta horns power in good repair. W. EB. PERKINS at 601 Perkins Ave.
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W. EB. Perkins
Perkins Ave
Witches and a Mad Dog in a Local Tale
A broad, period tone notes lingering witch beliefs in rural Scotland and England and recounts a chaotic Flora Avenue police call over a supposedly mad dog. A negro man demands the officer’s revolver during pursuit, then vanishes with the dog around a corner, prompting the officer to buy a new revolver.
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Flora Avenue
Ofcer
Kansas City
Changing His Colors and Quadrupeds That Lay Eggs
A fragment from a Los Angeles Times item recalls a New York mission school Christmas gift scene where a bootblack named Tininy receives Browning poems and later exchanges it. It also covers a curious exchange about egg laying mammals like the platypus and echidna, noting their pouched young and lowly mammal status.
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Bootblack
New York
Tininy
Browning
Mission School
Jimmy
South America
Los Angeles
Ambition and a Theatre Note of a Threatened Impostor
An actress who once played Trosa lind recalls a backstage incident. A note slipped into her dressing room by a woman claiming to replace India wlee demands to take the lead role and threatens the dentist over a personal grievance. The attempt was not carried out.
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Trosalind
India
Spolleidl
Not Worth a Curse in Language History
A fragment discusses the origin of the phrase not worth a curse, tracing terms like curse kerse and cerise kirsch. It notes the expression is not properly profane but can be intensified by a profane expletive, with a brief aside on early forms and usage.
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Piera Plowman
Wieiom
Witt Nowels
GAGEN
Wedding Keeps Hosteas From Dance Night
A light dialogue captures Hosteas inviting guests to a dance while Mr Young reveals he attends his own wedding, prompting playful doubt about the evening. The exchange ends with Hosteas expressing amusement at the unexpected nuptials.
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Hosteas
Mr. Young
Recipe for Happiness and a Lost Nation's Toll
Ruskin quote anchors a feature in the East Oregonian praising simple acts and lifelong pursuits as happiness. The piece notes 70,000,000 killed yearly for the sake of pay and hints at broader social critique, reflecting on modern East Oregonian perspectives.
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Anlinnia
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Pendleton’s
the Alexander Department Store
General Newb
Abbie Frances Hamlin Abbott
Lyman Abbott
Hilenheim
Germany
Boston
Board of Inquiry
Georgia
J. Hirechberg
Northwest News
Roscoe Dengley
Clark's Fork
Heron
Mont
Henry Klindt
Dalles
Ncense
J. Malge
Lapwal
Idaho
Mquor
Chinatown
Walla Walla
W. H. Kreg
Florence
Portland
Blackfoot
W. H. Peck
Pocatello
Charles Bascomb
Bascanio
Washtucna
Washtucna Enterprise
John Hulback
St. Maries
Pullman Mill Company
Lewiston
Pullmain Tribune
Hastings
Secretary of State
Seotland
England
France
Betty
London Post
John Ruskin
East Oregonian
The
Pendleton, Oregon
Rock Island
Frisco Terminals
Memphis
Tee Shinee
St. Louis
St. Louie
la Salle Street
Rock Iland-Frisco Lines
Third St
PF. J. Donaldson
Oregon
Old Kentucky
John Gagen
Court St
Golden Rule Hotel
Orville
Coffman
Central Meat, Co. Carney, Ramsdell & Co
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