Local Happenings and Advertisements in City Brevities
Ice cream at Hohbachs and strawberries served at Hotel Bowman Cafe. Pendleton Furniture Co. receives rug shipments and urges customers to see Minnis for dry wood. For Rent listings include store room and furnished house at 223 Perking Avenue. Goodman's Hardware Co. advertises annual sale and closeout on refrigerators freezers and stoves. Lost check book belonging to R. Moas. return to B.O. office. Pigeons for sale promising squabs, inquiry at office. Ice cream social by Presbyterian church planned on court house lawn Friday evening.
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Pendleton Furniture Co
Stark Poultry House
East Oregonian
Pendleton Furniture Company
Perking Avenue
Bowman
Goodman Hardware Co
The
Young Peoples’ Society of the Presbyterian Church
Court House
Charmers of Oklahoma to stage beauty show in Bromide
Muskogee Oklahoma reports a coming summer feature the beauty show with hundreds of Indian maidens entering. The piece notes green corn dance customs and traditional husks and a brewing weed remedy. Deputy marshals monitor dances where bootleg liquor fuels fights.
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Muskogee
Okla
Bromide
Oklahoma
Poor So
Astoria City Eyes Municipal Telephone System
City officials discuss establishing a municipal telephone system under a charter amendment approved last election. Mayor Wise to urge council to form a committee to investigate. Plant cost around 30000 with 1000 subscribers, potential gross income 24000 yearly and net about 12000 after expenses and repairs.
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Astoria
Wise
Pendleton Pioneers Remember Heat and Wells
Lot Livermore, Pendleton pioneer and former post master, recalls mild summers and shade lacking in early days. He describes a simple water source back then, driving a pipe 10 to 12 feet into the ground and pumping water, noting modern microbes now threaten well water.
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Pendleton
Pioneera
Lot Livermore
Livermore
Salem Good Citizenship League Demands Strict Sunday Law
The Salem Journal reports no arrests for Sunday baseball despite planned enforcement by the Salem Good Citizenship league. A warm, crowded baseball park preceded a postponed liquor question meeting at the opera house. The temperance carnival failed to draw crowds, ministers attended, and H B Thiessen announced postponement with pledges of renewed Sunday law enforcement on the Canadian plan including excursions and sports on Sundays.
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Salem Good Citizenship League
Salem Journal
Opera House
H.B. Thiessen
Good Citizenship League
Magnificent Union Pacific Land Sale Figures Revealed
Union Pacific Railroad land department reports from April 1898 to May 1908 show 9.104 million acres sold mainly in Wyoming under ten year contracts. Deeds issued total 3,046,098.82 acres, indicating rapid uptake by settlers. Large tracts sold to augment homesteads on alternate sections, many converted to farming lands.
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Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Land Department
Wyoming
Pastor invites men to remove jackets at First Baptist
Churchgoers in Yakima reacted as Pastor Frank J. Whitney urged all male members to shed coats at the morning service. A few complied, boys briefly followed, but the pastor appeared in shirt sleeves at the evening service. The idea may catch on in hot weather, despite giggles from women.
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First Baptist Church
Frank J. Whitney
Yakima Republic
Mr. Whitney
Doctor Strohecker Relocates to Portland Practice
Dr Strohecker previously connected with the government irrigation project at Hermiston has moved to Portland. He will practice medicine with Engineer John T Whistler in the Chamber of Commerce Building.
Irrigon Squabs Boost Bowman Cafe Menu
Judd Fish, manager of the Bowman hotel and cafe, received a shipment of fine squabs from Irrigon and will feature them for patrons. An Irrigon squab raiser keeps about 80 pairs of pigeons producing roughly 24 pairs of squabs weekly, yielding a solid income from a small start.
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Bowman Cafe
Judd Fish
Bowman Hotel and Cafe
Orphaned Infant Left on Porch Found by Roseburg Timber Dealer
A six month old baby, left in a basket, was found on the porch of G. A. Signalness, a Roseburg timber dealer. There is no clue to the parents. Mr and Mrs Signalness will care for the infant until parents are found.
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G. A. Signalness
Roseburg
Ore
Mrs. Signalness
Traction Company Behind on 3 Cent Fares in Cleveland
Cleveland street car company reports three months of three cent fares with monthly deficits ranging from 40 900 to over 60 000 dollars. Transfers yield about 30 000 dollars monthly while a six cent franchise limit looms. Directors meet next Tuesday to discuss free transfers to boost ridership and other key issues. President Dupont states the property will not revert to the old company if the six cent cap is reached.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Municipal Traction Company
Tranefere
Dupont
Hood River Expected Apple Harvest Near Record Size
Hood River growers and shippers anticipate a bumper crop as favorable weather boosted early fruit development. Estimates for this year's harvest range from 225,000 to 400,000 boxes, with 250,000 considered safe, implying about 400 carloads of apples, nearly double past shipments.
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Hood River
Salem Team Wins State Shoot at Willamette Range
Salem, Or July 22 The Salem team of Company M won the state shoot conducted by the Oregon National Guard at the Willamette rifle range across the river. Sergeant R White won the governor's medal with 120 of 200. Team scores: Company M 446, Company D Roseburg 437, Company E Cottage Grove 433, Company K Portland 4th. White tied with Sergeant Chester Adams for individual honors but receives the medal for higher rapid-fire percentage.
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Salem
Willamette
Oregon National Guard
R White
Roseburg
Cottage Grove
Portland
White
Chester Adams
Rider
W. Pearmine
R. Bailey
Company L
Pendleton
R. Oliver
L. D. Drake
G. Morefield
Rapid Fire
Company M
All the News All the Time In the East Oregonian
A brief notice introduces the East Oregonian’s ongoing commitment to currency in reporting. It outlines the paper’s aim to cover local events, weather, obituaries, sports scores, and community notices with prompt updates and reliable sourcing.
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East Oregonian
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