Oregon club closes record year as vacations begin
The women's club of Oregon ends a record year and begins a vacation until September. The piece discusses irrigation funds, land sales, and schooling issues in Pendleton, plus political commentary on national figures, local education, crime, and regional news from Spokane to Topeka. It highlights public school debates, a manslaughter verdict, and mixed regional updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
National Irrigation Fund
Pendleton
The Rocky Mountain Goat in Early Western Expeditions
An account of early exploration notes that the Rocky Mountain goat was the only large wild animal still common, while others had nearly vanished. It cites 1869 sightings by Dr. Hector, 16 years earlier Selkirk reports of goats near tame behavior, and August encampment observations in Yoho with 17 goats nearby. A Swiss guide near Field captured a kid, tying it near Mt Stephen House, suggesting partial domestication.
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Italy
Nevada
Europe
Hector
Green
Selkirk Ranges
Hockies
Yoho
Field
Mt. Stephen House
New World Playground Tale in Whyrmper Poem
An excerpt from A New Playground in the New World recounts Hasler selling a treasure to an American and sending it to Philadelphia. It notes many small wild animals were hard to catch and some died in confinement in the June Serity pers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hasler
Philadelphia
New World
Edward Whyrmper
Western traveler’s tale clashed with pioneer grit
A rugged verse piece from Pendleton Oregon by Bert Huffman contrasts a flashy tourist with legends of the overland West. It mocks flashy boastful travelers while honoring the hard frontier builders who laid out the streets along the old pony trail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenderfoot
Britain's Postal Banks Insolvent Savings System
The post office savings banks of Great Britain are technically insolvent with year end deposits of 710,000 and assets around 701,000. The discrepancy stems from pre Boer War national bond prices and higher interest rates. Telegraph withdrawals and small deposits under the slip system illustrate quirky features.
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Post Office Savings Banks
Great Britain
The Making of Man by Princilla Leonard in Outlook
A poetic meditation on human origin and struggle. The piece contrasts divine holiness with earthly crime, tracing mankind from dust to the potential flame of spirit. It laments weakness and malice while urging spiritual ascent.
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Princilla Leonard
Memorial Day Verse by Augusta Prescott
The poem laments fallen Civil War soldiers as daughters mourn the blue and gray. Memorial Day imagery fills the page with forget-me-nots, hyacinths, and flowers laid on granite shafts. A stray line notes fifty people injured in a Sunday streetcar collision in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray
San Francisro
Gray's Harbor Commercial Co Lumber Inventory Highlight
Gray's Harbor Commercial Co announces a broad stock of dry flooring ceiling rustic and finish lumber in all grades. It lists dimension lumber latch shingles doors windows moulding tar paper and apple boxes, inviting customers to place orders for needed lumber.
Dutch Henry Feed Yard advertises horse care services
Dutch Henry L Neff formerly of the Hotel Alta now runs the Old Dutch Henry Feed Yard offering stalls and large corrals for horses and cattle with hay and grain for sale and a chop mill in connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Neff
Hotel
Alta
Radium Emits Heat Without Combustion
Professor Currie told the French Academy that radium continuously gives off heat without chemical change, maintaining its temperature 1.6 degrees above ambient. A pure radium salt can melt more than its weight in ice per hour, and half a pound would match the heat of burning hydrogen gas. The salt remains potent despite ongoing activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Currie Hee
French Academy of Sciences
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Friast
Oregonand
East Oregonian Publishing Company
Mall Batts
Mall
Feekly
D. B
Portland
Perkins
Scripps Mee News Associa
Frandsen Tureau
William Henry Channing
United States
Mr. Bryan
Manna
Roosevelt
Spokane
Thomas C. Power
Board of Sheep Commissioners of
Montana
Associated Press
Ad Vvabre
Joseph Chamberlain
England
Kansas
Topeka
Topeka le
Alabama
Po Onange
Richard Lovelace
S. J. Underwood
The
Independent
Lady Fair
Lovelace
Washington Irving
Tayopan Zee
Manhattan
Hfe
Holland
William
Peter
Tandern
Joaqquin Miller
Bret Harte
Mr. Miller
Wall Street
Papa
Congress
Beveridge
Senate
Hanoi
Hanna
Funkeys
Pioneer Land
Bert Huffmas
Pendlenon
Ore
Britain
Lim
Augusta Prescott
Gray's Harbor
Gray’s Harbor Com. Co
Opp. W. & C. R. Depot
Henry
Cor W. Alta and
Lillith Sts
Pendleton Planing Mill
Ropeer Foxster
Radium
Chicago Daily Jews
Lantz Bros
Walla
Cen
Oregonian
Omca Peadieton
Choics
Rihiorn & Sag
Ty Hardware Store
Balane
Beth
Main Street
E.D. Boyd
E. J. Murphy
Court Street
Sherehams Paint
Dieton
Humane
J. A. Smith
Umatilla
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