City Brevities and Notices from the Oregon City Fair
A jumble of local entries announces ice cream at Hohbachs and billiards at Hennemans, plus unfurnished rooms for rent and various ads. It notes pressed chickens at Stark Poultry House, new billiard tables, transfer services by Stansberry & Milne, hardware by Goodman, and a grand balloon ascent with parachute drop at the Merry-go-round Friday at 4 pm. It also advertises cottage rentals in Long Beach, chats about cherry and gooseberry crops, and reports farm earnings, poultry hatching, and winter laying stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stark Poultry House
Henneman's
East Oregonian
Goodman Hardware Company
Enquire
Bluff Street
Big Profits to Clarkston Lawi
The Snake River cannery began active operations today working on the gooseberry crop. It is the first among three new Lewiston Clarkston valley enterprises to start in the field. The cannery is paying four cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarkston Lawi
Snake River
Lewiston-Clarkston Valley
Clarkston
Portland Needs Roses For Festival Help From Salem
Portland faces a rose shortage ahead of a weeklong festival and Salem’s board of trade plans daily rose shipments. Citizens, especially women, are urged to send roses to the boardrooms or call for messenger deliveries to boost Portland’s display for visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Salem Statesman
Salem
Eaphel Ecity
Board of Trade
Porland
Record crowds converge for largest Odd Fellows convention
More than 1000 Odd Fellows registered at headquarters by noon with 600 to 800 more expected. Trains brought in members as two special trains ran yesterday for the three linked fraternities. In all about 1600 to 1800 delegates are expected to attend, the largest convention ever held in Walla Walla.
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Walla Walla
Vancouver to Build Street Car System
Vancouver Washington plans a street car network with an urban line through the city and an extension into the surrounding countryside. The proposal envisions improved regional transport linking downtown with outlying areas and agricultural districts.
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Vancouver
Wash
Jis
Man with Cork Arm Defends Artificial Limb Makers
A New York Sun opinion quotes a wearer of a cork leg who argues that manufacturers who wear artificial limbs have superior insight and better fit. He says patrons prefer such makers, trusting experience to comfort. The remark highlights a market belief that “one who wears” understands the need for a well fitting limb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Admiralty Tales of Naval Figures and a Chart Misread
A Strand Magazine excerpt recounts an admiral who mocked a ship disaster report for its language, a lord of the admiralty who pressed for relief when a ship neared a sheltering island, and a civilian lord who misread chart scales, noting a two inch gap implied 4,000 miles at sea.
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Admiralty
House of Commons
London Strand Magazine
Portrait of Daniel Boone by Chester Harding
The lone life painting of Daniel Boone was done by Chester Harding in June 1820 at Flanders Callaway’s residence near Marthasville Missouri. Boone posed while standing due to weakness with Rev James B Welch supporting him in bed. The portrait now hangs in the Kentucky state capitol at Frankfort.
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Daniel Boone
Chester Harding
Boston
Missouri
Flanders Callaway
Boone
Marthasville
Warren County
James B. Welch
Aikman Welch
Gamble
Harding
Pioneer
Frankfort
Kansas City Star
Breakin at Libby Great Northern Ticket Office
The Great Northern ticket office at Libby Montana was broken into Sunday night and a quantity of tickets were taken. Nothing else was disturbed. There is no clue.
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Great Northern
Libby
Mont
PENDLETON AREA WARM OF ROSE SHOW TRIPS
Numerous residents and visitors from Echo Athena Pendleton and surrounding areas travel to Portland and other towns to attend the rose show. Highlights include D Teal, F Le Grow, A E Greiner, Hurlburt and many others visiting Portland for the event. Several locals depart for fairs, business visits, and countryside postings with families joining summer trips and court duties in nearby towns.
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O. D. Teal
Echo
Dudley Evans
Portland
D. Teel
Riparian
Wash
A. E. Greiner
Holdman
Glenn Winslow
Pendleton
H. G. Hurlburt
T. M. Henderson
la Grande
Meacham
R. M. O'Brien
Cherries Near Ripening Ahead of Harvest
Royal Ann cherry crop in Washington state shows record size this season. Freewater and Milton shipments expected within 16 days, according to C F Van de Water, R N Freight Agent. Local markets in Walla Walla already seeing amal red pie cherries amid high price bids and anticipation of larger fruit soon.
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Royal Ann
Freewater
Milton
C. F. van de Water
Walla Walla Bulletin
Walla Walla
Olympia Daily News Suspends After Eight Months
The Olympia Daily News started eight months ago by Gordon Mackey and local businessmen has suspended operations. The move leaves Morning Olympica and the Recorder, evening papers owned by S. A. Perkins of Tacoma, as the remaining competitors in Olympia. Lack of support is given as the cause of suspension. The News was a four morning paper.
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Olympia Daily News
Gordon Mackey
Olympia
Olympica
The
Recorder
S. A. Perkins
Tacoma
News
Ukiah Couple Ready For Ohio Return
J. W. Galloway and his wife, visiting Ukiah today, plan to leave for Ohio with the intention to reside there permanently. They have disposed of their Ukiah ranch and other southern end properties and will spend their remaining years at their former home in the Buckeye state.
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J. W. Galloway
Ukiah
Ohio
South End
Buckeye
Witnesses Return to Portland from Pendleton
Pendleton residents including Judge Joe H. Parkes J W Maloney Fred Lampkin and William Humphreys traveled to Portland to testify before the federal grand jury. The group departed yesterday afternoon or last night as the proceeding continued.
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Portland
Pendleton
Federal Grand Jury
Joe H. Parkes
J. W. Maloney
Fred Lampkin
William Humphreys
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Stansberry & Milne
Soller bin
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Long Beach
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Lydia D. Smith
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Opdetha
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Dayton
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Sailsing
Will Dickerson
Werda
Kingdom
Dahomey
Odd Fellows At
Shamo
Germany
Koeppens
le Grow
Athena
Francis Stangier
Cambridge
Idaho
John Keppinger
Charles Wall
Rader Furniture
West Webb Street
Frederick Roses
Ellensburg
Mark Heacock
Winslow Jewelry Store
Harold Brock
W. E. Brock
Heppner
G. W. Phelps
Phelps
J. B. Mumford
Ocean Park
Washington
C. A. Barrett
J. G. Rankin
Pearl
San Jose
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Floyd Rankin
Diana McLain
John
Lulu R. Lorenz
Oregon Daily Journal
College Place
Olive Jones
Henry Waldo Coe
Furnish Ditch
Irrigon
Pendleton Drug Company
Furnish-Coe Lands
Foster
Columbia Land Co
D. B. Costuma
Mgr
Pendleton, Oregon
Marquam Building
State Saloon
R. Strahan
Gentleman's Resort
J. P. Sullivan
Prop
Cedar Brook
Old Joe Gideon
East Court Street
Phone Main
Thornton ‘ Music CO
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