Marooned Eastbound Extra Near Wilbur on Meacham Creek
An eastbound freight extra on the Oregon railroad near Wilbur faced a five day delay after a freshet washed out bridges on Meacham Creek. Crews supplied water via hillside troughs to locomotives engines 308 and 351 while driftwood and fuel were gathered. Conductor Charley Stacey led the train as engines were kept alive, with Wilbur residents aiding the crew and Mr Wilbur securing provisions from Missoula. The train was finally released and moved to La Grande with coal and water supplies restored.
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Blue Mountains
Wilbur
Charley Stacey
Baucom and Estes
Meacham Creek
Maihine
North Fork
Conway
Elcie
BR. 3
Br. Wubors
Miseham
Holley Highseer
North Park
Neagle Bros Carriage Repair and Winona Wagons Ad
An early 20th century ad urges readers to repair carriages at Neagle Bros and buy Winona Wagons and hacks. It promotes gasoline engines for irrigation and mining, claims easy running from bone-dry material, and offers price quotes and guarantees. Agents for Fairbanks-Mompe engines provide irrigation equipment details.
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Neagle Bros
Hugey
Winona
The Illumination of the Century Premiered Newspaper
An 1859 New York issued Illuminated Quadruple Constellation boasted a 28 000 copy edition sold at 60 cents. It featured portraits of Buchanan Everett Beecher Greeley and others, plus thirty five poems including the Moon Hoax. It also notes Pre Adamite debates, snuff habits of Zulu and Natal tribes, and railroad necktie signals.
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New York City
Preadent Buchanan
Edward Everett
Henry Want Beecher
Xii
P. Banks
E. Chapin
Horace Greeley
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alexander von Humboldt
James G. Bennett
Origin of Stationer and Paris book trade history
Pierre de Blois notes the title Stationer applied to a class of booksellers long before the 17th century, distinguishing Abraril and stationaril in Paris by 1250. By his time twenty nine brokers and stationers existed in Paris, then a major seat of learning, alongside varied anecdotes on merchants and craft descriptions from 19th century notices.
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Pierre de Blois
Paris
Lown
Niagara DumMone Visit Turns Into Frostbitten Folly
A Scotsman touring Niagara with an American guide is astonished by American wonders. The guide questions the man about peacocks and wooden legs, prompting a wry exchange as the Irish or Scottish traveler reacts to the spectacle and the American tour.
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Niagara
Nic
Peebles
An Improbable Story with Diogenes in a Village Drugstore
Diogenes enters a village drugstore with a lantern asking for a cold cure. The pill compiler says none. Diogenes then declares he has found an honest man after dropping the lantern. George learns of a proposed marriage to his sister, but doubts persist due to prior rumors.
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Yveara
Cenll
New York City
New York
Tim
Noe
Nere
Gosh
Boston
Diogenes
Pleasant All Around quotation on portrait payment and deportment
A dialogue about looking pleasant in a portrait shows Mr Facetious and an artist Yeu debating payment in advance. The artist claims payment guarantees Pleasant deportment, while the facetious reply questions the motive. Goethe is cited as saying a man’s deportment mirrors his image, and the note mentions East Oregonian.
Kentucky's Corn Cracker and Dark and Bloody Ground
Kentucky is described with historic nicknames including Corn Cracker State and Blow Grneses State, reflecting its landscape and game birds. The piece references tribal borders along the Ohio and southern mountains, then shifts to a sci fi vignette about planets with three suns and varying colors. An anecdote about a grocer selling flour of differing quality ends with a moral on perception of value and a Longfellow quotation on affection and renewal.
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Delhi
Beth
India
Srm
Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
Tennessce
Georgia
Ancestry Inquiry and Fee in Tit-Bits Mock Ad
In London Tit-Bits a mock genealogical ad asks Ais Ancestora Jones if they can trace lineage and quotes a fee of one thousand pounds for keeping quiet about the ancestors. The fragment suggests a satirical or spoof nature.
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London
Child Testimony From Local Skirmish Report
In a fragmentary exchange, a boy recalls an incident with his father described as rough. The older man admits pain and an incident involving a splinter in a thumb but the full context remains unclear.
Nicely furnished front room for rent on Jackson street
Classified line announces a nicely furnished front room for rent at 109 Jackson street. It is a small, direct rental notice likely from a local newspaper classifieds page. No other details or dates are provided.
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Jackson Street
European careers lure singers back by money not love
Mildred Aldrich reviews how American singers abroad chase European fame but many return home driven by earnings. Debutantes in opera and comic theaters often work for low pay, sometimes 200 francs a month, with earnings varying widely. Some debutants earned far more, while others faced even meager stipends, prompting a bid toward the United States for financial stability.
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Europe
Mildred Aldrich
Anya
United States
de L'Opera
de Fopers Comique
Opera Comique
Oper
France
Cithes Ike
Bordeaux
Swing promised for six year old boy never arrives
A Cairo resident recounts a tale of patient parents and an Arabian tradesman who delayed a swing order for twenty years. The boy, now grown, recalls his father’s repeated pleas as the tradesman cites limits of service to such a fearful lure.
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Cairo
Corti Gouthouin
Lo Hua Estate
Cole Tiniell
Hin
Guy
How to Use Drain in a Drayman Mishap
A factory head watched a drayman struggling with a heavy case as an overseer offered help. He demonstrated a rough method using a hook to pry the vase loose, causing the drayman to spill and remark that the hammer or homile came off, while the drayman acknowledged the lesson.
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Baltimore Sun
Humorous Commons Exchange Ends With Laughter
In the house of commons a mentor’s awkward fall and a new member’s maiden speech trigger loud laughter. An Irish member quips that the speaker’s position on his hat fit his head, provoking more roars and a call for order from the speaker.
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House of Commons
Speaker
Callal
Safe For In Short Distance and Honest Wealth Advice
A Scottish kinsman and a young man discuss a harmless project to stay law and achieve independence. Franklin quotes urge honesty while a prisoner complains creditors push him to raise money, ending with a comment on perceived justice in jail.
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Young Witherby
Robert Douildson
Mr. Donaldson
Jay
Ducer
Public Speakers in Quote From Illustrated London News
A quotation contrasts two types of public speakers both ending unfinished. It notes the first speaker who makes a good speech but won t finish and the second who makes a bad speech and cannot finish.
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Illustrated London News
The Original Lobbyist and the Garden of Eden Record
A fragmentary note echoes a wry view of lobbying history from Adam and Eve's era. It likens a lobbyist to a serpent in Washington and hints at timeless caution: experience teaches, fools learn slowly. An East Oregonian allusion closes the excerpt.
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Adam and Eve
Garden of Eden
Washington, I. Record
Grain thefts expose elevator trust schemes across states
A sweeping critique notes millions of bushels of wheat stolen through dishonest grading and inspector gaps. It cites Chicago World coverage and trials in Duluth Minneapolis and Wisconsin, accusing elevator trusts of fraud and arguing for uniform federal regulation over grain grades.
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United States
Chicago Livestock World
Minneapolis
North Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Board of Trade
Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Workington
Duluth
Judie Sanborn
Nut
Congress
Triire's Buchu Wafers Offer Quick Yet Lasting Cure
An advertisement asserts kidney troubles are eased early and cured as disease grows with Triire's Buchu Wafers. It claims quick relief and lasting cure, purifying the blood, sold for 50 cents a box by Tallman & Co. at 625 Main Street, Pendleton, Oregon.
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Triire
Tallman & Co
Main Street
Pendleton
Women who charm and win a husband’s love and respect
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for painful or irregular periods, backache, and related female health issues. It claims the product restores health, strength, and happiness, citing a testimonial from Mrs. Chas. F. Brown of Hot Springs Arkansas about renewed affection from her husband after use.
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Chas. F. Brown
Mothers’ Club
Cedar Terrace
Hot Springs
Ark
Tone Day
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia EB Pinkham
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South Africa
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Natal
Tals
Germany
England
Minnieap- Olle Journal
Tia
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Goethe
Gatupa
Longfellow
Tio
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Franklin
AML
East Oregonian
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Sarrh
Dyapapet
Mercer
Sterling Remedy Co
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N.Y
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Pontlie
Coste
Snell
Uly Brothers
Jg Warroh Street
Elactrical
Vaughan Bles
Mrs
Chas EF Brown
Henry
Pendleton Ice & Cold Storage Company
Henneman’s Cigar Store
Great Eastern Store
Pendleton Planing Mills
R. Forster
V. Stroble
East Court
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