Local Shops Advertise Goods and Services In City Brevities
Various merchants list offerings from meats at Houser’s and wall paper at Neuman’s to ring tables, springs salts, cigars, and imported dies. Ads promote renting rooms, furniture giveaways, fish at Castle’s, fresh tamales at Gratz’s, and groceries at Campbell’s with notes on prices and special sales.
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Houser’s
Neuman's
Rader's
Joerger's
Chris
Campbell's
Main Street
Court Street
Wade
Bryson
Gratz’s
Camas Prairie
Goggles and smoked glasses for dust protection
An advertisement offers eye protection against glare and dust with goggles and smoked glasses in several shades. Prices range from 25 cents to 1 dollar, emphasizing care for eyes under sun and alkali dust. Four-color wording suggests a general early 20th century retail pitch.
Echo town donates land for cannery and cold storage
Echo village donates a block of land for a cannery site in the lowalness portion. The cannery and cold storage group will build a facility worth three times the land value, and construction will start immediately after donor agreement. Fletcher returned from Echo saying surveys and deeds will be processed soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo
Cannery and
Lowalness
D Fletcher
USEFUL INVENTION AT BYERS MILL FOR WHEAT PILING
A Colfax invention, a new electric wheat elevator by Brown Brothers, installed by W. S. Byers at his Byers mills, piles sacks rapidly, moves between warehouses, cost over 500 dollars, and aims to match Albina mill output though not as large. Mills run year round, with high daily capacity and seasonal shifts. wheat prices and Northwest crop outlook drive regional market movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byers
Mitte
Albina
Colfax
Brown Brothers
Hit Place
Tine Ty Vallejo Cal
Spokane
Seattle
Iste
Helix
Milton
Heht
Oregon
Manns Headed to Valley and Coast Vacation Trail
Dr and Mrs E A Mann departed this morning for the valley and coast visiting the doctor’s old home at Zena and stopping with friends and relatives in Salem and Portland. They plan several weeks away before returning to their city home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Mann
Zena
Salem
Portland
Sale of Lots Involving Furnish and Henderson
W. J. Furnish and Jeque Furnish his wife assign three lots to C. Henderson for $3,000 as part of a block addition to Pen. The transaction appears in a public sale notice detailing property transfer and parties involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Furnish
Jeque Furnish
C. Hendricks
Richard Mayberry Returns From Albany Vacation
Richard Mayberry stenographer at the Savings Bank returns from a vacation that took him to various valley cities and mainly Albany where he has friends who made the time pleasant for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Richard Mayberry
the Savings Bank
Mayberry
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Weutsch's Big Department Store
Main and
Alta
Pendleton
Market Street
Savings Bank
Bradi Hooge & Co
Wr of Commerce
Minneapolis
Castle's
Delta
Chase & Sanborn
C. Rohrman’s
EB. C
Blu Street
de Lane Beach
Puget Sound
J. B Despain
Grats
Hunziker
Bivens Skin Soapper
Nat
Joe Cream Ji
Lecream
Tae Superior
Koeppen’s Drug Store
Malo Street
Towsa
Chicago Evening Post
Peoples
Scotch Madras
Misawa
Hallimore American
Teutsch's
Oxfords
NOLF
A. Eklund
Court Aedyaaip
E. J. Murphy
F.R.A
H. Rice
Freewater
Co. R. Duttons
Boston
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