Flour Mill Trust to Merge Northwest Firms in 10 Million Plan
Reports say Portland Puget Sound Spokane and California mills join to form a 10 million dollar Pacific Coast Flour Mills merger. Wilcox interests dominate northwest output with Portland mills connected to Oregon Railroad lines, while Centennial Milling of Spokane eyes broader market but faces competition. California Sperry mills join, aiming to control coast trade and boost eastern outlet while trimming office costs. Primaries set for Pendleton county delegates with judges named. country precincts to select remain undecided.
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Portland
Puget Sound
Spokane
California
Theodore Wileck
Pacific Coast Flour Mills
Walla Walla
Save the Union
Associated Press
Central Northwest Trade and Oriental Supplies
Portland Flouring Mills Company
Puget Sound Flouring Mills Co
Centennila Wills
Senatth
Sthe Sperry Mills
Wilcox
Northwest
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Pacific Coast Elevator Company
Puget Sound Warehouse Company
Calfornia
Centennial Milling Company
Wilcox Syndicate
North Pacific Coast
United States
Sperry
Interres
Court House
Pendleton
Webb
Main
Garden
T. ¢. Blair
Lot Livermore
G. I. LaDow
Republican Primaries Set For Friday In County Precincts
The article notes the republican primary elections will be held Friday the 7th in county and city precincts for party participation.
Newbro's Herpicide Promises Dandruff Cure
An advertisement claims to destroy the dandruff germ and prevent hair loss by using Newbro's Herpicide. It asserts the product removes the cause of dandruff and promotes luxuriant hair growth, presenting it as the only hair preparation based on germ destruction.
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Newbro
Sealed bids sought for Cole residence work in 1902
Sealed proposals will be received at the office of T F Howard architect up to noon March 18 1902 for erecting and completing a two story basement residence for Dr W G Cole per plans. Separate bids for masonry. A five percent certified check required with each bid, property of owner if bid not signed and bond furnished. Other checks returned. Right to reject bids reserved. March 6 1902.
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T. F. Howard
W. G. Cole
No Council Meeting Held Last Night
The regular monthly council meeting failed to convene due to lack of quorum. Attendees present were Hartman Switzler Frazier and Sommerville with J B Beam acting as recorder. Absent were Mayor Halley Clapton Johnson Dickson and Wells. no reason given beyond little business to transact.
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Hartman
J. B. Beam
Switzler
Frazier
Sommerville
Halley
Clapton
Johnson
Dickson
Wells
Pendleton Baseball Chooses Zeigler as Coach and Manager
A Pendleton Baseball Association meeting at the Commercial Club elected Charles W. Zeigler to coach and captain the Pendleton team for the coming season. Plans were set to form one of the fastest teams in the region. Also noted is John H. Bolin, the Kansas Cyclone, engaged to pitch for Spokane. Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis opposes Sunday baseball citing state law, while Manager Watkins threatens Sunday ball or none at all, disrupting the American Association schedule.
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Pendleton Baseball Association
Commercial Club
Chas. W. Zeigler
Pendleton
John H. Bolin
Kansas Cyclone
Spokane
Winfield
Kan
Bookwalter
Indianapolis
Watkins
Eggs and Chickens in Local Market
Eggs sell for 20 cents per dozen in the local market as supply recovers after a January famine caused by cold. Prices spiked to 386 cents two weeks ago before spring weather boosted hen labor and egg output. Chickens remain high at about 4 dollars per dozen, with prospects for further price drops in the near term.
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Oregon
New Jersey Senator Proposes Dissolution of Northern Securities Co
Senator Gebhardt a Democrat in the New Jersey Senate has introduced a bill to repeal and dissolve the charter and corporate existence of the Northern Securities Company. The preamble claims the company was formed to enable the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways to violate laws, damage revenues, and destroy passenger and freight rate competition. It notes public indignation and Minnesota governor actions, with the measure referred to the committee on corporations.
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Gebhardt
Senate
New Jersey
Northern Securities Company
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Great Northern Railway
Minnesota
Securities Company
Committee On Corporations
Lane's Medicine advertisement promising gentle laxative effects
A vintage ad claims Lane's Medicine acts gently on stomach, liver, and kidneys and is a pregnant laxative. It promotes a pleasant bedtime herb drink, promising brighter mornings and improved complexion. Lane's Famine Netitan moves the bowels daily, priced 25c and bic, sold by Tallman & Co., sole agents.
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Lane
Tallman & Co
Hayes to buy horses for market in Beattle
J G C Hayes of Beattle Washington will be here Saturday March 8 to buy horses for the market.
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J. GC. Hayes
Beattle, Wash
A Hearing Impeded Elderly Woman on Walnut Street
An elderly woman with speech impediment caused delays at the Twelfth and Walnut crossing as cars pulled away. conductors misread her signs, but one finally helped her board and she praised the driver as a good, courteous chooser. The scene captured a Philadelphia Record moment of streetcar humor and human kindness.
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Twelfth
Walnut Streets
Walnut Street
Darby
Philadelphia Record
Portrait Visit and Stuart Dinner Prank
A Boston town once hosted a grand dinner for Isaac Tull and invited him to sit for a Gilbert Stuart portrait. Stuart boasted of English fame and recounted aristocratic tales, but the artist’s kitchen mishap revealed the scene. The eldermaid barged in asking about leg of mutton, provoking Stuart to quip to his mistress.
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Isaac Tull
Boston
Gilbert Stuart
Tull
Stuart
Pearl Hunters Rapers and Their Breeding Pearls
In Horneo and nearby islands pearl divers guard a superstition. Each opened shell yields a pearl placed in a corked bottle with a dead man’s finger. They call the “food pearls” and believe they reproduce. Two grains of rice feed each pearl. Both natives and whites share the belief in the bottle’s ritual.
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Horneo
Borneo
Children Play In Germany Sparks Local Arrest Tale
A South German belief links frequent street soldier play to war, and funeral games to epidemics and deaths. A boy recalls once playing funeral before an old miser p, who cursed the idea of dying and complained to the mayor about the boys being punished.
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Germany
South
Two Breaks Impolite Exchange Cited in Tribune Piece
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt, a brief dialogue shows two breaks or interruptions as characters chat about secrecy and politeness. The exchange centers on hiding a letter and the manners of noticing it, highlighting social missteps.
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New York Stock Exchange
Stock Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Tribune
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A. C. Shaw & CO
Lantz Bros
IL. Ray & Co
Ore
Olympia
Gus LA Fontaine
Flour Mill Trust
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Muldoon
Purchase
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