City Brevities and Local Notices Packed with Ads
A collage of small items and notices from Gray Bros and East Oregonian offices. Seed potatoes and grocery ads mingle with rental listings, piano sales, stenography job calls, and theatre or music notes. Addresses include East Webb street and Water Street, with Cleveland's Baking Powder endorsements and a Portland hotel hint.
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Gray Bros
Francis
Algas
East Oregonian
Cleveland
East
Webb Street
Burts Brow
New Schmidt Block
John Green
Court St
Golden Rule Hotel
Merchant Bar
Water Street
Music Hall
John Vert
Despain Block
Ellers Piano House
Mire
Rowe Campbell's
Portland
Oregon
Pendleton
TM. O. BE
Kent
Bowman
Call Leathers Transfer Co
Amusing Saint's Day Lawsuit From Russia
An Italian newspaper recounts a case in a Russian city where a man sued another for 50 rubles claiming payment on St Henry's day. The judge, puzzled, ruled 5 rubles to be returned on All Saints' day, noting no Saint Henry in the church. A second note recalls a man choosing not to go to church for Sunday after not finding an umbrella, and a portrait of a village of Italian retired organ grinders living in a mountain colony.
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St. Henry's
St Henry
Mr. Ferguson
Thompsons
Mra Ferguson
Laura
Chicago Tribune
Italy
Customs to Comply Professor and Student Dialogue
A professor admonishes a student to write clearly so even the most ignorant reader can grasp the subject. The student questions which portions lack clarity in the production.
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Austoms
How It Happened Interview Quotation Misquote
A Washington Star note questions how an interviewer misquoted a speaker and recalls a remark that shifted the speaker’s views. The quote contrasts misquotation with a personal awakening as a life lesson from Stevenson about gratitude.
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Washington Star
Personal Notices From La Grande Area Attendees
A flurry of regional figures and visitors flocked through La Grande today. Knights, farmers, attorneys, and businessmen including H. Kendall of Helix P. Tekon Stanley and A. Kunkel traveled through for short visits and business trips to Spokane Pullman Walla Walla and Athena.
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Kendall
Helix
Stanley
Tekon
Wash
A. Kunkel
Spokane
CW. Steen
Milton
James Laing
Revelstoke
B. c
H. H. Gilbert
Pilot Rock
Fred A. Lievallen
Willaby
Athens
Lee Haker
Alfred Bachtold
G. ©. Miller
Walla Walla
Abe Miller
Louis Mueller
Baseball Excitement In Athena Asfunds Raised
Baseball excitement grows as Athena businessmen subscribe 840 for a local team. The plan includes importing a battery and several players to face strong squads from Walla Walla and La Grande. Pendleton fears being left in the field unless a substantial fund is raised to start the season. Prompt action is urged to engage pitchers catchers and other players and form a strong team with local talent.
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Athena
Walla Walla
la Grande
Pendleton
Victims of Soest Witch Trials and Real Estate Plots
The article recalls Westphalia witch trials with a velum gericht tribunal and red hair accused, notes hair locks on verdict records, and mentions long-standing delusions beyond Massachusetts. It also reports on real estate boosting tricks in New York via Belmont, including staged nuisances by tenants, stopped by health board, and a Bavarian forest sheep relic.
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Soest
Westphalia
Prussia
Massachusetts Bay
New York
August Belmont
Long Island
Belmont
Germany
Bavaria
Ples
Save & Sheep Magazine
Caesar
Gaul
Count Rumford’s Bavarian Drive to Reform Tramps
A 1790 Bavarian plan led by Count Rumford used a state ordered drive to arrest thousands of tramps beggars and undesirables. The offenders were employed in newly established factories under his supervision. While some issues arose with the raw army, kindness exhortation and rewards yielded thriftier citizens. A deathbed report drew large crowds of the poor praying for his recovery during his absence as a Protestant Englishman.
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Bavaria
Count Rumford
America
Munich
Grain Shipments From New Orleans January Totals
January grain shipments from New Orleans totaled 7,923,607 bushels on 62 steamers. Corn led with 6,770,579 bushels, wheat 25,084, oats 250,000, other grains remaining small. Total exported since September 1, 1906 reached 2,823,024 bushels, up 174,? from 1904 and 1905 comparative periods.
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New Orleans
National Marine Engineers' Boneficiary neonation details
The organization has 11000 members, with 3000 employed on the Great Lakes.
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The
National Marine Engineers
Great Lakes
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Gruman
Society of Royal Neighbors of America
Garfield Street
Marie Hall
London
L. Hunziker
Stevenson
Koeppens
A. C. Koeppen & Bro
Popular Price Drug Store
D. Peterson
Tom Mountain
Kunkel Implement Store
Pullman
Tribune
Lurle
Grace Dorothy
J. E. Smith
la Grande Observer
James Johne
J. XN. Keeney
Shonika
Cunningham Sheep & Land Company
Cloud Gatch
Salem
Tate
Athena Ater
Be, Harper
Blue Mountain
R. A. Kelsay
J. W. Bickford
W. RR. Kirwett
Bolee
Bolse
Zins Travesty Theatrical
Arthur Beacham
Clairesholm
Alberta
Bng
Claresholm
John P. McManus
T. J. Lloyd
Adams
John Sommerville
E. J. Sommerville
Edmonton
Mr. Sommerville
Baldwin Sheep & Land Company
Crook County
Pet
Nottingham
Goodyear
Field, Overland —Lock
Idaho
WI Fuhrman
Fuhrman
Swartz L. Holdaway
Hellen Holdaway
Peter West
Plainiff
Mexico
Felic
Hares Kingsley
J. L. Vaughan Electrician
W. Court St
Phone
East End
VLE Se
Gare
Bavaria I
Woodard, Clarke & CO
Portland, Oregon
East End Grocery
J, W. Dyer
U. S
Y. Roslys Wood & Coa: Co
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