Echo Countys New Creamery and Broom Factory
Echo residents report progress on a new creamery to be built on ground donated by Joseph Cunha, with shares capped at 60 for a $6000 capital. Stone to foundation, road macadam work on main routes, and a forthcoming broom factory by Re. Bonney amid plans for a larger hotel addition and a direct Butter Creek to Echo telephone link.
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Women of Woolcraft
Echo Creamery Company
Joseph Cunha
Weatlawn
Cunha
Union Meat Company
Portland
John Sheppard
Harry Bartholomew
R. Bonney
Echo
Intd
Mr. Bonney
John T. Whistle
Reclamation Service
A. E. Chandler
San Francisco
E. &. Hobson
New York
Echo and
Arlington
Rows Newport
H. O. Johnson
Haker-Royer Bank
Walla Walla
Harry Rogers
Buttercreek
Woodmen
Ngles
Engles'’ Hall
Women of
Woodcraft
Butter Creek
Mary N. Chase
M. E. Church
Caast
Louis Scholl, Jr
Scholl
Rich
J. E. Taylor
Prune Wafers Ad Says They Fix You Up Fast
An old ad promotes California prune wafers as a remedy for a rough night. It urges carrying a box to take before bed and promises a quick fix by morning. The offer lists Tallman & Co. at 623 Main St Pendleton Oregon selling 100 wafers for 25 cents.
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Tallman & Co
Main St
Pendleton
Ore
Remarkable Recovery Boosts Local Doctor Spotlight
Kenneth Melver of Vanceboro Maine credits Dr King's New Discovery with saving his life after severe throat inflammation and lung congestion left three doctors to give up. The remedy cures coughing colds bronchitis tonsillitis weak lungs hoarseness and la grippe. Available at Tallman and Brock McComb Co. drug stores 60 cents and 1.00 trial bottle free.
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Puszied
Kenneth Melver
Vanceboro
Tallman & Co
Brock & McCombos
Wool sales dates in Oregon set by Woolgrowers association
Oregon wool sale dates announced by the Oregon Woolgrowers association list Pendleton May 22 23 29 Heppner May 24 25 June 7 21 22 Condon May 31 June 1 27 28 Shantiro June 6 6 19 20 July 10 11 Baker City June 25 26 July 12 and ag CL at Elgin July 13. Also included is an advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming constitutional relief with toll free offer and pharmacy distribution.
Bismarck Rules on Kaiser's Title in Early Germany
In early imperial Germany the court debated whether the ruler should be called German emperor or emperor of Germany. Bismarck joined a discussion at table and after a Latin quip about wild boar, declared that farcimentum or farcimen means the same to him.
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Bismarck
Germany
Inconsistent Grocers Prompt Customer Exit Over Bill
A grocer’s counter sign reads If You Don’t See What You Want Ask For It. A man who asked for a payment on a six month running bill was shown out the front door. He now believes grocers are inconsistent.
Juvenile Opinion on Marriage Predicts Caring Roles
A visitor asks a child if she will marry when grown. The girl replies that her mother says fathers are more demanding than children, so she will focus on caring for her own children rather than a husband. The Chicago Post notes the exchange as a humorous take on gender roles and family labor expectations.
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Chicago Post
All Tending Grocery Sell Cleveland's Baking Powder
Election blanks sold at East Oregonian office for electors nomination tickets or petitions.проч
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Cleveland
East Oregonian
Chocolate was luxury in eighteenth century America
The Essex Gazette in June 1771 advertised Amos Trask selling chocolate at a cheap rate, noting cocoa grinding and good service but acknowledging chocolate remained expensive for most. The piece contrasts colonial costs with modern prices and recalls Cortes and chocolate’s transfer from Mexico to Spain, then worldwide.
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America
Amos Track
Bell Tavern
Danvers
Essex Gazette
Massachusetts
Trask
Cortes
Mexico
Montesuma
Spain
Variety in chewing materials across the world
The article surveys global chewing practices from spruce gum to chicle and uncured rubber. It notes Peru’s coca leaf chewing with cocaine extraction, betel nut use in the East, and mentions soldiers chewing bullets before jacketed ammo. It also compares tobacco as a familiar chew.
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Spruce Belts
Tropics
Peru
Oddities Of Words From Lunch To Langue
A light essay traces how the word lunch evolved from lunchtime to luncheon and to noon drinking the influence of two languages. It highlights French borrowings and everyday phrases such as steeplechase and sleeping car and notes Longfellow’s Hiawatha inspired by Hesler’s daguerreotypes. A court session in Vale, Malheur county, features condemnation proceedings for the Mantheur Valley railway right of way.
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Burns
Scott
Benjie
France
Hesler
Chicago
Longfellow
Vale
Malheur County
Mantheur Valley
Sale of Indian Lands on Umatilla Reservation
Lands on the Umatilla Indian reservation are set for sale on March 40, 104, including described tracts with owners Atla loo and Charles McWhirk. Stephen A Lowell of Pendleton offers to confer with buyers on terms and sale methods. Also notes death of pioneer mother Mrs Caroline Gale in Baker City with six sons and several daughters.
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Umatilla Indian Reservation
N. R
Atlaloo
N. EL
S. W
BE. W. M
Charles McWhirk
Stephen A Lowell
Pendleton
Caroline
Gale
Eighth Street
Saya
Baker City
Democrat
Benjamine Gale
Oregon
Baker County
Texas
Burnt River
Bowman opens photo gallery with Portland ideas
W S Bowman inaugurates a photo gallery at his old Main Street bridge location. He returns from six months in Anne's gallery Portland and ties with the official Lewis and Clark fair photography company. He brings new ideas from Portland and eastern cities. Best work. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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W. S. Bowman
Main ‘Street Bridge
Record Price for Timber at Amber Mile Sale
The Lewla Lumber Company realized 25500 dollars for white pine timber at the Amber mile sale in Coeur d Alene on Tuesday. The tract brought a price of 6 per thousand, more than double the previous Idaho state timber record, potentially breaking the all time high for white pine sales.
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Coeur d'Alene
BB. Lewla Lumber Company
Idaho
A Scientific Wonder Cures Piles Burns Sores and More
A scientific wonder Bucklen arnica salve cured J R Mulford lecturer for the Patrons of Husbandry Waynesboro Pa of a troublesome piles case. It holds the worst burns sores boils ulcers cuts wounds chilblains and salt rheum. Only 26 cents at Tallman and Co and Brook McComan drug stores.
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Bucklen
J. R. Mulford
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Dence
Echo News
Umatilla
Umatilla County
U. S
Y. Roslyn Wood & Coal CO
Elgin
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
FO J. Cheney
Woodby
England
Philadelphia Ledger
Louisville Herald
Jfim
Securite
Yeegowian
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta
S.S.S
Baker & Folsom
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