Filipinos as Good Workmen in American Iron Projects
A historical account describes how American engineers trained Filipino laborers in Manila's electric plant work. It covers initial resistance, hiring practices, wage improvements, and social changes. The piece notes locals learned to use tools, built with local materials, and adapted to American methods, while managers used houses and meals to sustain labor and reduce absenteeism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine Islands
George H. Guy
Review of
East Oregonian
United States
Manila
J. G. White & Co
New York City
Mys
Littl Coney Island
Strychnine Squirrel and Rat Poison Advised
The Pacific Homestead of Salem urges farmers to use strychnine for rodents, detailing preparation of a sugar syrup bait and hot-water dissolve method. It warns the deadly, bitter poison and provides steps to disguise taste, with an instruction to poison half a bushel of grain and soak corn overnight before cooking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Homestead
Parmer
Salem
Biologic Survey
Crossing Eastern Oregon in 1812
The Hunt party of 1819 under Astor faced extreme hardship crossing the Inland Northwest from Fort Hull to the Umatilla. Food was scarce, beaver skins were traded for subsistence, and at least one member perished. They crossed the Snake River, faced ice, and endured freezing conditions, arriving near the Umatilla then advancing toward the Blue Mountains and the Columbia River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inland Empire
Umatilla County
Northwest
West
Astor
Pacific
Maho
Aunt Himeel
Romeay Crooke
William Crooks
Portshhind
Bancroft
Fort Hull
Umatilla
Crook
Snake River
Old Fort Bolse
Idaho
Blue Mountains
Trent
Umatitia
Columbia River
Walla Walla
Ricarla
Missouri
Oregon Girls Honored in Honolulu Midwinter Carnival
A Portland led group of 18 Oregon girls, guests of Honolulu for a Midwinter Flower Festival, rode in a procession aboard the El Capitan drawn by four bays. The Oregon party, under W A Wann and guide Ed Dekum, wore tropical garb and wore white lapel badges reading Aloha The Portland Journal's Hawaiian Excur sionists Give Greeting to the God People of Honolulu Pet 22 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Daily Journal
East Oregonian
Honolulu
Monglulu
Oregon
W. A. Wann
Ed Dekum
Messrs
Wann
Dekum
Aloha
Portland Journal
Purim Ball At Madison Square Garden Aims High
New York social leaders attend the Purim ball at Madison Square Garden described as the citys most important Jewish social event. Patrons include Mrs Jacob H Schiff Mrs Isidor Strauss and others. A musical prelude precedes the ball. Proceeds go to Beth Israel Hospital, with a hoped total around 20000. Demand for boxes is strong and premiums for semis are at a peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Madison Square Garden
United States
Jacob H. Schiff
Isidor Strauss
Leo Kohos
Henry Morgenthau
Louis Marshall
Samuel Adier
Joseph Miver ‘E‘rer
Mise Sadie American
Louie Adler
Moses Farmen
He.rv Guinebers
Alexander Kohut
A. Pereira Mendez
Freder
Ick Nathan
J. B. Greenhut
B. J. Greenhut
Max W. Kraus
Jacob A. Cantor
Jacob Wertheim
Beth Israel Hospital
Scientific Wonder Bucklen Arnica Salve Cures Piles Burns
A scientific wonder, Bucklen's Arnica Salve is cited for curing a distressing piles case in Waynesboro by BE R Mulford, lecturer for Patrons of Husbandry. It heals burns, sores, boils, ulcers, cuts, wounds, chilblains, and lake rheum, priced at 25 cents at Tallman & Co. and Brock & McComas drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
BE. R. Mulford
Vas der Dinner a Failure in the East End Grocery
A humorous note in broken English and Yawoob Strauss voice discusses grocery shopping wisdom. The speaker claims Katrine and he agree the trade place in the East End Grocery offers the best value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katrine
Meester Stramm
Yawoob Strauss
East End
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Filipingg
Simpkins
Hlome
Prerekhbee
Jock Simpkins
Western Federation of Miners
Steunenberg
Spokane
Lincoln Street
Peter Hanson
Dean Avenue
Preent
Stmapkine
Nuwar
Troy
Holm Plaice
Troy News
Cleveland
OAL Zainol Lll
Vinci
Marriza
Wome
Willy
Wietzer’s
Bradfield Regulator
der Womant Mit
Mure
Ony
East End Grocery
W. Dyer
A. C. Ruby & CO
Webb St
Colesworthy
East Asia
Tallman & Co
Roslyn
U. S
Y. Roslyn Wood & Coa. CO
Eeereoer
W.D. Fletcher
the Pioneer Watchmaker and Jeweler
Court Street
the Fair Department Store
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