Local Market Prices and Retail Grocery Rates
A compact listing of commerce trade price data from Pendleton markets covering produce such as turnips parsnips cabbage cheese onions potatoes apples and butter with per unit costs. Livestock and poultry prices include chickens roosters turkeys geese spring chickens ducks pigeons eggs butter and cattle figures. Retail grocery prices for sugar coffee rice salt flour are also noted with unit sizes and price points.
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Gerlick
Jasge
Sweet S
Pendleton
Modia
Java
B. B
Walter's
Mill raises price and tightens order intake
The mill will treat all applicants alike as orders are filled. Once all orders are in, production will be apportioned to rate. The price is now $65 per 1000, and orders are slower than in prior years.
Crop Prospects Improve Across Walla Walla Region
March 17 report from Walla Walla notes brighter crop prospects as spring opens. Fall grain was in fair shape but many fields needed total reseeding, delaying spring work and possibly causing late sowing in some areas. Plowing proceeds and warm weather should advance seedings to usual timing.
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Walla Walla
Market Prices for Hides Pelts and Skins in Portland
Portand market listings show varied prices for hides and pelts. Dry hides range from 15 to 16 cents per pound for No. 1 weights, salted hides and stage bulls around per-pound rates, and horse hides at $1.50 or $2.00 each. Pelts cover bear, badger, fox, otter, mink, mart en, muskrats, skunk, otter, raccoon, wolf, and wolverine, with prices from a few cents to several dollars per item depending on size and quality.
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Portland
Wong Quong in Penitenary Transfer
Wong Quong, a Chinese diamond thief, moved from Walla Walla county jail to the state penitentiary after two years and three months awaiting Supreme Court action. Convicted of grand larceny for stealing a ring from Mrs. Floyd W Harris, he was sentenced December 20, 1899 to four years. With time served and good conduct, he will be discharged December 19 next year.
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Walla Walla
Wong Quong
Supreme Court
Floyd W. Harris
Advertising’s Vital Role in Modern Business
A historical note underlines that commerce cannot thrive without ads, contrasting the absence of poetry, art, and conscience with the indispensable place of advertising in today’s economy. It emphasizes business reliance on promotional activity as essential to success.
Surgeon’s Knife Not Needed for Piles Cure
A Victorian ad proclaims DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve cures piles without surgery and claims instant relief. It also touts effectiveness for scalds cuts burns wounds bruises sores and skin diseases. Warns against counterfeit versions from Tall man & Co. and Brock & McComas.
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DeWitt
Tallman & Co
Brock & McComas
Partnership Books and Broken Contract House Notice
Partnership books between John Seibert and the filer in a tailor shop in a room formerly Wheeler’s photograph studio. Also a broken contract signed by John Seibert for sale. Apply to A Schwarz.
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John Seibert
Myself
Wheeler
A. Schwarz
Applications for Grain Bags At State Penitentiary
Walla Walla March 17 Applications for grain bags made at the state penitentiary can be presented until March 1 when the applications will be apportioned and the allotment of bags made according to orders received. So far this month over half a million bags have been ordered about one third of the output of the mill according to Superintendent Catron. Last year orders were received for more than the product of the mill.
For Sale Twelve Lots in Raley's Addition North of River
For sale twelve building lots in block fourteen on the north side of the river in Raley's addition. Fine location and well graded. Inquire of N. W. Potwine, Pendleton, Or.
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Raley
N. W. Potwine
Pendleton
Miss Edna Levy Loses Voice After Wedding Event
Miss Edna Levy of Union has lost her voice since attending the Morris-Sommer wedding in La Grande last Monday. Doctors report partial vocal cord paralysis and hope she will regain speech in a few days.
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Edna Levy
Union
Morris-Sommer
la Grande
Classified Advertisements Timetable Note
Classifieds list time slots and weekly pricing. Extra lines available. Rates 10 cents per line for three lines.
Helen Gould Gift Funds Brooklyn Y M C A Branch
The new Brooklyn Y M C A branch is complete and ready for occupancy. Funded by Miss Helen Gould with 413000, the building is a club and hotel hybrid featuring roof gardens, shooting galleries, plunges, dining, library, auditorium, lecture rooms, and dormitories. A separate notice dissolves the Wakefield Failing partnership, with Wakefield to wind up affairs.
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New York
Naval
Young Men's A Christian Association
Brooklyn
Helen Gould
Advertising as publicity searchlight for business growth
Advertising is the life blood of the business world and direct advertising acts like a searchlight. A vivid showcase draws timid buyers and potential industry clients toward your offerings. Prospective customers will follow the illuminated picture to your business rather than seek rivals in the gloom.
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