Diverse city notices and rentals from local ads
A collage of small ads lists items for sale and services including Haviland china at Demotts, dry wood, furnished rooms for rent, seed potatoes, housekeeping services, poultry, transfer work, and rentals of multiple houses near the court house. Also notices for a feed yard for rent, 640 acres of wheat land near Helix and Echo, and a rotary sewing machine for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Court
Demott's Grocery
Stark Poultry House
East Oregonian
Mra
G. M. Rice
West High
Haviland China
Demott’s
Helix
Echo
Police arrest Spokane forgery suspect in local city
James Breen, sought in Spokane for forgery, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Marshal Gurdane. Held for Washington authorities, Breen was turned over after Reinhold Harras accused him of stealing a horse two years earlier. He was intoxicated and carrying money, offering to pay the claimed horse debt. A Spokane message prompted the local arrest and transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Breen
Spokane
Marshal Gurdane
Washington
Breen
Reinhold Harras
Harras
Gurdane
Music Store Sale At Guernsey Continues
Musicians Interested and Mr Thompson of the Guernsey Music Store have met many patrons as the sale at the store proceeds with a broad patronage. Prices are reduced so families can bring music home, and the stock remains complete for buyers to visit and save.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Guernsey
Viva Warren
Hawthorne Schol
Weston
The Thirty Stormy Petrel Bird Card
The thiry stormy petrel is a bird of immense wing power observed 2000 miles from land. It belongs to every sea and, though seemingly frail, easily breasts furious storms.
Betting Lieutenant Backs Down In Belted Duel
A betting lieutenant famed at an eastern fort loses a $150 wager after attempting to strip a Kansas fort colonel to prove two red marks on his back. The colonel’s quick wit and the eastern- western memo sparked a humorous exchange as the tale traveled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leutenant
New York Times
Kanene
Kansas
Snelsten
Ghost Tales Inspire Walla Walla Schoolchildren
The Walla Walla Union reports eight to nineteen year olds prefer ghost stories told by Mrs. Josephine Preston during a Carnegie Library storytelling hour. Children seated by a fireplace asked for tales with shivers and nightmares rather than conventional moral tales or bear and Indian lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Library
Walla Walla Union
Lord Fauntleroy
Josephine Preston
O and N Officials Inspect Flood Repairs Plea for Open Track
O and N officials including General Manager J P O'Brien and Superintendent D W Campbell rode No 1 to review flood repairs and approved opening the line to traffic soon. The delegation, with G W Boschke and J D Matheson, has spent a week directing repairs and returning to Portland. Also a note on Russian test of falcons carrying dispatches at four times pigeon speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Visitors and business district listed in Pendleton notes
A cloud of short items lists J T Dickson in Baker City on a business trip and many others from Adams Hermiston Echo and Weston visiting Pendleton or transacting affairs. Names include Mrs August Stangier Frank Huchet and J A Donovan with brief travel and local business mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker City
August Stangier
Boise
Frank Huchet
Walla Walla
Pendleton
Joh Giews
Adams
J. A. Donovan
Hermiston
J. T. Lievassen
R. &. Johnson
Echo, Ia
D. Vincent
Bucklen Medieal Company
G. M. Morrison
Adama
Edgar Norvell
Norvell
Helix
Selkirk Norton
F. J. Shelton
G. W. Phelps
Pilot Rock
George Jett
H. W. Hoffman
John Jones
Echo
Foley House
la Grande
Jacob Sheuerman
San Francisco
J. R. Oliver
J. K. Blakeslee
Moses Taylor
Weston Country
E. C. Simon
McKay Creek
G. W. Bradley
Portland
Weston
City
William Beatlett
Albert Gould
T. C. Gettenger
Allie Gettenger
Horseless carriage hints at gasoline price rise joke
A king counts money in his counting room when told the carriage is ready without horses or gasoline. The king mocks the gasoline trust and continues counting. An aside notes swans can live up to 300 years and falcons over 162 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Bob Smith to Lecture at Pendleton Academy Event
Bob Smith known as the Messenger of Mirth will lecture at the Presbyterian church next Thursday night under Pendleton academy students. A renowned speaker and entertainer, he will deliver the talk with tickets available at Pendleton Drug Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Smith
Pendleton Academy
Presbyterian Church
Pendleton Drug Company
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pendleton Cloak and Suit
House
Cbs
Sale
Buster Brown Bison
St.louis
United States
Alexander
Empire Meat CO
Stansberry & Maine
Court House
Goodman Hardware Co
Koeppens
Iake Wien
A.C. Koeppen
BE. C. Skiles
Wallowa County
J. W. Skiles
W. M. Peterson
Athena
Ed Rand
Salem
Charles Berkeley
O. R. & N. Engineer Corps
J. Hesse Hensalman
John Hailey, Jr
T. G. Hailey
Norbourne Berkeley
Baker County
Birmingham
Ala
New York City
Jake
Patien
NTA
The
Mia
C. C. Loucks
Holt
E.L. Smith
E. Court ST
Pendleton. Ore
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