Pendleton Street Paving Fight Exposed by City Agent
The Sunday Tribune accuses J Rows Dickson, Pendleton’s financial agent, of secret opposition to street paving to protect outside capital rents. It portrays him as the paid adversary of public improvement, targeting nonresident interests, gambling, and high rents while urging open bidding and public progress.
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Sunday Morning ‘Tribune
J. Rows Dickson
Pendleton
Dickson
East Oregonian
Murph
Oret Place
Baker City
North
Yakima
la Grande
C. Hendricks
Webb and
Main Streets
Hendricks
Boise City
Walla Walk
Tisyer
City Recorder
Missouri
Walla Wallin
Inland Empire
Capitel
Wet Eere
City Council
Walla Walla
Eame
Sound Cities
Portland
Wwws
Late Eugene Field Sees Philadelphia Water Woes
During a lecturing tour in Philadelphia a delay beside the Schuylkill prompts Field to joke with a porter about drinking water. The porter quips that cemeteries drain into the river, invoking Laurel Hill, but the humor underscores local water concerns and city pride.
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Eugene Field
Philadelphia
Schuylkill River
Humoriat
A Fine Italian Hand and the Proud Possessor
A fragment notes David Graham Phillipe as the possessor of a refined, typically “ilter hand, hinting at a valued skill or ownership with a tone of pride and precision.
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David Graham Phillipe
Back Again Opens With Sports Goods Spotlight
A welcoming note highlights the baseball season and offers a wide selection of sporting wares. The shop promotes bulls, bats, gloves, mitts, masks and accessories for baseball golf tennis and other popular sports with brands like Spalding Wright Ditson Pneumatic All Sneders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spalding
Wright & Ditson
Fragmented Typist Tale From Saturday Evening Post
A Saturday Evening Post excerpt describes an author’s dislike of typewriters and his preference for blunt handwritten pieces on narrow yellow paper. It notes his rapid, idly written letters often becoming fused, and mentions his habit of delivering ready stories and articles to publishers.
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Phu
Suaturday Evening Post
Land of Ther ry prayer for protection and mercy
Ambrose Bierce laments in Cosmopolitan April issue a nations plea for mercy and guidance. The verse asks divine aid to uphold the people, keep them from faltering, and endure war famine and evil while hoping for a heavenly dawn.
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Mges
Pone
Ambrose Bierce
Coming Events and Wool Sale Dates in Oregon
A list of upcoming events includes Inland Empire Teachers' convention in Spokane on April 6, primary nominating election in Oregon on April 20, and various church and district gatherings from April to June. Wool sale dates are fixed for Pendleton, Heppner, Condon, Shaniko, Baker City, Elgin, with multiple May to July days across cities.
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Inland Empire Teachers’ Convention
Spokane
State of Oregon
Mid-Columbia Association Congregational Church
Penidleton
M. E. Church
Dalles
Pendleton
Columbia River
Walla Walla
Umatilla Moneers
Weston
Wallin Walla
National Educational Association
San Francisco
Oregon
Oregon Woolgrowers’ Association
Heppiner
Condon
Shaniko
Baker City
Elgin
Indian Proverb Squawking Through Sturm Statehood Magazine
A collection of proverbs reflecting stereotyped and hostile views toward Native Americans. It frames indigenous people as cowardly, deceitful, and linked to land dispossession, contrasting them with palefaces and depicting violence and scorn. The passage uses dated, biased language.
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Sturm
Statehood
All in the Family Dr Angell and Washington Dinner
University of Michigan president Dr James Angell attended a Washington dinner with Chinese hosts. A waxed floor caused chairs to slip repeatedly, sending guests under tables. The host explained the mishap was a sign of equality and shared hardship among all diners.
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James. Angell
University of Michigan
Washington
Government Orders Registered Consumptives for Sanitation
The president issued an order directing registration of every government employee known to be consumptive and examination of all suspected cases. Buildings must be sanitized by cleansing or structural changes. The measure is believed to affect about 25 000 employees.
Pacing Mare Investment Tops Fort Worth Venture
Earl Barnes and Fred Brooker paid 1100 dollars for a pedigreed pacing mare. They expect to profit on the turf from this investment. Fort Worth, Texas, reports flood of counterfeit ten dollar bills of uniform workmanship.
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Earl Barnes
Fred Brooker
Brooker
Barnes
Fort Worth
Texas
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Hredeman
Pendleton Oregon
The
East Oregonian Publishing Company
Scrippa-McRae News Association
B. B. Rich
Parkins
Ent
Philadelphy
Ham
Field
Frazier’s Book Store
the Light OF Liberty
Therry
Royal Baking Powder
Noratio Alger
Julius
Tom
the Hoothlack
Adript
New York
Jacks Ward
Hectoiys
Herbert Carter
COOK
Perry
Court Street
Nolf
Efpiciency
Northwestern Gas and Electric Co
Frazer Theatre
Frazer Theatre Co
Crawford
Harnessman
Savings Bank
Empire Meat
Schwarz & Greulich
Main St
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Abe Fetta
Pexdletoy
UNI
Tessin Aine
Neagle Bros
Coleswortity
East Airo
Henry Kopittke
Pendleton Ice & Cold Storage Company
Phone Lab
J. L. Vaughan Electrician
W. Court St
Phone Main
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