City Briefs: Trades and Notices in Pendleton
A jumble of local ads and notices lists sign painters, furniture, room rentals, piano sales, livestock offers, healing powders, and land sales. Pendleton items include Two furnished rooms for rent, a billiard table sale, municipal-era calls to action, and notices of a deputy’s death. several ads reference Cleveland's Baking Powder and local merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signe
Francis
Brader
Cleveland
Burns Bros
Schmidt
Merchants Bar
Rader
Morrow
Main Street
Joh UN Goven
Court St
Golden Rule Hotel
Aspiy
Water Street
Father Neate
Mission School
Elslers Piano House
Campbell
Pendleton Iron Works
Academy
J. W. Tallman
Portland
Oregon
Pendleton
B. M
E. Nuff
City Treasurer Refuses to Loan City Funds to Bank
In Lewiston on March 29 City Treasurer Thompson said he cannot place $9000 on deposit in First National Bank citing legal advice. Bank had posted a $10,000 bond for a $9000 deposit at 4 percent interest. Council had ordered the deposit, and the matter will be tested in court. City Attorney Coz had investigated the ordinance's validity.
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Lewis
Monew Lewiston
Thompson
First National Bank
Coz
Meeting of Business Men's Association Tonight
The Business Men's Association holds its second meeting this evening in the library of the Commercial Association. The agenda includes the committee by laws report which is already prepared for presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business Men's Association
Library of the Commercial Association
Committee On By-Laws
Banta Madden Marriage in Portland March 26
Mies Inex Banta, formerly employed at the St. George restaurant, married Charles Madden an O R and N brake man in Portland on March 26.
Notable Travelers and Local Visitors Chronicle
Le J McGuire of Moscow and W H Graves of Boise visited the city between trains. Mrs A L Knight departs for Helix for a week with relatives. T L Ragadale of Milton leaves after a brief stay. A McIntyre from Alberta was here today. Mrs Helen Webb Marston to move to Oakland. J T Lieuallen, Adama farmer and candidate for representative, was in yesterday. L M Watrus of Adams heads to Cambridge to tend land near there. H H Lee of Milton, Republican county commissioner candidate, was in town yesterday. Rena Ferguson, voice student in Portland, returns home. Miss Jessie Booth of Pendleton stops in Baker City en route to Sumpter. Rev M W Howard of Milton, Columbia College rep, leaves after business visit. Grace Dorothy finished Pendleton Business College and is now a geographer at Messrs Mitchell & Margula. A C Huby bound for New York to meet 18 Percheron horses from France arriving around April 18. Horace Walker, county commissioner, departs for Condon to review wheat crop. unlikely to reseed due to cold weather.
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J. E. McGuire
Moscow
Idaho
Ind
W. H. Graves
Boise
A. L. Knight
Helix
T. L. Ragadale
Milton
A. ©. McIntyre
Athens
Nanton
Alberta
Helen Webb Marston
Oakland
Cal
J. T. Lieuallen
Adama Farmer
Yeaterday
Mie Rena Ferguson
Portland
Jessie Booth
Pendleton
Baker City
Sumpter
Columbia College
Grace Dorothy
Pendleton Business College
Messie, Mitchell & Margula
Smith-Crawford
A. C. Huby
New York City
France
Army Promotions Blocked For Infantry Subalterns
Washington March 29 many second lieutenants in the infantry are blocked from promotion since last September. Lieutenant W W Boller of the 20th Infantry faces charges prompting a court of inquiry, delaying advancement for junior officers. The senate military committee seeks more information before the inquiry proceeds, potentially weeks or months.
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Washington
W. W. Botler
20Th Infantry
War Department
Boller
Senate Military Committee
Army medical corps seeks officers from new medical grads
New York on March 20 reports that examinations will be held in several cities to select about 20 candidates for first lieutenant assistant surgeon in the army medical department. Preliminary tests occur May 1 and July 7, with staffing difficulties cited as a reason to expand higher grades for better advancement.
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New York
Medical Department
Army
Thorpe
Farmers Get Cheap Salem Phone Rentals Tomorrow
The Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company will launch the cheapest farmer lines in the country. Regularly five dollars yearly for country lines, connecting to the main office and Long Distance lines. If farmers supply their own instruments, rental drops to one dollar yearly or 1-3 cents per month for neighbor and tradesman connections. Premier Witte faces daily fee implications against his wife and possible mental decline.
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Salem
Ore
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Thie City
Linn
Panama Eton Suits and Coats at Modest Prices
Retail page lists Panama Eton suits from 20.00 in multiple colors with braid trim plus covert coats from 4.95 to 10. Short double-breasted box coats offered 5.00 to 9.00 for misses. Pony and bolero suits 22.50, Valuce to 80.00, linen Eton suits 19.50 with gray overplaids. New ladies raincoats in tan olive brown and oxford, traveling and steamer coats in overplaids and tweeds, Easter millinery hats in white blue pink grey red black priced 2.50 to 5.00.
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Panama
ETON
New York Letter recounts scandalous marriages and reform talk
In a New York letter a Brooklyn millionaire named Kiley is described as duped by a wife presumed dying who then remarried. He takes up with his boyhood friend’s widow while the first wife remains alive. The piece also condemns a slave trader and voices concern over hidden dens and city predation.
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New York
Kiley
Brooklyn
Bis
Cour As
Kirley
Norfolk
Africa
North Pole
Our Majestic Pension Bill Sparks Pivotal Debate
The annual pension appropriation bill of 139000000 passed the house but was blocked by Mr. Gardner of Michigan in a speech packed with information. The piece notes Spain War pensions, civil war costs, and forecasts a future pensioner count around 132000 within two years, with total pensioners near half a million. Also mentions land scrip for sale, military bounty warrants, wages talks in Chicago, and Walla Walla waterworks construction beginning April 1 with $200000 funding.
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House
Gardner
Michigan
Shafter
Cuba
Collier'’s
Simple Sign At East End Grocery
A narrator spots a simple sign at the East End Grocery and notes the shopkeeper’s welcoming display. Inside, the Crescent brand goods and the famous 99 line are highlighted, with the shopper buying a goodly order before returning home.
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Ann Street
East Oregonian
Bowman Hotel
W. H
Hyde
City Recorder
Marshfield
L. Shank & Co
West
Webb Street
Daniel Hest
M. D. Parks
Mont Devries
Peoria
Til
Mre Haaren
Harold Haaren
Devries
P.O. Box
Wenaha
Ripe Mountain
Strawberry Mountain
Sunderman
L. Hunziker
West Have
Ducketts Lightning Care
E. D. Boyd
Boyd
Chicago
Koeppens
Price Drug Store
L. M. Watrus
Adams
Cambridge
Alolio
Horace Walker
Condon
Gilliam County
Premier Witte Jn
Pony
Letter
W. D. Field
Overland Lock
Boise, Idaho
Walla Walla
Mill Creek
Blue Mountains
Murphy’s
London
Paris
THE
Pendleton Drug Company
Brock & McComas Co
East End
East End Grocery A
Walters’ Flouring Mills
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