Local Classifieds Include Bicycles and Rentals
A dense run of local ads lists bicycles at 727 Johnson Street, housekeeping rooms for rent at 502 Water Street, sewing and dressmaking notices, and display of White Sewing machines at W. R. Graham. Also notes on dry slab wood from Oregon Lumber Yard, lumber shipments, farm sales including Jersey cows and a Holt combine harvester, and moving services offered by Penland Bros. plus rental inquiries for I O F Grand Lodge May session and other miscellaneous sales and services across Pendleton Oregon.
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Water Street
Mill Street
W. R. Grahams
State Hotel
Milne
Pendleton
Ore
Franklin Street
Oregon Lumber Yard
Pendleton Planing Mill
R. H. Stevens
Dutch Henry
Holt Jr
Margaret Mekhrom
Ee Yard
Morton
Rock Spring
Ben L. Burroughs
Phond Malin
East Oregoniam
New Deck
Oregon
Sharon & Eddings
Jay
UN Co
Bose
Graham's
I. O
O. F. Grand Lodge
J. E. Bean
Main
Local Transit and Property Ads Lead to May Deadline
Taxicab and Touring Cars offer service at 26 cents to any city area, day and night from Main 12. Spring brings tumors to the surface, Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as a health tonic. Real estate pitches include a rock house and 3 1 2 lots on Lilleth Street and a brick house with 9 lots on Mission Street, both offered at bargain prices with a sale deadline of May 28 and contact Amice Delongvert at 121 Mission Street.
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Lilleth Street
Mission Street
Amice Delongvert
Pasture Available for Fifty Horses in Starkey Oregon
I have pasture for fifty head of horses for the season at $1.50 per head per month. There is plenty of water and grass. Contact J. B Hagey in Starkey, Oregon.
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J. B Hagey
Starkey, Ore
Echo Wins From Hermiston in Irrigation League Showdown
Echo Oregon May 6 Echo beat Hermiston in a hotly contested basketball game to stay tied atop the Irrigation league standings. Each team has won three of four games, sharing first place. Also notes Willie Hosking’s return from Walla Walla and other local social items.
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Echo
Ore
Miss Ruth Eliot Engaged to Rogers Pierce in Cambridge
Cambridge reports the engagement of Ruth Eliot to Rogers Pierce son of Dr M W Pierce of Milton and grandson of Harvard president emeritus Charles W Eliot Miss Eliot is the late Charles Eliot's daughter a noted landscape painter No wedding date has been fixed Pierce a Harvard graduate about thirty traveled with President Eliot as Dr Elliot's secretary
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Cambridge
Mass
Rogers Pierce
M. W. Pierce
Milton
Ruth Elot
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Pierce
Eliot
Elliot
Ruth Elliot
Charles Eliot
Death of School Board Secretary After City Fire
The shock of the central school building fire killed BE. Kirk Johnson, secretary of the board of education, aged seventy one. He rushed into the blaze to help, inhaled smoke, and on the way home suffered acute indigestion. He died at midnight of atomic poisoning as the vital organs failed from shock. Even a left handed man may do everything right.
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Ithaca
Kirk Johnson
Board of Education
Johnson
Local notables visit and travel notes across counties
A string of brief mentions records movements of legal and civic figures. Yob Lewis from Adams, William Slusher returning to Nolin ranch, J P Winter to Hermiston, 8 F Wilson of Portland noted, Frazer of Pasco visiting, Deputy Sheriff Joe Blakely and Marshal H H McReynolds in town, Dr C J Smith made countywide rounds, Ross Wimner at Barnhart watching a sheep plant, Col F P S Ivanhoe and A M Crawford at the supreme court session, Hert Smith tending sheep near Pilot Rock, E P Marshall of Inland Irrigation heading west, J D French and wife from Gurdan e returning home after visiting, Clarence Adams came from Camas Prairie for a wife’s convalescence, Miss Hazel Ferrig of Portland visiting Mrs Willard Bond before California trip.
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Yob Lewis
Adams
William Slusher
Nolin
J. P. Winter
Hermitton
F. Wilson
Portland
Frazer
Pasco
C. J. Smith
Ross Wimner
Barnhart
Smith
Col
Fp.s. Ivanhoe
Union
Watlowa
Supreme Court
A. M. Crawford
Oregon
Hert Smith
Roth
Jook
E. P. Marshall
Inland Irrigation Company
J. D. French
Gurdane
Clarence Adams
Camas Prairie
Hazel Ferrig
Willard Bond
California
RR narrowly cleared on hours of service law
Denver and Rio Grande railroad found guilty on four counts for breaking the sixteen hour maximum hours of service. Federal Judge Pope ruled that pausing a train on a siding to let another pass does not violate the limit, even with lights out and crews asleep. The railroad fined 250 dollars plus costs.
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Court Pines
Denver & Rio Grande
Santa Fe
N. M
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Pope
Federal suit seeks back duties on sugar imports
The government filed in Federal District Court a suit against the Federal Sugar Refining Co for 116000 alleging back duties on sugar imported through the New York customs house from 1902 to 1949. The claim reflects duties understated by clerical errors in weight ascertainment and is for back duties, not full value.
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Federal Sugar Refining Company
New York
Federal District Court
Custom House
First Eagle Scout Emerges From Rockville Center
New York Arthur Br Eldred of Rockville Center L 1 has become the first Eagle Scout among 390 000 Boy Scouts of America after completing three scouting degrees and twenty one activities including firemanship gardening woodcraft cooking horsemanship and handi craft The national court of honor has awarded only 141 merit badges to about fifty boys in the last year Another notable award goes to Vincent Devinny of Olivet Troop No 3 St Paul for saving Harold Hillman from drowning at Birch Lake on August 2 1911 and reviving him with first aid
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New York
Arthur Br, Eldred
Rockville Center
L. 1
Boy Scouts of America
Tenderfoot
National Court of Honor
Eldred
Boy Scouts
Vincent Devinny
Bear Patrol
Olivet
St. Paul
Harold Hillman
Devinny
Hillman
Birch Lake
Twenty five million Americans not church members
Minneapolis May 6 A report of the Board of Home Missions to the quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal church states that twenty five million persons in the United States have no church affiliation. It is believed at least five new bishops will be created. The conference unanimously adopted a resolution commending President Taft's attitude in refusing to intervene in Mexico.
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Minneapolis
United States
Board of Home Missions
Methodist Episcopal Church
Taft
Mexico
Maryland Vote Heavy at First Presidential Primary
Baltimore May 6 under identical weather Maryland holds its first presidential primary. Early vote is reported heavy with Roosevelt supporters claiming victory while Taft backers are cautious but favored in betting. Result not expected to be known until tomorrow.
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Maryland
Baltimore
Roosevelt
Taft
Pendleton Debates Gravel Bitulithic Pavement Claims
In Pendleton Oregon on May 6 a letter writer criticizes Carl Linden's Live Wire May 11 article on Gravel Bitulithic pavement. He argues the base is heated bitumen mixed on site, disputes Portland contract details, praises Warren Bros. Co. pavement, and cites city samples on Main and Court Streets as proof of quality. He contests patent claims and cautions about misstatements in the original piece.
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Robert J. Linden
Portland
O11 Co
Warren Bros
Pendleton
Warren Brothers Co
Main
Court
Poor Tubby Needn't Support Rich Wife
San Francisco A rich wife was not entitled to support from a poor husband, per Superior Judge Murasky in a temporary alimony petition by Jennie W N Bishop against Harry H Bishop. She seeks $75 monthly alimony pending divorce and $200 counsel fees as he earns $100 a month. She owns real estate valued at $20,000 as separate property.
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Murasky
Bishop
San Francisco
F. J. Murasky
Jennie WN. Bishop
Harry HH. Bishop
William A. Kelly
Child Fakes Death and Dies in Mountain Mishap
Robert Waters nine years old, son of T C Waters a well known business man, was found dead on the mountain road north of Shenandoah. He and companions played dead to fool pedestrians when he fell and struck his chin on a protruding stone, breaking his neck and dying instantly.
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Shenandoah, Pa
Trobert Waters
T. C. Waters
Pastor Seeks Canton Police Chief Post
Canton mayoral candidate Pastor W. T. Kessin ger of the United Brethren church has applied for chief of police. He says he seeks a chance to clean up the city and would keep his pulpit if named to the position.
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Canton
W. T. Kessinger
United Brethren Church
Fox
Man Named for Position Intention Mentioned
A notice notes another man will be named to fill the upcoming post. No further details on the appointment or timing are provided in the observable text.
Slavery in South America exposed by Robert Rogers
Alexander P. Rogers recounts barbaric rubber trade practices in South America. Peons lured from Bolivia to work debt bondage aboard boats carrying gold and rubber, then mistreated by agents and a corrupt judge. They are kept on treacherous voyages, starved and flogged, with few surviving the brutal debt and fever.
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Alexander P. Rogers
South America
Bolivia
The Average Man and His Point of View
A concise aphorism argues that intelligence or dullness aligns with one’s perspective. It suggests mindset shapes judgment and perception more than inherent ability.
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Allis
F.E. Livengood & CO
the Ladies’ and Children’s Store
Ladies Wome Journal
Johnson Street
Burroughs
North Wallowa County
Troy
Wallowa County
Penland Bros
A. Ruppe
Monroe Street
Donaldson’s
K. Kelly Bansher
F. J. Ronaldson
Peoples Warehouse
Hood
Ruth Eliot
Joe Blakely
Pilot Rock
H. H. McReynolds
Hh. R
U. S
Eagle Boy Scout
Lone Island
Oxfords
Wohlenberg
Pendleton, Gre
T. A. Garrow
Warren Bros. Co
Tubby
Pastor
Captain Smith
Southampton
Cosy Theatre
Carload
A. Borie
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