Death toll rises from Snyder cyclone
General news recalls 117 dead from Snyder Oklahoma cyclone with more expected to die of injuries. It notes deaths of opera singer Jesse Bartlett Davis in Chicago from nephritis and other stark incidents across the nation including suicide, violence, and railway accidents.
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Snyder, Ok
Jessse Bartlett Davie
Chicago
New York City
Eva Booth
Salvation Army
Louis J. Réns
Oconto
Wis
David Briggs
Brookfields
Conn
Farmer
Eva Dakin
Charles Bennett
Interstate Commerce Commission
Indiana
Oklahoma
Snyder
Santa Fe
Emporia
Kan
Noted Lectures and Crimes Highlight Northwest News
Prominent figures Benator La Follette and William Jennings Bryan will lecture in Spokane alongside Edmond Vance Cooke and Jack London. Oregon’s new U.S. marshal C. J. Reed backs Francis Heney on land fraud cases. Coeur d’Alenes Hercules mine valued at 10 million dollars. A 10th interest sale netted 259 thousand dollars. A drunken brawl in Aberdeen leaves Finns and Swedes involved. John Thomson killed by heavy plank blow. Martin Mortenson under arrest. Spokane saloonkeeper William Crane shot lingers. Italian suspect James May charged. Strychnine found in Fred Dychmin’s system. suicide suspected. Boise launches fund to advertise the city for Lewis and Clark fair visitors.
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Benator la Follette
William Jennings Bryan
Edmond Vance Cooke
Jack London
Spokane
Oregon
C. J. Reed
Francis J. Heney
Hercules
Coeur d'Alenes
Aberdeen
Wash
John Thomson
Sixty Acre River Bottom Land Near City Limits
E T Wade and Son advertise sixty acres of river bottom land adjoining the city limits, mostly well cultivated with good improvements. They claim it will yield a big profit on the investment and provide contact details including phone Black 1111 and office in B O Building.
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E T. Wade
Boz
Phone Black
B. O
Cunningham Sheep to Run in Twelve Bands This Summer
Charles Cunningham, eastern Oregon sheep king, plans to move about 20 000 sheep from Phat Rock to summer ranges in twelve bands five buck bands and seven ewe and lamb bands. The operation costs nearly 1200 dollars monthly with six tender crews provisioning camps and moving camps as pastures are consumed. High demand for quality stock boosts optimism for a profitable season with numerous young buck shipments already contracted to Northwest destinations.
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Cunningham
Charles Cunningham
Oregon
Phat Rock
North M'Kay Items Endorse Exist Oregonian Fight on Gambling
In North M'Kay on May 15 residents report wide support for the Exist Oregonian stance against gambling. Updates note irrigation work by Delatour Snyder and Kidder, dry ground harming early crops, and ongoing irrigation wheel installation as river levels permit. Fred Hill resigns as District 9 school director prompting June elections. Hill Bros sell 75 acre bottom ranch near Pendleton to a Reho party for 5300, with crops, gas engine, and alfalfa described. A new road from Hill’s property toward Jacob Reith’s riverfront farm will soon open.
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Exist Oregonian
North McKay
Mise Ethel [Wheeler
Stage Gulch
Messrs. Delatour
Joseph Snyder J
George Kidder
Hefr
Eaat Oregonian
Fred Hill
Pendleton
Markson
Birch Creek
Hill Bros
Hear Reho
Jacob Reith
Baptist Bulletin church activities and meetings
The Baptist Bulletin lists a regular prayer meeting at 8 o clock on Wednesday, a ladies group gathering Thursday at Mrs Lulu Wilcox’s home, and a W U T U meeting Friday at 2 30 p m to elect delegates for the county convention at Weston May 25 26. A Sunday program features posters in the morning and evening, plus a foreign missionary offering open till next Sunday. Neighborhood meeting Thursday at the Penland home. Masons seek three brick masons for J L Mara at La Grande Oregon with 60 days of steady work, pay 5 per day plus, subcontract possible.
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Ofeclock
Lulu Wilcox
Thompson Street
Weston
Mra
Ll. EB
Penland
Highland and
Willow
J. L. Mara
la Grande
Notice to Debtors from Conrad Platzoeder
Notice to debtors from Conrad Platzoeder. He states he has sold his butcher business and asks all indebted to call and settle at once. Atlantic City, Na ty and Memphis, Tenn, are applicants for the next national convention of the Order of Railroad Conductors.
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Conrad Platzoeder
Atlantic City
Na Ty
Memphis
Tenn
the Order of Railroad Conductors
Hotel Arrivals at The St George and The Pendleton
Extensive hotel guest lists show arrivals at The St George in Portland and The Pendleton with many travelers from San Francisco Seattle and Chicago. Names include Richardson Tillman Hibbard Mitchell Cockburn Rosenthal and dozens more from cities such as La Grande Walla Walla The Dalles Milton Salem and Athena.
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St. George
Thomas Richardson
Portland
R. W. Richardson
Thomas T. Ryan
Oregon City
B. W. Haines
Forest Grove
W. K. Morell
Dilley
John 5. Beale
J. W. Burna
J. Alexander
la Grande
H. BR. Armatrong
Billings
M. L. Carney
Turner Oliver
J. K. Wright
F. la Meyers
A. A. Gunt
N. N. Craig
San Francisco
H. & Renistin
Wise M. Paterson
MH. Greenberg
Seattle
G. C. Miller
Walla Walla
Fred Julian
Spokane
Max Asher
E. B. Knapp
Boston
A. Be, Lake
the Dalles
H. J. Hibbard
Daisy L. Harding
Milton
Henry Culliff
J. Merrit
Omaha
L. Row
J. ¢. Stewart
F. N. Looney
Richland
Omver Lynch
Umatilla
F. McCauly
M. K. Lott
DL. Rosenfeld
L. T. Craigo
Monroe
Ed McAlary
Helix
Charles McAlary
Hells
J. J. Biswell
Baker City
F. J. Parker
Roy Sallebury
Vinson
Olive Jones
City
Lillian Mitchell
Union
F. Reed
Kahlotua
Criss Cameron
Athena
H. M. Cockburn
T. Cockburn
H. Burke
Herbert Necker
EL Costello
Starbuck
Willam J. Moore
James Douglas
J. H. Daniel
Salem
H. A. Miller
Minnie Frickley
Chattanooga
Alfred Rasch
A. Kink
D. Saunders
Preewater
A. L. Demiris
J. & Harris
Weston
George W. Stagg
Weaton
C. Stafford
George BH. Roberts
FE Potts
John H. Scott
Jax Romer
I. H. Baker
Ripper
Breho
C. McAlister
George Whitemin
Wells
J. Smith
la Grinde
J. M- Wood
James Withycomb
Corvallia
the Pendleton
Roberty
St. Loui
H. K. Pieher
Hainer
Charlier G. Wright
N.S Drake and Wife
Arthur Rishen
Pittsburg
F. A. Liewallen
J. Frenchard
Astoria
J. M. Thorn
Farmington
E. Jacobeon
the Dades
A. Bennett
Irrigan
Tom Richardson
F. Vincent
F. A. Johnason
Louisville
J. Dufour
France
Ed Blackburn
E. A. Havenstic
Kansas City
Kk. A. Neuhaus, Jr
Chicago
A. Care
L. McMuriley and Wife
Wisconsin
Allan Raper
Proof of Hun Sanity and a Garden Escape
A humorous exchange from old papers features a man claiming sanity with papers from an asylum and a eloping couple planning to hide a ladder in the garden. The piece also includes brief quips about a pin and needle and a bantering reply.
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Ovkaloosan
Mount, Pleasant Insane Asylum
Philadelphia Ledger
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dreaming Brute and Woman’s Thought Clash in Sleep
A Brute, Younghusband I dreamed last night that your mother was dying. His Wife Brute I heard you laugh In your sleep. A woman does a lot of thinking trying to figure out whether the baby is going to be a great man or a good man.
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Younghusband
New York Times
New York Press
Early Creek Foodways in Indian Territory Home Stores
In early days in Indian Territory the Creeks kept abundant food such as nearly white sweet potatoes with crimson skins stored in dry sand cellars under kitchen floors. They grew yellow onions, corn of many varieties for roasting, bread, sorkey, and stock feed, plus beans and dried peas. Pumpkins dried near the cabins. corn was boiled and dried for winter use, with melons grown large in quantity, surpassing others in the country.
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Indian Territory
Hume
Kanens City Journal
MAX MULLER'S CHANGE Fable From The Strand Story
The famous philologist Max Muller, arriving in England in 1847, faced a shopkeeper mistake in the Strand. The clerk overcharged him by 10 shillings, claiming Muller paid only 10 shillings. After days, Muller reclaimed his thanks after returning the extra money, reflecting charity and miscount.
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Max Muller
England
East India Company
Omer
Nobel
Muller
Hind
The Implacable Crite and Candlefish Notes
The Implacable Crite recounts a joke about Gumbleton at a banquet where a speaker claims he never erred, provoking his wife’s absence from the gallery. Candlefish of Puget Sound describes candlefish used for lighting homes and cooking, with dried fish packed like candy and a waxlike burn when lit. Teutsch's offers fancy ribbons in multiple widths and colors.
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Crite
Gumbleton
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Puget Sound
Sound
Inland Ball Teams Split Crew for East and West Trips
Spokane and Boise ball tents transfer to eastbound train. Spokane heads to Salt Lake City for a return series, while Bolt nine goes to Chyden. Spokane leads Inland teams with 10 wins in 13 games as travel arrangements unfold. Capital Affak notes cautious optimism about Eastern Oregon investments and looming government probe into drug and steel firms.
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Spokane
Boise
Salt Lake City
Bolt
Chyden
Wat
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Fred Dychmin
Colfax
The
Baptist Bulletin
Merrick
the Fair Dept. Store
Teutsch‘s
Willams’ Juvenile Opera Company
Fraver Thia Werk
Omilen
Salt Lake
Democrat
Tadlank
HMO Wiese
Baker City Democrat
Ite
Alta House
Bittner
Alta and
Mill Streets
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Brock & McComas Company
Uggists
Oregon Lumber Yard
Alta Street
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