Lewiston Adopts Galveston Plan For City Government
Lewiston Idaho adopts a Galveston style city charter to place control in the people. Six councilmen plus the mayor run all legislative and executive functions with each serving as a city department head. Initiatives recall referendums and public utilities powers are provided. Franchises limited to 25 years with city acquisition on expiry. Public service campaigns barred from contributions.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Galveston
Seattle
Memphis
Tennessee
Old City
District of
Iowa
Lanure
Water Works
United States
Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup Offers Comforting Relief
A vintage medicine ad promotes Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup as a non opiate remedy that gently moves the bowels while stopping a cough. It contains honey and tar and targets coughs colds croup and whooping cough. Mothers endorse it and A C Koeppen & Fros sell it with satisfaction guaranteed.
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A. C. Koeppen & Fros
New Jersey Investors Plan Walnut Cultivation in Marion County
Gran Walnuts announces operations in Marion county New Jersey capitalists plan growing English walnuts with Mount Angel as headquarters. The company, organized under New Jersey law, has capital stock of 20000 dollars and will establish a local seat at Mount Angel, the Catholic college seat.
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Marion
New Jersey
Marion County
Mount Angel
Catholic College
Thirty days treatment for kidney and rheumatic issues
An advertised remedy offers thirty days treatment for kidney bladder trouble and rheumatism priced at $1.00. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Pineules contain no alcohol and do not derange the stomach. Easy to take and sold by A. C. Koep pen & Bros.
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A. C. Koeppen & Bros
Big Carnations of England in Shakespeare’s Era
The 16th century florists in England cultivated three to four inch carnations outdoors in summer, larger than typical gillyflowers. While carnations remained a summer bloom then, modern greenhouses now yield them as winter blooms. The Globe-Democrat notes English records show size and alze documented, unlike Spain where such sizes aren’t recorded.
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England
Gorist
Spain
Italy
Kauri Gum Digging In New Zealand Reveals Riches
New Zealanders dig for kauri gum from living trees and stump soil, sometimes finding 100 pound chunks. The resin, used in varnish and enamel paints, commands strong demand and high value relative to supply. The kauri pine grows 150 to 200 feet tall, with a 15 foot trunk diameter, noted for dark foliage and naval mast use.
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Captain Kidd
Chewing and Dyspepsia and the Curious History of Idiot
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt contrasts chewing meat and vegetables, arguing meat digests in the stomach while excessive chewing harms digestion. It then traces the word idiot from Greek to English, noting changing meanings from private individual to ignorant person and layman, with historical uses including fools and jesters.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Eng- Mah
Piers Plowman
Wryclif
Jeremy Taylor
Where Her Father Was. A Valley Girl at Home
A fragmentary item from Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a daughter returning from boarding school. The caller asks if her father is outdoors splitting wood. she responds in clipped, mumbled fashion, implying an in-home task. The piece reflects rural colloquial humor and domestic setting.
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Toma
Cleveland
Pilot Rock Kindergarten Shaped Journal Talent
Editor McManus of the Pilot Rock Record praises the paper as a kindergarten school for boys trained on a Washington hand press. In under five years four boys have moved to Pendleton jobs, three of them supervising and printing in major papers. The Record invites readers to consider its training for others and notes a local girl recently educated to add city reporting talent.
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McManus
Metropolitan Press
John P. McManus
Pilot Rock Record
Journal Em
Pendleton
Pilot Rock
Tribune
Pilot Rock Boye
Washington
Eity
Record
Sheep Inspection in Idaho by Federal Inspectors
Dr. S S McClure of Pendleton heads 16 federal inspectors assigned to Idaho to check all sheep before forest reserves. Infected flocks to be dipped twice. exposed flocks need one dip. Inspections focus on shearing plants, starting immediately.
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Idaho
S&s. S. McClure
Pendleton
Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Oregon
Pocatello Tribune
Lumber piles burned at De Borgia in Montana disaster
Ten million feet of lumber owned by the Mann Lumber Company and the Donlan and Henderson Lumber Company burned at De Borgia Montana. The stock was largely mining timbers and railroad ties.
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Mann Lumber Company
Donlan & Henderson Lumber Company
de Borgia
Montana
Pine Salve Carbolized poultice for skin care
The salve acts as a poultice for cuts burns and chapped skin. Pine Salve Carbolized is offered by A. C. Koeppen & Broa for 25 cents.
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A. C. Koeppen& Broa
Japanese demography cited by Seattle preachers and others
Japanese preachers teachers and other leaders present in Seattle estimate about 6000 Japanese in the city, over 100000 in the United States, and about 1400 in Idaho, reflecting perceived community size and distribution.
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Seattle
United States
Idaho
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Mitchell Wagons
John Nissen & Son
Pendleton, Oregon
Dade
A. C. Koeppen
Walter
Bis
Walters’ Flour Mills
Jas. A. Snyder
Malm Street
Lewis Hunter
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