Diverse Crime and Labor Notes From Early Newsprint
Reports warn of daily horse deaths in San Francisco due to foot injuries from dangerous street debris after an earthquake. Labor casting shows Spaniards and Greeks as preferred canal workers. Jamaicans flagged as least capable. GOP efforts fight Oklahoma statehood before 1908 election. Pat Crowe acquitted in Omaha for streetcar robbery. Portland restaurant owner Edward Manning murdered, silver stolen. Raleigh doctor Rowland charged with poisoning son for inheritance. wife arrested as accomplice.
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San Francisco
Panama Canal
Jamaica
Negroca
National Republican Committee
Oklahoma
Pat Crowe
Omaha
Crowe
Michael Cudahy
Raleigh
N. C
Rowland
Henderson
Vance County
Good Second Hand Pianos Bought for Cash
Rebuild your old piano with Ridgway & Co as they offer extensive work like new felts, leathers, bushings, hammers, and strings to restore cases. They advertise cash for used pianos, emphasize value over cheap new ones, and invite free estimates. Headquarters listed in Walla Walla with tuning and regulating services for renters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Walla Walla
Oregon Trunk Line Leaders Tour Des Chutes Route
W F Nelson president of the Oregon Trunk Line and L D Gregory of the Tithe Trust Seattle arrive in The Dalles and begin a surveying trip to Bend to assess rights of way and possible cooperation with reclamation projects while aiming to build the road from Midras to Bend despite government disputes over water rights and canyon access.
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Dalles
Oregon
Reclamation Service
Tes Chutes
Itmouth
Tina- Mia
Oregon Trunk
Des Chutes
Washington
Nelson
Midras
Bend
Disturbed the Congregation Prompted Sneezing Remedy Advise
A notice from Koeppen’s Drug Store in Read the Fast Oregonii urges a coughing purchaser to buy Foley's Honey and Tar to soothe disturbance during services. The quirky item frames a humorous plea as a newspaper oddity.
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Foley
Koeppen
Northwest News Highlights Across Idaho and Oregon
The region reports North West sugar mill at La Grande built in 1898 with 150 ton daily capacity. Robbery in Nampa targets Harry and Ed Miller by an acquaintance. Emmett area expects bumper crops of apricots peaches and prunes with 20000 peach trees planted. Eugene divinity school at Christian church graduates five students including two women. school began 1895 with four students. John B Campbell, 63, declared insane and placed in asylum after attempted suicide. Myrtle Idaho hosts United Brethren camp meeting from June 29 for 10 days led by Bishop Henry L Barkley and other speakers. Lewiston to cut water rates by 20 percent. city council approves Gamewell fire alarm system installation at 3425 and 100 per mile of wire.
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la Grande
Nampa
Harry
Miller
Emmett
Idaho
Christian Church Divinity School
Eugene
Dallen Avex
John B. Campbell
United Brethren
Myrtle
Henry L. Barkley
D. D
Portland
Oregon
Lewiston
Bucklen Amica Salve Cures Thumbs In Plunk Ad
A Plunk merchant G W Cloyd recounts a four year old accident with a jimson bar injuring his thumb. He refused amputation and used Bucklen’s Amica Salve to heal the wound. Available for 25 cents at Tallman & Co.’s druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Cloyd
Plunk
Bucklen
Tallman & Co
Druggista
Figures of Famous School Dunces Across History
The passage lists notable figures such as Nathaniel Hawthorne Walter Scott Napoleon Wellington Clive Chilver Chilmers Chatternon Teeigh Hunt Tenn e Newton Sir William Jones and Robert Morrison as examples of inferior pupils in their youth. It notes varied opinions of tutors and fathers about their early dullness and later achievements.
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Faney Dunces
Nathanial Hawthorne
Hie Close
Walter Scott
Napoleon
Wellington
Clive
Plassey
Hooby
Chilmers
Wan
Chatternon
Teeigh Hunt
Tenne Newton
William Jones
Robert Morrison
Flora of Alaska and Yukon Flora Exhibit by Gervais
Gustave Gervais, a Whitehorse prospector, has collected over 1500 Alaska Yukon flora specimens since 1905 and expects many more. The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition will showcase his vast, still growing collection, including 60 entirely new specimens and 13 tree species. The display, valued at thousands, aims to prove northern flora thrives and wheat could grow along the upper Yukon.
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C. H. E. Asquith
Alaska
Yukon
Northland
Seattle
Great Western
North America
Alaskay
Lelcles
Gustave Gervins
Whitehorse
Gustave Gervais
Beattle
Quebec
Hi‘dorado
Catin
Gervais
Gervale
Dawson City
Ald Gervals
Tam
America
Jana
Macoun
Ottawa
Washington
St. Louis
Am Jong
Alna- Kan
Ory
Perhipa
Polat
Mont
Gorvals
Beware of Catarrh Ointments and Insurance of a Carving Collection
The notice warns against using catarrh tonics without prescription and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as unsafe. It reports J. J. Morgan buying a vast Hoentachel collection of carvings and furniture for $1,000,000, moved secretly to New York to avoid French interference.
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Hall
Y. J. Cheney & Co
Boris Haihe Cetis
Thade
Toronto
Cheney & Co
J. J. Morgan
Paris
New York
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Pendleton
Manchester
General News
Edward Manning
Portland, Mich
Ridgway & CO
Willow Street
Oregon Trunk Line
Northwest News
Alaoka
Tonka
Gustave Gervils
Alfred Benjamin & CO
Bond Brothers
Pendleton’s Leading Clothiers
Bud Atkinson
Main and
Alta Sts
Red
Uncle Sam’s Post Office
Title Guarantee & Trust Co
Washington St
Cor
Portland, Ore
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