Echo Begins First Alfalfa Harvest In Irrigated District
The Echo neighborhood reports an unusually heavy alfalfa crop with three to four cuts expected this year on irrigated lands yielding five to nine tons per acre. Local arrivals include Mina Blanch Grayne traveling to Cascade Locks for news of her sister’s accident. many residents visit, attend funerals, or move between Hermiston Pendleton and Portland.
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Vielda
Eeho
Ore
Echo
Mina Blanch Grayne
Cascade Locks
Murre} Cates
Mra
J.T. McNurren
Umatilla
Nero
H. T. Irwin
Hermiston
Jos
Cunha
A. A. Finley
Stanford
Making Oregon Inviting and its Big Drive
Oregon shines as rains restore western and southern vitality. Judge Webster touts direct taxation in Multnomah for roads while bond issues loom statewide. President Hill’s southern tour energizes reform hopes, despite tough roads after heavy rain. The Dalles group backs Sumpter Valley rail, Prairie City, Mosier rally, Sunset Magazine highlights Oregon growth, and Marshfield lines up a May 27 business banquet at Hotel Chandler.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Lionel R. Webster
Muttnomah County
Louis W. Hill
Great Northern Railway
Hill
Shaniko
Oreena
Dalles
Commercial Club
Sunset Magazine
A. C. Jackson
Oregon Development League
Marshfield Chamber of Commerce
Chandler
Politician Urges Poetry as Link to Colonies
London reports Henniker Heaton proposes poetry to bind England and its colonies. He argues public men overlook sentiment, praising poets as vital connectors in imperial relations and cultural outreach.
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Henniker Henton
Igriid
Tte
Henniker Heaton
George Crean
Canada
Lady Strachey
Professor Bradbry
Oxford Ia
Rudyard Kipling
England
London
Countess Aspitile Real Aviator Hopeful on Estate
London reports aeroplane sheds appearing on English estates as aristocrats explore flight. Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam install a Blériot monoplane at Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire. The Countess trains and flies, while the Earl pursues varied adventures and wealth funds hobbies, including treasure expeditions and sport.
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London
England
Earl
Countess Fitzwilliam
Wentworth Woodhouse
Yorkshire
Cacos Island
Marquis of
Zetland
Berlin Now Claims George V as a German
German newspapers hail King George as purely German with 128 ancestors, 118 German, tracing bloodlines through paternal and maternal lines. They argue any English identity is negligible, while a German writer faces lese majeste over a joke about Joachim von Brandenburg amid a comet scare.
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Berlin
George V
George
England
Germany
Edward
George 1
Elizabeth Stuart
Elizabeth
P. Belgard
Joachim
Brandenburg
Belgara Ie
Norway expands suffrage for women over twenty five
The Odelsting in Christiania voted by a large majority to grant university municipal suffrage to women aged twenty five and older. The change will take effect at the next elections, extending the electorate from about 127,000 to roughly 500,000.
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Christiania
Norway
Odelsting
Strothing
Lagting
Storthing
Qdelsting
Fragmentary note on local currency in country district
A partial OCR fragment mentions 300 Kroner in a country district. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or additional identifying details.
War Office halts Ode to Peace at Royal Navy tournament
London reports the War Office blocked the singing of Ode to Peace at the Royal Navy and Military tournament. The Millennium military display with 400 Tommies was scrubbed after a critical letter, prompting resignation of organizing secretary Colonel Ricardo who noted the War Office never aided the tournament beyond sanctioning troop appearances. Three years earlier the department stopped an Indian mutiny sham battle amid unrest in India.
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London
War Office
Royal Navy
Tommy Atkins
Ricardo
Department
India
Artist Charles Spencer fasting 42 days in Kent experiment
English artist Charles Spencer, from Kent, undertook a 42 day fasting experiment to cure a persistent appetite. He describes initial hunger, then relief, followed by reemergence of hunger at day 42, which he managed by drinking fruit juice before a small meal. He plans to continue broader trials with his wife.
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London
Upton Sinclair
Charles Spencer
Kent
Spencer
Mr. Spencer
Saxony rich in radium to be state monopoly
Government report finds Saxony rich in radium with 484 water samples showing radio activity including twelve strongly so. It plans a state monopoly on all pitchblende mined privately. London: Annie Connor jailed twelve months for shoplifting with a lifelong history of crime since 1864 and total sentences of forty years.
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Berlin
Saxony
Brabenack
Gautein
Buettquelle
Baden
London
Annie Connor
Liquid Foot Exec Stresses Comfort For Tired Feet
A believd executive from First Class Drug Stores promotes Liquid Foot with claims it relieves tired aching feet and sweat, promising happiness for everyone at 36 cents a bottle.
Prayer and air prayers stir comment at Anglican service
The London vicar Rev Prebendary Bolton faced remarks for inserting for those traveling by land or by water into the Litany. The change arose during the Paulthan Grahame White air race with prayers requested by a mother. A Goodyear Rubber advertisement notes sails 4000 feet high and Sharon & Bole dings offer best and cheapest goods.
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London
Bolton
St. Mary's Lichfield
Paulthan-Grahame
Goodyear Rubber Company
Hove
Sharon & Boledings
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Portland, Ore
F. A. Clise
Umatilla County
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Grandma Holmes
Jas, T. Holmes
la Grande
Francis Fenton
Holmes
Herb Thompson
J. D. Watson
Walla Walla
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Judge Webster
Countess Aspitles
Michelin
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East Oregonian
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Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co
Washington
Idaho
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First National Bank
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Matlock Grounds
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