Wilton prepares for big festival and horse show
East End town readies for June 3 Strawberry Day, annual horse show, and Farmers' Union picnic at Nichols grove. Parade leads a full day of berries, races, games, speeches, and a ball at Oregon Grand theater. Local residents, clubs, and visitors arriving, with notable entries and social events highlighted.
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East End
Farmers’ Union
Lemus
Milton
Ore
Nichols’ Grove
Farmers' Union
Oregon Grand Theater
C. Connor
Ralph Storey
Tassy Stewart
Pendleton
H. M. Cockburn
Kate Maloney
Athena
H. A. Clemens
Cockburn & Clemens
Pine Valley
L. L. Berry
Weston
Pearl Badgero
Walla Walla
Merrifield
Northern Pacific
John McGibbon
Alice Compton
Echo
Margaret Winniford
Winniford
Columbia College
Incredible reverse organ placement in Philadelphia man
A 46 year old Philadelphian machinist was shown by Dr G Harlan Wells at the Philadelphia Academy of Medicine with all organs in reverse positions. His heart lies on the right, stomach sac on the left, liver on the left, spleen on the right and intestines inverted. Only about 900 similar cases are on record since 16428 and this is the first Philadelphia report in a decade. People with this situs viscerum inversus can live as long as those with normal anatomy.
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Philadelphia
G. Harlan Wells
Hahnemann Hospital
Philadelphia Academy of Medicine
Works to aid brother but loses her reason
Pittsburg society figure Miss Nancy Bingaman died by self harm after overwork trying to rescue her brother from Mont Mont insane asylum. Family conflict centered on his planned marriage to a trained nurse. Bingaman allegedly forced his promise to obtain her consent before marriage. Her death ends the bid to control his choice and frees the physician to marry the nurse.
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Brother
Pittsburg
Nancy Bingaman
Viseor
Dimont
Walter Gingaman
Irish Tea Drinking Denunciation Shock at Galway Circuit
In Ireland a report on education notes a strange feature in a denunciation of tea drinking. Mr Dalton of the Galway circuit declares that the use of tea is now carried to such dangerous excess that authorities warn of social effects and call for restraint.
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Dwubdlin
Ireland
Dalton
Galway
Despair in Connaught Seaboard Amid Tea Venders
The text laments alcohol as a grave public health foe, worst in deprived areas. It notes itinerant tea sellers frequenting Connemara and slum districts, where households keep tea on tap all day, highlighting misery and social decay.
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British Island
Connaught Seaboard
Connemara
Man Guillotined For First Time In 12 Years In Switzerland
In Lucerne prison Matthias Muff a 26 year old farmer became the first person guillotined in Switzerland in 12 years. The execution lasted 40 seconds and Muff reportedly welcomed death after signing a petition for pardon which could have commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. His lawyers waited until the last hour for a signature. Muff claimed he killed four people and left 16 orphans, and said he did not wish to live. His wife’s tears were in vain.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Matthias Muff
Muff
Mount Pilatus
Rheinfelden
Grand Council
Noah Raby Died At 92 Not 121, Census Says
Washington reports the US Census Bureau disputes Noah Raby’s claimed age of 121 years. Chief statistician Dr Cressy Wilbur notes ages above 110 are rarely credible and many elderly exaggerate. The bureau concludes Raby likely died about 2 years and 11 months shy of 121. Navy and 1839 Constitution rolls cited as possibly apocryphal.
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Washington
Methusaleh
United States Census Bureau
Cressy L. Wilbur
Division of Vital Statistics
Noah Raby
Census Bureau
Raby
New York Medical Record
Navy
United States
Navy Department
Corset Banner Steals Show At Eagle Parade
Kennett California L H Raglan and his wife traveled to Ukiah as a Kennett Eagles delegate. A package said to contain a gold embroidered Kennett banner instead held his wife’s corset, which Raglan unfurled and carried atop a staff during the grand lodge procession.
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Kennett, Cal
L. H. Raglan
Dr Lynn K Blakeslee Practice Card in Judd Building
Dr Lynn K Blakeslee CHRO nic and nervous diseases and diseases of women X ray and Electro therapeutics. Judd building corner Main and Court streets Office phone Main 72 residence Main 664.
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Lynn K. Blakeslee
Judd
Main
Court Streets
Thomas Vaughan
Judd Building
D. C. M'Nabb
State Veterinary Board
East Court St. Res
Iowa man who lived in three centuries dies at 112
Mason City Iowa Dennis Ricard born in March 1798 in Ireland lived through the eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries and died at age 112 at his Emmetsburg home. A Democrat who supported Lincoln in his day he spent forty years at sea visiting major ports and remained a temperance advocate until shortly before his death. He even shaved himself recently showing remarkable nerve.
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Mason City
Iowa
Dennis Ricard
Emmetsburg
Ireland
Ricard
Lincoln
Divorce Suit Alleges Cruel Treatment Over Stuttering
Paterson New Jersey Mrs Amelia Spinelli sues John Spinelli for divorce on grounds of cruel treatment citing excessive stuttering. Testimony before Special Master Henry Marelli includes interpreter Thomas Cappa and remarks about language and pronunciation amid the marriage. Marelli reportedly undecided on a report.
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Thomas Cappa
Spinelli
Wood McKee
Mrs. Spinelli
Justice Cappa
Marelli
Wedding interrupted by tragic groom and bride shooting
In Brest a wedding party of 40 was disrupted when Louis Loch entered with a revolver and fired twice at the bride and groom. He missed the couple, then shot three more times, injuring the bridegroom in the shoulder and fatally wounding himself with the final shot.
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Brest
Louis Loch
Tren
Loch
Quaker child notes pacifist creed in class essay
A young writer, Bobby Enew, quips in a composition about Quakers. He claims Quakers never quarrel, never fight, never claw, and never jaw back. He adds that his pa is a Quaker but doubts his ma can be.
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Bobby Enew
Caruso in Prison Turns Heads at Auburn Prison
An Alfredo Caruso, not the famed tenor, arrived at Auburn prison and was registered by Clerk Howes. Guards and inmates gathered to view him. he claimed no association with Enrico Caruso and said his singing had been limited to the moving picture circuit. He was sentenced from Utica to one year and six months for abduction.
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Auburn
Auburn Prison
Boy Killed Yet He Throws Out Runner In Baseball
In New York a 14 year old player named Harry Becker was struck in the abdomen by a batted ball during a game. He managed to throw to first to record an out before collapsing and dying before a physician could reach him. The piece also notes that voters often err in political life.
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New York
Harry Becker
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U. S
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T. F. O'Brien
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G. W. Burgess
Albany Nurseries
T. Anderson
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Chas
Hamilton
City
Eureka
Willow Street
Sule
Tutuilla
A. J. Minthorn
Phillip Jones
Parsons Motanic
J. M. Cornelison
College Street
Abe
G. W. Rogers
C. & Bowlsby
West Webb Street
MAGA
Magasines
Europe
Posta
East Oregonian
East Oregonian Pub. CO
Pendlton
Carrie
Portland
Chicago
Pendleton Port
Pilot Rock
Pendleton Walla Walla
Spokane
Pendleton Pendleton
Orthern Pacific
California Eagles
Classified
Garfield, M. “Hs
Judd Block
Red
BE. A. Mann
Commercial Association Rooms
Kern & Bennett
Dental Surgeons
Raley
FEE & Slater
Despain Building
Carter & Smythe
Attorneys At Law
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James B. Perry
Lowell & Winter
Law
George W. Coutts
Schmidt Blook
Peterson & Wilson
Smith- Crawford Building
Phelps & Steiner, Attorneys At Law
Smith-Crawford Building
Chas, J. Ferguson
Attorney At Law
Douglas W. Bailey
Taylor Hardware Co
Eg Ee
D. A. May
Oregonian Office
Eescol
F. A. Lucas
Athens
First National Bank of Athena and
Farmers’ Bank of Weston
United Engineering CO
P.I. Bidg
Seattle
John & Baker
Malia 75
Hartman Abstract Co
Umatilla
Does & General
James Johns
W. S. Henninger
C. H. Marsh
Lee
Bentley & Leffingwell
Malin Street
Malin
Thompson Street
Carney & Bradley
China Restaurant
Ung D. Goey
Alta Street
Tallman & Co
Pendleton Furniture Co
W. R. Graham
Madam Kennedy
Butte
East Court Street
Fred Fiffert
Freewater
Wash
Freewater Times
Pendleton Iron Works
Court
Alta Streets
Marlon Jack
Phop
A. F. May
J. L. Vaughan
Main Street
Stroble
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Damon Lodge NO
K. of P
W. I. Gadwa
Co. C
R. W. Fletcher
Caruso
York & York, Chinese Medicine Co
W. Main St
Dra. York & York
Weston, Oregon
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