Portland Row Festival Opens With Week of Pageants
Portland prepares to host a week long Row Festival starting Monday June 7 with decorations rose queen celebrations and tours for visitors. Highlights include home coming day electric parade rose show competitive exhibits and a grand electric pageant concluding with a gala end to the Golden Week. Oregon residents are invited to name two new 5000 ton steamships for the Portland San Francisco run with a $50 prize for best titles. Rear Admiral Viel and 12 Japanese officers will be entertained in Portland June 7 with receptions banquets and tours by local business leaders.
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Jarrimin
Portland
Ore
Portland Row
Queen of Flowers
Country Club
Oregon
Harriman
R. P. Schwerin
Harriman Yessie
San Francisco
Etate
J. M. Sransom
Alnaworth
Viel
Cheely
Portland Hotel
Wellman Plans Arctic Airship Dash From Danes Island
Walter Wellman presses a new attempt to reach the North Pole by dirigible. The airship America, nearly ten tons lifting, will carry three men and a year’s provisions on a 700 mile voyage from Danes Island Spitzbergen in August if weather allows.
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Danes
Chistena
Chistiansand
Norway
Arctie
Walter Wellman
Dash
North Pole
Danes Island
Spitzvours
Artic
Ris
Spitzbergen
Chicago
Wellman
Danes’ Island
Spitzenburgen
Spitsbergen
Vaniman
Panorama of Alaska Exhibition Showcases 150x40 Foot Scene
A. Y. P. exposition features an Alaska panorama directed by Gates and Morango. The 150 by 40 foot painting, with real earth foreground and nocturnal lighting, depicts mining, hydraulic and placer operations, fishing, lumbering, hunting and agriculture. Four lighting phases run for five minutes each, illustrating dawn noon sunset and northern midnight. More moving pictures shown than any other theatre in the city.
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Seattle
Territory of
Alaska
United States
Gates and Morango
New York
Clergyman's Lot From Home Herald of Chicago
The Clergyman's Lot reports on a survey of clergy across 11 denominations and all states. It finds average pastor salaries around 825 dollars yearly excluding remote white churches in the south, with 69 percent earning 500 to 1500 dollars and 12 percent facing salary collection issues. When asked if they would enter the ministry again, 87 percent said yes, 6 percent were doubtful, and a small minority would not.
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The
Home Herald of Chicago
Memorial service honors suicides in Potter's Field
A memorial day service on Hast's Island praised those who attempted to end their lives. The unemployed committee led the event decorating graves with wreaths and placards urging aid to the jobless. A notable parade drew attention to the cause and prevention of self harm.
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New York
Potter's Field
Hast's Island
Work Horse Parade Honors in Memorial Day Event
Work Horse Parade in New York featured regal carriage horses guided by owners and drivers, awarded prizes for best care and kindness. The event, directed by Mrs James Speyer, wife of a prominent banker, placed the center stage on Memorial Day amid blue-blooded equine pageantry.
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New York
Bill
Jim
Dolly
James Speyer
Stamp Out Scab Diseases In West
Forest service partners with the bureau of animal industry and western state officials to stamp out sheep scab during 1909. Efforts include inspection certificates for movement into national forests and active state action, with many areas already cleared or greatly reduced. Where outbreaks left corrals and chutes, forest service supplies new materials free of charge.
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Forest Service
Bureau of Animal Industry
Nevada
Colorado
Utah
California
New Mexico
Arizona
Pendleton Plans Pine Street Improvement 1909
The Pendleton common council on May 19 1909 resolved to improve Pine street from Railroad to Webb by excavations fills and rolling to established grade. Costs will lie against fronting lot-owners as per city charter. Recorder ordered publication in East Oregonian for ten days notifying interested parties.
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Common Council
City of
Pendleton
Pine Street
Railroad Street
Webb Street
City Road
Recorder
East Oregonian
Oregon
A. D
Thos, Fitzgerald
City Recorder
Auction of unclaimed white gelding in Pendleton pound
Pendleton city marshal to sell a white gelding weighing about 1200 pounds and aged around 10 years. The horse bears XO brand on the right hip and HU mark on the right shoulder with ear knots. If not claimed within 10 days, the animal will be sold at public auction for cash at 2 pm on June 7, 1909 at the Oregon Feed Yard pound to cover costs. Dated May 26, 1909.
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Pendleton
Orecon
Pen-dleton
Thos. Gurdane
In Bankruptcy In District Court of Oregon
In the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon the case concerns William C Minnis an bankrupt. Creditors are notified of proceedings and timelines. The text identifies Nye county and Uma city references as part of the debtor's locale.
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District Court of the United States
District of
Oregon
William C. Minnis
Nye
Uma
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Ulla
Umatilla County
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Marvel CO
Expres
Walla Walla Valley
Manela & Brown
Milton
Dayaland
Alberta
Henry Atwater
Bastard St
Eale
G. A. Robbins
Logan &I
Madam Kennedy
Court Street
Asl
Golden Rule
East Court Street
Classified
Garfield
M. D
Judd Block
Lynner. Blakeslee
Judd
Main
Court Streets
ER. A. Mann
Commercial Association
M. 8. Kern
Judd Building
Vaughan Bros., Dentists
D. C. M'Nabb
State Veterinary Board
Tallman’s Drug Store
Res
J. A. Donaghue
Ontario Veterinary College
Raley
Richards
FEE & Slater
Despain Building
Carter & Smythe, Attorneys At Law
Savings Bank Building
James B. Perry
Taylor's Hardware Store
Lowell & Winter
Law
Georged W. Coutts
Schmidt Block
Peterson & Wilson
Attorneys At Law
Smith- Crawford Building
Phelps & Steiner
Smith-Crawford Building
Peter West
Garden Street
Chas, J. Ferguson
Attorney At Law
Office In Association Block
Douglas W. Bailey
Taylor Hardware Store
W. Stroble
Insurance and Land Business
Hartman Abstract CO
Umatilla
James Johns
W. & Henninger
C. A. Marsh
J. M. Bentley
Horace W. King
Pendleton Iron Works
Court and
Alta Streets
Marion Jack
A. F. May
J. L. Vaughan
W. Court Street
Col
F. G. Lucas
Athena
First National Bank of Athena and
Farmers’ Bank of Weston
Ee M. A. Rader
Chicago College of Embalming
Webb Streets
Baker & Folsom
Pendleton Lodge No
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A. M
B. P
Bles NO
Eagle's Hall
R. W. Henneman
BE. R
Mark Moorhouse
Secy
Damon Lodge NO. 4
K. of P
L O. O. F. Hall
A. B. Lambert
R. W. Fletcher
Malabon
United Spanish War Veterans
Eagle-Woodmen Hall
George A. Hartman, Jr
van V. Bowman
Adjt
J. Ie Frankum
D. A. May
Ee City
Thompson Street
Carney & Kennedy
Propa
Elmo
Depot
Allen Rhodes
Mgr
Dally Ham
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