Sugar industry premiums and global agricultural notes
Japan offers premiums to boost sugar development in Pormosa while England Ireland push beet sugar. 1902 apple crop totals rise to 48 900 000 barrels from 27 000 000 last year. A Chicago man undergoes brain surgery after 22 years with a knife blade in his brain. Philippine rice famine prompts a 5 million dollar Mexican grant for relief. Census work costs 15.5 cents per capita. Rubber tire industry forms an informal US cooperation. South Carolina has one creamery. Iowa has 850 creameries with farm land values 70 to 100 per acre.
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England
Ireland
Chicago
H. M. Brooks
Philippines
United States
Asia
South Carolina
Iowa
Pacific Northwest News Digests From October Through 1904
October fines in Astoria totaled 512 dollars and Oregon pioneer deaths included Mrs. Sarah BR. Philpott of 1854 in Oakville on November 4 and Henry Scheeland of 1857 in Portland on November 3. London brewers bought over 2000 bales of Oregon hops. Ilwaco’s Oysterville Oyster Company was incorporated with 45 dollars capital. Portland suggests 2000 dollars for irrigation congress entertainments. A. C. Campbell of Snohomish bound over for obscene literature through the mail. A drunken row in Missoula left Private Tyler of the Twenty-fourth Infantry fatally shot. Portland traders ship pine timbers to Alameda. US apple exports for the year reached 450,719 barrels worth 1,628,886 dollars, below the prior year’s 883,673 barrels, 2,058,964 dollars, and well under the 1896-97 peak. Dried apples exports for 19012 were 15,664,468 pounds valued at 1,190,593 dollars, down from 26,209,023 pounds at 1,510,681 dollars. 1804-5 exports stood at 7,085,940 pounds for 481,214 dollars.
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Astoria
Sarah BR. Philpott
Oregon
Oakville
Oysterville Oyster Company
Ilwaco
Henry Scheeland
Portland
Irrigation Congress
A. C. Campbell
Snohomish Meat Company
Missoula
Mont
Tyler
Twenty-fourth
U. S. Infantry
Fuman & Poulson
Alameda
Cal
United States
Large Onion Yield Displayed in Pendleton Window
J M Bentley shows one of the largest onions seen in Pendleton grown by H C Chessman of Milton. The onion weighs nearly two pounds and Chessman says one acre this season produced 654 sacks.
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J. M. Bentley
Pendleton
H. C. Chessman
Milton
Deafness Cured Only by Constitutional Remedies
An old medical ad claims local ear remedies cannot cure deafness tied to the Eustachian tube. It asserts catarrh as the cause and offers $100 for any deafness case cured by catarrh treatment not helped by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The promotion touts Hall's Family Pills as best, with Toledo company contact.
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Hall
Kr Neny & CO
Toledo
From Ocean to Ocean African Explorer Heads to Portland
Dr. A Donaldson Smith, famed African explorer and mapmaker, travels by horseback and carriage from Philadelphia toward Portland after a thousand miles of travel. At 36 he has led two major African expeditions, surveys in Samalland and Gallaland, and now pursues summer exploration with his valet Pierre Mabey.
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Portland
A. Donaldson Smith
Philadelphia
Smith
Africa
Issa
Samalland
Galaland
Holiety
Courtry Club
Lancaster
Cumberland Valley
Old National Road
Wheeling
Chicago
Pierre Moyer
Dr Smith
Pierre
the Geiser
Baker City Herald
Coyotes of the Desert and a Harsh View of Predators
The Tacoma News describes coyotes as savage, cannibalistic and undomesticated, haunting arid West camps, killing livestock and stealing supplies. A separate Philadelphia Press quip notes a man in love, asking what he would do if his wife died, and joking about burial funds.
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Tacoma News
Philadelphia Presa
Coal depth limits challenged by British mine study
An English colliery report suggests mining below the 4000-foot depth is hindered by heat and overlying pressure with brick circular supports at 250 feet crushed and iron props snapped. Royal commissioners estimate 48 trillion tons of coal lie below the 4000-foot boundary in Great Britain.
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Voul Canno
Willie
Royal Coal Commissioners
Great Britain
Eugene Guar
Weston Promotes Pleasant Home Near Educational Center
Weston Oregon touts its beauty and the presence of Eastern Oregon State Normal School as a regional draw. It highlights abundant pure water and ten years of free water service for homes built before April 1 1902, plus affordable building sites on Normal Heights with water, sidewalks, grading, and shade trees. The Weston Improvement Co. invites prospective residents to contact them.
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Weston
Oregon
Eastern
Oregon State Normal School
Weston Improvement Co
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J. W. Sawyer
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W. E. Bennett
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H. L. Babbeth
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