City BREVITIES Diverse rental and sale notices in Pendleton
Listings include furnished housekeeping rooms for rent on Logan Street, an entertainment venue with prize shooting gallery and billiards, sale of a rooming house, trimmed hats at Mrs Campbell’s Millinery, telephone operator and telegraph positions, Townsend creamery agency, local grocers promoting butter and crackers, elder care job offers, sale of drapery items at half price, second-hand hacks for sale, and a teen seeking hardware apprenticeship.
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Logan Street
Word & Bowlsby
Eagle Building
Pendleton
Paradise
George H. Chirk
Grover
Jesse Falling
Franklin Street
Corner
Webb
Post Street
East Webb Street
Market Street
el I
Ann Street
Candy selections described as delicious confections
A garbled excerpt mentions Swier milk chop and various chocolate treats including petite chocolate, Dac Waites, lemon drop, hot chocolate, and other candies with unclear context. Named items and brands are partially readable amid the OCR noise.
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Johnson
Cleveland's Baking Powder Claims Stronger Bakes
A vintage advertisement touts Cleveland's baking powder with claims of superior strength. It urges customers to ask their grocer for the brand and notes years of trust among American households.
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Cleveland
Floods Ravage Western Valley Bridges Fail Across Oregon
A Salem dispatch reports a severe flood along the Swotlon river in western Oregon. The Southern Pacific’s line bridges and culverts were damaged from Portland to Albany, delaying trains including the Oregon express No 12. A newt water bridge at Jefferson was destroyed as the San tiam thrust flooded the area. Some lines reached Salem or Jefferson with limited service, while a log jam threatened nearby structures. No northbound overland trains operated that morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weet
Oregon Express
Exlem
Saler
Cottage Grove Express
Salem
Ose
Jefferstory Tras
Ferret Ste
Mtute
Albany
Cartage Grove Express
Jefferson
Rilem
Portland
Ornsonty
Nome visitors from Chicago discuss mining ties with Scandia group
Here Prom Nome, Mr at Mra Chas Eilstrom of Chicago are visiting Mr Filstrons Wrathers of Eilstrom Brothers contracting at M. Tt. Yates home. They return from Nome where Eilstrom is connected to major mining firms including Scandia Mining, which yielded over 800000 this season.
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Prom Nome
Mra
Chas, Eilstrom
Chicago
Ecity
Filstrons Wrathers
Eilstrom Brothere, Contracting Company
M. Tt. Yates
Nome
Eilstrom
Scandia Mining Company
Attorneys Return Home After Supreme Court Session
Attorneys Lomax Hart Smith and others from Baker City leave for home this evening after a week in the city for the supreme court session led by Dr. F A Cooke of Brooklyn. The Mount McKinley climbing party reports the peak at 20 300 feet upon reaching Seattle.
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Lomax
Hart, Smith
Ane Demon
Clifford
Rand
Baker City
Supreme Court
F. A. Cooke
Brooklyn
Mount McKinley
Alaska
Seattle
Personal mentions fill city with visiting officials and locals
A long list of residents and visiting officials are noted in town today. D Robertson remains very ill at home on Vincent street while several councilors, merchants, editors, and contractors from La Grande, Helix, Adams, and other areas pass through or visit for business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Robertson
Vincent Street
Joe EN
Portland
J.D. Casey
Hilgard
James A. Fee
Athena
Charles McAlavey
Helix
A. B. Marquis
Adams
H. A. Richardson
Adama
E. P. Marshall
Echo
James H. Gwinn
E. P. Dodd
Hermiston
E. J. Thorne
Holdman
FE. B. Aldrich
The
East Oregonian
Clyde B. Rtchinson
State Tax Commission
Oliver P. Morton
A. I. Kaleht
Louie Rayburn
la Grande
Walla Walla
Glen Goodman
B. BE. Emerick
S J. Johns
F. Jacobenn
Arlington
Foose
de. G. W. Blegere
Virgil Moore
Washington & Columbia River Railway Profits Decline to Net
The Washington and Columbia River railway reports for the year ending June 30, 1906 show gross receipts of 435,371.21 with Washington state mileage earning 9463,512.07, operating costs 200,947.86 and interest 1,596,078.12. Taxes 91,750 and permanent improvements 5,757.87 leave net income 2,965.28, reducing prior year's deficit to 170,592.81. The line carried 7,4 passengers yielding 59,976.20 in passenger revenue and moved 916,248 tons of freight worth 902,076.91, grain traffic topping the list with 143,940 tons. Added to equipment were three box cars and seven flat cars, bringing total cars to 82 including five locomotives.
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Washington
Peterson to Pendleton Well Known Athena Attorney Moves
Wil M Peterson, Athena attorney, will move to Pendleton soon to practice law. He will keep an Athena office but make Pendleton his home, joining eastern Oregon’s legal community. He is regarded as bright, hardworking, fair minded and popular, a welcome addition to local lawyers.
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Athena
Wil M. Peterson
Peterson
Oregon
Pendleton
Deserter Shot In Vancouver Washington
Melvin Simmons who deserted from the Fourteenth Infantry was shot and probably fatally wounded by Policeman John Soorist. Simmons fled to avoid arrest and Soorist pursued the fugitive. The bullet glanced and struck Simmons in the back near Vancouver Washington.
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Vancouver
Wash
Melvin Simmons
Fourteenth Infantry
John Soorist
Soorist
Simmone
Garfield Robbers Blow Up Depot Safe at Garfield
The O. R. & N. depot safe was dynamited early today at Garfield Washington, yielding a few hundred dollars. Bloodhounds are on the trail with James H. McGinnis reported dead after arriving from Hood River, allegedly from eating sprayed apples not wiped clean.
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Garfield
Wash
James H. McGinnis
Hood River
Canada
Eagies Vs Clams Pendleton Series Duty Tonight
All members of Pendleton No 25 F O E are asked to report for duty tonight to help devour clams. Charles F Surdam, 19, of Morristown New Jersey, died from a broken neck sustained while playing halfback for Morristown High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagies
Pendleton
Charles F. Surdam
Morristown
N. J
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Teutsch’s
Honition
Hest
Louis Hunziker
Main Street
Souther
Pacific
Huylers
New York
Candies
Koeppen & Bros
ORE
R. F. Johnson
Blue Mountain
Dr. Woods
Iity
Lylian Tyanhoe
Ivanhee
Union and
Wallowa
Gunesmith and
Ariington Record
Peoples Warehouse
Royal Worcester Dorsets
T. W
C. KR
Ile
Cook @ Perry Books
E. Court St
Frazer Theatre
Peck
Geo. W. Peck
Wisconsin
Sale
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