City BREVITIES and Classified Fragments
A garbled collection of rental notices, sales pitches, and help wanted items. Mentions a furnished room, a teakette prize jury, billiards, a Ward building, address Cyburg P O Box 666, Pendleton piano hats and millinery, housekeeping rooms, manager wanted, hardware learning ad, and a sale on curtains and window shades with half price. Also notes about hats, hardware learning ad, and Denver crackers.
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Nice
Ward
Eagle Building
Cii Ory
CyBurg
P. O
Pendleton
Thompson
Oversey
Tapies
Denver
Candy Johnson Swilee chocolate creams advertised variety
An advertisement promotes Candy Johnson's Swilee milk chocolate creams claiming superior taste and quality. It lists several flavors and products including chocolate plate drops and horehound lemon items, implying a range of confections available for purchase.
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Candy Johnson
Cleveland's Paring Powder Promoted by Grocer
An old grocer note praises Cleveland's Paring Powder as stronger than rival powders and widely used by American housewives for over 30 years. It cautions not to use as much and urges customers to ask their grocer for the product.
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Paradise
George Clark
Cleveland
Famine and Railroads Tied to Arrest in Burlington Yard
The Denver Post reports severe famine pressure in the city belt, linking Burlington and other railroads to thefts of coal from freights. An Italian widow Maud Rossello, 48, was arrested for stealing one lamp coal to heat her home for her children, ages 1 month to adult.
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Denver
Coat Belt
Burlington
Ipheléon Treuk
Maud Roxsello
Avas
Kpochal
Rogwello
Miece Fon Hind
Wyoming
Smany Ponthe
Ufe
Wall
Madrid
Lonho
Foley
Belle
Bright
Personal mentions fill Pendleton city pages in brief notes
A string of locals and visitors including Waller Piette Hoyt Lake, Teel of Echo, Lizge and Magy Noble from La Grande, Mia J. Taylor of Echo, Ered Crawford from Portland, and Hermiston residents Baxton Stubblefield Pearce, Hunt of Northwestern Gas and Micropio, Prof. W D Eyman of Whitman College, Glenn Bushee, W E Borah, Kenneth McRea and family, George Ernst, and Pendleton figures are listed with short notes on travel, business, and hospitality.
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Waller Piette
Hoyt
Teel
Echo
Lizge
Magy Noble
la Grande
Mia
J. E.taylor
Walla Wallin
Ered Crawford
Portland
Wi A. Baxton
Ge Stubblefield
T. Th Pearce
Hermiston
MS Hunt
Northwestern Gag & Micotrio Company
Walla Walla
W. D. Eyman
Whitman College
Golden Rule Hotel
Olenn Bushee
United States
W. E. Borah
Pendeton
Bogus Elk Teeth Scams Target Tourists and Indians Warily
Report warns visitors about fake elk teeth sold by Sioux and other tribes as authentic artifacts. Con artists polish hone and shape substitutes, selling for inflated prices by mingling with crowds. Noted that elk teeth have long been valued in the Northwest tribes and by Elks groups, with some collectors amassing extensive troves.
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Bronx
Crowe
The
Elks
Lerend
Peels
Highest American Peak Claimed By Dr Fred Cook
Dr Fred Al Cook of Brooklyn reports reaching Mount McKinsey near 20404 feet above sea level, claiming the highest point in North America. The expedition’s goal and accuracy remain under review as the record is evaluated by mountaineering authorities.
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Fred al Cook
Mrooklyn
Mier
Mckinsey
Mr. Koe
Aires
Cook
Coal shortage spurs more rail deliveries to Walla Walla
O M Woon PEE WEEK Inte reports fuel transport aims to ease coal famine by increasing mine output and shipping about 600 cars weekly, with much of current demand met by distant camps. Walla Walla remains the best supplied city between Spokane and Toppenish, though local orders cannot be fully filled for six weeks as four railcars per week previously routed here have been spoken for.
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Walla
Statenmart
Greg Frente
Re & Mole
Jocal Deniers
Walla Walla
Spokane
Toppentoh
Dibble
Wall Walla
Jute prices rise hit Washington farmers hard
Washington farmers face losses estimated from 500000 to 750000 as eastern growers lose jute supply amid a shut down at the penitentiary jute mill. Warden Kincaid admits limited bag production will not meet next season demand, with supply depleted and prices rising. The Bulletin notes missteps by the state board of control and a revolving fund that failed to secure adequate jute.
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Farmers of
Washington
Walla Walla Bulletin
Contro
Kinegal
The
Bulletin Today
Administra
Warren Kincaid
Ware
Wen Kincaid
Controup Fren Nath
Interstate Treignton Lawsuit Set for December 15
The Kansas against Colorado case to prevent diversion of the Arkansas river for irrigation is scheduled for December 15 in the Supreme Court in Washington. In Boston, a New England storm disrupts travel as a bank robbery in Ladd, Indiana nets $7000 before the suspects flee 40 miles before their capture.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Sait of
Kansas
Colorado
Arkansas
Farmers’ & Miners’ Bank
Ladd. In
Rorinty
Bit
Agent to Wood Camps Directs Wood Shipments
C B Van De Water, traveling freight agent for the R N, is at Meacham and Kamen directing wood movement to this city and Walla Walla. He will order cars and distribute shipments until the famine ends, aiming to send eight to 15 cars daily from the mountains. Cars will be supplied at shading points as quickly as can be loaded.
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C. BF. van de Water
Walla Walla, Cc
van de Water
Meacham and
Kamen
Walla Walla
Vat de Water
Vinol touted by Pendleton Drug on cod liver remedy
An aged physician endorses Vinol cod liver preparation as a remedy for chronic coughs and tired debility. The Pendleton Drug Company promotes Vinol with claims of natural ingredients and money-back guarantee, urging readers to ask local agents for the product and to visit leading drugstores.
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Pendieton Trug Company
Leon
Saddad
Eli
Elie
Pentitiron
Bendleton
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Pss A
F. J. Donaldson
Louis Hunziker
Optician
Main Street
Golden Rule Totel
Wattis Binnsdor
Btarbush
A. FL Haller
Brownsville
W. KR
Melloberta
Martin
Wiliam Howard
W. S. Crown
Evins
Eugene
Ww. G. Reel
Lewiston
Mattie Moore
Amanda
Mamie Crouch
Alex Moores
Porthind
TL. Buckner
Mlot Rock
J. Carney
Prairie City
Sim Ax
Tloule’noble
Tia Grande
W. G
Misa
Magele
Noble
G. BH. Mayfield
Elgin
Carge Liddle
Salina
HB Olmith
Tacoma
M. Young
Mral Boldin
Gewltton Mreo
A. Lewis
Don
FY MM. Roth
Bumpters Wee Herley, Ontario; W. D. Lyma Wana
Gbharke Hawkins
Pile
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Wallan
How
Alpha Cox
Minnie
Iggor
George F. Wert
O R. Creswell
Milt E. J. Garner
Wrague
Dna Wite
Wetara
Huylers
New York
A.D Koepfen Q
Aros
Pendletonore
Kenneth McRea
Wellx County
Mr. Meften
George Ernst
J. P. Medernach
Jackson Lumber Company
Shekhart Ald
Tydergrand
Society Hall
Mr OM Woon Pee
Inte
DeWitt
Barly Rovers
Tallman la Co
New England
Boston
Ava
Gaia
Imu
Sion
Wuoy
Sapeen
Yiping Kimrs
Ruepal
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TBS
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Oregon Comber, Yard
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