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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1902
Page
7
District dealers in electrical supplies and fixtures. Map les Bros on Court Street advertise wired for electricity and telephones. Repairs offered with no job too small. Located in the Dow block, serving the local area.
A collage of small ads lists livery and boarding services at COUSIMBERCIAL STABLES and OREGON FRED YARD with contact details, then rooms for rent on Water Street and a piano for sale. Also notices for a girl to hire and old newspapers available at East Oregonian in Pendleton Oregon.
In a reminiscence from Indianapolis dated November 17 the article features J A McWhirter among Oregon’s early settlers in the Grande Ronde Valley. He recalls arriving in 1853 from Mercer Pennsylvania after a long journey to St Joseph Missouri Portland Oregon and Corvallis later taking up land near La Grande. The piece notes other pioneers and the 1860s left wing of Price’s army and mentions local figures such as Ben Brown General J H Stevens and Rattling Jack Dillon along with a broad history of mining packing and homesteading in the region. The report also covers a parallel conference on charities and corrections at Meridian Street Methodist church in Indianapolis with officials including George A H Shidel er Franklin McVeagh and others.
New York opens the eighteenth annual exhibition of the National Horse Show Association at Madison Square Garden with a trumpet fanfare and banners in black and yellow. The event promises greater displays than before as exhibitors from Philadelphia and Boston arrive. Many new exhibitors and horses are expected, with standards above previous years.
In Portland on November 10 influential men from across the state gather for Irrigation Week. The first meeting of the Oregon Irrigation Association will discuss practical methods for forming irrigation projects in the Willamette Valley and other Oregon regions.
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