Fighting Pests Protest on Pear Blight in Umatilla County
An earnest letter to the Yakima Republic from Paul G. Kruger, a nurseryman with 15 years on the oak, warns Umatilla County orchardists about pear blight. It explains the bacteria, spread by wind and blossoms, and urges careful pruning and burning of infected twigs to limit damage.
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Yakima Republic
Umatila
Umatilla
Miltor Republic
Bur
Arthur
Paul G. Kruger
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Promoted
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims it cures kidney related issues including bladder trouble and incontinence and offers free sample requests and a mail order address in Binghamton New York. The copy urges readers to mention the paper.
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Dr. Kilner & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Lease of Railroad Land to Grazing Owners in Oregon
The Oregon and California Railroad company plans leasing about 2.9 million acres of western Oregon timber and grazing land to owners of contiguous lands for pasturage. Lands may be leased to farmers with livestock to use adjoining acreage under legal control. Charles W. Eberlein, land commissioner, announced in Portland that many leasing applications have been received and decisions will follow after records are completed.
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Hunt
Oregon & California Railroad
Jacksonville Times
Oregon
Charles W. Eberlein
The
Oregon & California Railroad Company
Portland
Department
Hsia
Gen Chaffee Retirement Triggers Flood of Promotion Papers
Washington announces Gen A R Chaffee will retire soon prompting many colonels to file for brigadier general. The Army will promote only one more major general, likely A W Greely, chief signal officer, as Chaffee retires. Two lieutenant generals expected to retire next year amid numerous applications.
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Washington, D. C
A. R. Chaffee
Han
A. W. Greely
Chaffee
Free Bridge Motive Garners Large St Louis Meeting
A mass meeting in St Louis on November 15 endorses building a free bridge linking Illinois and Missouri. Governor Folk will preside and speak in favor, with Governor Deneen of Illinois invited to share residents’ support for the project. Furniture-Rader-urniture.
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St. Louis
Illinois
Missouri
Folk
Deneen
Mlinois
Tiinois
Stock Deals and House Sales Across Oregon Counties
Stock movements include John Kingman shipping cattle to Union stockyards in Portland and Will Mallock sending cattle carloads to Union Meat Company. Coates sells Eight Mile ranch for 16 per acre and Stewart Young sells Borg place near Heppner for 16,000. H. M. Pryvant buys at 15 per acre. Real estate transfers and cattle shipments feature alongside oblique notices of Ellie Minor’s death in Heppner and a Mexico blasting powder patent inquiry linked to H. C. Torre.
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John Kingman
Union
Portland
Coates
Howard Anderson
Stewart Young
Borg Place
Heppner
John M.hicketholt
Idaho
Whitels & Patterson
Will Mallock
Union Meat Company
John Tash
A. M. Markham
H. M. Pryvant
Mage Ashbaugh
Ellie Minor
Plains
Oregon
Minor
Gervais
Mariow County
Morrow County
Henry Gay Place
Rheaerdek
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Magers Norservee
Washington
Mug&t
Orborn
Fall River
Mase
Sterting Remedy Co
Chicago
Gen. Chaffee
Herpicide
Newbro’s
Herpicide Company
Detroit
Mich
Tam
Newbro
Archer Ave
Anna Connor
Herpteide
Hérpteide Company
Nevard
Herpicide Co
Newbhrd
A. C. Koeppen & Bros
Special Agents
W. Oo
C. A. Minor
Ella Dodson
Bellingham
Wash
Delia Hallock
Etta Roberta
Ada Trwin
Nira Potter
Spray
Heppner Gazette
Mexico
United States
Aguna Ca- Wentan
H.C. Torre
Mexican Central Railway
Aguas Callentas
Rader
Carpeto
J. C. R. Hooper
Woodford
Tenn
Tallman & CO
Brook & M'Comas
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