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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1902
Page
5
A noisy scatter of notices and ads describes goods and services from cigars and tobacco to oysters and nuts, with lodging, hats, and shoes offerings. It also notes a lost black ice wool shawl on Water Street and includes county size trivia about Oregon.
The Lewiston land office reports a temporary withdrawal of 2,300,000 acres in Idaho and Boise counties south of the Bitter Root forest area. The Bitter Root reserve will total 5,200,000 acres, comparable in size to Massachusetts. Lands now withdrawn run along the Salmon river watershed, including Thunder Mountain, Marshall Lake, Warrens and other mining districts.
A stalyised audience heard Professor B H Brown of Whitmann College lecture last night at the Congregational church. He spoke in a scientific manner aided by experiments and charts, covering bacilli production their relation to diseases and the effect of night as a destroyer of disease breeding germs.
Pendleton society notes recount Friends and relatives visiting Walla Walla and Portland over Thanksgiving. Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Vincent, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Warner, and Miss Nye are listed among those visiting relatives. A large New Year event at Jollylub, and a Freewater marriage, also feature in this brief.
Eastern Oregon neighbors seek federal aid for irrigation projects with a request for maps showing irrigable land, storage capacity, dam specs, canal lengths, materials, and rainfall. A government engineer could evaluate the plan after receiving detailed data and a good section map.
Wheat opened and closed for December trading as quotes referenced a dry crisp morning. Prices show a 2 percent advance in grain rates east of Chicago, with Minneapolis down 640 and Duluth down 462 versus last year. London and Liver pool futures softened while New York cables eased.
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