Alfalfa Weevil Destructive Threat to Oregon Crops
Oregon Agricultural College notes the alfalfa weevil as a potential menace after inquiries from readers. The pest, native to Europe Asia and Africa, was first reported in the United States near Salt Lake City in 1904 and may have arrived earlier. It damages alfalfa by feeding on foliage, delaying growth and reducing profitability, with reports of feeding on sweet peas and various clovers. The adult is a small brown beetle under a quarter inch long with distinctive spots and stripes.
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Oregon Agricultural College
Corvallis
Ore
A. I. Lovett
Europe
Asia
Africa
United States
Salt Lake City
Utah
F. M. Webster
Titua
WANTED Lase curtains to laundry Work done with especial care
Laundry service ad seeks curtain work completed with careful attention. Contact Red 3631 for arrangements. Also offers hair work by Madam Kennedy at Athena Oregon Box 92 with guaranteed results. A good business for sale is a first class restaurant in Echo Oregon, due to seller ill health, PO Box 108.
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Madam Kennedy
Athena
P. O
Box
Echo
Ore
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim and Reward Announcement
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh and offers $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. It promotes internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces and urges readers to request testimonials from F. H. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Alfalfa Weevil Life Cycle Observed and Control Notes
The report details the alfalfa weevil egg and larva stages from lemon yellow eggs to pale yellow larvae turning green with white lines, the cocoon and pupa forms, and the beetle stage. It notes wintering as adults, spring emergence, and early March egg-laying in Utah with regional timing variations.
Echo Teacher Resigns for Health Grounds in Echo
Miss Ruth Clark, third and fourth grade teacher in Echo public schools, has resigned due to ill health. Maude Perrigo of Walla Walla is hired to take her place and arrives to assume duties Monday morning. A. B. Stanfield has bank building repainted. Levi Tuders and family from South West Missouri plan to move to Echo, renting the Scholl cottage on Bonanza. Ward and Kennison of Stanfield visited the city Wednesday. Charles Lisle, formerly of Echo now in Portland, is here on business this week.
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Echo
Ore
Ruth Clark
Maude Perrigo
Walla Walla
A. B. Stanfield
Louis Scholl, Jr
Pendeton
A. B. Thompson
Levi Tuders
Missouri
Scholl
Bonanza Street
Messrs. Ward and
Kennison
Stanfield
Charles Lisle
Portland
Powerful Ballard's Snow Liniment for Neuralgia Relief
A rural ad-style note touts Ballard's Snow Liniment as a strong remedy for neuralgia of the face shoulder hands or feet. It claims penetration to the flesh with rubbing and promises relief and restored normal conditions. Prices listed 2c 60 and 1 per bottle. sold by A C Koeppen & Bros.
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Ballard
A. C. Koeppen & Bros
Pine Set of Books for Home
A refined collection of books for the farm home is offered at the International Dry-Farmed Products Exposition in Lethbridge in October 1926. The prize seeks the best jelly and fruit in glass produced by farm women from one neighborhood.
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Lethbridge
Pendleton Seeks Bids for Johnson Street Gravel Paving
The City of Pendleton Oregon invites sealed bids by October 6 1912 for gravel bitulithic pavement on Johnson Street between Court and Water with curbs gutters and drainage. Bids include concrete curb and gutter sewer pipes headers and manholes and must include a 500 bid check. Council to open bids at 7 30 p m and reserves right to reject all.
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City of
Pendleton
Oregon
Johnson Street
Court Street
Water Street
Issaessancsns i
Eich
Ormn Obiay
Aiuaklicede
Common Conneil
Weclock I. M
Council Chamber
Common Council
Thomas Fitzgerald
Jackson Street
Main Street
Blaine Street
Seid Recorder
OSPR
Eard
Old City
Pendleton Sealed Bids For Jackson Street Improvements
The Recorder of Pendleton invites sealed bids for paving and utilities on Jackson Street between Main and Blaine, including gravel bitulithic pavement, curbs, drainage, and sewer work. Bids due by 6 PM October 1912 with a $500 certified check. bids opened at 7:30 PM October 6 1912.
Old Farm Library Offered By Macmillan in Canada
A green cloth bound library of pine volumes donated by Macmillan Company of Canada Toronto, featuring works on fruit growing fertilizers animal diseases and more edited by Dr Batley of Cornell. Farm women urged to enter a preserving contest with Mrs John T Burns. Von Huyssen and Miss Glogauer wed at Hotel Warner after seeking a judge. groom to return to Switzerland with bride. family illness delayed ceremony.
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Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd
Toronto
Liberty H. Bailey
Edward B.voorhees
Nelson S. Mayo
W. H. Jonsan
Isaac Philips Robert
T. Lyttleton Lyon
Henry H. Wing
S. Valentine
Batley
Cornell University
John T. Burns
Lethbridge
Alta
Ballard's Horehound Syrup advertised for cough relief
Tickling in the throat and hoarseness signal need for Ballard's Horehound Syrup to ease the lungs quiet the cough and restore bronchial tubes. Prices 25c 50c and $1.00 per bottle sold by A. C. Koeppen and Bros.
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Ballard
A. C. Koeppen & Bros
Two in haste to wed Hunt long for judge in Chicago
A couple rushed to marry and sought a judge, finally directed to W. W. Maxwell at the Hotel Warner. Arnold H. von Huyssen of Luxembourg-Gland, Switzerland, wed Faula Glogauer, daughter of Fritz Glogauer, under urgent conditions in Chicago.
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Abendpost
von Huyssen
South
Clark Street
Arthur Danahy
Judge Maxwell
Warner
Chicago
W. W. Maxwell
Arnold H. von Huyssen
Louisenberg- Gland
Switzerland
Faula Glogauer
Fritz Glogauer
Buck- Jenn's Amica Salve Heals Boy's Ulcer
A North Carolina reader credits Buck- Jen's Amica Salve with curing a 14 year old boy's leg ulcer after doctors failed. The product also claims to treat burns boils skin eruptions and piles and is sold for 26 cents at Koep pens.
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D. FP
Howard
Aquone
N. Cc
Buck- Jen
Koeppens
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F. Ol. Cheney & CO
Toledo
D.A
Classified
Insurance and Land Business
Hartman Abstract
Umatilla
James Johns
Presa
H. Marsh
Sec
Bentley & Leffingwell
City Livery
Thompson It
Carney & Bradley
Props
East Oregonian Office
A. F
A. M
Damon Lodge NO
J. G. Finney
C. C
R. W Fletcher
ETO
D. A. May
John Ss. Baker
Postoffice
Thomas Vaughan
Judd Building
James E. Sharp
Temple Bldg
D. C. M'Nabb
STATS
Koeppen
East Court Street
Phoos
W. Lassen
M. D. V. Gradu
McKillip Veterinary College of Chicago
Res
Bush St
Garfield
Judd Block
George W. Coutts
Attorne
Schmid Block
Peterson & Wilson
Attorney At Law
Smit Crawford Building
Frederick Steiner
Attorne At Law
Smith-Crawfor Building
Douglas W. Bailey
Taylor Hardware Co
Johnson & Skrable
Attorneys At Law
Despal Building
Lynn E. Blakeslee
Judd
Main
Court Streets
J. EB
Holder
Raley
James A. Fer
Despain Building
R. J. Slathr
Carter & Smythe
Americas National Bank
China Restaurant
Ung D. Goey
Alta Street
Tallman Drug Co
East Oregonian
James B. Perry
Taylor Haridwar Company
Lowell & Winter
Offics
Beaver
Nad
Lite
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Maxwell
Glogauer
Kenmore Avenue
Ulnees
Mark Moorhouse CO
E. Court Street
First National Bank
Pendleton, Oregon
American National Bank
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