Prineville Drives Self Help Plan for Electric Line
Prineville residents seek to raise 150000 dollars for an electric railroad from the Willamette valley, aiming to connect Eugene with Prineville across the Cascades. The plan argues idle capital awaits such local ventures and warns that Harriman's Southern Pacific would benefit as the primary outlet to markets. Pettition urges Pendleton to push for routes to Simmons Landing or Umahilla through rich irrigation regions.
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Prineville
Harriman
Interior
Willamette Valley
Eugene
Cascades
Southern Pacific
Pendleton
Simmons Landing
Uma- Hilla
Pendleton Ad Persuades East With Souvenir Journal
Pendleton Commercial association bought 25 copies of the Oregon Daily Journal souvenir edition to mail to eastern hotels and clubs in Missouri Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Texas. The aim is to attract homeseekers to Pendleton with gradual results expected over time and belief one good family could pay back the investment.
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Pendleton Commercial Association
Oregon Daily Journal
Pendleton
Fams
Somone’s View On Western Women Doing Housework
A Pendleton resident voices surprise that Western women with families perform domestic tasks at home yet are seen in public—dressed well and handling chores—facing social criticism from a narrow class.
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Pendleton
Oregonian
Wealth vs Work In Western Social Viewpoints
The East Oregonian contrasts Western values with Eastern caste, praising farmers' wives who work at home and noting social respectability based on character over wealth. It argues the West treats work as honorable and social status as earned, not inherited, challenging Eastern worship of money.
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East Oregonian
Umatilla
New England
Pendleton board faces glass bill blame on parents
At the Pendleton district public school board meeting the $74 bill for broken window glass from school buildings during vacation was noted. The writer argues parents should share the cost, accusing them of ignorance and calling for accountability as boys aged 6 to 14 repeat misdeeds.
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Public School Board of
Pendleton
Juries Trusted In Umatilla County Homicide Cases
Outside papers criticize local handling of recent murders. The East Oregonian defends county juries, asserting they judged fairly and that life and property are safe. It argues serious crime is broader than the man on trial and praises local juries for their duty.
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Umatilla County
Circuit Court
East Oregonian
Pendleton Baby Winner and Wheat Crop Check Highlight Fair News
Two Pendleton products showcased in the Oregon Daily Journal on October 10. Bernice Winslow wins district fair baby show first prize, and George Perringer receives a $70,842 check for the 1907 wheat crop. Umatilla county’s standout agricultural fame praised.
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Oregon Daily Journal
Pendleton
Bernice Winslow
George Perringer
Umatilla County
Growing Prohibition Tide Rises Among Middle Class
The rising prohibition sentiment is not from temperance agitators but from conservative middle class voters. Their shift comes from observed experience and reason, and once convinced they act decisively and will remain steadfast.
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Etay
Mushrooms Found In Eugene Grow Large Shaggy Mane
Be G Briggs, a mushroom grower, found shaggy mane specimens in Eugene. The wild coprinus comatus grows six to eight inches across with a nearly foot long stalk. It cannot be cultivated. Mushrooms are plentiful this year.
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BE. G. Briggs
Eugene
Nations Sign Pact Banning Women in Factories
An international agreement to prohibit women working in factories has been signed by England France Germany Austria Italy Denmark Spain Belgium Portugal Sweden and Switzerland and will take effect in December 1910.
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England
France
Germany
Austria
Thaly
Denmark
Spain
Belgium
Portugal
Sweden
Switzerland
Woman mutilates Ingres painting in Louvre vandalism spree
Rouen woman Valentine Cotrel, 27, was sentenced to eight months in prison for mutilating Ingres Plus VII in the Sistine Chapel at the Louvre. Police found she carried chisels and admitted damaging the painting to gain custody and highlight poverty. Earlier incidents harmed Poussin The Deluge and a Berghen landscape amid a spate of Louvre vandalism.
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Valentine Cotrel
Rouen
Jean Auguste Ingres
Sistine Chapel
Louvre
Poussin
Ingane
Berghen
Song of the Winds by Will F Griffin in Milwaukee Sentinel
The poem speaks of winds as hounds of the night gusting over hills and seas. A ship lost at heart waits at a cold gray shore, while the night winds whisper of a soul bereft and a lonely bird laments beneath the sod and leaves. The lines convey longing and sorrow under a moonlit, bleak landscape.
A Silly Young Woman Prize Sparks City Debate
A St. Louis business men’s association prize goes to a young stenographer for suggesting open governance to attract business. Her plan to keep the lid off includes racing and saloons, with 24/7 operations. Critics call the idea frivolous, while questioning the men who awarded the prize.
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St. Louis
Adam
Keene Stable Sets World Record Pace at Belmont Park
James J F Keene's two year old Colin won the Matron Stakes at Belmont Park, lifting the year’s earnings for Keene’s stable to 37700, nearing the world mark for a single stable. The New York World notes the Keene total already exceeds the American record and trails the Duke of Portland’s 377,154 by only a few hundred, with six weeks of racing left in New York.
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James JF. Keene
Colin
Belmont Park
Mr. Keene
Duke of Portland
New York
Keene
Gaelic Diocese of Antigonish Brings Old World Echoes
The Catholic Sentinel notes 86000 Catholics in the Antigonish diocese Nova Scotia with 45000 Highland exiles or descendants, 20000 French, 15000 Irish. Sixty Gaelic speaking priests, led by Bishop Cameron, serve alongside about 50 Gaelic speaking nuns in schools. The bishop has seen Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IV, Leo XIII, and Pius X.
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Antigonish
Nova Scotia
Cameron
Gregory XVI
Pius IV
Leo XIII
Pius X
Catholic Sentinel
The Silent Hooded Peak Dream Poem Fragment
A fragmented verse contrasts Hood's grand scenes with dream images. The speaker laments missing pines, rivers, seas, mountains, and ships, expressing longing for Hood and its sunset glow. The text references fading horizons and the dreamlike, changeless voice of a poet.
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Seu
Erneat Hroas
Garfield's son born in Milan Ohio in 1803 headline
Harry Augusus Garfield, eldest son of James A. Garfield, 20th U S president, was born October 11 1803 at Milan Ohio. He later graduated from Williams College in 1885 and pursued further studies.
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Harry Augusus Garfield
Williams College
James A. Garfield
United States
Milan
Law and civic work span from Cleveland to Princeton
A lawyer who built prominence in Cleveland's railroad and commercial sectors helped form the Municipal Association and engaged with the National Municipal League and Civil Service Reform groups. He later joined Princeton as chair of politics, lectured on colonial government, and was named president of Williams College. Also noted are religious college plans in Woonsocket and higher medical fees in Olympia fronting physician charges.
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Columbia University Law School
Oxford
Inna of Court
London
Cleveland
Municipal Association of
National Municipal League
National Civil Service Reform League
American Social Science Association
Princeton University
Princeton
Williams
Railroad firm raises age limit for workers
At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania railroad company it was voted to increase the age limit for entrants to the employ of the company from 35 to 45 years.
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The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
That Hostetter stomach bitters claim ad copy
An old promotional line touts Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as the best remedy for weak stomachs inactive liver and constipation noting it has cured thousands of cases over 54 years and urging continued use though the fragment ends abruptly signaling an ad blurb rather than a news item
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East Oregonian Publising CO
Mall
Chicago
Bureau
Washington, D. C
Buresa
Fourteenth Street
Scrippa News Ansociation
Ciana Matter
Alysius
Song OF the Winds
F. Griffin
Milwaukee Sentinel
Cinearias
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Hood
H. A. Garfield
Woonsocket
8. D
Dakotas
Olympia
Wash
Breas
Bradfield Regulator Co
Atlanta
Ther
Pilot Rock
Jotin Sylvester
Gas Stok
Northwestern
Matlock Building
Hostetter
India
Hotel
St. George
George Darveau
Bath
Northwest
Allrocre
Rexall
Old Kentucky
John Gagen
Court St
Portland
OFI
B.C. Bowners
W. C. Minnis
Henning's Cigar Store
Peoples Warehouse
Empire Meat Co
East Oregoptni
Vairiet
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