City Briefs Oysters Dry Wood and Housekeeping Rooms
Fresh oysters at Hohbachs and Bond Bros promote fall salt and Benjamin clothes. Minnis offers dry wood and hay with plentiful stock. Unfurnished rooms for rent and a cottage with bath electric light. Stansbery Milne provides transfer work. Hiawatha hair tonic guarantees regrowth. Hawatha Hall Tonic Co. sold by Tallman Co.
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Hohbach’s
Bond Bros
Benjamin
East Oregonian
Hiawatha
Hawatha Hall Tonic Co
Tallman & Co
Bond Wanted for Dime Theatre Cashier Turfs
Classified notice lists bond for a cashier position at the Dime Theatre and a heads up for a big sale starting Wednesday. Also ad for Campbell Millinery. Rental offering a 10 room modern house on the north side near the bridge with inquiry through Bowman photo studio.
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Dime Theater
Campbell Millinery
Bridge
Bowman Photo Studio
High Class Music Tonight at Hotel Pendleton Lobby
Professors Histofly and Genovese, traveling musicians, give a free concert in the Hotel Pendleton lobby this evening from 7:30 to 9:30. They perform harp guitar mandolin and flute, playing classical music to pleased crowds. The entertainment promises to be a musical treat with strong commendations.
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Profesors
Histofly
Genovese
Hotel Pendleton
Historry
Reverend W. T. Buster Writes on Modern Church Building
Rev. W. T. Buster pastor of the First M. E. Church plans a 160 page volume on modern church building to be issued in the next few months. He has a reputation for constructing many large churches in the Inlaid empire and is regarded as an authority on the subject.
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W. T. Buster
Httle
Meat markets to close Sundays in Pendleton region
Pendleton merchants including Central Meat Market Empire Meat Market and Umatilla Meat Market sign an agreement to close all meat markets on Sundays from November 1 until April 1, 1908 or until further notice. By Lyman Farmers Meat Market Reid the East Oregonian.
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Pendleton
Oregon
Central Meat Market
Empire Meat Market
Umatilla
Legal Feud Over Reward Fallout in Indian Territory
A farmer accused of murder escaped on bail with attorney McGann claiming justifiable homicide. McGann later killed the farmer to claim a $300 sheriff’s reward, provoking ethics questions from rival lawyers. The tale, from a satirical exchange, underscores bold courtroom chicanery.
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Indian Territory
McGann
Sagacity of Blind Horses
Observers note blind horses navigate safely, avoiding walls and fences as they approach hazards. They instinctively seek water before crossings, likely via enhanced sense of smell rather than sight or hearing, and the trait echoes in humans who lose sight long-term.
French Similes For Drunk in Classic European Writings
A London writer notes French similes for drunkenness from ivre to soul. Common phrases include ivre comme une soupe and other comparisons such as an ass, a cow, a Swisa or a thrush. The article references Bond Bros to reach readers in Umatilla county via the East Oregonian.
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London
Personal mentions fill city day on business
E H Brown editor of the Echo Register and R R Johnson of Echo visit for business. C B E Linthicum of Burns stays at Hotel St George with J B Thompson of Weed. C E B Baker editor of the Hermiston Herald is on a trading trip. Rev H S Shangle travels via O R N to Grass Valley for brief business. Leon Coher returns from Portland with company profits. Mrs John Nissan departs for Portland for weeks with friends. J G Cutler NP Pasco division official in city on road business. W J Church La Grande National Bank visits city guest of Win Stewart Tallman drug. J L Beckhusen departs to close sale near Lexington. Elza Corney left for Meacham for hunt and mountain claim work. E L McBroom of Ritter departs home 60 miles south after days here. Two days needed to drive out with light load.
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J. B. Thompson
Weed
Cal
Hotel St. George
C. EB. Baker
Hermission Herald
Rev. H. 8
Shangle
Milton
Grass Valley
Leon Coher
The
People’s Warehouse
Portland
W. J. Church
la Grande National Bank
Win Stewart
Tallman Drug Store
E. L. McBroom
Ritter
Robbery by Indians on tracks endangers lives near Toppenish
Fred Parr of the Umatilla reservation reports a cousin, Frank Parr, was placed on Northern Pacific tracks near Toppenish by a group of Indians after prior robberies. He freed himself before a train arrived, narrowly escaping death, with several similar incidents noted in Yakima country recently.
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Fred Parr
Umatilla Reservation
Toppenish
Frank Parr
Northern Pacific
Yakima
Indian man jailed and fined for liquor sale on Umatilla reserve
John Watts an Indian was sentenced by Judge Wolverton in U S district court in Portland yesterday morning to 0 days in jail and a $25 fine after being found guilty of selling liquor on the Umatilla Indian reservation.
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John Watts
Wolverton
United States District Court
Portland
Watts
Umatilla
Government to Kick About In England Pension Tax Debate
A reformer denounces chronic pensions to aristocrats funded by taxpayers. He cites year by year payments such as 95 000 to the Duke of Richmond and Gordon since Charles II, financed by working people, with dinners at the Ritz and Ciro’s. He contrasts English pensions with average workers taxed 200 to 300 annually.
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Astors
Vanderbilts
England
Charles II
Duke of Richmond
Gordon
Duke of Richmond and
Ritz
London
Ciro’s
Monte Carlo
Exchange
The Lion’s Mouth and Egyptian Vents in Fountain Design
The lion's mouth vent common in fountains traces to Egypt. The Nile floods align with Leo the lion, and Egyptian calendars date back to 4241 B C. Modern shipbuilding also began in Egypt around 8000 B C, with Egypt praised as ancient, mysterious, and mother of science and art.
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Egypt
Nile
Leo
New York Press
Husband Would Settle a Debt at Dinner in India
A tale from India recounts the discomfiture of a distinguished soldier at a large dinner. An American guest asks for almonds and raisins, likened to a Kissmiss debt. The wife consults her husband, who notes that debts of the wife must be settled as per marriage arrangements and raises the question of his own liabilities.
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India
Globe
Son
Mars
Submerged Aristocrats in a London Tribune Interiew
Quote of a plumber claiming noble birth and tenements and a city clerk asserting aristocratic lineage based on manners and a photographed “aristocratic cast” in an interview highlighting delusions of social rank.
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Percival Bickerstaffe
London Tribune
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Paul Schneider
Nolin
Hiuft Street
Stansbery & Milne
Phone Malin
China
United States
Louis Hunziker
Jeweler
Optitlan
Main St
Benjamin Ault
Bond
Reid
Oregoniar
Royal Japanese
Japan
Ise
Kochi
Koeppens
Umatilla County
E. H. Brown
Echo Register
City Today
R. R. Johnson
Echo
C. Be, Linthicum of Burns
John Nissan
J. G. Cutler
Pasco
J. L. Beckhusen
Lexington
Morrow County
Elza Corney
Meachem
Pendleton Savings Bank
Petaluma
Calif
STOOK
Anton Nolte
Pendleton Cloak & Suit House
Bergen
Pendleton Drug Co
Morris & Morris
Musical Bremens
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