Local notices and ads from Pendleton area helpers
Locals list services and classifieds including a chimney sweep, seafood grill offerings, hair work, wood and coal suppliers, room rentals, a photography gallery and cabinet prices, lost handbag near Main, and a fruit nursery discount. A coroner’s inquest notes a woman’s accidental death after ingesting horse medicine. veterinarian testimony cites opiate content and uncertainty over exact dose.
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I. C. Snyder
St. George Grill
East Oregonian
Speclalrates
Pendleton Iron Works
Western Union Office
New Gallery
Taylor Hardware Store
St. Charles County
Adelpoh
St. Charles
PF. HH
Gregory
Adelpohl
Nevada Strike Seized Weapons Under Governor Oddie
Captain Donnelly of the state police disarmed six company guards and several strikers found with weapons in Ely Nevada. He now commands the district and bans weapons by anyone but peace officers. The district is reported peaceful with no further trouble expected.
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Donnelly
Nevada
Ely
Nev
Oddie
Copper Flat
Beaver beavers plague Michigan lumbermen’s streams
Lansing reports that Upper Peninsula lumbermen seek help from top game wardens to curb beaver dam building. Beavers flood timber lands with nightly damming, resisted by crews who must tear down quickly. Killing beavers is illegal and state action is limited.
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Michigan
Lansing
Mich
Upper Peninsula
State Department
Pendleton City Pound to Auction Unclaimed Dapple Brey Horse
The Pendleton city marshal, John Kearney, has taken up a dapple Brey horse weighing about 1150 pounds branded M on the right stifle. If not claimed within ten days, costs paid, the horse will be sold at 2 pm on the fifth day of November 1912 to the highest bidder for cash at the City Pound Oregon Feed Yard. Proceeds go to cover costs of sale.
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Pendleton
Oregon
John Kearney
Let the People Rule Vote 322 X Yea 323 No on Election Day
Paid advertisement urging the public to support a measure and return a promotional notice for two nearly new machines a 22 horsepower traction steam engine and a 50 ton hay baler offered for sale by Co. Ll. Swain with emphasis on majority rule and civic participation.
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Enine
Gratitude for support after father's illness and death
The children thank many friends and neighbors for timely acts of assistance during the late sickness and bereavement of our beloved father John H. Gibson.
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John H. Gibson
Court Martial Ordered Over Navy Hazing Incident
An Annapolis court martial convened by order of the secretary of the navy to try midshipman Walter J. Tigan of Illinois for hazing. Tigan and a classmate allegedly forced fourth classman R. B. Berkey of Indiana to stand on his head repeatedly while an officer in the discipline department reportedly discovered the act.
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Annapolis
Secretary of the Navy
Walter J. Tigan
Illinois
Tigan
Berkey
Indiana
Discipline Department
Wilson Leads in Presidential Race in Read Record-Herald Poll
A Chicago Record-Herald straw poll outlines electoral votes by state with Wilson favored in key states such as California New York Ohio and Pennsylvania while Roosevelt and Taft trail. The table totals 531 electoral votes with 266 needed to win and notes shifting regional strengths and growing socialist support.
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Montana
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Wilson
Stoosevelt
Taft
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Oregon
New York Herald
California
Roosevelt
Washington
Idaho
Wyoming
Uuth
Nevada
New Mexico
Arizona
Herald
Presidential race 1912 poll favors Wilson in federal map
Oregonian reports New York Herald survey of 205,232 voters across 33 states shows Wilson leading with 429 electoral votes plus the solid South. Roosevelt second in many states, Taft limited to Wyoming and Utah, with several states still indecisive and regional shifts noted.
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New York Herald
Wilson
Roosevelt
Chicago Record-Herald
Volos
Ulinals
California
Rocky Mountain
Prairie States
Ohio
Taft
New York
Connecticut
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Mssachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Indians
West Virginia
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
South Dakota
New Mexico
Nevada
Colorado
Arizona
Illinois
Michigan
Idaho
Washington
Wyoming
Utah
Indiana
Massachusetts
Winds
Tdahoe
New England
Rhode Islands
Vermont
Record railway business for August shows record earnings
The August 1912 report by the Bureau of Railway Economics notes net earnings across 220,405 miles reaching 96.4 million dollars, the highest August ever except 1909 October. Average per mile and per day earnings rose, yet taxes and expenses still eat into margins for extensions and equipment purchases.
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Bureau of Railway Economies
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oyster Special Coming First American Express Train
Baltimore residents may order luncheon oysters shipped from Baltimore via the Western Maryland Railway as the first American Express train runs from Balltimore to San Francisco.
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American Express
Balltimore
San Francisco
Star
Baltimore
Coast to coast Am Ex special train to California
The initial coast to coast express from Baltimore by the American Express company will depart Hillen station at unspecified time. The through express with oysters and other merchandise is planned to run via Western Maryland to Connellsville and then toward California, possibly becoming a fast route from Maryland to the Golden Gate with limited stops before San Francisco.
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American Express Company
California
Maryland
Golden Gate
Hillen Station
Baltimore
Connellsville
San Francisco
Resolution seeks to remove Hawaii and Philippines from mission district
Los Angeles dispatch reports Episcopal delegates laid a table a resolution asking the church general conference to delete Hawaii and the Philippines from the eighth missionary department and to divide the remaining district. The committee had proposed disposing of Hawaii and the Philippines.
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Los Angeles
General Conference
Episco Pailian Church
Hawaian and Philippine Islands
Eighth Missionary Department
Episcopal
Hawaii
Philippines
Clergy Ministration Plans Shift to Olympia 1914 Session
Alaska to stay in the district as the department votes to hold the 1914 session in Olympia Washington. A resolution sets a minimum salary standard for clergymen and another approves a summer school for clergy. Bishop J H Johnson of Los Angeles chairs the arrangement committee. A second committee including Bishop Charles Spadding Oregon Rev L R Thomas Carson Nevada and Rev W H Hodgkin Berkeley to expand ministry.
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Alaska
Olympia
Wash
Shanddard
J. H. Johnson
Los Angeles
Charles Spadding
Oregon
L. R. Thomas
Carson
Nev
W. H
Hodgkin
Berkeley
Speed Fiend Arrest Triggers Charge After Bridge Rescue
Chico native speed suspect Matthew Broyles son of a wealthy family with Marie Bailey Mildred Price and another Chico man escaped serious injury when his touring car plunged twenty feet from a bridge. Constable Franklin of Durham arrested Broyles for speeding forcing him to travel to Durham to answer the state law violation. He paid a $40 fine.
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Chico
Matthew Broyles
Marie Bailey
Mildred Price
Franklin
Durham
Broyles
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F. E. Livengood & CO
the Ladies’ and Children’s Store
Lewis
C. J. Smith
D. N. Reber
M. D. Eye
Schmidt
BH. H. Decker
Rock Springs
Black
DeMotris
Alexander
State Hotel
UN Co
Northwestern
C. L. Swaim
St. Louis
Louis Hehelpohl
F. J. Ronaldson
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georg
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Thonsevelt
Illnois
North Dakota
Tonsin
la Follette
Taftle
la Foellette
Oregonian
Chicago Stecord-Herald
Woodrow Wilson
The
Raiway
Alexander Dep’t
Oyster
Whitman
Tallman & Co
Saxony
Fleishers Knitting
Germantown
Robespierre
Speed Fiend
Velvet
Golden Rule
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