Farmers Eye Wheat Contest in Northwest Exhibit
Portland, Sept 9 Oregon farmers are urged to enter the World’s greatest wheat-growing contest offering a traction engine and plows worth 5000 dollars as top prize. Exhibitors need not have field measurements or affidavits. field size will be listed on entry blanks and growers’ statements suffice. If doubts arise, show investigators will verify. The Northwest Land Products Exposition at Minneapolis, November 12 23 expects broad regional displays and 200000 visitors from the East. seven states and Alaska plan to exhibit.
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Portland
Oregon
Northwest
Minneapolis
Seven States
Alaska
United States
Wheat Prize Offer to Ship Five Bushels to Will Campbell
A notice states a prize effort to produce wheat totaling about five bushels and requires shipment to Will A Campbell in Minneapolis to be received by November 1. The item reads as a historical ad or prize bid with regional mailing details.
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Will A. Campbell
Minneapolis
Teachers Talk Too Much Says Hatch at Institute
Oak Park Superintendent William F Hatch urged shifting voice from teachers to pupils during a Cook County Teachers Institute address on Recitation at Wendell Phillips High School. He warned teachers often order study and stifle pupil voice, advocating more pupil discussion and proper study methods.
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Chicago
William F. Hatch
Oak Park
Cook County
Teachers’ Institute
Wendell Phillips High School
Orby Rides To Cell On Dumb Waiter Run By Woman
Six Harlem women testified in court about Frederick W. Roland a Waldorf Astoria waiter who used a dumb waiter to reach St Nicholas Avenue station on a drunken charge. The incident followed a quarrel at home over supper delaying, leading to a plate being hurled and a verbal assault. Mrs Katherine Kramer led a group of five as they sought police action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tippling "Orby
New York
Harlem
Frederick W. Roland
Waldorf-Astoria
St. Nicholas Avenue Station
Roland
Katherine Kramer
Pendleton Seeks Bids for North Side Sewer System
The City of Pendleton invites sealed bids for the North side sewer project. Bids due September 15 1912 at City Recorder office with a 5 percent certified check. Plans by Geary Withbrell on file. project includes pipe work excavation and manholes. City reserves right to reject all bids.
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North Side
City OF
Pendleton
Common Council
City Recorder
Geary Withbrell
City Surveyor
Staine Street
Sal
Neve
Chie
Thomas Fitzgerald
Seenee
Pendleton Sealed Bids Sought for Webb Street Improvement
The City of Pendleton Oregon invites sealed bids by September 18 1912 at 5 PM for paving Webb Street between Main and Cosble with Gravel Bitulite pavement and installing gutters drainage and related work per plans on file. Bids require 5000 cash bond and must itemize costs per square yard or foot and be filed with the City Recorder for consideration by the Common Council.
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Pendleton
Oregon
Webb Street
Main Street
Cosble Street
Nevorder
Saldity
Utotk
Reton Conneil
Common Council
Thomas Fitzgerald
Warrant Service and Kidnapping in Home Scene
Mrs. Kramer forces arrest with a warrant at Tholand's home. Roland is bound and carried to a dumb waiter while Mrs. Roland pleads not to harm him. Dawn orders the action as Kiernan finds Roland groaning. Dr. Clapsaddle later says the injury is a bruised funny bone, not fatal.
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Tholand
Mrs. Kramer
Alx
Roland
Mrs. Roland
Former Hermiston Resident Married
Special Correspondence Hermiston Oregon reports the marriage of W. P. Littlefield, a former Hermiston resident who owned land here, to Grace Edna Ingram of Seattle. Also noted are William H. Leathers showing Rome Beauty apples on his three year old trees, Owen Sehorn's broken leg from a wagon incident, and George A. Luke planning a six week visit to Indiana and Northeast Pennsylvania before resuming orchard work.
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Hermiston, Or
W. P. Littlefield
Seattle
Grace Edna Ingram
J. W. Ingram
Littlefield
William H. Leathers
Rome
Mr. Leathers
Owen Sehorn
Adams
Mr. Sehron
Geo. A. Luke
East
Indiana
Northeast
Hermiston
Judge Seeks Meaning of Goat Phrase in Court
Chicago Municipal Judge Sabath hears Fay Benson describe a confrontation with three attackers on a pier. Benson explains a man threatened to take his goat, prompting the judge to ask meaning while the defendants Towosoule and others are fined a dollar plus costs.
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Chicago
Sabath
Hyde Park
Fay Benson
Lake Avenue
Chicago Beach
Jude Sabath
Benson
Joseph Towosoule
Wear Forty-Sixth Street
MADE HER A WELL WOMAN
Mrs W P Valentine of Camden New Jersey reports relief from back pain headaches and nervous fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praising its roots and herbs as a standard remedy for women for nearly forty years and urging others to try it.
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W. P. Valentine
Camden
N. T
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pauline Declares Stranger Didn’t Milk Tea
Pauline Wayne, President Taft’s prize cow, snubbed reports she was milked on the White House lawn by Z. F. Koehler of Canton Ohio. Reporters crowded her pasture as she refused to confirm the allegation, saying the man did not milk her.
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White House
Army Quartermster
Jone
Taffie Away
Pauline
Washington, D
Pauline Wayne
Taft
Ike" Stephenson
Wisconsin
Z. F. Koehler
Canton
Ohio
Tallkman
Paulie
Miss Wayne
Boyine
Sulphurro Health Tonic Promises Cure All Ailing People
An advertisement for Sulphurro by The M. C. Stewart Sulphur Co. of Seattle asserts the tonic restores blood to a pure state and conquers disease germs. It cites a testimonial from M. Wilbur praising relief from rheumatism after two to four weeks, claims broad benefits for skin, stomach, and blood disorders, and promises a Sulphurro booklet with each bottle. Bottle prices are listed as fractions of a dollar.
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M.C, Stewart Sulphurro Co
Columbia, St
Seattle
Wash
M. C. Stewart Sulphur Co
Columbia ,T
Electric Bitters Praised By Georgia Patient In Ad
Ches B. Allen of Sylvania Georgia credits Electric Bitters with curing rheumatism liver stomach and kidney troubles after years of suffering. The testimonial claims four bottles restored health and urges readers to try the remedy available for 50 cents at Koeppens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ches
B. Allen
Sylvania
Koeppens
Negro Beaten For Insults In Chicago
Archie Jackson a Black cook on a lake steamer was attacked by a crowd led by Thomas Cairns after allegedly directing insulting remarks to Bessie Denner and Moe Caulins. He was beaten near Kinzie and North State streets and held on a disorderly conduct charge after rescue by patrolmen Thomas Ryan and George Afferetta.
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Chicago
Archie Jackson
Bessie Denner
Moe Caulins
Thomas Cairns
Mitty Cairns
Jackson
Carns
Kinzie
North State Streets
Thomas Ryan
George Afferetta
Chicago Avenue
We Never Forget Edience Allocated Home Life Note
A fragmentary item cites Edience on what we remember about home life and remedies. Mentions Macklen and Armen Salve as cures for boils sores and skin eruptions. Claims forty years of cures prove merit and a daily service at Rooppens.
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Macklen
Rooppens
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Hatch
William H. Maxwell
Co. T. Bright
D. A
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Insurance and Land Business
Hartman Abstract CO
Umatilla
James Johns
Prea
H. Marsh
Sec
Bentley & Leffingwell
Livery and Fred Stable
CITY
Thompson Street
Carney & Bradley
Props
Fast
Oregonian
Pendleton Lodge No
A. M
ETO
D. A. May
John & Baker
Thomas Vaughan
Judd Building
James E, Sharp
Temple Bldg
D. C. M’nabb
Koeppen
East Court Strest Res
H. S. Garfield
M. D
Judd Black
Black
Lynn K. Blakeslee
Judd
Corne
Main
Court Streets
Attornenxs
Ooo Raley
James A. Fee
R. J. Slater
Despain Building
Carter & Smythe
American National Bank
James B. Perry
Taylor Hardway Company
Peterson & Wilson
Attorneys At Law
Smith Crawford Building
Frederick Steiner
Smith-Crawson Building
Douglas W. Bailey
Attornee
Taylor Hardware Co
Johnson & Skrable, Attorneys At Law
Despot Building
Country Court
Circuit Court Justice Court
East Oregonian
V. Stroble
E. Court Street
CHINA
Chop
Ung D. Goey
Old Strand
Alta Street
Rea
Wallman Drug Co
Lowell & Winter
Office Tr Despain Building
George W. Coutts
Schmid
Beaver
Aan
Madam Kennedy
Athena
Poo Health
P. O
Echo
Ore
M. Wilbur
Bie Tate
New
Calcutta
Tacoma
E.T. B. Mills
Imperial Hotel
Portland, OR
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