Athena Briefs Detailing School Start and Wheat Shortage
Public schools opened with good attendance under Principal Homer I Watts and staff. Wheat in 1907 harvest mostly sheltered. car shortages slow shipments though railroads pledge improvement. Skating rink draws crowds three to four nights weekly. locals visit fairs in Walla Walla and Pendleton. Mrs Edna Strahl of Moro visits. C A Barrett toured Tacoma. Athena enjoys a prosperous fall and ample money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athena
Homer I. Watts
James H. E. Scott
Mise Gibbons
H. S. Watts
Mise Carrie Sharp
Miss Engdahl
Walla Walla
Pendleton
Josephine Deffry
Athena Opera House
Edna Strahl
Moro
Ore
Charles Brotherton
Franklin County
Washington
C. A. Barrett
Tacoma
New King’s Discovery Endorsed by Richmond Citizen
A Richmond resident Mr. A. D. Williams appeals to weak lungs to use Dr King’s New Discovery. He says it is the only remedy meeting the proprietor’s claim and that it saves lives, cures ailments from coughs to bronchitis, and stops lung hemorrhages. Available at Tallman & Co. drug store, 60 cents and 1. Trial bottle free.
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Richmond
Ind
A. D. Williams
West Main Street
Tallman & Co
Weston Normal President Pleased With Attendance Forecast
President French of the Weston Normal says he is elated over this term's prospects. Registration nears completion, with no fewer than 150 pupils expected. Faculty meet all requirements and the first week proceeded pleasantly.
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Weston
French
Weston Normal
Touch That Heals and Cornerstone Rites in Boise
The advertisement touts Bucklen arnica salve as a universal healer for burns, wounds, ulcers, and piles with guaranteed satisfaction from Tallman & Co. A Boise ceremony marked the cornerstone laying for Ada lodge No. Three of the order O F O in Boise.
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Bucklen
Tallman & Co
Ada Lodge No. $3
T, O
Boise
No More Catarrh in Pendleton Hyomel Guarantee
Tallman & Co promote Hyomel as a guaranteed remedy for catarrhal troubles sold with a money back offer if it fails. The ad claims rapid relief and permanent cure by inhaling healing air through a pocket device, targeting throat and lung infections with nature’s plan. The firm asserts 80 percent positive results and urges readers to try the liberal offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallman & Co
Pendleton
Nature
Hall
Oracares
Imontard
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hermiston Sees New Residents as Land Opens
News from Hermiston reports expected opening of several thousand acres of east Umatilla Irrigation project land to entry this fall. New settlers include J Pelmander and George Loomis from Iowa, who bought lands to settle here, while locals prepare exhibits for the Pendleton district fair and a possible diary association forms in October.
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Emanuel
J. Pelmander
George 8
Loomis
Iowa
Hermiston
H. G. Newport
Pendleton
I. E. Davis
Fred Lockley
East Oregonian
Umatilla
Pacific Monthly
A. W. Page
A. W. Page & Co
J. H
Yellow Jackets Pest Fruit Growers Face Pests
Yellow jackets plague Tacoma area fruit growers this season attacking red raspberries blackberries apples and plums. Observers note the insects are more numerous in some seasons and fade after dry periods then return later. Old settlers say the appearance is not new but seems more widespread this year.
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Truit
Tacoma
Yellow Jackets
Coquille Herald
Residence Property for Sale on Alta and Aura Streets
For sale a corner residence at Alta and Aura four blocks from Main street. Two lots and a 10 room house with modern features. Cement cellar and sidewalks, nice lawn. For details contact Gus La Fontaine Pendleton Oregon.
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Alta and
Aura Streets
Main Street
Gus la Fontaine
Pendleton
Oregon
Colonist Rates to Pendleton in Fall 1907
The east to Pendleton rates for September 1 to October 31 1907 are listed. From Kansas City St Joseph Leavenworth Atchison Cornell Bluffe Omaha Sioux City St Paul Duluth Minneapolis and Winnepeg to Pendleton cost 22.60. Des Moines 26.50 St Louis 27.50 Oklahoma City 27.60 Chicago 10.50 Memphis 35.00 Louisville 34.60 Pittsburg 28.50 New York City 47.50 Detroit 97.00 Cleveland 47.26. Send this list to friends in the east and urge them to stop at Pendleton.
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Pendleton
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Leavenworth
Atchison
Cornell Bluffe
Omaha
Aloux City
St. Paul
Duluth
Minneapolis
Winnepeag
Des Moines
St. Louis
Oklahoma City
Chicago
Memphis
Louieville
Pittsburg
New York City
Detroit
Cleveland
Geography the new sleep aid, Philadelphia tale
A tired man visits a downtown drugstore seeking help to sleep. A clerk redirects him to a geography based distraction, naming U S states and counties to calm his mind. The Record notes the plan as an effective nonmedicated narcotic for sleeplessness.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Record
Boy Hunt Weasels Chase From Hedge to Hedge
An 1879 London tale recounts William Henderson’s memoir of two nine to ten year olds chased by a pack of twenty weasels across hedges and fields near Merio to Windlestone. They flee to a village finish, remarking on such a hunt-like encounter. Also notes Boer steenbuck hunting with cattle and a Long Island geography quip.
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Willam Henderson
London
Iebque
Merio
Windlestone
England
Long Island
Brooklyn
Parallem Exemplified and Worry Over Allowance
Dialogue from New York Life shows Parallem Exemplified as a character asks if there is need to worry about exceeding allowance. The other replies that there is no necessity to worry since it cannot be helped.
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Parallem
New York
The Flesh She Loat
A fragment quoted from the London Telegraph notes a conversation about Mrs. Giles and her husband’s death. It mentions she has lost much flesh and that her husband weighed nineteen stone at his death.
Modern Modesty in Prices and Partners
Quote from the New York World on modesty in women and costs. A witty exchange defines modesty as a wife costing less than 2500 a year, reflecting era attitudes toward marriage expenses and social norms.
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New York World
Times Change Mia Benham You Used To Die For Me
Partial fragment from a Baltimore World lead reads that the Times Change headline references a dramatic exchange. The East Oregonian presents the line as a newspaper tease for broader coverage.
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Mia
Benham
Baltimory
The Gambieats Hands
A Philadelphia Retord article describes a street corner conversation about a man suspected of gambling or fare dealing. A detective notes a pallor and unusually smooth hands as clues, suggesting a professional gambler’s habits. The dialogue hints at illicit work and the social tension around night workers and debt or fare schemes.
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Philadelphia
Cowbirds and their unnatural parental duties
The cowbird alone often abandons nest building and lays eggs in other birds nests forcing the hosts to rear its young. It favors nests of smaller species so its chick receives most parental attention. Birds attempt to rid nests using ingenious decoy structures that bury cowbird eggs and even their own in some cases.
Weorge Needed a Barrel and Spottsylvania Records
The old courthonm replaced with a new one yet citizens of Spottsylvania preserved county war records. A 1768 entry notes Marye Scott and Clarissa Drury were flogged for stealing clothes of George Washington while he washed in the Rapidan river.
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George Washington
Rapidan
Washington
Abarre
Spotteylvania County
Metropelitan Magesine
Understanding Ice Terms From Polar Expeditions
The piece explains Ice field as a frozen undetermined area and a floe as a large movable ice mass. When floes break and form pack ice, boundaries are set by exploration and wind. A ship caught in pack ice remains trapped until winds or currents break it up, a hazard for Arctic voyages.
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Arctic
Fatal Advertisement Ends Life Of Dancing Minister
The famed dancer Vestris died at eighty three after reading a newspaper advertisement seeking a dancing professor who could also be a skilled chiropodist. The shock, described as mortal, felled him suddenly and he never recovered.
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Vestris
Calcutta
Long Legged Birds and Their Tail Use
Long legged birds display short tails that seem proportionally small. Their tails aid steerage during flight and movement. When these birds fight, they extend their legs backward to act as tail-like rudders for balance and control.
Spoke For Himself In Oyster Pie Joke
A fragment describes Charles Lamb after a dinner party riding in a crowded omnibus. A stout gentleman asks if the coach is full. Lamb replies that he cannot speak for others, but that the last piece of oyster pie did the business for him, delivering a humorous self portrayal.
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Charles Lamb
Lamb
Every Day the Beat Quote in Hearts
Quote from Emerson about daily mindset urging that every day is best and that true learning requires recognizing each day as a doomsday in disguise.
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Emerson
Moat Irritating: Servant slain on railway in Oregon
A reader reports a grim incident on the railway where their servant was killed. Only half the body has been recovered, and the owner states the other half holds the keys. Local authorities are investigating the grisly find amid mounting confusion.
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Bon Vivont
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T. G. Montgomery
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