Freewater and Milton Prepare Exhibit for Pendleton Fair
Freewater and Milton residents push a district fair exhibit in Pendleton with late fruits already on display and good quality across varieties. Mary Walker buys the Fred Jones residence in Milton for 2500 dollars. Emma Wellman from Hudson Bay to teach at Waitsburg this week. Prunes continue shipping from packing houses as the prune season nears end and apples loom.
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Freewater
Milton
Pendleton
Walla Walla
Mary Walker
Fred Jones
A. S. Pearson
Portland
Pearson
Reynolds
Bevitt Sanderson
Times
Spokane
Emma Wellman
Hudson Bay
Waitsburg
W. C. Thompson
Milton Ni Milton: local notes and hospital update
Sept 18 Milton Ni Milton reports Miss Minnie Beaumont improving after a runaway accident and out of danger. Salem fair attendance. Seth Dickey family to Yakima. Milton school week one went well. Grange hall meetings draw interest in Hudson Bay area. Miss Della Samuel starts eight months of school in Pleasant View. Rev G H Gibbs, former Milton pastor now Corvallis M E church pastor, to visit friends. An advertisement touts Bachatarrh Cure from Toledo Ohio as a constitutional remedy with a $100 reward for failure. Hall's Family Pills also advertised.
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Milton Ni
Milton
Minnie Beaumont
Salem
Seth Dickey
Yakima
Grange Hall
Hudson Bay Country
Della Samuel
Pleasant View
G. H. Gibbs
M. E. Church
South
Corvallis
Columbia College
Residence Property for Sale on Alta and Aura Streets
Property for sale on the corner of Alta and Aura streets four blocks from Main consists of two lots and a 10 room modern house with cement cellar sidewalks and a nice lawn. For details contact Gas La Fontaine Pendleton Oregon. Also Pennsylvania coal and Oregon lumber yard notices appear.
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Alta and
Aura Streets
Main Street
la Fontaine
Pendleton
Oregon
Mi o na promises relief from indigestion and stress
An argument insists the nation faces a commercial decline as people neglect meals and suffer indigestion and related ills. It extols Mi o na tablets to strengthen stomach walls, regulate digestive secretions, and restore intestinal function, noting the product is sold by Tallman & Co in 60 cent boxes with a money back guarantee under the Pure Food Law.
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Tallman & Co
Weston's Fair Prep And Town Buzz As Normal Students Arrive
Weston is abuzz as the Pendleton district fair looms. Mr and Mrs George W Proebster lead the exhibit effort while normal students crowd town rooms are full and music classes grow. Judge Richard Powers becomes justice of the peace succeeding L Wood who moved to California.
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Wil
George Proebster
Juidge Powers
Justice of the Peace
Weston
George W. Proebster
Pendleton
Ruth Wall
J. N. York
Ed Sharon
Wm. Purcell
Ed Ellis
Louis Beathe
Helena
Clark Wood
Weston Leader
Miller Hall
Mitchell
Miller
Richard Powers
Juice of the
Havng
L. Wood
California
Ely's Cream Balm Promises Nasal Cure for Sufferers
Sufferers who say they have tried everything without benefit are the people we are looking for. Ely's Cream Balm will cure Cold in the Head Hay Fever and Nasal Catarrh. It acts directly on inflamed membranes soothing and healing. One trial will convince you. Price 50 cents All druggists or mailed by Ely Bros 56 Warren Street New York.
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Ely
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Berkeley Buys Gold Hill Mine in Grant County
Norborne Berkeley returns to Granite with news of purchasing the Gold Hill mining group on Buffalo mountain near the area. The deal includes the Gold Hill patented claim and the Fourth of July Nos. 1 and 2. Berkeley plans immediate development with a mining crew.
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Pendleton
Grant County
Norborne Berkeley
Granite
Gold Hill
Buffalo Mountain
Granite Gem
Buffalo Monitor
Sol Cimp
Nevada
Sumpter
Ming
Mr. Berkeley
Meéssie
Grant Thornburg
P. J. Bannon
W. H. Howley
Walt Wade
Pendleton Colonist Rates to the East in 1907
Rates from eastern cities to Pendleton during September to October 1907 list $22.60 from Kansas City and nearby points, $20.50 from Des Moines, $27.60 from St. Louis, $27.50 from Oklahoma City, $30.50 from Chicago, $35.00 from Memphis, $34.50 from Louisville, $28.50 from Pittsburgh, $47.50 from New York City, $37.00 from Detroit, and $37.25 from Cleveland. The notice urges sending this list to eastern friends and to have them stop at Pendleton.
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Pendleton
Kaneas City
St. Joseph
Leavenworth
Atchison
Council Blutth
Omaha
Sioux City
Et Paul
Duluth
Minneapolis
Minnepor
Des Moines
St. Louie
Oklahoma City
Chicago
Memphis
Louleville
Pittsburg
New York City
Detroit
Cleveland
Napoleon and his M named figures in history
The text lists Napoleonic figures, battles, and places with many names starting with M. It notes generals like Murat, Marmont, Moncey, Massena, and Montenotte, Mount St. Jean, Moscow, Montmartre, and Moscow as key stages. It references Maret, Marmont, Mollien, Montholon, Marchand, Maitland, and others connected to his career and exile.
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Napoleon
Ecole Militaire
Marengo
Bonaparte
Melas
Italy
Morther
Moreau
Murat
Maria Louise
Moscow
Egypt
Menoa
Micilia
Pius VIII
Maret
Marmont
Montalivet
Mollien
Montesquieu
Maitland
St. Helena
Heroic Rescue Amid Crimean Mortar Explosion
In a Crimean incident recounted in Sir Evelyn Wood's rise from midshipman to field marshal, a huge thirteen inch mortar fire trapped Blewitt of HMS Queen in the trench. Stephen Welch sprang out to drag the shell mass away, shouting to comrades. The shell exploded as they acted, and neither man was seen again.
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Crimean
Evelyn Wood
Crimea
Young Blewitt
H. M
Queen
Stephen
Stephen Welch
Welch
Street Cars in Brazil Reflect Class Rules on Rails
A tourist recounts Rio de Janeiro street cars with first and second class, where passengers with parcels must switch to second class and a necktie is required for first class travel. He notes Brazil’s rigid social distinctions dating back to the empire as dress and manners separated aristocracy from workers.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Tilbury
Forgiveness and the Pearl Within the Wound
A compact reflection on forgiveness as a powerful reconciliation act. The quote contrasts human frailty with mercy, likening the forgiven to a sea worm creating a pearl as the shell heals. Rich poetry emphasizes inner strength and grace in surrendering hurt.
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Archangel
Jean Paul Richter
Ears of Animales and Hearing in Predators and Prey
The article explains how ears of beasts of prey like tigers foxes and wolves bend forward to collect sounds in their direction of pursuit. It contrasts them with ears of prey animals such as hares rabbits and deer which bend backward to hear sounds from behind.
Fire Apparatus Tale Ends With Sudden Habit
Jamie Soutar loved to poke the fire and invariably ended by putting it out. At supper the fire alarm rang and, grabbing his cap, he rushed out. His wife called at the door, urging him to take the poker with him, a quip that ends the humorous vignette.
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Jamie Soutar
Jamie
The Two Classes Quote By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A quotation attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes divides the human race into two classes those who act and those who question why it was not done.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quite a Difference. Calves vs cows sparks lesson
In a playful Chicago News exchange, Edna and Nellie discuss the difference between cows and calves. Nellie explains cows give beef while calves provide veal cutlets, framing a DIY animal wisdom moment in a lighthearted tone.
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Edna
Nellie
Chicago News
A Fatal Omelet of an Aristocrat
A Paris tavern tale recounts Condorcet ordering a twelve egg omelet and triggering his arrest. Imprisoned after this fatal lapse in prudence, the note calls out ignorance in cooking and the peril faced by a man of aristocratic status.
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Lecet
M. Buard
Condorcet
Mountain formation debate and Cape table mountain origin
The article discusses abandoned theories that mountains arise from surface cracks and favors table mountain formation at the Cape of Good Hope. It explains that the Cape feature results from sinking surrounding areas, with earlier ground cooling leading to its elevated position and persistent height over time.
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Murchison
Table Mountain
Distinguished Paper Hangers From Old Time Tales
In Misa Kate Sanborn’s Old Time Wall Papers a tale recalls how households once joined to paste and hang wallpaper. Mount Vernon lore says George Washington and Lafayette helped Martha Washington decorate the banquet room for a ball, with Washington, Lafayette, and an aide completing the work in time.
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Misa Kate Sanborn
George Washington
Lafayette
Mount Vernon
Martha
Marquin
Artful Autograph Fiend Collector’s Sharp Complaints
An autograph expert describes a man who pursued signatures by kicking to provoke replies. Each signature came with a letter from a prominent figure responding to his broad complaints about rail delays, public abuses, literary flaws, actors and singers, and other issues, written in virile language to elicit direct replies.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
How to Find Horsepower of a Pulley
A rule to compute pulley horsepower multiplies pulley circumference in feet by RPM and by belt width in inches, then divides by 100. The result equals horsepower. The rule rests on leather belting needing fifty square feet of belt surface per minute per horsepower. Fifty square feet per minute equal a one inch wide belt at 600 feet per minute.
A Prerogative of the Pulpit and Webster Pronunciation
A New England clergyman Dr Bacon faced a friend’s reproach over pronunciation not per Webster. He retorted Webster does not dictate his way of speaking as he is one of his parishioners and should learn from him, not he from the dictionary.
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Bacon
New England
Webster
Divine
Elopement Riot Provokes Dramatic Family Fallout
Fragmentary 19th century dialogue recalls a girl weeping, a young man shattering, and an angry old man exploding with rage over elopement. The piece embeds political misreadings and stray references to Franklin and Benjamin.
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Jones
Waleburg
Ence
Manag Oer & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & CO
Gropsiers
Hall
Pennsylvania
Berkeley
Marks
Parks
Boston Transcript
Terencs
Franklin
Benjamin Mult
New Coats
the Fair Store
Lew & Lewta
Whalesale
Northwestern
Electric CO
Imatlock Building
Frank B. Clopton ,&Co
E. Court. St., Pendleton, Ore
Byers
Pendleton Roller Mills
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