Portland Union Stockyards Promised to Aid Farmers
An article argues the Portland Union Stockyards will boost livestock markets by creating a modern competitive market. It notes the role of stockyards near the Peninsula and packing plants like Union Meat, predicts expanded demand from West Coast and Pacific markets, and urges Oregon, northern California, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana farmers to prepare for larger production of cattle sheep and hogs. It also references Whistler selling Carlyle to Glasgow and includes a first-person anecdote.
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Portland
Union Meat Company
Pacific Northwest
stockVanida
Avery
Onnta
Forth Worth
South St. Paul
St. Paul
Portland Union
Cenferme
Central
South America
Manchuria
China
Japan
Korea
Philippines
Honolulu
Alaska
Oregon
California
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Freshmen Ordered to Use Rear Entrance and Quiet Conduct
Walla Walla Union reports strict rules for freshmen at Ife college including rear entrance use hats removal before upperclassmen and no smoking. Upperclassmen ordered to enforce with severe penalties, debates arise among graduates entering college life amid campus tensions and early morning overseen discipline. Also notes that ill planned meetings in towns often fail and cause more harm than good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Ife
Walla Walla Union
The Present South by E.G. Morphy in A South's Conversation
The North may think it knows conversation but lags behind the South in civic chat. At village courthouses and stores, in offices and porches, talk flourishes with wit and candor, free from city haste. Morphy declares it a Southern tradition, born of climate and social habit.
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Morphy
South
Sour milk cow tale tests new immigrant’s gullibility
A New York Sun piece recounts a farm practical joke played on a woman new to the country. A farmer claims a cow loses its tail to yield sour milk daily, insisting the sun’s heat keeps the udder warm. The tale ends with the visitor doubting the ploy.
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Freregan
New York
Echo Socials and dances mark fall arrivals in Echo
Echo Oregon September notes detail Epworth League social at J F Koonts yard with refreshments, dances at city hall by Echo orchestra, visits by Reeves family, Irene Ripper heading to Seattle for college, and several local residents traveling or relocating. Also reports on Nolin happenings from late September including dry roads, sheep movement, crop sales, school progress, and local property trades.
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Echo
Ore
Epworth League
J. FH. Koonts
Wm. Reeves
Fitle
Rem
Foley Springs
Irene Ripper
Pendleton
Seattle
I Usle
Portland
A. ©. Crawford
Hermiston
Harriet Atkinson
Penateton
A. D. Holmes
Jesse Moore
Buttercreek
Louis Scholl
Beulah Barker
City Hall
Echo Orchestra
Bert Teft
Claude
Walla Walla
Rogera
Cecll
Bertie Baker
J. T. Hoskins
Arthur Finley
Stanfield
Colfax
Washington
C. P. Bowman
Baker City
Bowman
The
Shriners
Burial Alive Myth Sparks Medical Dismissal
Dr Woolf Hutchinson cites America Magazine noting the grave danger of being buried alive is minimal. He reports contacting undertakers, including the former president of the National Funeral Directors association, who deemed all recent cases as pure fakes after reviewing fifteen years of reports.
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Woolf Hutchinson
America Magazine
National Funeral Directors’ Association
Leg Limerick About Tourists in the Alps
In a Swiss hotel visitors book a traveler samples humor with a limerick about a dashed young tourist. The verse chides wearing trousers that end at the knee and the calf’s coverage, joking at the sight of lean legs in mountain climbing gear seen by those who have braved the Alps.
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Legs
Alps
Nuts as Food Advantage Over Meat
The piece argues nuts offer a clear advantage over meat due to freedom from adulteration. It notes that nuts purchased in the shell are particularly clean, providing certainty about what is obtained.
Quotable Thought on Evil and Hope by Channing
A concise meditation on finding light within darkness. The author suggests that suffering and temptation reveal the highest purposes of wisdom and love through steady divine testing.
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Channing
Gotch Premier Wrestler Of World
Eastern critics say Frank Gotch remains world champion in catch-as-catch-can wrestling while European grapplers excel in Graeco Roman style. They note Gotch’s strength and skills give him a wide lead, arguing it would take another man twice his power to dethrone him.
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Frank Gotch
Gotch
Goteh
Spokesman-Review
At His Experns She Jack Hospital Built at His Expense
A fragmented quip about a hospital funded entirely by one man and a boyish remark on hair tangles. The text suggests questions of virtue and motives, mentioning an uncle who left a large bequest for the hospital and a promised but partial gift.
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Jack
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Carlyle
Whistler
Glasgow Corporation
Memorial Building
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WM. McMurray
Obe
Schuyler
EGO News
Nolin
Pepocty Sheriffe Turner
Nolin Literary Society
W. A. Slusher
Tom Hopper
Meacham
D. Turner
Will Smiley
P. Hutchinson
F. W. Beatty
Catherine Callison
Marple
Mr. Wright
Horse Shoe Curve
Flathead Reservation
C. B. Haworth
James Marple
O. F. Steel
W. A. Fraser
Palouse
Nez Perce
Kim Morton
F. Myers
Helix
R. A. Smith
Pasco, Wash
Lewis W. Napton
Westfall
Jennie Hargrove
Ping Street
United States
Europe
Posta
East Ordgontan
East Oregonian
Addre
East Oregonian Pub, CO
Pendlton
Old Btock Company
Marquam
Classified
H. 8
Garfield
M. D
Homeopathic
Judd Black
Lynn K. Blakeslee
Judd Building
Main
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E. A. Mann
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M. Kern
Shitloe Room
Judd Bullding
Red
Vaughan Bros
Dentists
D. C. M'Nabb
State Veterinary Board
Tallan's Drug Store
Raley & Raley, “Attorneys AT Law
American National Bank Building
FER & Slater
Despain Building
Carter & Smythe
Attorneys At Law
American National Bank
James B. Perry
Lowell & Winter
Law
George W. Coutts
Ildt Block
Peterson & Wilson
Attorneya At Law
Snith- Crawford Building
Phelps & Steiner
Smith-Crawford Building
Chas. J. Ferguson
Office In
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Douglas W. Baileby
Taylor Hardware Co
Stroble
East Court Street
Insurance and Land Business
Hartman Abstract CO
Umatilla
James Johns
Henninger
H. Marsh
Lea
Pendleton Iron Works
Court
Alta Streets
Marlon Jack
A. F. May
J. L. Vaughan
W. Court Street
United Engineering CO
P.J. Bidg
F. G. Lucas
Athena
First National Bank of Athena and
Farmers' Bank of Weston
Aey M. A. Rader
Chicago College of Embalming
Webb Streets
Baker & Folsom
B. P. O. Eis NO
Eagle’s-Woodmen Hall
G. W. Phelps
B. RB. Thos
Gerald
Lecy
Damon Lodge NO
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R. B. Tarbet
C. C
R. W. Fletcher
D. A
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Hlot
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Frank B. Clopton
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J M. Bentley
Thompson Street
Carney & UH Bradley
Drauggista
Brervrers
Persia
Mos
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