Columbia college marks 152d anniversary opening day
September 27 observances mark Columbia college’s 152nd anniversary while reports describe varied incidents. A Chicago druggist Bruno H. Ill shot himself at the Auditorium hotel. Al Guerney’s runaway car crashed into an accommodation train, killing Mrs. A. W. Ladd and Conductor Leonard Briggs. John V. Street, Swedish American league vice president, found dead at Kewanee Tl from unknown causes. News notes include labor activity, a move to protect defendants Fletcher and Lyon in Russell, Kentucky, and Walter Rothschild bringing back 4000 butterfly specimens. The era’s politics touch Norway’s uncertain future, while British elections spur tariff and labor changes.
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Inll
Chicago
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Sunset Mine
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France
Pyrenees
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Norway
Ater
Various Northwest News Items From An Old Journal
The article reports on a range of Northwest events including Medinn Vile college enrollment reaching a peak, Portland public schools increasing in attendance, Yellowstone Park’s screen closing, and visitor counts for the season. It notes a severed throat found in Burrard Inlet, stray dogs culled in Portland, typhoid cases in Walla Walla penitentiary, a Cuban treasury secretary missing after a steamer incident, a child killed by a Southern Pacific train near Harrision, Spokane man Charles McDonald dying of heart failure in Butte, and an eight-defendant Grant's Pass circuit court opening with all pleading guilty. Also mentions a railroad engineer crushed beneath a log at White Salmon, a Miss Mary H Riley assault case involving a Pullman porter, and a construction accident near Eugene.
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Jos Biolory
Nome
Portland
Yellowstone Park
Burrard Inlet
B. C
Porthind
Wiest
James H. Davis
Washington State Board of Control
Walla Walla Penitentiary
Armado de Armas
Ute Treasury
Cuba
Ha- Vand
New York City
G. A. Withit
Southern Pacific
Harrivon
Charles McDonald
Spokane
Butte
Grant's Pass
John C. McCoy
White Salmon
Hood River
McCoy & Thomas
Real Estate firm touts high profits and wide reach
A Pendleton Oregon firm boasting 30 years in county trade and $706,000 in property purchases markets itself aggressively. It warns it will not list property unless priced favorably and claims broad capacity through the Interstate Investment Association. The notice mentions office contact and expands to Lewiston brick yard news and school building expansion.
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Vaeluen
Dr King's New Discovery Aimed at Coughs and Colds
A fragmented testimonial notes chest trouble from smoke and coal dust on a line. It claims relief after using Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption cough and colds. Tallman & Co and Brock & McComas’ drug stores offer a trial bottle for a dollar.
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Alek
Sandy Lave
Tallman & Co
Brock & McComas
Secret Society Hall Opens for Large Meetings
The Secret Society hall is prepared for big gatherings while the new ante-rooms are finished. Lodges are easing into the facility with plans to host large assemblies once the improvements are complete.
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Secret Society
World bound women writers depart Chicago for five year assignment
Mrs Lowell Conly and Miss Anna Mineh, Chicago writers, start a world tour for a syndicate of 30 papers. They left September 7 with $1500 and gear including cameras and a typewriter. They plan to file travel articles from each port, and may work for newspapers and magazines abroad while absent from the United States for years. Routes depend on conditions, with possible passage via the Siberian railway if available or by steamer via Singapore Aden Suez and Alexandria ending in Europe.
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Chicomo
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Ghobe
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Mise Lowella
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Beypt
Europe
Chicago
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Mayer Dunne
Chicasa
Chicago University
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Mig Pinch
Orient
Miss Conly
East Oregonian
Niu Chwahg
Manchuria
Atoppiog
Siigapore
Aden
Suez Canal
Alexandria
Retimbering Weatherby Tunnel Spurs Old Ore Recall
Interest grows as ORE IN Weatherby tunnel near the station is retimbered. About twenty years ago the K N railroad found a gold-bearing ledge worth up to 30 dollars a ton. Old timers who remember the early days want to see the site once the timbering comes down.
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Weatherby
Timmerine
Weatherly area yields Weatherby rubies in quartz vein
In Baker County near Weatherly, a 16 to 20 foot wide quartz vein along the BR and Ni railroad line contains garnets described as Weatherby rubies. The crystals are plentiful for a half mile, but few are perfect. Some garnets have been sent to lapidarists and cut into attractive pieces. no immediate exploitation is seen, though hopes linger for richer finds beneath the surface.
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Weatherly
Weatherby Station
BR. & Ni
Inland Empire
Fire tears down Schabbel Hall in Main Street block
A three story frame building owned by ALO Schabbel on Main Street was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Discovered around dawn the blaze spread rapidly, making salvage impossible. The structure, known as Schabbel Hall, housed lodge rooms for local fraternal organizations. Total loss about $6000 with roughly $2000 insured.
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Main Atrout
O'Cook
Schabwel
dJullaotta Herald
Lodge Visitors From Wasenlodie at Dufur
About 20 members of Wasenlodie A F and AM traveled to Dufur with Grand Master Flannagan Crants Pass and Grand Senior Norris R Cox Fortland. If a lodge is hatituled at Dufur the visitors will return home whether or not they make it by morning as noted by The Dalles Chronicle.
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Wasenlodie
A. F
A. M
Dufur
Flannagan
Crant's Pass
Norris R. Cox
Fortland
Dalles Chronicle
Hyomel Promises Deafness Cure After Short Treatment
Extract from a periodical extols Hyomel as curing deafness linked to catarrh after a few days to weeks. Testimonials claim rapid hearing improvement and odor relief, with Tallman & Co offering a money back guarantee. The piece also comments on risk and belief limits in personal achievement.
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Misa Meckw
Mallewan
Tallman & Co
Uile
Tallon & Co
The Wedding Cake Through English History
The custom of a special wedding cake began with the Romans who used the cake to symbolize fruitfulness hospitality and prosperity. Later rituals included breaking a biscuit over the bride’s head and distributing the fragments. After Charles II’s return French cooks enriched the tradition turning the cake into a tall confection with symbolic emblems.
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England
Charles II
London
Hither and Yon and Dialect Notes
A fragment from A. Wylle and Ralhwell discusses the phrases hither and yon and hither and you. It cites Johnemon notes on English provincial dialects noting meanings here there and everywhere and the variations in usage.
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Jonteson
Origin of the Honeymoon in History and Lore
The article discusses the phrase honeymoon from Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, describing a practice of a thirty day post marriage abstention from relatives. It cites hydromel a drink of honey and water, and notes that indulgence afterward led to heavy drinking and excess in some cultures.
Navy orders mandate masking in battle wear
A Royal Navy practice requires all crew to darken skin with pigment during night ops to eliminate white faces and reveal opponents less clearly. A warship carries pigment for this purpose as night devices render faces invisible, making stealth critical in combat conditions.
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Royal Navy
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