Forest Fires Rage Across California Towns and Resorts
Firefighters battle multiple blazes across a dozen counties threatening ranch homes, resort hotels, and timberlands. Many areas including Sonoma Nampa Mendocino Santa Cruz Lake and Los Angeles counties report active fires with spots controlled and towns saved by back firing and sheltering crews.
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San Francisco
Sonoma
Nampa
Mendocino
Santa Crus
Lake
Los Angeles
Walter Springs
Burk’s
Preston
Ukiah
Calistoga
St. Helena
Watsonville
Gilroy
Donovan Valley
Lake County
Whitties
Taft Opened Boston Address On Financial Reform
President Taft spoke at the Boston Commercial Club on financial reform and said the Monetary Commission would back a central bank. He noted Aldrich’s plan to spur nationwide support and urged reforms in interstate commerce and anti trust laws while opposing sectional animosities. He announced a Western tour to better serve as president and to align with upcoming Congress topics.
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Boson
Mass
Taft
Beverly
Mra Taft
Louis Moore
Boston Commercial Club
Monetary Commission
Aldrich
Separation Idea Grows in Southern California
In Los Angeles on Sept 15 officials announce plans to form a conference within 30 days to study splitting into a new stateSouth California with counties and major cities expected to send delegates if a convention is later approved.
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Los Angeles
Symphony Hall
South California
California
Mount Vesuvius
Rome
Portico
Bay of
Naples
Gloriale
Italia
Irrigation boom and farm expansion across Oregon counties
Oregon reports extensive irrigation projects supplying tens of thousands of acres near Pendleton Hermiston Stanfield and Umatilla. Other notes cover orchard plans at Medford and new land openings in Bend and Central Oregon, plus gas and rail developments and agricultural prices across the state.
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Pendleton
Umatilla
United States
Hermiston
Columbia Land Company
Stanfield
Medford
Modoc
Potter Palmer
Chicago
Little Butte
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Governor Benson
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Magic Key of Transportation
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Java Rock
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Union
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Oregon Ranch
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Timothy
Willamette Valley
Columbia Land Co
Wood
Frank Sloan
Portland, Ore
Pendleton, Ore
Eche
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Louis Scholl Jr
Bridge St
Echo, Or
Grain
Henrietta Milling , Grain Co
Echo
C. R. Borxey & Sons, Props
Mell Norman
Mullin & Stewart
Oregon Journal
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