Maine election goes Republican gains dominate vote
Maine voters delivered a sweeping Republican victory. Gov elect Frederic H. Parkhurst of Bangor won by a large margin over Democrat Bertrand G. Meintire of Norway. Four Republican congressmen were elected by sizable pluralities, including Wallace H. White Jr. and John A. Peters. Carroll L. Reedy won the First District seat, and Republicans gained Senate and House majorities while Democrats retained a small House minority.
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Portland
Maine
Frederic H. Parkhurst
Bangor
Bertrand G. Meintire
Norway
Wallace H. White Jr
John A. Peters
Ira G. Hersey
Louis Fi. Goodall
Carroll L. Reedy
Senate
House of Representatives
Governor Pardons Pender and Branson in Oregon
Governor Olcott granted unconditional pardons to John Arthur Pender and William Branson, both life-term inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Branson had been incarcerated for killing William Booth in Yamhill County in 1915, while Pender was jailed for attacking Mrs. Daley Wehrman and her child in a Meappoose cabin in 1911. Both men praised penitentiary officials and pledged to reform as they left.
Livestock Leaders Seek Federal Aid to Shore Up Industry
More than 100 bankers, packers and grain men appealed to the government for aid to preserve the livestock industry. They urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to place grain on preferred traffic and urged financial institutions to support stock raising with loans from treasury funds allocated to reserve banks for livestock areas.
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Chicago
Treasury Department
Jury Interference Halts Seattle Criminal Case
A typewritten letter attacking labor leaders and praising radicalism circulated among jurors in the William Cunningham criminal syndicalism case. Judge Juray discharged the jury after ruling the letter tainted the trial. Sherman Rogers, industrial editor, denied authorship and offered a $1000 reward for the writer's conviction.
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Seattle
Superior Court
William Connningham
Juray
Cunningham
Sherman Rogers
The
Outlook
Ie Fm Beattie
Brown
Rogers
Pendleton Round Up Opens With Record Bucking Lineup
The Pendleton Round Up kicks off its eleventh annual run on Thursday September 23 with a larger field of seventy bucking riders more horses performers and Indians than previous years. Advance seat sales are brisk and demand is high for both east and west grandstand sections. The event coincides with meetings of the State Federation of Labor and Oregon sheriffs and county clerks associations in Pendleton during Round Up week.
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Pendleton
Wyoming
State Federation of Labor
See
Happy Canyon
Sheriffs
County Clerks of
Oregon
Cyrus
McEwen
East
Frank Berlin
Portland
Metropolis
Robert Walsh
Mather Field
California
le Grow
Walla Walla
Misa Hazel Saunders
Mary Holmes
Corvallis
C. A.C
E. B. Osborn
Department of Husbandry
Stator
The
Agricultural College
Guy Cronk
Fourth and
High Streets
Joseph E. Crowley
Adams
Mr. Cronk
Palouse
Wado
Cronk
Marshal Stone
Arcta Littlejohn
Eugene
University of Oregon
Standard Theater
Belle McIntyre
Lloyd Michener
Isaac Davidson
Mehtin Haworth
Death of Joseph Henderson Ends Weston Resident’s Long Life
Joseph Henderson died September 12 at his Weston Mountain home where he had lived over 20 years. Born February 23, 1831 in Indiana, he was 80. Survived by three daughters and five sons. his wife died in March 1910. Interment at Weston after grave services led by Rev. A J Starmer.
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Joseph Henderson
Weston Mountain
Mr. Henderson
Indiana
Weston
A. J. Starmer
Appreciation note from G G Ellis to Weston
In retiring from business I express thanks for generous patronage by Weston business men and citizens. I shall hold the town in high regard and recommend Mr. Geo A Lindeken as successor drayman to continue the goodwill and patronage of Weston people.
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Werton
Drayman
Geo. A. Lindeken
Weston
G. G. Ellis
Change of Venue Denied in Kerby Case
Attorneys for Elvie D Kerby John L Rathie Irvin L Stoop and Floyd Henderson failed to secure a venue change Circuit Judge Phelps denied the motion He set trial dates for the last two defendants on Monday September 27 Arguments by defense were heard Monday morning and the opinion followed consideration of the evidence
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elvie D. Kerby
John L. Rathie
Irvin L. Stoop
Floyd Henderson
Phelps
East Oregon
Grain Market Down on Chicago Trade Decline
Chicago wheat fell nine and a half cents a bushel and closed in a semi demoralized condition. Corn dropped five and three quarters cents to five and five eighths. Foreign exchange weakness and an 11 cent wheat drop in Buenos Aires sparked the slide.
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Chicago
Buenos Aires
First Woman Named Commissioner in Washington
President Wilson appointed Mahal T. Boardman to be a commissioner of the District of Columbia. Boardman, longtime member of the American Red Cross executive committee, becomes the first woman to serve on the district’s governing commission.
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Washington
Wilson
Mahal T. Boardman
The
American Red Cross
District of Columbia
Mine Boardman
Italian Earthquake Reaches 900 Dead in Fiviasano Area
In Fiviasano Italy a massive earthquake has killed about 900 people with Tallan town and surrounding villages hardest hit. Rescue and counting efforts continue as missing residents are tallied and authorities assess damage.
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Fiviasano
Italy
Tallan
Navy Divorces From Service Bureau Orders Marine Medicine
An official order from the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ends naval affiliation for the Spirituous and Washington Genomes, prohibiting their use aboard naval vessels for medicinal purposes. The decision marks a final severance from United States Navy service.
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Washington
United States Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Athena News Round-Up Highlights Residents and Commerce
Local notices record Wiles services as a fireplace builder for the Watts home. Several residents announce moves to Athena and surrounding areas, including deliveries for local merchants and a railroad job in Washington. The round-up covers teaching posts, Round-Up guests, bank expansions, school staffing, travel, and a hunting trophy near John Day.
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Scott Fisher
Wile
F. D. Watts
Lower Third Street
William Post
Athena
Benny Grom
Ae Athena
Kuesta
Grows
Washington, D. C
Miss Hodgen
Everett Zerba
Miss Clark
Milton
Henry Dell
High Street
Matthews
M. W. Hansell
Ray Hansell
Lewiston
Idaho
Guy Stafford
Ralston
Wash
J. H. Henderson
South Bend
Hansell
Pinkerton
N. A. Miller
Robert Coppock
Mattie Coppock
W. C. Read
Pullman
Methodist Episcopal Church
Moscow
Milas Canail
Burnett School of Music
Walla Walla
Misa Cassil
Oregon News Roundup of Fairs, Elections and Accidents
A sweeping Oregon page item notes the Redmond Palate show dates, Holstein sales in Marshfield, and a Salem prune crop forecast. It mentions petitions on Sunday movie show ballots in Corvallis, housing worries in Albany, electrocution in Newberg, and the Oregon Baptist state convention in Corvallis. Additional items cover fair-board funding requests, new post offices Bourne and Kirkford, fishing season signals, Portland fly casters prize, and aerial patrols by the war department.
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Redmond
Marshfield
Alsos Farm Bureau
Cate Geile
Indian Affairs
Washington
Corvatha
Ho Werious
Albany
Chamber of Commerce
Henry W. Kramer
Pith
Blaine
Newberg
Oregon
Baptist Church
Corvallis
Oregon Baptist State Convention
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
McMinnville
W. C. Shepard
Columbia River
Oregon Electric Railway
Jefferson Street
Portland
W. J. Walton
B. B Goodin
State Board of Control
New York City
State Fair Board
Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen
Salem
Eugene
Tillamook
Bourne
Haker County
Margaret
Tabon
Kirkford
Klagasth
Charles W. Simonson
Multnomah Anglers’ Club
Chicago
Medford
War Department
Salem Automobile Dealers’ Association
Bruce Cunningham
Liberty
Salem Prune
Marion County
Klamath River
Sacramento Valley
Percy Cupper
Victor Denmeals
Charles E. Watson
Final Allotment of Road Funds Declared for Two Years
Washington reports the final allotment of federal road funds for two years with Oregon at 1 676 182 dollars Washington 1 464 628 dollars and Idaho 1 226 060 dollars Allotments require state matching and must be spent on state road projects under the 1918 road acts Officials say the current allotment exceeds prior totals and states are urged to appropriate more for roads to receive benefits
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Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Treasury
Department
Income tax figures show tens of millions in U S payments
Washington reports more than 5,600,000 firms and individuals paying income taxes this year, with about 9,000,000 taxpayers already paid in full. The bureau notes 4,900,000 person incomes above 6000 and under 8000, 700,000 returns for incomes over 8000, and nearly 350,000 corporations filing with only 5,000 fully paid.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Iran
Mexico Oil Hope: U S Looks to Mexico as West's Reserve
Washington reports Mexico promises to become the oil reservoir of the western hemisphere. With rising U S consumption, producing fields may exhaust in 20 to 25 years, Mexico offers strong encouragement to American oil, due to current production and favorable position. Exhaustion of 40 percent of U S fields has shifted priority to Mexico, which is producing about 12 percent of its potential capacity.
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Washington
Mexico
Department of Commerce
United States
Coast to Coast Mail Started
A coast to coast mail service began with daily planes operating between five cities. One flight from New York to San Francisco and one from San Francisco to New York depart daily, plus Cheyenne to San Francisco, Salt Lake City to San Francisco, and Chicago to San Francisco with daily runs except Sundays or Mondays for certain legs.
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Chicago
New York
San Francisco
Cheyenne
Wyo
Salt Lake City
Hood River Harvest Opens with Pear and Apple Packing Underway
The 1920 Hood River apple and pear harvest has begun with Bartlett pears and Gravenstein and King apples in packing. The first carload of Gravensteins was shipped to New York. The Dalles dehydration plant and cannery seek 209 plus women volunteers to handle the pear and prune crops, fearing rot if not staffed.
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Hood River
Bartlett
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Pender
Branson
Maude Sherman
G. B. Woodward
Woodward
Charles Gerking
Miss Sherman
Long Beach
L. Sherman
Martha Hutt
Willamette University
Henry
Clifford Stone
Colville
First National Bank of Athena
Athens State
U. S
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