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good common sense and his own philosophy. It created a great deal of interest."

Albany has a Martin Ludwig and Eugene a Ludwig Martin. Names get twisted around in this world very promiscuously.

October 12, 1900.

It is a mighty mean kind of a man who will talk about himself when you want to talk about yourself.

October 12. 1900.

Goliath is said to have been the first man to wear a bang on his head. There have been plenty of them since and more who deserve them.

November 19, 1900.

Tomorrow is a holiday. The banks will close both the front and back doors, the saloons just the front door, all over the U. S.

November 9. 1900.

Salem has no high school football team. Why? Because it has no high school.

November 16, 1900.

Jack Frost was arrested by Sheriff Withers, of Eugene, and examined before Justice Wintermeler and held for the grand jury on the charge of larceny. He is liable to disappear on the first warm day.

December 14. 1900.

A baby girl was born on Mill Creek, near The Dalles, this week, whose mother has the proud distinction of having three other children, one of whom was born on New Year's day, another on the Fourth of July, and the third on Christmas day. This one should have arrived on Thanksgiving.

December 14, 1900.


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"The Weakly Bulldogger"
In the East Oregonian, Pendleton, 1915–1918
By Merle R. Chessman

Merle R. Chessman, editor and manager of the Evening Astorian-