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    The Benjamin P. Cheney Academy

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    "This article is limited to a brief treatment of the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy, the progenitor of the State Normal School at Cheney.

    The North-West Tribune

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    "I have 're-discovered' in the Spokane Public Library almost a complete file of The North-West Tribune, the second newspaper to be started in Spokane County… Many erroneous statements relative to this newspaper have appeared in histories of the Pacific Northwest, and I want to take this occasion to give a few dates...

    The locus of a call : a comparative study of call and how call is actualized within ethnically diverse Churches of God

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    Records of Baptist Home Missionary Activity in Oregon Territory to 1860

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    "The documentary material which follows has been gleaned from the Letter Books, the Minute Books, and the Reports of the Society. This material, supplemented by Ezra Fisher's Correspondence, the records of the Baptist churches in Oregon, and what may be extracted from the Baptist periodical publications, constitutes the basic source material for the study of the early period of Baptist missionary activity in Oregon.

    Notes on Early Settlements and on Geographic Names of Eastern Washington

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    "By means of the data herein assembled the story of the occupation of the area north of the Snake River in eastern Washington during the seventies and the eighties can be traced in outline, and the principal factors which determined the sites of pioneer towns can be seen in operation.

    Additional Notes on the Constitution of 1878

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    "In the years 1918-1919 Professor Edmond S. Meany and Dean John T. Condon, of the University of Washington, published in the Washington Historical Quarterly a series of articles entitled Washington's First Constitution, 1878… In the summer of 1878, there was only one newspaper in existence in Eastern Washington north of Snake River. This was the Palouse Gazette... As this newspaper was the only representative of 'journalistic opinion' in the 'upper country,' I have recently examined the first two volumes with a view to ascertaining, if possible, what its opinion was on the subject of statehood. As a result of that investigation, I am offering herewith some 'additional notes' on the constitution of 1878.

    Semi-Centennial of Cheney

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    "It has occurred to me that it may be well to call attention to the fact that the City of Cheney reaches the half-century of age in this year, 1930.

    The Operations in the Oregon Country of the American Bible Society and of the American Tract Society Before the Civil War

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    "As the first four decades of the nineteenth century saw the rise in Europe and in America of numerous missionary bodies, so they witnessed also the formation…of Bible and Tract societies whose activities are essential to a proper understanding of the modern missionary movement.

    Additions to Professor Meany's Newspapers of Washington Territory

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    "In 1922-23 Professor Edmond S. Meany of the University of Washington had published in several numbers of the Washington Historical Quarterly a brief history of the newspapers of Washington Territory. It is the purpose of this article to add to Professor Meany's pamphlet information in relation to the newspapers of Washington Territory which has come to light since his study was published.

    Passing of an Immigrant of 1843

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    "John A. Stoughton, one of the last of the celebrated band of immigrants that crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843, died at the Spokane County Infirmary, at Spangle, on July 1, 1924. He was nearly ninety years old at his death… Mr. Stoughton wrote a brief account of his recollections of the journey across the plains. From the original, Professor Edmond S. Meany, in 1906, made the following copy...
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