Agricultural Education and Oregon Growth Notes
L B Alderman promotes Oregon children exhibits at fairs with prizes including a $1000 state award. Wheat and fruit lands rise in value. hop land near Independence sold for $190,000. Oregon attracts Eastern capital. Pierce seen as strong for congress but not senator. Tillamook new perennial clover. Athena cattle and hogs lead Portland market. winter moisture boosts crops in Central Oregon and Umatilla County.
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Oregon
State Fair Board
State Bankers Association
Portland Commercial Club
Jaxi
Krabs
Independence
Northwest Jand Holdings
Hia
Persia iv
Walter Pierce
United State Sonar
Portland
Pieros
The
Cascades
Pierce
Congress
Ike Pierce
Metropolia
Earda
Oregon Way
Umatilla
Queen Venus and the twin planet of our world
An overview of Venus as the planet twin of Earth detailing its orbit, distance from Earth, relative size and density, gravity, atmosphere, and visibility through history from prehistoric times to the 630 B C. record inscribed on ancient pottery in the British Museum, as cited by the New York Tribune.
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
B. C
British Museum
New York Tribune
Mansard Roof Tale of a King and a Son
The arched groined roof of the Hotel de Ville in Arles, designed by Mansard, becomes the centerpiece of a grim anecdote. King Louis XIV, visiting as the work nears completion, offers to spare the architect’s condemned son if the pillar is removed without weakening the roof, a dare Mansard accepts and achieves, earning a pardon that could have spared his son.
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Hill Son
Louis XIV
Hotel de Ville
Arles
Mansard
Fle
Cnfetter
London Globe
Force of Habit in a Mad Ball Chase Gaffe
A professional humorist, fleeing a mad ball across an open field, wonders if he can reach the fence. He muses it may be a tossup as he pauses to jot a note, only to have the inevitable occur in a moment quoted from the New York Times.
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New York Times
Force of Lightning and a Pocket Handkerchief Moral
A sketch explains lightning power by comparing light spread to two square miles and a one thousandth of a second bolt needing thirteen thousand horsepower for a moment, then four horsepower per hour when scaled to time. A lecture anecdote about Stephen A. Douglas ends with a quip: have your pocket handkerchief marked.
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John Spencer Bassett
Andrew Jackson
Smith College
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas
Capitol
Adeline Cutts
Washington
A Lion's Vanity In Tennyson and Mrs Tennyson's wit
Alfred Austin recounts a moment when Tennyson, leaning on a gate, faulted English sightseers for flocking to watch him. Lady Tennyson replies with playful pride that her husband would be more annoyed if people did not come to see him.
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Tennyson
Alfred Austin
Landlady and Tourist Exchange Complaints in Poetic Dialogue
A fragmentary dialogue portrays a tourist praising the land, admiring green valleys, streams and mountains beneath a blue sky. The landlady interrupts with a quip about real pie and coffee. A distant motto warns that less heart in labor demands more effort.
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F.B. Boyd
Third and
Jefferson Streets
Athena
Eathena
Klamath County
Theeshoola
Oregon Agricultural College
Umatilla County
Athona
Boot
Pacific Northwest
Auoemoute
Massachusetts
Hay
Industrial Insurance Commission of Washington
Commission
Manent
Tillamook
Queen Venus
Pendleton Business College
M. L
Clancy
B. A
Prin
ST. Nichols Hotel
J. E. Froome
Prop
ST. Nichols
Atbena, Or
Athena Oregon
S. Newsom
M. D
J. E. Sharp
Morris Building
Ore
W. G. Hughes
Postoffice
Athena Ore
Peterson & Wilson Attorneys-at-Law
Pendleton
Homer I. Watts
C. W. Lassen
MeKipetinary College
Chicago
Phove
Troy Laundry
Henry Keene
Sponogle
Barrett Building
Foley
A. J. Parker
Main Street
Akers
Pendleton Iron Works
Pendleton, Oregon
Ballard’s
Horehound
Dr. Herrick
James F. Ballard
ST. Louis, MO
Byron N. Hawks
Miller’s Furniture
Miller
James Coffee
Raymond
Missouri
C. J. Bishop
Agnew, Mich
N. Jackson
Danville
Ill
Poley
J. W. Bryan
Lowder, Inl
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