Oregon Timber and Land Use Debates Stir State Policy
An 1879 federal paper entry notes changes in subscription and a Portland meeting of the Good Roads association. It cites plans to prevent timber disasters through patrols and better fire protection, plus calls to subdivide land holdings to aid homeseekers and promote small tracts for farming and dairy industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Service
Washington
Congress
Cg, CO
Chapman
Commercial Club
Oregon
Vessels of Wrath in the npouid Gazette
A fragmentary satirical screed windily rails at automobiles as engines of ruin. It warns that pride, greed, and reckless spending drag families into ruin, predicting doom for those who indulge and linking cars to moral decay and financial catastrophe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Allen White
Npouid Gazette
Aloop
Lye
Weeping Animals as Love Charm In Malay Belief
The New York Press notes a Malay belief that tears shed by animals especially a captured dugong mother and pups are preserved as a love charm. Authorities from St Hilaire to Cuvier, Sparrman and others are cited for reports of weeping in dolphins bears elephants and giraffes, with the Malay practice highlighting tears collected to ensure lasting affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparrman
St. Hilaire
Cuvier
New York Press
Peculiar Ring of Marquise du Barry Predicts Guillotine
Aixed narrative follows Marquise du Barry owning a gem bearing a faint underwater outline of a woman before a scaffold and the executioner, later clarified by a servant boy who foresaw the guillotine. The article also notes stray items from Harper's Weekly on spiders nests, silk caterpillars in Assam, and brief humorous quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquise du Barry
Paris
Lamar
du Barry
Gui
Mme. du Barry
Mexico
Mosquero
Harper’s Weekly
Sunken Submarine Quote Echoes Dark Humor
The fragment presents Lustige Matter’s sardonic remark about a splendid tomb after being trapped below. Epictetus is cited with two Latin phrases enstain and abstain, tying AML philosophy to the mood of entrapment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enstain
Epictetus
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Athena Press
F.B. Boy
Punchuse
Athena
Good Roads Association
Portland
Sople
Oreon
Assam
Bridget
Cleveland
Jarman
Weston
Jarmans Dept Store
Main Street
Foley
Foley & Co
Chicago
James Smith
Bentons Ferry
W. Va
R. A. Cray
J.P
Oakville
Ind
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