Freshmen reading at the university this year
A survey of 142 freshmen shows 111 read the Daily Oregonian regularly. Popular weeklies include Saturday Evening Post 58 Outlook 32 Collier s 24 Harper s Weekly 17 Scientific American 15 Literary Digest 16 Youth s Companion 9 Independent 4 Life 2. Monthly mags read: Ladies Home Journal 50 Harper s Monthly 35 Everybody s 34 Pacific Monthly 26 Woman s Home Companion 21. Books read per year average 7.7. top individual reads 45, 30, 29, 25, 23. Poetry favorites: Tennyson 13, Shakespeare 12, Omar 5. Prose fiction: Wells 26, Beach 23, Fox 18, London 15, Kipling 4, Twain 4, McCutcheon 6, Churchill 8, Ward 7. Autobiographies read include Franklin, Morris, Williams, Jeffries, Napoleon, Lincoln, Hawthorne, Riis, Washington, Holmes, Rossetti.
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Saturday Evening Post
Outlook
Collier's
Harper's Weekly
Scientific American
Literary Digest
Youth's Companion
Independent
Life
Christian Herald
Nation
Science
Ladies’ Home Journal
McClure’s Magazine
Harper's Monthly
Everybody
Tennyson
Shakespeare
Omar
Longfellow
M. Arnold
Field
Burns
Browning
Wells
Beach
Fox
London
van Dyke
Dickens
Myrtle Reed
F. H. Smith
Kipling
Mark Twain
McCutcheon
Churchill
Ward
Benjamin Franklin
William Morris
Geo. Williams
Jim Jeffries
Sunday
Oregonian
Queens of England
Napoleon
Schurz
Lincoln
Rossetti
The
Raphaelites
Holmes
Hawthorne
Riis
B.T. Washington
Henry VIII
Hamilton
First Car Arrives for Salem Road Service
The first car to travel the new Welch road in the city was unloaded from a flat car and brought from Eugene. It will be in operation by week’s end, seating 40. More cars will follow as city service is established. Monroe Utterback, who supervised construction, will return to Eugene with his family by July 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welch Road
Eugene
Salem Statesman
Monroe Utterback
Uterback
Welch
Oregon Electric Railway
Pleasant Hill notes on school land sale and local events
Pleasant Hill June 30 reports slow haying due to cool weather. The high school board bought three acres from Dr Pestol for a building site. plans to be chosen soon. Residents including Mr and Mrs John Grisley and others visited. J T Callison improving after illness. Ruby Baughman re elected district No 1 teacher. Clum Bros purchase 98 acres of Linton farm to move there. Precinct assembly elected delegates. road project laid out in Edenvale. R J Hemphill touted as county commissioner candidate after 25 years in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Hill
High School Board
Pestol
John Grisley
Ashland
M. E. Farrow
Burer
Eugene
J. T. Callison
J. J. Handsaker
Portland
Ruby Baughman
Clum Bros
Linton
Collier
Edenvale
Mathews
Jasper Ferry
R. J. Hemphill
Hemphill
Junction City tops Halsey in 8-3 win on Sunday
Junction City beat Halsey 8 to 3 in Junction City Oregon. The win leaves Junction City at seven wins in eight games, following Albany’s 6 to 5 12 inning loss and Coburg Giants 4 to 3 in 14 innings.
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Junction City
Halsey
Junction
Albany
Coburg Giants
Truth Number 53 A Movement Shaping Global Oil Bets
An editorial style piece details California oil's rise attracting British and French capital, with Rothschilds investing 2.5 million in San Joaquin lands and brokers seeking options in Coalinga producing fields. It cites Midway land pricing, Kern River plans, and Admiralty oil fuel interest while praising Coalinga as a major global field and promoting California National Crude Oil Company stock at 80 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
London
Paris
California Oilfields Company
Rothschilds
San Joaquin Valley
New York
Midway Land
T. A. O'Donnell
Los Angeles
United States
Coalinga
Bakersfield
Imperial
J. M. Keith
J. J. Mack
Kern River
San Francisco
Caalinga
Gypsy Oil Company
Midway
Great Britain
London Petroleum Review
California National Crude Oil Company
Schiff Optimism Holds After Financial Scare
Portland June 28 Jacob Schiff head of Kuhn Loeb Co and Harriman Railway director commented on Congress and the financial outlook at Union station The railroads have cut expenses he said but Congress will likely leave rail regulation alone for years and the current conditions will resolve The soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked in his metaphorical summary
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Portland
Jacob Schiff
Wall Street
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
New York
Harriman
Union Station
Mr. Schiff
Congress
Also Mentioned on This Page
Daily
Salem Road
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles Examiner
Financiers
California Oil Digest
House of Commons
Hugh Law
M. P
Admiralty
McKenna
Coalinga Times
Coalinga Oil
Zed Phillips
Section Six
Timea
Phelps
Zed Phelps
the Times
Coatinga
Old Mexico
San Francisco Evening Post
California National Crude Oil Co. I. W, Hellman Bldg
Calif
Treasury
California National Crude Ol Company
I. W. Hellman
Los Angles
Schiff
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