Invents New Lumber Carrier At Dallas Plant
Carl President and manager of the Kine Locomotive Works introduces a four cylinder electric lumber carrier designed to replace horses. The device runs on gas or distillates with a five ton weight, 3000 board feet per hour, and two to four units in operation at the Dallas plant. Local operators already show interest from a Californian firm and the plant plans expansion to double capacity within a year.
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Carl Gerident
Kine & Locomotive Works
Dallas
Severn
Waive Works
Dallas Tremixer
Iuth Will Soon Open Charter Change Vote In City
The Lonmouth Herald reports council plans a May or June election on a new city charter. Attorney B F Swope notes the document is ready and kept by the recorder. The council discussed selling the charter and amending the old one to modernize city governance. Property near Main Street east of the railroad is under review for sale to Walter Brown for about 700 dollars and bills totaling 119 dollars were approved for engineer Houston and court expenses.
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Lonmouth
B. F. Swope
Walter Brown
Oregon Growers Buy Plant Site at Newberg
The Oregon Growers Co-op association has purchased land and three buildings in Newberg near White Oak Orchard on Main Street. The site covers a substantial frontage and includes established structures as part of the growing operation.
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Oregon
Newberg
Oregon Growers Colve Association
White Sox
Unemployment Situation Improves in Portland
Portland, Ore. The legion director of the employment service reports about one thousand ex service men unemployed in the city with six hundred married and dependent. In two months two thousand have been placed in permanent short time jobs and since February twelve thousand ex service men have been placed in positions with permanent jobs about ten percent. State legion officials urge employers to hire US citizens and ex service men over aliens or slackers and posts seek ordinances requiring citizen employment on public works.
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Hidden virtue of weeds and their sacred symbolism
Hawthorne muses on the resilience and obstinate growth of weeds, arguing they may carry essential value for the world, yet likens them to moral weeds and sinful propensities. He suggests nature’s secrets might reveal weeds’ true role beyond beauty or utility.
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Hawthorne
Domestic Dilemma Spares Mrs Worrylotte
In a humorous domestic moment Mrs Worrylotte chides her distracted partner for misplacing something and suggesting he checks where he did not put it. The exchange captures a playful quarrel over a missing item.
Polk County news items include pensions and local elections
Polk County notes report Mrs. R. M. Smith of Monmouth receives a federal pension beginning September 4, 1920. Cc. C. Gardner and F. C. Ewing are named leaders of county projects by the Polk County Farm Bureau board. Mrs. Robert Sachtler becomes Polk county fair board secretary. City council considers returning bonds for fire protection mains and a new septic tank with May election timing, plus 85000 bonds for a chemical engine and fire apparatus. Dallas Itemizer and Observer items cover these moves and a new clerk at Dallas grocery Frank McKinney illustrated by his prompt, energetic service.
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Cc. C. Gardner
F. C. Ewing
Polk County Farm Bureau
Robert Sachtler
Dallas Commercial Club
Polk County Fair Board
Josiah Wills
Dallas
Tillamook Legion Pushes Patriotism in Schools
Tillamook-Tillamook American Legion urges schools to emphasize English as the basic instruction language and require American history and civics for graduation. It calls for daily patriotic exercises and display of the American flag in all schools during school hours.
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Tilamook
Tillamook
American Legion Post
Tillamook County
American Legion
Lesson From Robinson Crusoe In Industrial Wisdom
The excerpt from The World's Work extols Crusoe as a model of self reliance and planning. It praises hard work foresight and self denial as essentials to transform bare nature into a functioning economy and open global communication.
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Robinson Crusoe
Corwin Warns Against Jokes During Speeches
Corwin cautioned John Sherman and Don Platt to avoid humor in their remarks. He warned, Dont do it, my boys, noting the earth is dotted with monuments to solemn asses, in a remark reported by the Indianapolis Star.
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Wittin
John Sherman
Don Platt
Corwin
Indianapolis Star
Cinderella of Egypt Legend Tied to Rhodopis and Memphis
The ancient tale places Rhodopis in Naucratis with a gleaming sandal found by an eagle in her bath leading the Egyptian king to search across Egypt. He marries Rhodopis, she dies soon after, and a pyramid rises in her memory. Priests later displayed her sandal in Memphis.
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Lion of Lucerne monument and Swiss guards history
The Lion of Lucerne commemorates the Swiss guards who died on August 10 1792 in Paris during the French Revolution. The guard regiment Gardas Suisses joined Maison du Roi in 1589 and kept faith to duty until disbandment of French guards. The monument was by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen born 1770 in Copenhagen.
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Gardas Suisses
Arques
Maison du Roi
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Henry of Navarre
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the Apostles
Denmark
Copenhagen
Quote on rights and others from a public remark
A speaker argues that many people prioritize their own rights over those of others, suggesting a friction between individual liberty and communal obligation. The remark frames rights as a personal prerogative rather than a shared responsibility.
Travelers in Central Brazil Face Spiders and Tribes
A letter from central Brazil recounts three ex-officers traveling from England to the Amazon. They describe attacks by Indian tribes, encounters with snakes and giant spiders up to a foot in diameter, and living on monkeys when forest floods washed away food. They now reside with a tribe unfamiliar with whites. one man has become a medicine man, visiting patients in beadwork and tooth necklaces.
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Brazil
England
Amazon
Corwin Revered Ohio Statesman Noted for Wit
Thomas Corwin, famed Ohio orator and statesman, admired for his abundant native wit. He gained renown for his effective rhetoric in political contests and debates amid shifting political currents. Toward the end of his career he had reached wide recognition.
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Thomas Corwin
Ohio
Corwin
San Diego Advertises to Attract New Residents
The San Diego-Calif ornia club with the Chamber of Commerce used H. K. McCann to place ads drawing families to the city. Cost averaged 359.55 per family for 2007 new residents with 800 now permanent. 12500 families nationwide joined the club and 74000 information requests were answered. Also notes local moves and a $1.50 yearly Enterprise subscription.
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San Diego
United States
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