Governor Chamberlain Delivers His Biennial Message
Governor Chamberlain’s 1909 biennial address to the Twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly outlines plans for enforcement of the depository act, uniform taxation, state institutions expansion, convict labor on highways, and broader natural resource and water rights legislation. He calls for state and federal cooperation on conservation, a nonpartisan judiciary, tighter gun controls, increased Supreme Court judges, and a tuberculosis sanitarium, urging compromise and patriotism in lawmaking.
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Chamberlain
Bourne
Mulkey
United States
Twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly
Asylum For
Washington
Oregon
Columbia River
Oklahoma
Umatilla
Willamette Locks
Congress
Lincoln
George E. Chamberlain
President Helps Orphans and Endorses Electric Bitters
The president of The Industrial and Orphans Home in Macon Georgia reports nine years of success with Electric Bitters. He states the medicine strengthens vital organs, purifies blood, aids digestion, and creates appetite, calling it best for female complaints. It is sold at all druggists for 0 cents.
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Industrial and Orphan's Home
Macon
Rates to Oregon Cut for 1909 Travel.
Railroads disagree on Oregon rates for 1909 but agree the regular rate will be cut by half to boost travel. Early indications show one way colonist tickets will cost less than any time in the last two years.
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Oregon
A Religious Author Recommends Foley Kidney Remedy
A religious author reports years of kidney trouble and a severe winter attack confining him to bed for eight days. He describes thick white sediment in urine, frequent passage, and says after using Poley’s Kidney Remedy the pain abated and urine returned to normal, endorsing Foley’s Kidney Remedy.
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Poley
Foley
Mi Kirkland
Withdrawn From Reserve for Umpqua Forest Lands
The Umpqua forest reserve will withdraw 91 500 acres on January 20 1909. The Roseburg land office will process the withdrawal to cover dairy and timber lands in Benton Lane Douglas and Coos counties.
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Umpqua Forest Reserve
Roseburg
Benton
Lane
Douglas
Coos
Pheasants Sheltered by Farmers as Cold Weather Bites
Birds suffer exposure across Independence and Monmouth valley as snow and freezing temperatures threaten pheasants and quail. Farmers provide shelter and food, saving many birds, with residents reporting hedges, woodhouses, barns, and home porches as refuges.
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Independence & Monmouth
Monmouth
Ice
Butler
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W. R. Allin
Cooper
Independence
Steele's Ferry
Buena Vista
Jefferson, Scio
Shedburne
Salem
Albany
Polk County
Black Bros., Proprietors
Independence, Oregon
Foe
White House
Wm. McGilchnut & Son
S. E. Bush
Independence, Obe
Beaver State Merchants Mutual of
Portland
The
Bankers Merchant Mutual of
Forest Grove
D. Taylor Barber
Hover Baths
Main Street
Salem Laundry CO
L. Hewitt
M. D
Cooper Building
Homer LO
P. Hall
M Goetz
C. O
J. W. Richardson
K.R and 8
BF. Jones
Cooper Elk Independence
Joe
Geo. Skinner
California
Agen
Monmouth SL
Tir
Oregon Fire Relief
McMinnville
Chas. Gregory, Agt
Dallas
Ore
J.L. Calloway
American School of Osteopathy
Kirkaville, Ma
Jr. A. T. Still
Science
Independence, Ore
I. W. Dickinsons
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