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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
7
The Independence Enterprise issues weekly editions in Independence Oregon with Henry E Browne as publisher. Subscriptions listed include one year for 1.50, six months for 0.75, and three months for 0.50, payable to The Enterprise.
An article endorses adding a moral training department to Independence High School and other Oregon institutions, arguing it enhances citizenship and complements domestic science and manual training. It contends education should prepare youth for their great inheritance and responsible public life.
The passage argues that enthusiasm drives achievement across fields and eras. It credits enthusiasm with guiding navigators, powering printing presses, enabling independence, and inspiring pioneers, poets, and builders who shaped civilization.
Monmouth high school hosted a Saturday evening event in the assembly room featuring an illustrated lecture on agriculture by Anna Newton Alton McClellan Gold Wheeler and Stach Hendren plus a curiosity lobby with telegraph and ocean liner displays. The Railway Commission ordered Southern Pacific and Independence Monmouth Railway to build a new depot with passenger waiting room and freight area within 120 days, a decision welcomed by locals.
The text discusses manipulating thoughts to influence voters, proposes electrocution over the gallows in Oregon, and suggests stripping governor powers to pardon. It also questions roafing around post offices, street corners, and churches during services and calls for enforcement if such ordinances exist or should exist.
The Oregon Legislature if granting full requests to state educational institutions would leave little for others, while the heaviest advertisers in The Enterprise consistently sell the most goods.
A brief note warns Falls City Lumber Co. must accelerate activity or the town will regress to prior conditions, with the croaker returning to his old job if progress stalls.
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