High school, building projects and commerce notes
Estacada votes 25,000 for a high school building while McMinnville gains two new brick business buildings. Corvallis authorizes bids for a 25,000 school. Pendleton aims a modern cheese factory. Marsh field armory appropriation. Interstate Commerce Commission expands lines to New Orleans and Galveston. Social notes include marriage trends and presidents’ marital histories.
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Estacada
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
8.P.co
New Orleans
Galveston
New Idea of Conservatism Promotes Resource Leasing
Franklin K. Lane urges leasing of 6 million acres of withdrawn lands rich in oil phosphate and potash to speed national defense. He argues unused resources should be used to prevent waste and benefit the public, contrasting with Roosevelt and Pinchot’s old conservation approach.
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Franklin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Roosevelt
Pinchot
Helena
Lane
Congress
Railroads urged to charge full car demurrage to end shortage
W R Scott General Manager of the Southern Pacific argues to the Railway Age Gazette that car shortages stem from loading delays and underused capacity. He says railroads should charge full rental value as demurrage, with free time limited to 24 hours, to deter idle car time and speed shipments.
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W. R. Scott
Southern Pacific Railroad
Railway-Age Gazette
Scott
Wise Ads Partnership Cuts Household Costs Yearly
A married couple reads every advertisement in this paper to spot savings on groceries clothing and home needs. Mr Brown notes sale items while Mrs Brown tracks home improvements. After a year they compare notes and find the saved amount already in the bank, a practical alliance in cost control.
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Brown
Chiefs of Anti-Saloon League accused in mining stock scam
Emma Showers of Denver sues Arthur Finch and G Arthur Holloway alleging fraudulent promotion of the A S L Mines Investment Company. She paid 6000 for 6000 shares in B L Mines and seeks $300 plus jail until judgment. The suit accuses promoters of misusing league ties and ministers to lure funds.
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Denver
Anti-Saloon League
Col.) Post
EK. M. Rabin
Emma Showers
Arthur J. Finch
Celore@o
G. Arther Holloway
League
B. L. Mines Investment Company
Finch and
Holloway
A. S. L. Mines Investment Company
A. S. L Mines Investment Company
Anti-Saloon League Mines Investment Company
War Dance
Clay County
Gilpin County
Wer Dance
Dr. H. H. Russell
Anti-Seloon League
Threats to Resist Industrial Relations Act Stir Colorado Assembly
A legislative agent for the American Federation of Labor denounces the Industrial Relations Act as a threat to government and proclaims that workers will resist it to the uttermost. He compares current agitation to revolutionary forefathers and hints at possible action if the law is not repealed.
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Colorado
Grant Hamilton
American Federation of Labor
Monmouth Normal notes and board plans update
Several Monmouth area items. The Oregon Normal School reports construction plans for a main building addition with architecture selection underway and contracts set for May when the law takes effect. A Monmouth resident prepares to move to McCoy to manage a farm. More than a hundred students attended an oratorical contest in Corvallis with Miss Radabaugh representing the Normal.
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Olen
Scrafford
Mark Scrafford
Monmouth
The
Normal
Walla Walla
McCoy
Withycomb
Normal Board of
Regent
J. A. Churchill
Migs Cornelis Marwin
C. L. Starr
H G. Starkweather
W. C. Bryant
Chas, V. Thornton
Bandon
Monymouth
Oregon Normal School
Corvallis
Southern Pacific
Radabaugh
Newman ‘Sa
A. L. Tallman
Zadie Putnam
Oregon
Yaer
Kansas faces shrinking families says census results
Secretary J. Mohler of the state board of agriculture calls Kansas a race suicide state after 1915 census shows an average 4.1 persons per family. Only Ellis 5.51 and Trego 6.01 exceed five, with thirty counties under four. Wyandotte Sedgwick Shawnee range around 3.78 to 3.94.
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Kansas
J. €. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Sam
Ellis County
Trego County
Rush
Russell
Scott
Morton County
Sedgwick
Wyandotte
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Independence Enterprise
W. 2. Clark
State Editorial Association
McMinnville Geta
Haines
North Powder Valley
Pendleton Elks
Marshfield
Banada
National
United States
Monmouth St
First
Second Sts
Independence
MR. and
ORY
Chichester Spills
Eadies
Fiakoxp
Pilid Dake
Drugg'sts
Tems
Independence Planing
Mir
L. A. Sawyer
A. Hirschberg
R. A. Dearmond
D. W. Brari
AUB
Walker
D. Buttle
Johnson & Collins
Farmers State Bat
Portlasa Devereaux Stonsee
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