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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
6
Oregon National Farm Loan Association promotes prompt, efficient service with 54 percent interest and 34 years time. A. C. Bohmstead serves as secretary treasurer at 401 Masonic Temple Salem Oregon, outlining the group as the largest in the northwest.
Effective Sunday June 29 the Valley and Siletz Railroad will run a morning train from Independence at 7.45 a.m. to Camp One by 10 a.m. and an evening train from Camp One to Independence at 7 p.m. The 7.25 p.m. departure goes to Hoskins, with a Saturday 6.30 p.m. Hoskins to Independence run arriving 1.45 p.m. There is a note about sportsmen and a Luckimate reference.
In Florence and other Italian cities postwar scenes of shoe shortages trigger clashes as stores are commandeered and sold at 50 percent off. Crowds line up for hours, ransack shops, and distribute goods by motor truck, with families loading boxes of footwear while merchants abandon shops and seek respite. Military and police efforts fail to restore order as war profiteering fuels nationwide chaos.
A Essex England resident Miss Flack, thirteen, appears in a photo struggling to squeeze into an oversized Indies’ shoe. The caption notes her notable stoutness and explains her absence from school due to not finding a pair of shoes large enough for her small feet.
In Providence a wife seeks a divorce from Joseph A. Satchell after declaring she used a pick and shovel to praise him. Judge Blodgett awarded Mary Satchell counsel fees of 25 dollars and 70 dollars weekly pending further proceedings as the couple, married seven years, left the courthouse.
Miss Margaret Mack and Miss Ruth Stuart, American relief workers in Shusha Armenia, refused to abandon the sick after surviving a massacre. They returned to aid volunteers, signing papers to do so despite danger. The American Commission for Relief notes their heroic spirit and ongoing relief efforts in the Near East.
The Smithsonian reports an ancient stone idol unearthed in Kalispel Montana a 9 foot tall figure with folded hands and a long bearing. Photographs suggest Aztec origin though Montana context remains unclear. Local notes mention Catfish milk cows and riverbank dairy practices amid scattered names and places.
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