Noted Traits of the Diligent Worker and Oregon Rail Plans
A portrait of merit and industry saunters through notes on a worker who answers truthfully and perseveres, followed by Oregon railroad optimism. East Oregonian reports rail expansion aiding Grant county and Pendleton, while Condon and Ashland updates note ore finds and public fundraising for projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
James J. Hill
Grent County
Pacife
Grant County
Pendleton
East Oregonian
A. L. Kenaston
Puckhorn Country
Condon
H. H. Williur
Kenaston
S. G. Potter
Red Cross Co
Portland
Condon Times
Polk County School Month Report May 20 1910
Report from Polk County schools for May 1910 details totals of reporting schools, pupil registers, attendance, tardies and visits. It lists honor roll schools with 95 percent+ attendance and those with no tardies, naming names such as Dallas Ballston Scroggins Goose neck Gooseneck Oak Point Spring Valley Pop corn Harmony Enterprise Mc Timmond Valley Falls City Black Rock Pioneer Highland Mistletoe. Signed Hl. C. Seymour Zook paper hanger for painting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk County
Achonte
Durhie
Seh
Dallas
Ballston
Scroggins
Gooseneck
Oak Point
Spring Valley
Popcorn
Harmony
Enterprise
McTimmond’s Valley
Falls City
Black Rock
Pioneer
Highland
Mistletoe
Zena
Salt Creek
Brush College
North Dallas
Sunnyslope
Oakdale
Liberty
Reek Creek
Hl. C. Seymour
Exploding a Theory The French Scientist Prize Test
A French scientist devises a test for a classic physics puzzle once offered as a prize by the Jeneh Academy of Sciences. He duplicates the vase water experiment with a stone and a fish to show water overflow depends on displaced volume, leading to withdrawal of the prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeneh Academy of Sciences
Esciys
Liv
Academy
London Cabbies and the Lost and Found at Scotland Yard
A London woman recalls using Scotland Yard’s lost and found as a reliable system. She describes losing a variable umbrella, retrieving it through cab drivers who returned items for a percentage reward, and later recovering opera glasses in the same manner, praising the honesty incentive the police foster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lost and Found Department
Scotland Yard
Lost and
London
Enogiahd
Tiy
Bashand
Also Mentioned on This Page
Charles R. Barrett
R. P. Neil
Ashland Commercial Club Finance Committee
Normal School
Valley Record
Publc
Zook
London Cabbies
GEO. A. Muscott, the Grocer
T. A. Riggs
Monmouth, Oregon
Muscott’s
Chase Eros. Furniture CO
Ebay State
Hamilton
South Bend
Rockford
Monmouth
Chase Bros
Normal Lodge
O. A. Wolverton
N. G
P. Thatcheron
Sec
Monmouth Camp No
J. W. Scorr
C.C
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