Community voice urges Monmouth industry and trade growth
The Herald calls for a local board of trade and organized effort to attract immigration and grow Monmouth Oregon. It criticizes Southern Pacific freight discrimination, rail side unloading hazards, and lack of warehouse space while touting cheap land, school and horticulture prospects, a creamery, evaporator, and cannery as foundations for eastern farmers.
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Monmouth
Board of Trade
Portland
Southern Pacific
Twain's Emancipation and the Missouri Honor
An obscure Missouri town once awarded Mark Twain an honorary degree. On a slow June day a New York editor asked via wire how it feels to be a doctor of law. Twain replied the question with a line about emancipation from ignorance and vice.
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Twain
Mark Twain
Missouri
Tom Sawyer
News
New York News
Ride Across the Desert on a Camel Tale
Dr Nachtigal the African explorer visits a Hamburg merchant. The merchant's son, eager for adventure, asks to ride a camel. Nachtigal answers by simulating the experience with a high stool in a wagon over rough ground in July heat after fasting, to mimic camel travel.
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Nachtigal
Hamburg
Africa
Gift Prank by Lord Brougham at Lady Clementine’s Birthday
A London Truth note recalls Lady Jer sey and her daughter Lady Clementine Villiers. On her birthday a custom grew to place gifts in an antechamber, and Lord Brougham, forgetting the occasion, took a mask as his present hoping the recipient would not recall it had been given before.
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Jersey
Fation
Clementine Villiers
Lord Brougham
London
Bargain dairy ranch with five buildings and orchard
A good small house two barns and other outbuildings plus a fine young orchard. A stock and dairy ranch offered at a bargain. Twenty four large lots on Main street in Monmouth will sell.
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Main Street
Monmouth
AN. Halleck
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the Herald
T. Fogle
Oregon
the Acorn Press
Herald
Bogert & Son
V. C. Boot
A. N. Poole
Graduate Pharmaciat
Sherwin
Williams Paints
Hotel
Hampton D. M. Hampton
P. E. Chase
Monmouth Livery and Feed Barn
Graham & Son
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