General News Highlights and Oddities of 1972 Era
A jumble of early 1970s items: fundraising for the Ifie Lawton fund, European officers and Boer forces, the Sonoma treaty ratified by the Senate on the 16th, war department orders for an ice plant, Nicaragua canal bill reports, William Waldorf Astor donating $12,000 to support England, and rich ore finds near Dawson. An earthquake in California, Kentuckians feud in Frankfort on the 16th, rising retail prices and price reductions, and a spike in crimes by children under 15. Philippine exports value and railway damage from floods near the Potala River, with agricultural output and exports to the United Kingdom noted. The Mormon church responds to a manifesto on polyamory and unlawful sexuality.
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Local notes show varied Oregon farm and town facts
Baker City runs four cigar factories with twelve workers while Albany creamery sold ten thousand dollars worth of butter in 1899. Willamette River water hits its highest level since 1892 as Eugene youths seek Boer War enlistment. Noonday Mining disburses nine thousand eight hundred dollars to Cottage Grove employees. Joy and Neff of Oakland fail with liabilities of twenty eight hundred eight dollars. Other items include a 1500 pound Albany town clock costing six hundred dollars, a Lake County court receipt of 678 coyote wasps, and miscellaneous editorial snippets and local crime reports.
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Baker City
Albany Creamery
Blodgett
New Albany
Lake County
Oakland
Joy & Neff
Noonday Mining Company
Bohemia
Cottage Grove
H McDonald
Elgin
Oregon
California
Eugene Quard
George Patterson
BF Harvey
Minnie
Ottage Grove
Columiits
Ita Republica Een Paca
Baloni
Pegeywith
Ibariea Mortale
Browneville
Douglas
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Kingdon
Wet Morman
Poly
Uber
Willamette River
Eugene
Consul
Lewssex
Clark
Yrtle
L. A. Kovents
Mra
Nannie H
Ites
Miss Mayp Devoe
L. Jew
Oa Kira
A. Roberts
Myrtle Point
Oregor
Roberds
Myntle Point
Steatreets
Machado Building
K A. Leep, M. D
Omeo
Perkins’ Drug Atora
Willowstract
Pulford
Perkins’ Drug Store
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Orrecoy
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M. Short
Attorney At Law
Orzaon
Vander Blake
Gonteen
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W. T. van Scoy
Ashland
Johnson& CO
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Transportation
W.T. McCloskey
Munator
Cognite City
Cognine Clee
Myrtle Puli
Bay
Roseburg
Eastern Railroad
Marshfield
Myrtle Pint
New Stage Company Jr
Msene Point
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