Panama Canal Preview Shapes Global Travel and Trade
Country editor reports the Panama Canal’s projected cost at 375 million dollars and its 51 1 2 mile length with 85 foot elevation. Toll figures, freight per ton and passenger charges are listed alongside distance savings from New York and San Francisco routes, highlighting faster, calmer passage via Panama compared with Suez and the Mediterranean, with global cultural implications.
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New York
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Magellan
Panama
The Price He Paid by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A poem about a man who seeks pleasure, marries, and regrets the ruin of his wife and son. The speaker critiques material church money, hypocrisy, and the toll of vice on a family, ending with a bleak note on inherited sin and unborn children.
Americans Abroad on the Isthmus and the English Breakfast
In Panama and beyond, Americans abroad feel instantly identified as Americans by locals. The writer observes how English travelers reveal their nationality through breakfast rituals and mannerisms, noting the Englishman’s wary menu study and the waiter’s performance in contrast to American guests.
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Americas
Panama
New England
A. A
Lou D. Mac Wetity
Oregon Fruit Distributors Meet Plan Cooperative Farm Sales
Farmers from Forest Grove to Roseburg will attend a Portland meeting to organize a North Pacific Fruit Distributors sub central branch. They will elect a Spokane show board member and finalize a 1914 fruit marketing campaign with a 0 cent commission to cover agent costs. The Oregon Exposition Commission sets aside 10000 for best stock prizes in San Francisco next year, plus 175000 livestock prizes. John Day businessmen push for a roller mill and creamery, while Hermiston plans a 400 acre alfalfa tract. An Oregon Conservation Commission report on the Umatilla Project finds soil productive with intelligent management despite prior beliefs.
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H. C. Sampsons
Oregon
Oregon Exposition Commission
San Francisco
John Day
Grant County
Bear Valleys
Prairie City
Hermiston
How a Girl Can Become Her Own Grandmother
A humorous riddle about family ties where marriage to a widower creates a chain making the narrator both wife and grandmother. The sequence links the narrator, her husband, step-son, mother, and granddaughter to reveal she becomes her own grandmother.
Coos County Financials Show Deficit of 1414.67 in 1914
Oregon accounting department releases Coos County financial statement dated March 31 1914 showing an overdraft of 1414.67 the smallest red balance among 34 indebted counties. Jackson County carries the largest deficit at 421406.46 with detailed fund totals listed.
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Coos County
State of
Oregon
Jackson
Myrtle Point Enterprise boosts readers with yearly value
The Myrtle Point Enterprise claims to lift readers from despondency and trouble. It promotes a yearly subscription at $1.50, asserting the paper’s worth is $5.00 and positioning itself as Coos county’s leading weekly newspaper.
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Myrtle Point Enterprise
Coos County
Hermiston Farmer Loan Fund Advances Stock Purchases
In the past 18 months Hermiston has loaned $15,000 to farmers for stock purchases and the notes are promptly paid at maturity.
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Hermiston
Organizers Set Event for Fruit Growers in Portland
Portland June 16 special report says on Saturday June 20 representatives of fruit growers associations will convene to organize a Farmers Fruit Selling Agency to coordinate fruit selling practices and mutual support among growers in the region.
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Portland
Ore
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