A Call to National Service for War Time Needs
A wartime appeal urging all Americans to boost food production and industrial effort. The speaker asks farmers to plant abundantly and resist cotton price temptations, while urging railways merchants miners and manufacturers to act with efficiency and patriotism to sustain the war and feed the world.
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Siip
Europe
England
France
Italy
Russia
America
South
United States
Pleasant Evening Reveries A Columan or Two
A reflective column devoted to tired mothers joining the home circle at eventide. It offers gentle vignettes of domestic evenings, small comforts, and shared family moments, aiming to soothe and acknowledge daily labors.
They Say but Do Not Prove the Story True
A reflective poem questions repeating rumors and condemning others. It urges restraint, urging readers to consider their own motives and choose to speak well or remain silent. The piece promotes charity and condemns gossip and malice.
Early Teaching Promises and Character Lessons From Small Acts
The text argues children should be taught to keep promises through instruction and example. It warns that breaking a promise fosters a habit of neglect and carelessness, revealing a person’s true character by small, everyday actions.
Home first spirit of love and harmony in family life
A call to place home at the center of thought and action, urging parents and children to cultivate a cheerful, singing household. The piece extols a peaceful, loving home as the sunlit foundation of character, duty, and virtue, and highlights a woman’s role in homemaking as society’s noble mission. It warns against sowing wild oats and stresses kindness, unity, and moral cultivation.
Timely Call to Service Across Nation Inspires Unity
The message urges citizens and clergy to acknowledge a supreme national test and to speak act and serve together. It emphasizes timely service to the country and rejects treating the subject as unworthy or inappropriate for comment from pulits and homilies.
Home life and kindness guide children toward safety
A reflective piece extols simple cottage living over wealth while stressing kindness as the true life law. It pictures bright young boys at life’s threshold guided by Christian mothers, arguing home influence at night shapes character more than daytime activity.
Riding a Free Horse to Death and Foot Care Advice
A combined piece discusses foot health and shoe fit with daily foot care advice and proper walking practices. It also covers a Bay Area publishing theme, arguing against free publicity as a resource for newspapers and urging readers to recognize the true cost of news.
County Commissioners Lease Huntley Rock Quarry Twenty Years
County commissioners contracted a twenty year lease with Alva Huntley for a rock quarry on the Huntley property. A rock crusher formerly on Middle Fork road near the Garrett place will be moved to the Huntley quarry to surface the road toward Gravel Ford.
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County Commissioners ' Court
Alva Huntley
Huntley Place
Middle Fork
Garrett Place
Huntley
County calls for bids on Gravel Ford Bridge and highway grading
The County Court yesterday issued calls for bids for the Gravel Ford Bridge over the Coquille river and for grading a portion of the Coquille Myrtle Point section of the Coos Bay Roseburg highway.
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Coquille River
Coquille
Myrtle Point
Coos Bay
Roseburg
Road paving orders issued for Siskiyou grade and Sheridan road
Portland May 3 state highway commission orders state engineer Nunn to begin paving work at once on the Siskiyou grade in Jackson county and a road near Sheridan. Nunn advised concrete pavement for both projects. A six mile Siskiyou grade section will be paved nine feet wide with two foot shoulders.
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Portland
Portable railroad system for temporary use
A portable railroad has been invented for temporary use. It is built from interlocking sections that can be laid in straight lines or curves to form adaptable track layouts.
County bridge project gains right of way at Spruce Street
Commissioners Philips and Armstrong closed with E. N. Smith for the balance of the week to secure the right of way for the proposed county bridge at Spruce Street foot. Overhead railroad crossings at this point are included. Plans and specifications are complete and bidding ads will appear soon. The bridge is expected to be completed this summer.
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Philips
Armstrong
E. N. Smith
Spruce Street
St Helens Sets Pavement Project Nearly One Mile
The St Helens paving plan outlines nearly one mile of new asphalt surface to improve local streets. Officials expect smoother travel and reduced wear on roadways as work progresses.
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St Helens
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