University offers free expert public service to Oregon towns
The University of Oregon in Eugene offers to provide free, expert guidance to every city and town in the state. Extension Department with Professor D. C. Sowers will assist with municipal administration, budgeting, accounting, and social surveys via correspondence, lectures, or personal conferences.
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University of Oregon
Eugene
Oregon
Commission
Sowers
D. C. Sowers
Columbia University
New York
Public Srvice
Bureau of Municipal Research
New York City
Land and goods for farm land exchange in Minnesota
Real estate and assorted goods offered for exchange or sale in the Midwest. Improved farms in Minnesota Wisconsin and North Dakota are available on crop payments. The ad also cites home trades for city property or small farms and a stock of groceries chinaware dry foods hardware and millinery for land or city property exchanges. Agents wanted.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
North Dakota
A. Berkins
P. O
St. Paul, Minn
Typewriter Sale Offer From L. C. Smith Co.
Savings of 35 to 65 dollars on rebuilt and slightly used typewriters of all makes offered at 35 to 365 dollars. No interest, easy payment terms, one year guarantee, and generous allowance toward a new 1913 L C Smith model. Portland Oregon.
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L. C. Smith & Bros
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co
Oak Street
Portland
Oregon
Billion Dollars Spent in Building Operations in 1912
United States Geological Survey figures show 143 cities with 35 000 or more population spent $919 809 054 on building operations in 1912. New York led with $163 519 362, Chicago $83 176 900, Brooklyn $40 537 784, Philadelphia $36 392 405, Los Angeles $31 367 995.
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United States Geological Survey
New York City
Chicago
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Cal
Geological Survey
Detroit
Atlanta
Boston
Buffalo
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Oakland
Rochester
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington
Mineral Resources of
United States
Jefferson -Middleton
Leaton Faces Possible Trial Shift as Illness Worsens
Coquille Oregon November 11 W J Leaton city recorder East Side now in county jail charged with gambling and larceny of 3085 of city funds. He lies critically ill after a second operation for an abscess in a wound from prior appendicitis surgery. Dr Richmond reports the condition grave and a hospital transfer likely.
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Richmond
Leaton
Gage
Mercy Hospital
North Bend
Eastside
Coos County Six Months of Expense Bills Listed
The Coquille Sentinel reports the Coos County semi annual county clerk report ending September 30 shows total expenses of 109 612 42 including 34 891 12 for roads machinery material and labor 71 371 54 for surveyors and 3 238 56 for ferries with 120 for bridges. Other six month costs include salaries and fees for county court circuit court sheriffs office clerk health treasurer coroner and school superintendent offices totaling numerous items.
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Watson
Coquille Sentinel
Eee
Circuit Court
Sheriff's Office
Sal
Oregon Election Yields Broad Passage of Measures
The November vote in Oregon carried most referred measures except the sterilization act. Local option fights shifted some towns from wet to dry and vice versa, while two university bills passed by solid majorities. Financial items list county salaries and expenses including courthouse, jail, poor relief, and various administrative costs.
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Oregon
Notice of Contest for Homestead Cancellation in Oregon
Thomas Jefferson Ward files to contest and cancel Matthew Ottis Nichols homestead entry No. 07893 in NE of NE Section 23 Township 29 South Range 13 West Willamette Meridian Myrtle Point Oregon. Nichols is alleged to have abandoned the land for over a year. failure to answer by the fourth publication will admit abandonment and cancel the entry.
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Department of the Interior
United States Land Office
Roseburg
Oregon
Matthew Ottis Nichols
Myrtle Point
Thomas Jefferson Ward
Willamette Meridian
Prson
Gemieteres
Deliv. TV
B. F. Jones
Register
Enterprise Cash-In-Advance Offers Boost Local Papers
The Enterprise announces deep cash in advance subscriptions and bundled offers with the Daily Telegram and Myrtle Point Enterprise. Readers may lock in reduced year long rates and access major journals at cut prices, as publishers may withdraw soon. The county court defers road bond petitions to at least December. In Tenmile north of Coos Bay opposition grows. a Friday meeting at North End aims to settle differences.
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Cece Energees
Cere
Telegram
Enterprise
Myrtle Point
Coquille River Valley
Coos County
Frank Morris Injury Report From Logging Camp
Frank Morris of Moris Bros in charge of South Fox logging operations sustained a broken leg last Friday. Both bones between ankle and knee fractured, one in two places, when a tangled trip line struck him after cable snagged on a stump. He was carried a half mile to camp with fellow loggers assisting. William Sullivan aided by carrying Morris for about a quarter of a mile.
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Frank Morris
Moris Bros
South Fox
Sustatnd
Frank
Wm. Sullivan
Bill A
Myrtle Point Druggist Sells Adler-i-ka Agency
N G W Perkins, druggist in Myrtle Point, holds the agency for Adler i ka a simple bowel remedy praised for quick relief of sour stomach gas and constipation after a single dose. The ad touts its efficacy and claims the product cures appendicitis.
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Myrtle Point
N. G. W. Perkins
Oregon Agricultural College Farmers' Week and Winter Short Course
Oregon Agricultural College announces Farmers' Week December 8 to 13, 1913 with lectures on farmers cooperation and home-welfare demonstrations. Winter Short Course January 5 to 30, 1914 offers wide courses in agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, dairying, poultry, mechanics, domestic science, commerce, forestry, and music. Tuition-free with reduced rail rates. correspondence courses also offered.
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Oregon Agricultural College
Oregon
H. M. Tennant
Corvallis
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University
Reform School
Surveyor’s Office
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