Oregon Industries and Public Works Across the State
Oregon development news highlights hotel plans in Eugene 100 rooms, Hood River evaporator added, big new Pacific Iron Works plant bid in Portland, and a new Santiam bridge urged for Lebanon. St Elizabeth hospital near completion at Baker, Pendleton post office, new Portland dock, and Union Oil distributing station in Eugene.
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Hood River
Portland
Union Oil Co
Eugene
Whilson
United States
Dalles
Oregon
Chile
Coos County
Tillamook County
K. Sauset
Astoria
Brookings Timber and Lumber Co
Brookings
Curry County
Boyajohn-Arnold Co
University
Kendall Heating Co
Flegel & Long
Springfield
Condon
Grasg Valley
Eight Hour Act Condemned by State Grange Leader
Mrs. Mary S. Howard of the State Grange urged defeat of the proposed eight hour law in the November vote. She warned it would harm Oregon farmers and backed Grange discussion of ballot measures. Eugene Palmer argued against the $1500 exemption law as a form of single tax. Miss Alice V. Joyce spoke on agriculture after returning from Munich.
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Anti-Saloon League
Committee of One Hundred
Cora C. Talbott
Taxpayers’ and Wage-Earners’ League
Talbott
Brewers’ Association
Bortzmeyer
Mrs. Talbott
Oregon
East
Mary S. Howard
State Grange
Alice V. Joyce
Woodlawn School
Munich
Oregon Farm Labor and Census Figures Raise Eight-Hour Debate
The federal census reports 305 164 Oregon residents work for a living with 88 114 in agriculture. Farm operators total 63 581 with 37 292 men and 1 289 women. 27 136 farm laborers with 26 269 men and 867 women. Dairy farmers number 143 employing 589 laborers and 11 foremen. stock raisers include 2 244. cowboys and sheep herders total 3 020. The piece questions eight-hour-law impacts on wages and production costs.
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Oregon
United States Census Bureau
Made in America Pottery Faces World Trade Shifts
United States Geological Survey notes 1913 as a strong year for American pottery with record production and improved domestic quality rivaling imports. Exports fell that year, but 1914 and beyond may rise due to global commerce changes. a closing exhortation urges tying to Work as a life guide.
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America
United States Geological Survey
Home Circle Reverie on Mothers Love and City Temptations
The column reflects on maternal love as a constant virtue shown in two stark anecdotes. A condemned man reads a distant mother's loving telegram before execution, while a Brooklyn tramp clings to his mother’s photograph. It contrasts rural virtues with city allure and urges character forging through daily choices.
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Boston Transcript
Ho Young
Brooklyn
Chickens and their journey from yard to table
The piece notes chickens as pleasant yard birds with a rooster crowing at dawn and hens laying eggs. It mentions hens hatching chicks and aging hens becoming veterans, then being shipped to Chicago and served in restaurants as springers.
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Chicago
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Oregon Development News
State Bureau of Industries and Statis
Salem
Ore
Geo. H. Miller
Pendleton Knights of Pythias
Howard
The
Silverton
Lewis
West Stayton Papermint
Barbey Fish Co
Barham Bros
Dallas
Wisconsin
Corvallis
Averill & Sullivan, Pendleton Contractors
Westonn City
Pine Creek
C. M. Swartley
Corvallig
Monroe
Abigail Scott Duniway
Ayer City
Terveresee Wage Earners’ League of Oregon
Cty
Whittier
Oregon Power Company
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