Easterners seek Oregon land for farming and hunting
The Land Settlement Department reports inquiries from N I Stone of Los Angeles seeking quarter section near a small town in southwestern Oregon for poultry and farming. Others include Fred Hunt of Milfort Canada eyeing Willamette Valley land, Merle Edmiston of Fellows California for 40 to 170 acres in southern or central Oregon, and several more from Massachusetts Massachusetts to Minnesota planning trips to Oregon this summer and fall for dairy, general farming, irrigated land, and hunting access.
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Land Settlement Department
Oregon
N. I. Stone
Marathon Street
Los Angeles
California
Fred W. Hunt
Milfort
Saskatchewan
Canada
Willamette Valley
Merle Everett Edmiston
Fellows
Beal
Abington
Massachusetts
DesRoches
Rose Valley
Bruce Mack
Elgin
Nevada
H W Herzog
Wykoff
Minnesota
Martin G. Thompson
Blair
Wisconsin
Silverton
J A. Jennison
Garberville
Rogue River Valley
Medford
Applegate Valley
Birch Street
Oakland
Grants Pass
Bridge News and Local Happenings in Oregon
Bridge News reports Vet Shields and son Oscar with Ed Rice leaving on a Burns Oregon business trip. A gutted house remodeled and ready for occupancy. Myrtle Beckett ill with nervous breakdown. high school principal G Lake resigns due to ill health. A Minstrel show raised fifty dollars. Fish laws urged by state game warden Harold Clifford. arrests only for willful violations. Local remarks end with musings on quarrels and suitable opponents.
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Vet Shields
Oscar
Ed Rice
Burns
Oregon
Ebrig
Myrtle Beckett
Ray Beckett
G Lake
Hillsboro
Albert Pancoast
F G. Leake
Coquille
Chas. Murphy
O B. Murray
Roseburg
California
Harold Clifford
The Town Doctor and the Golden Triangle of Retail
A 1920 article compares towns to stores and markets the idea of Point of Purchase advertising. It argues the front‑of‑store area attracts passersby, turning them into entrants and buyers, and highlights automobile traffic as a key untapped revenue source for towns. The piece ends with a rural vignette of ducks and goslings illustrating urban opportunity.
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Chicago
Points East
Jagaim
Myrtle Point Herald
Lions Club
Oregon to receive California catfish for Willamette sloughs
Harold Clifford state game warden says the Game Commission will import Forked Tall or Blue Channel Catfish from California over the coming months. They will be released in Willamette and Columbia River sloughs once floodwaters recede to create a local supply and provide a California delicacy.
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Oregon
California
Hatchery Department
State Game Commission
Harold Clifford
Willamette
Columbia
Sacramento
San Joaquin
Marriage satire and a father’s flirtatious misreadings
The late Marcus Leen, a movie millionaire, praises marriage as a source of freedom for women while mocking married men who flirt. A father’s chat with a lingerie counter girl prompts his seven year old daughter to exclaim that her father seems to be unwed to their family.
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Marcus Leen
John
Everters
Salem’s witchcraft past fades as commerce grows
The New York Times notes Salem has moved beyond witchcraft legends, now focusing on progress and modern prosperity. Travelers see a prominent Information Chamber of Commerce sign at the Salem railroad station guiding visitors toward business growth.
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Salem
New York Times
Maassachusetts
Informa
Chamber of Commerce
Character Colors and the Idiom of Traits
A playful catalog of color idioms links mood and virtue to hues. It notes red for anger yellow for cowardice white for propriety blue for loyalty and colorlessness for lack of pep while joking that a mummy, though lacking pep, may be excused by age.
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Pacific
Bridge News
SCME
Edison
Sperry
Lewellen’s
Quality Grocery
A. E. Gault Motor Company
Myrtle Point, Orc
General Motors
America
Ing
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Fisher
Pontiac
Oldsmobile
Viking
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Detroit, Michigan
Open Mind
Oocmevrolet
Cofpontiac
Qoldsmobile
Oviking
Obuick Clasalle O
Cadillac
DO Fprighdlaive
Delco-Lighs
Bissteie Power and Light Plan
Water Lyta
BUICK
Genanal Motors
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