Real estate transfers across McMinnville and Lafayette districts
Transfers filed by Yamhill County Abstract Co cover McMinnville Lafayette and Dundee area parcels. Transactions include J H Gibson, J H Hess, George Braithwaite, Peter Christensen, W D Clayville, J T Malony, May Niedermark and others with buys, gifts, and lot tracts in McMinnville Lafayette Newberg and Dundee. Prices range from 1 to 860 dollars with numerous small tracts and full lots conveyed to multiple buyers and lenders.
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Yamhill County Abstract Co
J. H. Gibson
McMineville
E. Arney
Allen Johnson
J. H. Hess
Leint
Chase Becker
Gdn
Timothy Goodrich
Wheatland
George Braithwaite
Albert P
Martha Becker
Peter Christensen
National Suréty Co
John’s
Minnville
Clayville
G & May
Lafayette
Cooper
E & Agnes Peckham
John T Malony
Caroline
Will Blk
Saylor
Ville
Local Happenings In Portland Area Abound
Mrs W J Bennett and children visited Portland while Alexander Wilson and his mother moved to Portland. Work started on J W Bakers new plant diner and Mrs Cyrene Palmers new home on parcels sold by Samuel Parrett. The Allan family marked Isabella Allan seventh birthday with a picnic at their grove near the new home. Julia W Little and Francis C Little of Portland plus Miss Claudia O Hill of Puyallup visit Otter Brook. Irene Higgins of Tacoma visits Mrs Geo H Greer at Camp Otterbrook. E S Greer’s new barn is finished and ready for the hay crop.
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Alexander Wilson
Portland
J. W. Baker
Prant
Cyrene Palmer
Samuel Parrett
W. S. Allans
Allan
Little Isabella Allan
Allan Grove
Julia W. Little
Francis C. Little
Claudia O. Hill
Puyallup
Otterbrook
Irene Higgins
Tacoma
Geo. H. Greer
Camp Otterbrook
E. S. Greer
Velocity of Light Revealed by Jupiter Moon Observation
A historical note explains that a Jovian moon lagged Earth by sixteen minutes and thirty six seconds, revealing light travels 186 million miles in about 1000 seconds. This led to a calculation of light’s speed as roughly 186000 miles per second, illustrating early astronomical methods.
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Jupiter
Alante
Rea Eenee
Plea For Reasonableness In Domestic Dilemma
Mary urges John to evict a burglar like beau from the kitchen after midnight. John resists claiming calm, while Mary presses for immediate action and a reasonable resolution to the late visitor situation. The dialogue centers on controlling a guest in a private home.
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Mary
Courteous Prisoners Charm Visitor in New England Jail
A visitor praised the jail inmates as gentle and polite in a New England city, while the jailer noted that he would prefer fewer manners. He recalled a recent escape by one of the most courteous inmates who left a note asking pardon for his liberty.
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New England
Suitor Tries to Buy Daughter With Cash Says Father
In a bristling exchange from the New York Journal a quarrel over marriage turns to a cash offer. The old man declares no force will be used but asks how much money will secure the match while the suitor counters with a price. The debate climaxes in a tense verbal standoff.
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New York Journal
Why She Wept In Newton Streets
A Boston Traveler excerpt recalls a scene in Newton where a boy strikes a girl in the street and a passerby intervenes. The girl sobs that she cries not from the pain but from Jimmie who ran away after the strike and will not return to let her forgive him.
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Newton
Jimmie
Boston
Pelts by the Million in London Fur Sales
London fur sales draw crowds to Great Queen Street warehouses where thousands of skins fill floors, including thousands of Russian bear skins and valuable silver fox. Prices reach as high as 2500 dollars for a single sable skin as traders source seal, fox, and boa constrictor hides from global markets and remote farms.
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London
Great Queen Street
Switzerland
Prince William’s Sound
Alaska
London Graphic
Hancock's Presence of Mind in Civil War Memoir
A reminiscence recalls General Hancock in battle, wounded and carried to the rear where surgeons remove clothing and extract a missile. He urges an aide to inform General Meade that the enemy is running low on ammunition, declaring he was wounded by a tenpenny nail.
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Hancock
Burg
Profesia
Meade
The Unique Mr Whistler
A portrait from Lady St Helier’s Memories highlights Mr Whistler as exceptionally witty and fearless. He mocked himself as deftly as others and lived by his own rules, always arriving late for dinner while adjusting his gray hair and offering hollow apologies.
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Mr. Whistler
Whistler
Lady St. Helier
Growing a Living Green Sponge from Seeds
A method from a magazine describes sowing a large white sponge with rice oats or Saket and alae it for a week or ten days in a shallow dish of water. As moisture is absorbed the seeds sprout, then suspend the sponge from a window to create a living mass of green with occasional moistening as needed.
Punctuation Confusion Illustrated By A Complex Sentence
A playful示 example shows how comma and period placement changes meaning. The text explores that that is is that that is not is not is not that it it is, highlighting punctuation's role in clarity.
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Earnest T Duzen
Smith
Jackson & Wen Buffum
Minnie E Hall
Horner
A G & May Bell
Lafay
JH Olds
Dolph Olds
Oregon & California
R Rco
R L Bowley
West
Melvin Oliphant
DM & Vera McClellan
Edward Dle
Samuel L Parrett
Adolph Simonson
McMinnville
Lyman Smith
Cliffogi
R & Ross S
W. J. Bennett
Porteland
Oregon
Journal
Newberg Graphic
M. J. Nash Co
Hot Lake Sanatorium
Hot Lake
Walter N. Pierce
Black
The
Hitchen Mercantile Co
Ansco
Lowney
E. W. Hodson
Astoria
W. S. Townsend
41St Avenue
Ore
Yamhill Electric CO
Lynn B. Ferguson
N.C. Christenson
C. B. Cummings
Newberg, Or
Newberg Manufacturing and Construction Co
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