Oregon fairs dates list and property transfers
Dates announced for Oregon fairs across counties with venues and septic dates. Also listed are several land and property transfers including parcels in Newberg Sheridan and Chehalem Up lands with various buyers and prices.
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Salem
Baker County
Baker
Benton County
Corvallis
Coos and Curryounties
Myrtle Point
Clatsop
Gearhart
Crook County
Prineville
Clackamas
Canby
East Clackamas
Estacada
Douglas County
Roseburg
Lane County
Eugene
Lincoln County
Toledo
Linn County
Scio
Real estate transfers in Newberg and area records
J W Barcroft and wife transfer lot 3 and el lot 4 block 11 Deskins 2nd add Newberg for $10 to E P and Osla J Diment. J P Busbee and wife to Phil Withycombe 90 by 166 feet in Alfred Job dl cint3sr2w for $100. Aaron S Burch and wife to B F Swick 0.42 acre in Stewart Hannah di cint4sr3w for $1. C D Chandler and wife to A L and Sarah A Young lot 23 Corbett Acreage for $2000. Esther Courter to Alexander Courter lot 6 block 4 Deskins4 add Newberg for $1. Monroe Davis to Edythe R Davis 100 acres in Labin S Morind leint S5er3 w for $100. Augusta Gutbrod and husband to Chas F Baker lots 8-10 block 3 Revenue add Sheridan for $200. Ellen and Roy Graves and wife to A M Tillery 9 acres in James McCane diicint6sr2w for $775. Louis S Harden and wife to J H Harden 44 acres Peter Smith dict 3er4w for $10. J E Reato Wm and Katherine Retters lot 5 bik 4 Joseph Watts add for $1000. Geo C Ritchey and wife to J B Wil son et al lot 6.0% 5 bik 11 New berg for $1550. Henry Ritzen and wife to Nellie P Burch 20 acres Stewart Hanna d Ic int4sr3 w for $10. Edmund Senn and wife to S J Gof
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J P Busbee
Phil Withycombe
Alfred Job
Aaron S Burch
Labin S Morind Leint
Augusta
Universal eight hour day amendment proposed in Oregon
The Portland Journal discusses the proposed eight hour day constitutional amendment to be on the November ballot. It would forbid any worker from exceeding eight hours in a nine hour workday with criminal penalties for employers including fines up to 1000 dollars or up to one year imprisonment per offense. The measure was filed by Mrs. Jean Bennett and would affect farm labor as well.
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Portland Journal
Oregon
Jean Bennett
City crowd draws in country folk to street scene
Narrator notes the city’s bustle captivates rural onlookers and describes a crowd gathered for a store demonstration. A betting game involving blindfolded guessing of a washing machine’s fullness is mentioned, highlighting everyday urban spectacle and curiosity.
Bargain Window Promise at Larkin-Prince Hardware
Local shoppers are urged to visit Larkin-Prince Home Co for hand power washers guaranteed five years. The piece praises John Deere implements and claims the store offers top lines, standout bargains, and quick service with favorable prices.
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Larkin-Prince
John Deere
Sin
Larkin-Prince Home. Co
Portland
Larkin-Prince Howe. Co
Newsberg
Free Canadian Homesteads Offer from Portland Advertisers
Advertisement offers full information on Western Canadian lands near railways and towns for $3.00. It promises maps, platts, directions, and homeseeker tickets, with remittance to The Canadian Homestead Company in Portland Oregon and reference to The Farm Magazine.
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Canada
British Columbia
Yurself
Canadian Homestead Company
Portland
Oregon
The
Farm Magazine
Panama Bidg
Ore
Administrator Appointed for Taylor Estate in Oregon
The undersigned has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of Lovree, by the county court of Campbell County, Oregon, and has qualified as administrator. Clarence Butt, attorney for the estate, notes the appointment date in this notice.
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Lovree
Theounty Courtambill County
Oregon
EK. Taylor
Clarence Butt
Early Telegraph Experiments Led Morse to Pole Wires
A Youth's Companion piece recalls 1843 efforts to use under ground wires for the Morse telegraph. A Maine contractor, cornell, and a Portland inventor tested a plow device to lay wires, but insulation failures caused cross currents. Morse redirected to poles and by spring the Washington Baltimore line operated.
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Apsronsa
Profoamr Morse
Washington
Baltimore
Maine
Lee Teres
Morse
Cornell
Attentive Reader Describes Woodpecker Diet and Habits
The text explains a bird often mistaken for a small woodpecker. It notes wedging nuts in bark crevices and breaking them with a strong bill. It details diet: about 50 percent insects and spiders, with beetles and caterpillars prominent, plus mast and large seeds making up over half of plant food, and grain only about ten percent. It states the bird causes no known injury.
Hadrian Milestone Unearthed Near Leicester Museum
A sandstone Hadrian era milestone found beside the Fosse Way near Leicester bears an inscription noting it was erected during Hadrian's emperor reign and a measure that it points to Leicester two miles. The relic, saved from being repurposed as a lawn roller, remains on display in the museum.
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Leicester
England
Hadrian
Trajan
Parthia
Iecester
Fosse Way
Nest Built by Indian Tailor Bird In Leaf
A small yellow tailor bird in India crafts a leaf nest to evade predators. It uses leaf fibers as thread and its bill as a needle to sew the leaf to a hanging green twig. The nest’s sides sag and form an opening shaped by its beak and clawed grip.
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India
Ram Bux Solicits Patronage in English Community Notice
A historical notice shows Ram Bux seeking support from the English community. The text labels him as a British loafer and references his business of baking assistant services in Wanther 2ap. This record preserves the peculiar phrasing and social context of the period.
Three Dinner Rules by John Bulwer
A humorous note on Bulwer’s seventeenth century dinner rules. The excerpt presents three Latin phrases translated as a playful set of guidelines about behavior at meals, including working for the laws a silent pause and frequent hahaws.
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John Bulwer
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W. W. Hollingsworth & Son
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Multnomah County
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Moro
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Condon
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the Dalles
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Pendleton
Fard
Newberg
Herman Stark & Wi
M A Ryan
Acin Stewart Hanna
United States
Isaac Davis
Jacob Walters
Sheridan Fruit Growers
Sheridan
Western Fuel Co
Geo W Bates & Co
Chehalem Uplands
EH Woodward & Wf
Emma M Hodgin
Woodward Place
Barcroft
United States National Bank
Newberg, Oregon
Cadillac
Overland
FORD
F. O. B. Newberg
Gray & Davis
Newberg Auto CO
Lone Fir Dairy
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Lyle
Union
Oregon Social Hygiene Society
Pete
Oregonian and Graphic
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