Friends' Pacific Academy Opens Added Buildings and Enrollment
The board of trustees of Friends' Pacific Academy in Newberg Oregon reports steady growth since opening on September 28 1885 with nineteen pupils. By 1886 the enrollment rose to twenty six and the 1857 1857 term shows fifty one students and winter term one hundred ten. new boarding hall cottages gymnasium and dormitories were added in summers 1886 1887. catalogue available from Edwin Morrison Principal and E H Woodward President.
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Friends’ Pacific Academy
Newberg
Yamhill County
Oregon
Portland and Willamette Valley
Portland
Rogers’ Landing
Willamette River
Congress Presses Resignations and Navy Expansion
Congress weighs calls for Breckenridge to resign after Clayton assassination and explores civil service reform. The naval bill expands funding for steel gunboats, a steel cruiser, a harbor ram, and electric propulsion with large increases for machinery and armament.
The Pacific Coast News Reel of California Yet
A sprawling roundup of Bay Area and California happenings from 1889 includes crimes and thefts in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, the spread of opium seizures in San Luis Obispo, railroad and irrigation notes, exotic weather quirks in Ventura and Tulare, and political tides in Nevada and New Mexico. It reports on earthquakes, oil and mining interests, pursuit by cowboys, and a daring burglary by street-urchin thieves in a San Francisco shop.
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Sacramento
Ventura
Cal
Humboldt Bay
San Diego
Sim Jones
Los Angeles
Olympia
Nevada
San Luis Obispo
Bridgeport
Mono County
Tulare
Vancouver
Willows
George Hopper
San Bernardino
Coton
Golden Gate
Spokane
Spokane Falls
Rincon
Petaluma
California
Larke
Robins
Blackbirds
J. F. Glennon
San Francisco
Willie Burke
O. R. and
la Grande
Joseph
Wallowa
Santa Fe
Washington
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Hardin Yager
San Bernardino County
Hardin
Alexander Goldenson
Mamie Kelly
Remarkable Bills in State Legislatures and Notable Events
A survey of varied legislative actions and incidents across states. Topics include death by electricity in Ohio, a depopulating exodus of Black laborers from South Carolina, a Pueblo depot cost estimate, land ownership limits in Kansas, logging bans in Wisconsin, taxation of railroad property in the Dakota, and a fatal geyser incident near Yellowstone. Additional items cover postmortem rumors about Crown Prince Rudolph, a war home for ex-Confederates, arrests in Nebraska, tobacco production cuts, Berlin Samoa talks, a meteor in Chicago, Canada’s independence moves, Chicago police suspensions, and multiple violent crimes and political shifts across states. The report also notes gourges of disease in Kentucky, a Maryland/Indiana set of trusts legislation, and two drowning deaths on the Missouri River.
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South Carolina
Cleveland
New York City
Union
Pueblo
Cal
Kansas
Wisconsin
Dakota
Ohio Senate
Canyon City
Yellowstone Park
Rudolph
Major Stewart
Austin
Texas
New York
Straw Shelters and Poultry Hoist Ideas for Farm Use
The article discusses straw as a heat efficient shelter material with caveats on cost and maintenance, and promotes a hoist design using upright posts and a segmented wooden wheel to lift loads. It also covers grain soaking to aid poultry digestion and a method to destroy potato weevils using a manure hod and broom technique.
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New England
Cozy Home Decor and the Balance of Comfort
A discussion on home decorating urging moderation in furnishings and avoiding clutter. The piece notes the shift from practical tidiness to ornamental excess, advocates weeding out one third of belongings, and praises true artists who blend harmony with usefulness. Includes a mock fruit cake recipe.
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Dauber
Katherine H. Terry
Blue slang phrases and old euphemisms traced
The passage catalogs slang uses of blue in phrases like blue fear blue funk and once in a blue moon from Miss Braddon and Swift. It notes Irish and Greek sayings Tibs Eye and Calends and cites Gosson Ford and Shakespeare era lines about blushing and drinking till it is blue.
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Stephen Gosson
Ford
Local football club in Pennsylvania town causes injuries
Twenty young men formed a football club in a Pennsylvania town. In three months fourteen suffered broken bones, three were crippled for life, and a druggist sold the group eighteen dollars worth of ointment.
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Pennsysvania
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Pacific Academy
William Penn
Board OF Trustees
Jesse Epwakos
EK. H. Woopwarp
B.C. Mines
Epwin Morassey, B
Maso K K. Mirus, A. B
Anna E. Belt
Eloes
Hes
Edwin Morrison
E. H. Woodward
Bredsxenridge
Samoa
Sewell
House Public Lands Committee
Mitchell
Blaine
W. T
Stewart
Virginia
Ottawa
Canada
United States
C. D. Wright
Masaachusetts
Thomas M. Vance
North Carolina
North Yakima
Senate Committee
Umatilla Indian Reservation
Secretary of the Interior
Washington Aqueduct
Bayard
Maiet
Tama- Bese
Congress
W. 8. Rosecrans
Presen Register
Treasury
House
Civil Service Commission
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District of Columbia
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Irene Rucker Sheridan
Phil H. Sheridan
Representative Steel
Indiana
Bond
Arzona
House Committee On Judiciary
Breckinridge
Arkansas
Clayton
Whitney
Navy Department
War Department
Thorn
Coast and Geodetic Survey
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
McArthur
Washington Territory
Simon
Berlin
Naval Advisory Board
Pacific Coast
Mercantile Trust Company of New York
San Dego
Grass Valley
Skeweers
North Banner
E. A. Harbour
Meda
Sam Poster
F. Reichling
Penawawa
Steptoe
Paloosa Country
Philadelphia
E. A. Kelley
State Insane Asylum
Norfolk, Neb
Ohio
Kentucky
Bismarck
Chicago
Trades’assembly
Banfield
Schaak
Supreme Court
Marion
Mexico
Montana
Indiana Senate
Lowerstein
General Boulanger
Department of the Seine
Otto Kaiser
Anna Klaus
Pennsylvania
Webster County
M. W. Merriam
Suffolk County
N. Y
James Olsen
Missouri River
Biamark
Agricultural
Julian
Sally
Albany Journal
Blue
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