McMinnville Banks and the Pay Roll Image in Oregon
The Newberg Graphic commentary recalls a 1907 roll of honor for national banks, noting McMinnville’s First National and McMinnville National and urging local leaders to favor payroll-creating industry over static bank profits. It contrasts Portland’s conservatism with Seattle and Tacoma’s growth driven by business push, urging emphasis on payroll-generating enterprises.
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Country Fruit
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Oregon Senator McNary Voices Support for League of Nations
The article praises junior Senator McNary for discernment in aligning with key senate issues. It notes his Tuesday speech urging the United States to join the League of Nations and his belief that it represents the greatest step toward lasting world peace.
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McNary
League of Nations
Farmers' Loan in Jamaica Heals Small Planters
The agricultural loan movement began in 1019 to aid small farmers in Jamaica from crops such as cougar benanie and coconuts. The relief targets those whose holdings were damaged by the year's hurricane and drought.
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Farmers’ Loan
Jamaica
R Janice
Walnut growers plan marketing pool meeting in Dundee
At a July meeting in Dundee leading walnut growers decided to pool their crop for marketing. A follow up meeting is next Tuesday at 3 o'clock in Community Hall, inviting all walnut growers in the territory to join.
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Dundee
Women and ships: a new sphere for modern foremothers
The Manchester Guardian notes women entering naval architecture with eight entries to a field once male dominated. Chesterton remarks ships resist uniform perfection unlike houses, and even liners show unique variations. Warship designs often differ after trials, a puzzle for experts, suggesting women may find an affinity for these peculiarities.
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Manchester Guardian
Chesterton
Regular Cycles of Thought in Human Minds
A passage notes that thoughts follow regular cycles and are interrupted by accidental thoughts. It discusses moments when a listener instantly smiles and a conviction arises that we have faced the same situation before, attributing this to recurring mental patterns in Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Origin of Japanese language linked to Hebrew and Semitic
Dr Robert Armistead Stewart of Johns Hopkins reports for the Japan Society that Japanese shows close ties to ancient Hebrew and, in parts, to Arabic. He notes mutations suggesting unity between Aryan Semitic and Indo European roots, placing Japanese as related to English through Semitic origins.
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Armistead Stewart
Johns Hopkins University
Japan Society
Romance of Business Platinum Inflow From Russia At Issue
A Massachusetts businessman carried platinum valued at 2 415 000 dollars weighing 23 000 ounces into the country as personal baggage. He undertook the task for the government, spending over a year and his own funds, facing many obstacles and hardships at great personal cost. A tragic aide
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Russia
Massachusetts
Graghie Town News Subscription Announcement
The town urges readers to subscribe to Graghie for local updates and timely town news. Stay informed about community events, council decisions, and key notices as they unfold.
Victorian observer on modern world would be stunned by war and change
Duluth Herald imagines a Victorian gentleman waking to 20th century upheaval. He would see Britain’s near Icarian flyer attempt, Yankee aviation progress, a transformed Russia, a humbled Germany, a dominant yet estranged United States, and a war of poisons, gas, airships and submarines altering global power.
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Russia
Germany
Sas
Airpla
Dulnuth
Not childish at seventy three says dear old lady
A seventy three year old woman thrills neighbors by knitting for soldiers and embroidering a dress for a former maid’s baby. She explains happiness comes from not being childish and helping others instead of pitying herself. The grocer praises her as a grand success. Indianapolis News. Graphic subscription offered.
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