Real Estate Transfers in Amity Newberg and McMinnville Districts
Multiple transfers list buyers and sellers including Geo W Briedwell to E and Jennie Miller in Amity with 3-4 interest. Wilhelm Bunck to SM Calkins and Geo L Kelty 160 acres in Henry Noble. various deeds in Newberg McMinnville and adjoining towns with prices from 1 to 16000 dollars and guardianship and US transfers noted.
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Geo W Briedwell
E & Jennie E Miller
Wilhelm Bunck & Wf
SM Calkins & Geo L Kelty
Henry Noble dc
Alsin E Campbell Et al
Henry Eccleston & Wf
Rowland’s
McMinnville
Beckner and Coville Wedding in McMinnville
On Saturday February 25 1911 Miss Blanche E Beckner and Enos F Coville both of Newberg were married at the home of Rev F G Boughton in McMinnville with a ring ceremony. Families attended and the couple will reside in Newberg.
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F. G. Boughton
McMinnville
Blanche E. Beckner
Enos F. Coville
Newberg
Revival services begin here Wednesday evening by Rev Pemberton
Revival services open Wednesday evening led by Rev Pemberton inviting all to attend. Arthur Allen noted as an heir visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs C E Kirk on March 3. Mrs Paulsen and daughter Gladys visited relatives in Portland Friday evening. Mr Andrews, nephew of Mrs E B Ridgway, visited Saturday and Sunday. Mr C X Larrabee of Portland came Friday for the funeral of his uncle Chancellor Johnson who died March 1.
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Pemberton
Arthur Allen
C. E. Kirk
Mrs. Paulsen
Gladys
Portland
Multiple Velocity Marriages Reported in Town Records
Blanch E Beckner age 17 wed Enos F Coville age 20 Genora Adora Rinehart age 33 married Samuel R Doney age 44 Georgeana C Pritchett age 17 wed Carl Hurner age 20 The list records four marriages with ages and couples.
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Blanch E. Beckner
Enos F. Coville
Genora Adora Rinehart
Samuel R. Doney
Georgeana C. Pritchett
Carl Hurner
Wedding Knives and the Costume of Brides Across Eras
The article traces wedding knives as a once essential bridal accessory in Europe and England. It notes their symbolic meanings from knot severing to household virtue, their elaborate cases and jeweled handles, regional production like Sheffield, and their decline after William and Mary era with the Stuarts fading from use.
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Europe
Sheffield
William and
Mary
Anne
London
The Chaplain's Advice and James I Sees a Solution
During James I's reign the London see was vacant as many sought the bishopric. Montaigne advised a biblical solution by citing a verse about moving a mountain to the sea. The king grasped the point and the chaplain obtained the see.
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James I
London
Montaigne
St. Mark
James
All the Same to Him
A St Paul Dispatch item recalls a boy claiming he joined the Boys' club with pride only to joke that he had been assassinated. The humorous mishearing highlights neighborhood tensions as the boy declares his supposed fate.
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Sedenmalaraie
St. Paul Dispatch
Busy Girl Clashes With Policeman Over Law
A fragment from a Ladies' Home Journal quote shows a policeman scolding a busy girl who retorts that she is doing all she can to keep the Ten Commandments. The dialogue highlights tension between authority and personal conduct.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
An Earlier Start Time Debate Echoes in Morning
A father jests with his son about adjusting to time, contrasting standard time with a personal notion of time. The exchange, quoted from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, hints at early rising and the need to align daily routines with a shifted schedule.
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William
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York Harbor As Seen Through Fog and Steel
Walter Pri Eaton describes New York Harbor from the Narrows to Sandy Hook, noting the twin bays and Manhattan Island as a vast center of water commerce. He paints the harbor as a lake like harbor, with ferries, liners, and the skyline, while foggy seas, brine smells, and Atlantic rollers create a vivid coastal scene.
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New York
Staten Island
Rooklyn
Antine
Sandyady Hook
New York City
Sandy Hook
St. Gakg
Hadson
Hast
Manhattan Island
da Cadia
Manhattan
Hatteras
Walter Pri 1
Eaton
Scribner’s Magazine
Modest Gibbs Avoids Praise for Scientific Honors
The biographical sketch notes J Willard Gibbs, a Yale professor of mathematical physics, undervalued his work and shunned publicity. In 1901 he received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London but urged friends to say nothing, calling the award likely an error.
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J. Willard Gibbs
Yale
Gibbs
Copley
Royal Society of London
Fate of Pins Revealed by Long Experiments
A French investigator reports pins and similar items eventually vanish through corrosion and decay. Hairpins disappeared after 154 days into ferrous oxide blown away by wind, while bright pins, steel needles, brass pins, and steel pens show progressively longer endurance, with wooden holders remaining.
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Harper’s Weekly
Child's Remark Reveals Family Dry Humor
A mother jokes about wearing shoes for four months while dressing, telling her child she is easy on everything. The little girl replies with a simple “I father,” capturing a tender family moment in a light home scene.
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Otmditias
John
Doing His Best. Bluebloods and a Tailor in a Dignified Exchange
A brief skit features Mrs Blueblood and Blueblood arguing about a bowed man who turns out to be his tailor. She protests insolence while he claims to have kept him at a proper distance for two years. The Boston Transcript is cited.
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H L Christenson
Wfto
EA Plummer
Hurley & Large’s
Susan Herbers
Hub
Rohr
Se & Nw
Sey
F Held
Gordon
Block
Everest
John Ingle
J O Lyon
City Park
Gust Kunze
Geo A Maddox
Guardian
J E Miller
Amity
BC Miles & Wt
H Nelson
H Parker & Wt
Thompson
Sarah E
Lewis L
Saunders & Wt
Calvin Wells
Edwards
Henry Sheard
Wm Lsheard
Logan
Frances R. Sharp
Rasmus
Hansine Nelson
Jasper Simmons & Wf
Frank Martin
Smith Stephens & Wf
Frank
Rachel Matheny
Morgan C Rockhill
Charles C Thumberg
Chas F & M B
Blum
Edward Cluff
J M Harrington
JE Todd
T E O'Neill
Isabelle Riggs
United States
John Frank
John T Johnson
James William Ball
Franklin
Nancy Jane Yocom
E P Wallace
Rosina J Wallace
Smith & Phillips
Chester P Walker
E Woodward & Wi
Wma Larsen
Morris
Amos Wood
Fred Namitz
Beckner
Coville
Gride
New York’s Harbor
Narrows
Hitchen Mercantile Co
First and
Meridian
Oxfords
Nash & Finley
First National Bank
Sporting Goods
MO. N. Crosby & CO
E. M.F
Flanders
Newberg, Oregon
Oregon
Chas. K. Spaulding Log. Co
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