Paving Marion County Could Transform Local Roads
The Roads Committee and local groups back a five year program to pave about one hundred miles of market roads in Marion County at a bond value of 840,000. paving may be county or contract based with light traffic roads. past county paving shows solid results at modest cost. Greater paving is expected to boost Loganberry production, raise property values and tax receipts, and unite diverse interests for Oregon's improvement.
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Marion County
Salem
Marion County Court
Old Marion
Oregon
Governors and Mayors convention laments overreach
At the national Governors and Mayors convention Lieut. Governor Oglesby of Micneila called for halting new boards. He urged private industry to catch up and allow employers to set terms, arguing government meddling causes unemployment and that leaving business alone would unite workers and employers.
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Oglesby
Mic‘neila
Horse Still a Going Concern in War Years
The USDA estimates show about 21.5 million horses on farms in the United States in 1919, with war demand adding roughly 1.1 million horses via exports and War Department use. Exports overseas reached nearly 39,000 by January 11, 1919, and the War Department held about 166,000 on November 2, 1918, indicating a total horse contribution to the war around 1.2 million, excluding private purchases.
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Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
War Department
Red Crown Gasoline Returns After War Demand
The wartime shortage ends and Red Crown gasoline is back with the same full boiling point range from low to high. The product promises easy starting smooth acceleration high power and long mileage as before.
Old Boose Death Dream In Rural Elegy
A rustic poem laments Old Boose the alcohol trade as dead and buried. Mourners recall harms from drink, noting ruined wages and jailed workers while promising a simpler life free of despair, with funeral rites overshadowed by circus imagery and ragtime band echoes.
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Boose
Ola Krave
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Newberg
Rocky Mountains
California
Pacific Coast’ Petroleum War Service Committee
Standard Oil Company
Walt Mason
Federal Farm Loans
Strait
First National Bank
J. H. Gibson
Mgr
Yamhill County
Hazelwood Co
By V. A. Vincent
J. C. Porter & Co
R. F. King Newberg
J. E. Devore
Dundee, Oregon
E. L. Evans
1St St. Newberg
Jolin Gower Lesterz
Oregee
J. L. van Blaricom
Spaulding’s
C. K. Spaulding Logging CO
White
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