Chehalem Center News Touts Roads and School Progress
Local reports note Staley family saw mill startup and road improvement efforts after motor trips by residents to McMinnville and Portland. A May 12 W C T U meeting at Mrs Newhouse’s Newberg home and a busy school year closing with a two hundred person community reception are described alongside garden tips and a humorous tale about Adam and Eve speeding to Doc Killeman.
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Chehalem Center
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Eve
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Doc Killeman
Doc
Portland visits and regional notes in a small town column
Mrs. Levi Lewis and Rev. Carl Miller visited Portland on Tuesday while relatives and friends gathered at Ramsey and Markell homes. Neighbors c D Childs and E G Metcalf with her Wenatchee party traveled to Salem and Springbrook plans were discussed. May Day festivities in Springbrook featured Grace Heater as May Queen with a simple ice cream and fruit juice celebration in Gaunt Heights woods.
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Friends Church
Sellwood
Miss Olam
Ramsey
Springborok
Gaunt Heath’s Woods
Grace Heater
Crane
High School Agriculture notes prize garden plan
Hurrah for Mayor Larkin spurs school gardens at the high school with a donated cultivator to be used as a prize. Thirty six gardens are claimed, first come first served, as students and teachers show strong enthusiasm and the community is urged to donate prizes for home grounds and gardens.
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Mayor Larkin
Newberg
Scholars to Get Records in Welsh Toponymy Project
Wales plans a nationwide toponymic survey through schools and colleges. They will collect Welsh field and place names including lanes hills woods and dykes and mark them on six inch ordnance maps. A Welsh department fund will supply materials for the records which the board of Celtic studies and the university of Wales will collate and deposit in the Welsh library.
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Wales
Welsh Department
Board of Celtic Studies
University of Wales
Welsh Library
Curious Welsh scheme aims to teach history through living lessons
The London Mall notes a plan intended for Wales that could spread across the United Kingdom. It highlights preserving old customs and local dialects as educational tools, using notable benefactors and war services to enrich teaching of history and geography.
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Wales
United Kingdom
London Mall
Chautauqua Break-In Ends With Meat Contract Demand
In a Missouri town a Chautauqua tent crew prepared seating when two speeding cars halted. The drivers, shouting they were butchers, both claimed they wanted the contract to provide meat for the animals, then rushed the manager.
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Missouri
Nose of a Notary and the tale of a duel nose loss
Amusing Old Tales recounts Dr Fludd Rosicrucian tale of an Italian nobleman who lost much of his nose in a duel. A slave’s flesh graft was applied then a freed slave fled to Naples where gangrene struck the Italian’s nose. The grafted arm’s flesh was removed by physicians. The tale ends with the nobleman’s death as Edmond About’s romance notes. It references Sir Kenelm Digby’s Discourse on the Power of Sympathy.
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Naples
Edmond
Sir Kenely Digby
Farm job riddle about cows and origins
Brief cartoonish dialogue depicts a farmer and applicants debating cow types both American and French living in a home sector. The humor hinges on identity and the idea of recognizing cows.
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