Real estate transfers and Hill steamers plans in 1915
A series of property transfers is listed from various parties including D W Emmerson Eliza Emmerson and Frances M Veal with small sums noted. The piece shifts to report the Hill system investing five million dollars in two palatial steamers between Astoria and San Francisco starting March 15 1915 along with dockyard improvements at Flavel and proposed rail to water transfers. It notes hoped strengthened transcontinental travel via Portland to Astoria and potential Puget Sound connections across the Columbia River as part of regional growth plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill System
Astoria
San Francisco
Pacific Northwest
Portland
Panama Exposition
Flavel
Gable
Columbia River
Puget Sound
Oregon
Exhibit packing advice for grain and vegetable samples
Instructions request immediate sending of exhibit materials to the office with provided tags for credit to growers and community. Advise careful packing of grain heads wrapped separately, avoid tight tying, keep vegetables separate, and allow perishable or rush shipments to be sent promptly via railroad at no cost.
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Cc. C. Chapman
Oregon
The Hill System Money Entreaty Attracts National Attention
The enterprise of the Hill system in getting held of money these days draws nationwide notice as corporations strain to secure funds. This effort reflects a broad mobilization to raise capital and stabilize operations amid economic pressures.
Holiness Association Rents Hall to Nazarene Church
At a near unanimous council meeting the Holiness Association votes to rent its hall at First and River for Nazarene Sabbath mornings and nights and Wednesday evening services beginning September 1. Nazarene Rev J T Little will lead Wednesday prayer. Holiness will run Sunday afternoon and Friday night services with committee appointments led by Samuel H Upton.
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Council of the
Holiness Association
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
First and
River Streets
J. T. Little
The
Committee On Public Worship
Association
Samuel H. Upton
Margaret Everest Weds M D Lichtenthaler
Margaret Everest aged 19 and M D Lichtenthaler aged 21 are listed in a marriage notice. The brief entry records their ages and intent to wed.
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Margaret Everest
M. D. Lichtenthaler
Land Fraud Suit Claims Large Grazing Lands
Salem reports C B McConnell of Burns conferred with Attorney General Crawford about suits to recover 27,000 acres of grazing land in Malheur and new counties. He alleges the company seeks to prevent adjudication of water rights on the Silvies river and notes a figure of about 560,000 acres involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
C. B. McConnell
Burns
Attorz General
Three City Blocks Burned in The Dalles Fire
Three blocks in The Dalles were destroyed by a rapid sequence of three fires started within minutes of each other. The blaze destroyed stores and the post office, threatened the entire city, and damaged mail. Estimated losses reach 110000 dollars as water supply ran short at the height of the blaze.
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Dalles
Government to Sell Timber Tract in Crater Lake Park
A government timber sale seeks buyers for a 6280 acre Crater Lake national park tract with about 90,000,000 feet of mainly white and sugar pine plus fir and cedar. Purchasers will have until 1926 to remove the timber, with expected proceeds near $260,000.
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Klamath Falls
Crater Lake National Park
Canvass Date Set for Republican Justice Nomination
Salem announces the canvass will be Saturday to determine the GOP nomination for supreme court between Justice McNary and Judge Benson. Benson leads by one vote but recanvassing in Multnomah, Washington, Tillamook, and Hood River may alter results. Fifteen discarded Sixes precinct ballots may be counted. nominees must file acceptances and expenditure statements to be printed on ballots.
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Hood River
Sixes
Curry County
Supreme Court
Oregon brief roundups of irrigation land and politics
Threefourths of the tilia project land proves desirable for irrigation farming while one quarter is undesired. Oregon sights include contract nonrenewal for Northwest Townsite irrigation, creation of a new Pacific coast steamboat inspection district, and protests from Senator Chamberlain over Japan in Europe. Other items note Carey Act funding risk, University enrollment up, and a Curry county homicide case dismissal.
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Desert Land
Northwest Townsite Company
Department of Commerce
Chamberlain
Pacific Coast
United States
Gen Johnson
Ele Ment of Justice
Washington
Joseph N. Teal
Portland
Oregon
Congress
State Department
Japan
Warning
Governor West
Secretary of the Interior
State University
Pendleton
University Rangers
Eugene
Oregon City displays 12 foot corn stalks to prove state grows top corn
Secretary O. E. Frey tag of the Oregon City commercial club shows several stalks of corn twelve feet tall with ears in proportion to demonstrate that Oregon is a leading corn growing state equal to the best in the Union.
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Oregon City
O. E. Freytag
Crop Pest War Burns Through Uma County Fields
Pendleton farmers in Uma tilla county declare war on magpies squirrels and jackrabbits. State Game Warden Evans orders District Game Warden Averill to assist in extermination after serious crop damage this season.
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Pendleton
Umatilla County
Evans
Edgar Averll
White Cabbage Grown by Gold Hill Gardener
Gold Hill grower Enoch M. Smith promotes a snow white cabbage through selective culture. He has perfected the plant after several years work in southern Oregon.
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Gold Hill
Enoch M. Smith
Burbank
Oregon
Canned Salmon Shipped via Panama Canal Cut Rail Costs
Pacific coast canned salmon bound for the eastern seaboard mostly travels this year through the Panama Canal rather than by rail. The ocean route saves 40 cents per 100 pounds on shipping costs.
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Astoria
Pacific Coast
Eastern Seaboard
Panama Canal
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W. W. Hollingsworth & Son
Howard Streets
D W Emmerson
Eliza Emmerson
Firlands Trust Co
Perry
RJ Smith & Wf
L D Gilbert
Cavells
Newberg
Alma Stabell & Hub
Tina Haugon
First Street
C. F. Moore
Oregon News
McNary-Benson
Lane
Agricultural Department
University of Oregon
A. R. Tiffany
West
Josephine County
M. Jackson
New York
Jackson
Grants Pass
Parcel Post
Burns Grocer
Bend
Circuit Court
Coke
Riley Cooley
John van Pelt
United States National Bank
Newberg, Oregon
Mail
Daily Journal
Graphic
Sunday Journal
Lone Fir Dairy
R. B. Lyle
Oregon Social Hygiene Society
Oregonian and Graphic
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