Summer Visitors and Local Preparations North of Rex
Miss Freda Kane returns from Portland while A H Dean begins a Portland job. Rex area pruners and dryers ramp up as pruning and drying season continues. Mrs George Wallace visits from Port is and Elizabeth Strate spends time in Portland. Roads to Beaver and coast lure Lewis Winters Ed West and Chas Rein on a camping trip. Ladies Aid meets at Mrs A Dean with Kind mess as discussion. School cleaning gears up for the late month opening.
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Lewis
Ray Winters
West
Chas. Rein
Beaver
Ladies’ Aid
A. Dean
Kinney Family Guests and Harvest Updates
Mr and Mrs Frank Kinney and their young daughter Frankie and Kenneth Fendall were Sunday guests of H C Baker and family. Tilla Hesgard and George Bush returned from A J Ray s hop yard and expect to finish picking by next Wednesday. G W Worden began harvesting his prune crop last Monday and anticipates a good yield. Miss Nettie Anderson returned home last week from Cornelius where she had been.
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Frank Kinney
Lttl
Frankie
Kenneth Fendall
H. C. Baker
Tilla Hesgard
George Bush
A. J. Ray
G. W. Worden
Nettie Anderson
Cornelius
Local Social Notes Mention Summer Visits and Travel
Mrs Joanna Davis left a week ago last Tuesday to visit relatives with her son A M Davis at the Exposition in San Portland. Mr and Mrs B H Anderson had dinner with Mr and Mrs H Anderson while Miss Edna Anderson departed for Portland on the first and will return via Salem.
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Joanna Davis
A. M. Davis
San
B.H. Anderson
H. Anderson
Edna Anderson
Portland
Salem
Larkin Prince Hardware ad touts John Deere products and ranges
A period ad promotes John Deere plows and Monarch Malleable Ranges from The Big Hardware Store and Prince Hardware. It claims durability and service with guaranteed plows, air tight heaters, and motor washing machines on free trial, inviting customers to visit and inquire. It also notes a shooting event at the Gun Club grounds on the 15th.
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John Deere
Larkin
Prince
Prince Hardware
Audience challenges blunt wedding proposal claim
The speaker wryly asserts that nine of ten women propose and asks married men if their wives proposed. A silence follows with women muttering for the men to stand, and a tense auditorium hums with whispered reactions.
One Way to Have Peace at Village Grocer
A brief comic exchange centers on a boy trying to keep two men, Bill Perkins and himself, from fighting outside a village grocer. The gag hinges on the boy’s earnest claim of preventing a clash between the two men.
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Bill Perkins
Turkes Use of 800 Pound Cannon Highlighted
A Dundee Advertiser piece recalls how 800 pound granite shots were fired by Ottoman guns a century ago. It notes the Royal George and Windsor Castle suffering near misses, a shot piercing Active’s starboard bow, and the rarity of firing such colossal weapons more than once.
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Europe
Royal George
Windsor Castle
Tara
Fred
Dundee Advertiser
Crabs In Full Dress Decorate Themselves At Sea
Reports from the Linnaean Society describe crab species that adorn themselves with bits of bright seaweed weeds and sponges. They carefully apply pieces to their shells using their pincers, matching colors on opposite limbs, and the garments grow as the weed attaches with time. If stripped of their attire the crabs promptly re dress with deliberate shaping and consistent color choices.
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Poole
Linnaean Society
London Spectator
The Attorney in England and the Rise of Solicitors
A discussion traces the term attorney from its decline after 1875 when the law merged attorneys into solicitors of the supreme court of judicature. It notes that the word became a term of abuse, cites Johnson and Archbishop Trench on its fading usage, and mentions the 1878 judicature act abolishing servatism while preserving the attorney general title.
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England
Supreme Court of Judicature
London Mail
Johnson
Archbishop Trench
Knocking on Wood Across Ancient Superstitions
An article notes the long history of the phrase knock on wood cited by Professor William F. Bade. It traces the custom to 6000 years ago when wood was linked to appeasing spirits after touching metals. Ancient records mention King Solo tools and implements of precious metal.
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William F. Bade
Evigenius
Overworked Runabout for Farm Use
A farm magazine writer suggests an ultimate runabout could power a circular saw water pump freight dairy machinery silo fodder shredder and feed crusher. The idea may be feasible but would leave little time for anything else.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Burglary Charge Talk at Station Court
A courtroom exchange centers on burglary allegations as the complainant accuses the prisoner of stealing $5 at the station. The judge notes that burglary requires a breaking, prompting further discussion of the case details.
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Fie
A Cheerful Spirit Attains Much More Readily
A brief fragment notes that a cheerful and glad spirit helps one achieve greater things with easier effort and faster progress. The line hints at optimism enhancing personal capability and motivation.
Carlyle’s Temper Refuted by Servant Testimony
Jessie Broadfoot, a former Carlyle maid, testifies she found him kind and attentive not bad tempered. She recalls serving him daily, lighting his pipe, preparing tobacco, and moving street organs, disputing public characterizations of him as harsh.
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Carlyle
Jessie
Mrs. Broadfoot
London Standard
FIRST AIR BALLOONS DESCRIBED BY JOHNSON
Dr Johnson writes of early air balloon science in 1783 describing how acids release a lighter vapor captured in a bladder, then aggregated into a large balloon of light material to hold light air. The process leads to a balloon that can rise with wind and water currents, illustrating 18th century speculation on balloons.
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Johnson
Mre
Thrale
Uren Island Width and Cheviot Boundary Described
The description notes Uren Island width at contact around sixty miles. The river Tweed divides the eastern region and the Cheviot range marks a boundary for much of the remaining distance.
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Uren
Britain
Electric Currents Could Sustain Life Says Theorists
A Baltimore American comment notes a claim that electricity might replace food in maintaining life. It critiques the idea as a shocking theory and presents the debate as a curious scientific curiosity of the era.
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Baltimore
Condensed language aids the soul and mind
A compact reflection on how succinct phrases sharpen thought. The quote contrasts Browning on speed of life with Holmes on sunbeams and concentration, suggesting brevity deepens impact and meaning.
I Am Just Rate and I'm Powerful Obi to You
A farmer, long absent from his naval haunts, reappears in a distant field and tells a friend he cannot yet make money. He says he is not earning income but is slowly losing less than before, and that he is hopeful as he continues farming on his new land.
Spontini’s Demi God Image At Grand Halle Reunion
Casparo Spontini saw himself as a demi god and dressed in a white silk toga with gold border and silt embroidery. He wore so many medals his chest could not hold them all. An old musician noted Spontini’s many decorations while Mozart had none, to which Spontini replied Mozart does not need them.
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Casparo Spontini
Spontint
Halle
Spontini
Mozart
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United States National Bank
Newberg
San Francisco
Los Angeles
el Paso
Southern Pacific
John M. Scott
Oregon
Freda Kane
A. H. Dean
George Wallace
Port
Rex
Rays’ Hop Yard
Parrott Mountain
Elizabeth Strate
John Winters
A. Slaughaener
John D. Rockefeller
Larkin - Prince Hardware Co
Crabs
Johnegon
Born - Holmes
A.J. Tower CO
Boston
Lone Fir Dairy
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
R. B. Lyle
J. L. van Blaricom
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