Busy Season for the Moonshiners
Atlanta correspondent reports a vibrant moonshine season as corn crops flourish and moonshiners ready stills across the South. Georgia leads detections with 883 finds. New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey add a minority. Deputy Revenue Agent Martin recalls a tiny milk‑can still, while Gaten notes Kentucky's mountains as the real danger zone for raiders.
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Mason and Dixon’s Inn
Wrg
New York
Masaachusetts
New Jersey
Georgia
Hiesiwaye
Kentucky
Martin
Revenue Department
Revenue Office
John Martin
Grant Park
Atlanta
Gaten
Alabama
Florida
Mississippi
Georgian
United States
Colonel Gates
Gates
Chicago Chronicle
Three Big Oriental Liners In Portland Harbor
The Sandhurst from Seattle with oats arrives Astoria and will stock 2300 tons of hay at Albers dock before aiming for Taingtou China. Charterer linked to Hamburg firms tied to Russia since the war. Also in port are Aragonia and Dumbarton. Aragonia to dock Albina for eastern freight and sails April 19. Dumbarton to depart for Japan with 60,000 barrels of flour after flour mill dispatch.
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Sandhurst
Astoria
Seattle
Albers Dock
Henry Metz
Gava
Oregon Daily Journal
Taingtou
China
Hamburg
Russia
Aragonia
Dumbarton
Albina
Japan
Portland firm doubts beeswax ship tale near Tillamook
A representative of Portland Coal & Development, owner of about 6000 acres near Tillamook, said the beeswax ship story is a myth. He argues the so called beeswax is paraffin from seepage and notes over 600 tons have already been sold as beeswax. He adds ships of that era never carried such cargoes. Oil seepage is claimed along the coast.
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Portland Coal & Development Company
Tillamook
St. Johns
Oregon Daily Journal
Baker City Shipments Rise Amid Lumber and Livestock Exports
Baker City shipments show heavy activity with general merchandise moving in broken lots at several cars daily. Lumber from local mills to the east leads the volume, with seven to ten cars leaving daily. A car of horses was sent to St. Louis by C. N. Clay and five cars of cattle were shipped to Seattle.
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Baker City Mills
C. N. Clay
Bt. Louis
Ogden
Seattle
Baker City
Caring for Aged People in France by Consul Gowdy
American Consul John K. Gowdy reports on France’s long running pension efforts dating from 1850s reforms. He details deposits, annuities, and protections, with 2300 branches and 340000 depositors, plus numerous public and private homes for the elderly and their varying costs.
Cheated Death by Pilectric Bitters Claims Cure
5 H Wolfe of Bear Grove Town reports kidney trouble two years ago caused pain and anxiety but says Pilectric Bitters cured him. He praises them for general debility and nerve trouble and keeps them on hand. Tallman & Co. druggists guarantee them at 600.
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H. Wolfe
Bear Grove
Tallman & Co
Druggters
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Postoffice
Baker @ Folsom’s
Main Street
Pendleton
Oregon
Teutach's
Portland
France
John K. Gowdy
Parie
Germany
Caisse Des Retraites
Theer
Teay
Paris
Trsa
la Nochefovueauld Hospital
Conan General
Henry Kopittke Dutch
Henry
Office
MDI
Olympia
A. Nolte
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