Portland Real Estate Boom Drives July Growth
Portland Oregon shows strong commercial and industrial progress with $1.95 million in property transfers in six weeks, 458 building permits totaling $1.04 million, and a record July for construction activity. The Yeon property purchase at Seventh and Stark for $160,000 anchors a busy market, with expectations of further brisk movement and stable values nationwide.
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Portland
Oregon
Oregonian
Theodore B. Wilcox
Yeon
Seventh and
Stark Streets
No New Kansas Wheat Grade Declined
The Kansas grain grading commission refused to create a new grade for hard turkey red wheat. It said most of the season's crop had been contracted and changing grades would cancel contracts. A rule was adopted: wheat with scouring or more than 0.25 percent rye shall not be graded higher than No 3.
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Kansas
Kansas Grain Grading Commission
Hickory Bark Cough Remedy Promises Cure
An old salem Oregon based advertisement touts Hickory Bark Cough Remedy by the Hickory Bark Cough Remedy company. It guarantees to cure coughs or money refunded and to make a friend of you. Sold by druggists and first class dealers everywhere via Pendleton Drug Co.
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Hickory Bark Cough Remedy Company
Salem
Ore
Pendleton Drua Coe
Pendleton Drug Co
Moving picture cameras and their rapid reel action
Discussion on moving picture cameras, film width, and reel speed. Notes how images are projected rapidly as a sequence of views on a canvas, creating a continuous illusion for spectators. Also mentions Miss Fanny Burney's aversion to washing and a note on historic Suffolk pronunciation influencing Yankee speech.
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Mme. d'Arblay
Fanny Burney
Sir Henry Holland
America
London Spectator
Very Sharp Teacher Now Johnny Razor Hollow Ground
A classroom exchange where a teacher tests a sharp analogy and Johnny responds with a pun about an empty earth. The boy compares it to a razor, noting the earth would be hollow ground.
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Johnny
The Hard Knocks
A reflective quote frames life as a forge where harsh blows shape us. The speaker likens the world to an anvil and Plutonian blacksmith, suggesting adversity crafts character even when painful. The tone echoes philosophical musings on resilience and personal growth.
Osteopaths Meet in Kirksville for 11th Annual Session
Osteopaths from the United States and Canada gather in Kirksville Missouri for the 11th annual convention. Dr A T Still founder of the school is visiting and many of his descendants teach there as the event runs in DeFrance Park with chautauqua programs. The gathering, held in tents, overlaps with related events and aims to be a homecoming for locals and practitioners alike.
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Kirkeville
A. T. Sui
St. Louis
Wias
Norfolk
DeFrance Park
Kirksville
Free Trade Congress Opens in London at Metropol Reception
The Cobden club hosts an international free trade congress with delegates from Europe and the United States. The event runs twice daily at Caxton hall. Prof. Bastable talks on revenue aspects of protective duties, Yves Guyot on treaties, and Franklin Pierce on tariff morality and effects.
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London
Cobden Club
Russel Rea
Metropol
United States
Caxton Hall
Bastable
M. Yves Guyot
Franklin Pierce
Deeply Affecting Mayonnaise Pheasant Encounter
A quirky quoted exchange features Mrs. Nuvoreesh remarking on French pheasants and a pinging Mayonnaise moment, described as deeply touching beyond words in a Succesas Magazine style snippet.
Great souls seek grand designs beyond ordinary virtue
A reflective quotation on greatness fuels a quiet note about ambition. It contrasts common virtue with expansive aims and venerates larger life goals.
In the East Oregonian a short feature note
A compact East Oregonian item notes local color and a brief event snippet in period tone. It preserves names and places while giving a quick glimpse of a community moment.
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East Oregonian
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Car Grocer
VA Ilgy
Battle Creek, Mich
Oregon Pine
Bert Huffman
Frazier Book Store
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la Rochefoucauld
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