Rose Festival Welcomed in Rex Oregonus at Portland
Rex Oregonus, crowned carnival king, arrived from the land of dreams to command Portland for the Rose Festival week. About 50 decorated vessels rode the Willamette while 1500 roses adorned motor cars for the grand parade. More than 250,000 visitors expected as pageants, floats, and illuminated shows highlight the celebration and the city’s famed Rose status.
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Portland
Ore
Rex Oregonus
Land of Dreams
Willamette River
Oregon
Rex Orekonus
River access problems eyed by Columbia and Snake river group
Lewiston Idaho June 9 Special reports that the Columbia and Snake river waterways association faces key questions on linking Lewiston and Clarkston with the Columbia River basin by direct all-water routes and rail connections, alongside Astoria harbor developments, as Secretary Walley or Wal-ley discusses.
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Lace R. Struble
Inland Empire
Struble
G. C. Newman
McKinney
Lower
Columbia River
Lewiston
Idaho
Clarkston
Great Basin
Columbia
Snake Rivers
Astoria
Columbia and
Film Used to Teach Workmen Motion Economy
New York reports Frank B. Gilbreth has devised a method using a moving picture machine with a chronometer to show a worker’s minute operations. Successive film frames reveal positions and time between operations, turning into an instructional card shared with workers to improve efficiency beyond printed instructions.
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New York
Frank B. Gilbreth
Fitzgerald the tightest spender or savviest reformer
Representative Fitzgerald of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is described as spending vast sums while evading waste. He recounts battles over funds for the Bureau of Mines quarters, the civil service commission steel files, and a Taft economy commission, illustrating the clash between government spending and restraint.
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Washington
Fitzgerald
New York
Ways and Means
Sam
Holmes
Bureau of Mines
Pittsburg
War Department
Civil Service Commission
Uncle Sam
Fashion and Household Tips From Fashions and Food Notes
A compilation of practical advice and style observations from newspapers. Guidance on cheese storage to keep it fresh, color and fabric trends in spring outfits, and silhouettes from Paris to Bulgaria. Also a home security tip about keeping doors locked with a hairpin-like wire device.
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Loxs Angeles Express
Oregon Countryman fifth year closes at Oregon Agricultural College
The Oregon Countryman enters its fifth year with the June issue from Oregon Agricultural College Corvallis. It features 13 special farm and home articles with 11 illustrations led by The Evergreen Blackberry and topics on dry farming marketing eggs dairy butter making flax culture bread making ice creams and home millinery. The staff lists new editors and departments and notes the next issue due around October 1.
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Oregon Agricultural College
Corvallis
Ore
Oregon Countryman
W. R. Stler
Vance
Wash
E. W. Curtis
Claremont
Cali
A. B. Lunn
Camden
N. Y
O. G. Simpson
W. W. Howard
Willamette Valley
Oregon
R. W. Alspaugh
Barton
Henrietta W. Calvin
Home Economics
Katherine Warner
Portland
Alice Marie Cathey
T. D. Beckwith
Kathleen Kirkpatrick
Lottie Mentzer
Pendleton
Alice Marks Dolman
Blaine Ferguson
Harley, Ida
Grange
Like a Lady. Frances Slides Down Banister
A mother scolds Frances for downstairs noise and instructs a proper entrance. Frances reenters and asks if she was heard. The mother notes she came down like a lady this time, as Frances explains she slid down the banister.
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Frances
New York Globe
Whitbread Stout and Ale Endorsement Card
Read Through These Wonderful Facts of Whitbread and write us Whitbread's Stout contains more hops than the Whitbread Ale and is invaluable. Today Whitbread is a household name in Great Britain. A dozen bottles can be obtained from your local dealer at a reasonable price. Do not substitute English ale or stout as Whitbread is made in the bottle and aids digestion. ST. JAMES IMPORTING COMPANY, 278 West Broadway, New York City.
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England
Whitbread
London
America
Europe
Great Britain
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Ratine
Shantung
Boston Garters
John B. Stetson
Golden Rule
Rex
Gally
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
Thilamook Bay
U.S
Fitgerald
Taft
Economy Commission
St. Louis Republic
New Haven Journal Courier
Paris
Japan
Bulgaria
Balkan States
S. J. Damon
Ferndale
Cal
F. W. Kehrll
Hillsdale
H. A. Schoth
Oregon City
H. D Foster
Seattle
ST. Jaames Importing Company
West Broadway
New York City
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