City council votes and debates on street improvements
Regular city council meeting sees most members present with Mayor Vincent. Discussions cover vacation requests, remonstrances on Willamette boulevard, arc light at Weyerhaeuser and Central, and roadway work for Western Pepperage site. Further actions seek Port of Portland Commission interview, police report, dock leasing, and a censorship board draft.
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Cornell
City Council
Vincent Presidnt
Matt Bank
Pro
Jerce Street
Weyerhaeuser
Central Avenues
Water and Light Committee
Willamette Boulevard
St. Johns Avenue
Burlington Street
Recorder
Wato N Easton
Peseidegs
Western Perage Company
Pierce Street
Port of Portland Commission
Davis
City
Il Boulevard
Board of Censorship
Munson
Everhanaina
Jersey Rt
City Dock
Mrs Caples a Pioneer of St Johns Dies at 95
Mrs Nancy Caples also known as Nancy Nowell Caples an Oregon pioneer born November 5 1829 in Berwick Township York County Maine died after paralysis at her St Johns home. She crossed the plains in 1849 with husband Dr William Caples and helped establish the first Methodist church in St Johns She was mother to Jane Dodge Mrs Oliver Hemlow and Elizabeth Caples and cared for church and charitable interests for decades. Her death ends a long life in St Johns marked by memory kindness and civic involvement.
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Nancy Nowell Caples
Oregon
St. Johns
Pearly
Portland
Jane Dodge
Woodburn
Plains
Foster's
Cascade Mountains
Engle Creek
Clackamas County
City of
Caples
Methodist Church
First
Oliver Hemlow
Vancouver
B. C
Elizabeth Caples
Shepard Springs
Carles
AW C T U Picnic at Columbia Park Friday
The AW C T U announces a basket picnic at Columbia Park on Friday August 2. Everyone is invited to bring a lunch and share a communal meal at a long table, a family gathering for mothers and children.
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Columbia Park
Ita
Local ladies host Miss Wilson Archer and Miss Wolters in event
Mrs Albert E Johnson of Foucon est entertained at lyepene on Thursday for Misses Lillian Wilson and Beulah Archer of Los Angeles and Miss Leah Wolters. The Misses Wilson and Archer are guests of Miss Sted Ia Keevina, in serving by her sister Nelda Fassette.
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Albert E. Johnson
Foucon Est
Lyepene
Lillian Wilson
Beulah Archer
Los An
Cal
Leah Wolters
Wilson and
Archer
Sted Ia Keevina
Low Anion
Nelda Fassette
The Dollar Spent at Home Advocates Local Loyalty
A consumer column argues residents should favor local merchants over mail order houses. It highlights community wealth, farm values, and business vitality, urging shoppers to boost home trade to support property values, taxes, and local services. It cites Montgomery Ward’s era impact and Wilsonian economic ideas, urging pride in town commerce.
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Soncanata
Steis
Atock
Montgomery Ward
Well Io
Big Me
Pacific Coast
Portland
American Fair Trade Re Magazine
Ard
Wilson
America
New York
Chicago
Louis
San Francisco
Country PLC
Fresh Groceries and Service Promised at Alex Markets
If you are dissatisfied at the place you are trading, if you want nice clean groceries and good service, it will pay you to call at Alex. Scales for g 501 Fes senden street ee Columbia 210.
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Fessenden Street
Opportunities for Doing Good at Mothers Meeting
A paper by Mrs Branaman on Opportunities for Doing Good urges daily acts of loving service. It stresses small deeds, a smile or kind word, as vital Christian duty and cites scripture about giving a cup of cold water in Jesus name. The voice asks readers to lift others, share comfort, and make life count through kindness.
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Mra. Branaman
Christ
Attracting Children and Home Prosperity Curiosities
Tips on making homes appealing to children cover yard play spaces and simple builds. Emphasizes swings, forts, bird houses, windmills, and DIY projects by kids, with safety and early creativity in mind. Also notes business and economic topics including railway incorporation, wartime supply shifts, and currency actions.
Body found of Isaac V. Morris in Columbia River near Vancouver
A 19 year old identified as Isaac Vernon Morris drowned July 4 while swimming to Columbia Slough. His body was recovered Sunday morning, about 15 miles from the drowning site on the Washington side near Vancouver.
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Columbia River
Vancouver
Washington
Isaac Vernon Morris
Columbia Slough
Imen
Property lease notice near streetcar line earns interest
For rent a Reot Seven room lease on a quarter acre of panies one block from the car line. Apply to J. Par mercial Guts Hol PerT building.
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J. Parmercial Guts
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Nancy Caples
David Powell
Cones
Su Ben E Rexford
U. S
Sapa
Sutherlin
Europe
Treasury
Congress
Aganon Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Banks
Oregonian
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