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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
4
A well dressed woman boards a Columbus Avenue car at Forty-ninth Street and cannot pay fare with a five dollar bill. Passengers and conductor search for change, a generous neighbor provides 50 cents, and the show ends with the woman exiting as the crowd laughs at the scene.
A farmer names eight daughters Joy Summer Sorrow substituted Sarah Topo Beereine April and Comfort to reflect birth times and fortunes. In a Brighton voyage a gale erupts as the sailor orders one or two to row. The muscular Christian offers to pray while the frail clergyman rows.
A bride recalls a haunting afternoon when her husband said he was busy stamping envelopes for a task that might break her heart. The exchange frames a poignant moment of trust and unseen burdens in a domestic scene reported by Now York.
An excerpt describes a hunt where a panther wounds a hunter on a jungle platform, Toby the fox terrier distracting the beast, and the hunter fleeing after a dramatic pursuit through a nullah. It shifts to a Chicago tale of Eduard Remenyi seeking travel directions and a London Mail note about sermon thieves.
An English domestic in a boarding house rolls a heavy hash barrel through the basement. A curious lodger asks what she carries. She explains it is a hash barrel, prompting amused surprise at the quantity they supposedly consume.
A fragment recounts Alexandre Dumas as a four year old hearing a midnight knock that he believes was his dead father, a moment followed by his cousin’s alarm and a vow to open the door. The next morning his father had died.
A rural ad-style note urges preparation for sudden illness. It highlights dysentery and cholera morbus as threats to households and promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential immediate treatment. Sold at Jackson's Pharmacy.
In Multnomah County Oregon the estate of M A Townsend is cited to Ida Riley Edward Scott and others and Lacy A Quay guardian to appear September 20 1966 in Portland court to show cause why Hlwood I Quay should be empowered to sell Lot 8 9 Block 1 Chipmans Addition and Lots 3 4 Block 3 Adams Addition St Johns to pay estate claims and settle the estate.
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