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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
2
The St Johns Review bids farewell citing unfinished plans and urging readers to unite for progress. Editor Willie Willett thanks friends in St Johns and warns against internal quarrels while stressing support for local papers and civic advancement amid regional issues.
A fragmented Times timetable notes trains from Portland including Chicago Special, Spokane Flyer, and a Kanste City Hap run with arrival times and labeling unclear due to OCR errors.
Ernest Poole in Everybody's Magazine notes the threefold law within construction work. He describes tall crew pay, charity donations at pay windows, and a belief that misfortune follows two accidents, predicting a likely third.
A humorous look at how buyers rarely test chairs before purchasing. Anecdotes about testing rockers, polite flirtations, and a brash wedding toast shift into brief notes on geography, jokes, and social foibles from various clippings.
Classified notice announces a land swap proposal exchanging Hood River property for St Johns land. It directs inquiries to the office handling the offer and references Bonnville’s Monthly as the source or related notice.
An excerpt from the Washington Post explains a copper heat conduction trick where a glowing coal rests on a cloth covering a copper globe. The copper transfers heat away, protecting the linen or muslin from scorching, illustrating heat conduction and material properties for lay readers.
A collage of perilous chemical facts and wry humor. It notes pure prussic acid, atropine, cyanide, and nitric acid dangers, plus a factory accident with later deaths, and then shifts to quips about gallantry and music’s deadly rumors, ending with light exchanges on meals and luck.
The notice explains standard charges for cards of thanks and resolutions of respect. It states $1.00 for notices of church or lodge entertainments with admission charges. When events have no admission, the rule allows free insertion to inform readers of the policy.
Mrs Mabel Smart of Monros Minnesota writes an anniversary ode for her parents Mr and Mrs Solomon Malone marking sixty years of marriage in October 1842. The poem recalls the original home in a forest cottage, eight children born with two lost, and the family's long, faithful life together with hopes of reunion on the shore.
The article invites push clubs to appoint a good correspondent and solicitor for each Peninsula locality. It requests weekly coverage and promises to prune duplicates if multiple locals send the same item. Those interested should visit the office for information.
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