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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
2
The St Johns Review notes substantial growth in 1917 highlighted by the Grant Smith Porter Guthrie shipbuilding plant and elevator system. Payroll rose from under 100000 to about 800000 monthly as major industries expanded, with optimism for more arrivals, construction, and progress in the new year.
Falls City welcomed Evelyn Johnson a senior Ruby her sister freshman and Hazel Rakes from Bend Oregon. The Disappearance of Dora school play progresses with Oscar Anderson as manager. Liem and Bama Ciiawold perform Keep the omeires Burning at a music assembly. Classes rotate musical numbers each day next week fourth termers perform. An Opel Weimer home reception honored Edith Warfield from Corvallis. Alumni girls hosted a juvenile party at Arline Shaw’s on North Ivanhoe with childhood games and songs.
In Vera Cruz the bluejackets advance along two story houses while a Mexican on a balcony fires through a newspaper. The sniper's shot causes a fatal fall as Lieutenant Colonel Neville observes and the man reloads, then fires again. The scene is recounted with period military detail from Youth's Companion.
A curious set of experiments in a university setting reports that a person’s feet weigh more when asleep than when awake. A plank and scales showed balance changes as sleepers drifted, explained by blood flow shifting toward the head during sleep. Theodore Thomas story notes a stern rebuke to a soprano for inattention during rehearsal.
Tree care guidance notes that healthy trees resist pests and disease better when roots and crowns are balanced. Proper fertilizing and moisture support vigor, while over or under feeding disrupts growth. pruning freshens shape, removes dead wood, and helps prevent decay.
Caroline Herschel, daughter of a musician, pursued early music before joining her brother William in England. She shifted to astronomy and published a logue of Riore, later engaging in independent inventions and focusing on cometary velocity and celestial discovery after William’s death in 1822.
Citizens urge Union Pacific official William McMurray to reroute an Oregon Railway & Navigation passenger train from the tunnel to the North Bank line to restore a morning Seattle service. The government takeover ended the St Johns to Seattle morning run, prompting local demand for an alternative via the North Bank road.
Robert Livingston Stevens sailed from New York to Liverpool before ocean steamers. He faced funding a railroad without stone stringers and proposed an iron T rail with a broad base to be laid directly on solid wood supports. The whittling on the voyage yielded this solution for railroad construction.
A distressed caller reports his wife cannot speak and seems to be unable to swallow. The doctor suggests lockjaw as a possibility and asks the caller to visit if he is in the area.
The article notes that major wars in modern times have not ended in winter, with exceptions like the Russodag aloo War. It claims most wars began in spring and ended between March and August. It then diverges into a peculiar aside about pirates on the Flour Barrel and a DIY method for moving a barrel using a discarded roller skate, a handle, and knob.
Kansas City Journal reports Congressman Flubdub voices praise for real fighting in trenches. The quote emphasizes discipline and loyalty amid renewal debates as a parable of service and duty.
Notices explain that cards of thanks cost a rate or rent each and advise those wishing to publish such notices to take note. The item emphasizes payment requirements for these notices and instructs readers on how to proceed.
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