St Johns Club pushes federal post office bid and ferry plan
At a Commercial club meeting in St Johns K C Conch urged pushing a federal post office project in the city, estimated at 40 000 to 50 000, and discussed continuing the ferry James Johns service until a new boat arrives. F. Crawshaw urged growth, loyalty, and a larger club as he prepares to lead starting February.
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Commercial Club
K. C. Conch
St. Johns
Oregon
Washington
James Johns
Pie
North Bank Pharmacy
North Bank
F. Crawshaw
St.Johns
St. Jobe
St Johns
Astoria Chamber of Commerce
New Industry Probable Promoters In Ellsworth Spark Arrester
Promoters of the Ellsworth Spark Arrester have visited St. Johns showing a plan to build a manufacturing plant on Bradford street within weeks. The company, claiming a unique practical spark arrester, has the Commercial Club's support to locate production and may supply engines in Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
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Ellsworth
St. Johns
Commercial Club
Governors
Bradford Street
Oregon
Idaho
Washin
From College to Farm Advances in Agricultural Methods
A rural youth reared on a farm pursues college agriculture to improve his father’s practices. Studious and broadened, he plans to return after completing his course to boost the farm’s productivity. The article notes rising incomes, renewed appreciation for farm life, and the nationwide shift toward advanced soil and crop methods.
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Deschutes Valley
Triv Bane
The Jew of It Ends In A Deathbed Irony Of Faith And Wealth
A dying wealthy man plans to leave 25000 to three clergy and asks each to place 1200 in his coffin. After burial the ministers report their method, a rabbi reveals he left 3600 by check, revealing a different form of faith in material wealth.
Illinois pension law aids widowed dependents
A paragraph notes an Illinois statute providing a pension of two to ten dollars per month per child for dependent widows. It argues the measure preserves the family home and prevents mothers from placing children in institutions or orphanages, urging other states to adopt similar protections.
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Illinois
Union
Great Bridge Opens on the Columbia at Celilo Falls
The Oregon Trunk railway completed a new steel bridge across the Columbia at Celilo Falls, opening January 7. It connects Portland with Central Oregon, replacing Fallbridge ferry service for material, passengers, and freight. The 4197 foot structure features eight main truss spans, 22 girder spans, reinforced concrete piers, and a cantilever 316 feet long. Construction began May 11, finished January 4, 1912, with no lives lost.
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Oregon Trunk Railway
Columbia River
Celilo Falls
Portland
Oregon
Fallbridge
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway
Government Lock
Leap Year Verse Rewrites Suffrage Chants in Immersed Poetry
A fragmented verse from the New York Herald parodies Leap Year themes and suffrage rhetoric. It mocks courting, protest language, and the pressure on women to secure supportive votes, ending with a garbled closing line.
What It Can Do For the Community Club
The Commercial club can publish facts and figures showing growth and attractions, ensure strangers are properly received and entertained, meet and welcome new citizens, promote new factories, and encourage patronage of home industries. It aims to foster fellowship and cooperation among citizens and influence public appreciation of the community.
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Commercial Club
97 Per Cent Perfect Anusial Record For Pile Remedy
Dr J S Leonhardt of Lincoln Nebraska located the cause of piles and created a remedy offered with a strict money back guarantee. In ten years only three per cent of users requested refunds, a strong endorsement of the scientific treatment. Get a guaranteed one package from St Johns Pharmacy or any druggist, or write to Leonhardt Co Station B Buffalo New York for the free HEM RO LD booklet.
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J. S. Leonhardt
Lincoln
Nebr
St. Johns Pharmacy
Dr. Leonhardt Co
Station B
Buffalo
New York
Real estate office opens at Jersey and Chicago streets
K Hiller has erected a neat substantial real estate office on the corner of Jersey and Chicago streets inviting buyers to purchase land. The note mentions duties with Work for Greater Bt Johns.
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Hiller
Jersey and
Chica-go Streets
My Memory Best Guess From Folksy Chore Tales
Child narrator recalls a memory about family labor and play. The speaker contrasts preferring skating and games with chores and wood chopping. The father recalls his youth, doing chores, sliding, and skipping work, while the grandmother’s memories seem clearer to the narrator.
United Evangelical Church Invites All to Sunday Services
Next Sunday the United Evangelical church at Ivanhoe and West John invites all to attend. Sunday school at 9:30 led by Mrs. G. M. Hall is growing, with 11 a.m. sermon by the pastor on The Matter of His Grace. 6:30 p.m. K L C B youth service draws many, and 7:30 p.m. Mr. M N Dana of Portland speaks on The Modern Man and his Religion. Philo Christo class to attend evening services. about forty attended leap year games. class reserved front seats and special music. Men, women and children invited. Reporter.
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United Evangelical Church
Ivanhoe
West John Streets
Roa. m
G. M. Hall
Grace
K. L. C. B. Society
M.N. Dana
Portland
Philo [Christo
T. J. Monahan
Building Permits and Oregon Exhibit Notes
No. 1 To Frank Tufts to erect a dwelling on Hayes street between Maple street and Weyerhaeuser avenue Cost 600. No. 2 To W J Nolan to erect a dwelling on Dawson street between Buchanan and Burt streets, cost 1200. No. 3 To W Leasing to erect dwelling on Willis boulevard between St Johns and Holbrook avenues, cost 800. Land shows and exhibits of Oregon products in the East during the winter have a widespread effect, and it is said colonists to Oregon next spring will be greater than ever before. The Great Northern has done splended work this season in Speen exhibit cars through the Middle West taking a collection of Oregon products to the farmers. Notice. Are you looking for a jolly time Then come to the Times Social given by the Philathean class at the Baptist church Friday evening January 16 1912 Everyone is welcome.
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Frank Tufts
Hayes Street
Maple Street
Oregon
Great Northern
Speen
Middle West
the Baptist Church
Library Lyman Lecture Course At Portland Ranch Library
The Library Lyman Lecture Course offers five free lectures by Edna Lyman on children's literature at the new Raat Portland ranch library beginning January 22. Tickets required, advance requests via St Johns Library. Also notes show magazine additions and new books and bird watching queries at St Joe locality.
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St. Johin
American Machinst
Practical Machinist
United States
Westinghouse
Botus
Santa Fe
American Machinist
Engineering News
Literary Digest
Scribner's
Syaten
World Chronicle
St. Joes
Sellwood
Liberty Bell to travel coast to coast in grand procession
Southern Pacific offers free transport of the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to San Francisco for Panama Pacific International Exposition. The bell will travel in a mock belfry car, escorted by Pennsylvania militia, with stops across the nation drawing thousands of schoolchildren and families.
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San Francisco
California
San Franccisco
Panama Pacific International
Southern Pacific Company
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
United States
Self Made Man William C North for Multnomah Sheriff
William C North a Republican candidate for Multnomah county Sheriff earned his first dollar sawing wood for Mel Hutchie of Vancouver Washington as a boy he later worked his way from a Tennessee farm to Portland Oregon enlisting in the Oregon National Guard and serving in the Spanish American War He rose to chief field deputy in the County Assessor's office and helped organize the North East Side Improvement Club and the Broadway bridge project Captain Bill North is a well known local figure with a long record of public service and community effort.
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Mel Hutchie
Vancouver
Wash
Sweetwater
Tenn
Oregon
Portland
Uso
Hatchie
Oregon National Guard
City Engineering Department
Fenigyula
St. Johns
North East Side
Bill North
Methodist Church Notes on W T M S Meeting at M E Parsonage
The W T M S met Friday at the M E parsonage in a pleasant, instructive session despite heavy rain. Miss Mary Hepburn announced the Portland Deaconess Home will add emergency nurse training citywide, and attendees included Mrs Cook, Rev Patton, and many others. The pastor’s sermon focused on Paul’s sacrifice as a path to higher living, urging youth to neglect worldly pleasures and pursue growth.
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W. Tl. M.S
M. E
5. C. Cook
Matton
Mary Hepburn
Portland
Hepburn
Mise Hepburn
Mesdaimes Cook
Wright Murray
R.ellicott
Lyd
Paul
Danl
Christ Jesus
Hignell
Ailgeeet
Mast
No. Art Street
Epworth League
The Eagles Dance at St Johns Quadrille Night
The event featured a jolly old fashioned Hustunn dance with lively quadrilles. Music and lunch were provided, and the author notes quadrilles as a once popular folk dance nearing decay, urging their inclusion in future programs at St Johns.
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St. Johns
Larty Sutton
Medicines that aid mature are most effectual remedy claim
A historical note extols Chartilerialia's Cough Remedy as highly effective, claiming it relieves coughs and restores health. The passage mentions widespread dealer availability and many testimonials while oddly referencing a mixed individual who is a Southerner but a staunch Republican.
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Chartilerialia
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James McCarthy
The
New York Herald
Greater
Bt Johns
the Library
Culef Bros
William C. North
Multnomah County
Methodist Church
Clute
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