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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1911
Page
4
In a New York Pron story fragment, bohemians debate a painter’s hat and a brutal editor, while a bachelor and a woman clash over hats and marriage. The lively dialogue parodies art world pretensions as a tailor-made hat, turquoise with old velvet, becomes the comic focus.
A compilation of quotes and anecdotes urges doing the hardest tasks first to build strength and progress. It cites Marden on self-discipline, warns against letting moods hinder judgment, and contrasts a life of choosing easy duties with one of confronting difficult work promptly. It also includes a wandering vignette on a hurried street scene and notes on early geology debates between catastrophism and uniformitarianism.
A list of legal blanks offered for sale including warranty deeds quit claim deeds realty and chattel mortgage forms satisfaction of mortgages and bills of sale with a uniform price per dozen and notes that more will be added as demand grows
A historical vignette on Henry Dunant after Solferino, describing his witnessing wounded soldiers and founding ambulance units in Castiglione. It recounts how he organized care with volunteer women, provided water and medicine, and comforted the dying, earning praise as angelic by wounded men.
A garbled 19th century style piece recounts a theater manager hiring the painter Metasonier to design a curtain, with an egregiously inflated price and a joke about ancient numerals. It also touches on engineering notes by Mervyn O Gorman about how machinery breathes and the notion of force versus movement. The fragment then drifts through miscellaneous quotes and brief items from newspapers. The overall text feels like a collage of unrelated tidbits, including jokes and brief quotes about operas, child behavior, and moral reflections.
H Henderson, manager at 120 North Jersey Street, promotes Peninsula Title Abstract and Realty offering accurate work, reasonable fees, and full weight and fire, with quality at the Central market.
City of St Johns votes to lay a trunk sewer from Jersey Street to the Willamette River on Maple Street with branch lines along Jersey Hayes Millmore and Olson Streets. The sewer district, cost apportionment, and construction plans are outlined by City Engineer and to be published in the St Johns Review for two five week runs.
Dear Heine the writer touts flour for perfect bread inviting a visit to a Spokane Portland and Seattle store. The misspelled pastiche then lists train routes and towns as if advertising a route timetable ending with a dentist notice in St Johns Oregon.
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