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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1922
Page
2
The item is recorded at the Portland Oregon post office as second class mail matter under the act of March 5 1879 with a price of $1.89 per re.
The article notes Y W C A club girls must report for August camp preparations Friday July 28 at 2 am. It urges railroad crossing safety and offers rules to prevent crashes, stressing caution, braking checks, and sober judgment around tracks. Also mentions local postmaster T J Monahan’s twelfth year, visitors from Spokane, and community club plans for street improvements.
A cobbler narrates how customers persist in placing wet shoes near heat sources like radiators and stoves. He notes burned leather and wasted material, urging people to avoid heat to protect shoes and his business. The tale highlights a longstanding costly habit and a plea for safer drying.
A study from Upsala, Sweden, reports meat preservation using salt at 19 percent prompts growth of micro organisms. The unusual odors in malt compounds are attributed to the micro organisms present during processing.
A fragmentary 19th century prose poem field notes a protest against worldly inequality. Poets such as Robert Burne and Stan’s inhumanity to man are linked to Ayers and Daley figures, with lines hinting at riverbank vigil and a search for justice amid social disparity.
Odd translated fragment shows a patient named Felchro and a doctor discussing diet and social meals. The text references dinner plans, willpower, and regret, implying tension between medical orders and personal choices. No clear events or dates emerge.
An old superstition links frogs appearing after storms to cyclones uprooting them, though rain frogs are impossible. Frogs, amphibians that live part on land, hide during dry spells and emerge when moisture and worms lure them to the surface after a rain, sparking popular wonder.
A highly garbled OCR text fragment references Buddhist ceremonies, wall paper collecting, and a few historical figures, but it lacks a clear news event, dates, locations, or identifiable entities to summarize into a coherent article card.
A telephone exchange records a nurse or assistant relaying a message for Mrs Blank about a gymkhana event and requesting medical attention. The caller emphasizes urgency and the doctor’s return time, with instructions to apply a mustard pouition and renew every two hours.
A fragment from Harper's Magazine recounts a German printer's wife setting type for a Bible edition. A typo in a Hebrew phrase caused "He shall be thy foot" to appear, provoking ecclesiastical outrage and her condemnation to the stake.
Cards of thanks notice policy rate fifty cents each. Persons may publish notices after noting this. Typewriters for sale 25c per hundred sheets or 500 for one dollar at 929 Calhoun. New house listing with rooms and features near Waented area priced 2200 with terms. Help wanted for hosiery sales at 0 a week and $1 an hour spare time. Envelopes printed with name and address available at Review office. For sale Chelsea set building lots see 933 N Syracuse. Patronize home merchants.
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