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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1907
Page
2
The Review announces its sale, with Byerlee purchasing K W McKeon’s interest and taking over Monday July 6. Markle & Byerlee Yeu will publish, expanding local coverage of St Johns Oregon and promoting city interests and the Rose Festival’s rising profile.
A reader denounces the Parttaned Journal for biased May weed coverage and defends impartial trial reporting. The letter criticizes Mickey at the Journal and urges fair reporting of Hayate’s case, praising honest work and condemning unfair attacks on defense lawyers and authorities.
An emergency council between General Gaines staff and Sac Indians unfolds in a tent. A commanding shrunken elder woman asserts authority and challenges white authority, nearly triggering violence before a blunt remark calms the room. The meeting resumes with business in hand.
A Bochum woman tried to surprise her nephew with a chocolate gift mailed in a parcel marked Value 415,000. Postage on delivery led to extra charges when the letter was detained and later returned. The envelope declared contents worth 25,000, forcing her to pay additional fees. she settled £8.
A chemistry lecture session features a mix of serious teaching and light moment as the professor cautions about coal’s composition and heating power. A student jokes about a dreamer near the oval, prompting a lesson on alkali action and practical chemistry.
A London charity dinner invites a dozen or so children to sing after the meal. When it is the turn of a little cockney lad named Tomary to perform he hesitates then blurts that he will “fight any of the other kids in the room” instead of singing, underscoring his shyness and rough impatience.
A 100 acre farm near Albany Ore north See offers for trade for St Johns property. Inquire at 7 First Street Portland.
Trade Hood River property for St John assets and Henderson lots. Call in and subscribe now for details and terms.
A historic ad urges self treatment for minor ailments using Chamberlain remedies. It highlights five products including Colic Cholera Diarrhoea Remedy and Cough Remedy plus Pain Balm Stomach and Liver Tablets and Salve. The pitch notes affordability with one bottle of each at $1.25 and lists St Johns Drug Store as the seller.
The subscription price is $1.50 per year in advance outside Multnomah County. All papers will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for.
Mr C H Range of Stanberry Missouri praises Ballard's Snow Liniment as a positive cure for rheumatism and various pains. Sold by St Johns Drug Store.
A batch of help wanted notices invites girls to apply at once for positions at Portland Manufacturing Co and West Coast Laundry. Listings include factory work and hand flowers roles, signaling urgent hiring across two local employers.
The city council of St Julius adopts Ordinance 145 to license and regulate places selling intoxicating liquors not to be drunk on premises. It imposes a quarterly license fee of 200 dollars, to be collected like other licenses, and assigns police duty to enforce provisions. The ordinance was passed and approved in June by Mayor Cowen with clerk Attest ALM.
Notice to whom it may concern that the City Treasurer of St Johns Oregon will sell at public auction at City Hall Bt Falins Cregeen on the eighth day of July 1907 to satisfy a legal assessment against Chorie Bath, lot four four ten, Jooe Heights addition, for the amount of 75.80 plus interest and costs.
Gov M Hall city treasurer of St Johns Oregon announces sale of property at the city hall via public auction to satisfy a city lien. The notice lists the amount due five hundred fifty three dollars plus interest and costs with total claim around six hundred dollars and cites publication dates in June and July.
The ordinance grants Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company and assigns rights to maintain and operate a telephone and telegraph system in St Johns Oregon for twenty five years. It covers construction of underground conduits and above ground poles, city supervision, and required payments. It includes conditions on street work, rate structures, city use of wires for fire alarm service, and city rights to demand relocation or removal of poles.
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