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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1910
Page
5
Local news from St Johns lists sales by Calef Bros and various wanted ads for sewing, housework, and cheap furniture. Notices include laundry services, livestock and real estate inquiries, missing items, and birthdays. Community events mention a church project, a rose carnival, and a W O W banquet with speakers.
Mr. Macfarren of the Portland Commission spoke at the Evangelical church under the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The talk urged parents to engage, endorsed by the purity department, and called on Multnomah County voters to do their duty in November to curb social evils.
An ad promises to build a residence to buyers’ own plans on various terms or sell a lot on easy terms beginning at three dollars per month. Prospective buyers are urged to call or write F. E. Zook at 117 Swenson Street, St. Johns, for details.
Notice invites bids to build a six room cottage for M. E. Church. See W. R. Hollenbeck for particulars.
A dramatic tale from the New York Press recounts a contrarian woman who survives an attack and recalls family deaths during a dime episode in childhood. She describes her stubborn way of drinking sour milk and how a doctor’s surprise at her recovery follows her strange cure. The narrative uses heavy phonetic spelling to convey speech.
A collage of humorous sketches and anecdotes from a bygone era. Tales range from a camping party in Yellowstone Park where bears raid the kitchen to a misuse of beans in a New York restaurant. Other items touch on the Truce of God, courtroom quips, and social observations about gender roles and business. The pieces capture a magazine or newspaper miscellany tone with pithy lines and dateless lore.
An anecdote about Blucher highlighting his gambling habit and a son named Bru cher. The tale relates how Blucher’s son boasts of skill at play, loses funds to his father who proves his point by winning back the money in a dice game, and remarking that the father’s warning was justified.
A compact selection of anecdotes and quips from a London Family Herald style page. It features a late night kitchen incident with a rector and servant, a tale of Lafayette and a cannon to move a crowd, a cake bite dispute between William and Lawrence, a pun about a mart on a steel trap, and a rooster joke about a husband crowing at dawn.
An old advertisement urges treating sprains cuts and burns promptly with Ballard's Snow Liniment priced at 2 5 under the North Bank sale. It emphasizes quick relief and healing to prevent complications.
Public notice of a delinquent assessments sale in St Johns Oregon to be held June 6 1910 at 7 PM at the city hall front door. It lists several lots with blocks and improvements and notes balance due plus costs and interest. Advertising appears in St Johns Review on May 27 and June 5 10 and 17 1910.
In the circuit court of Oregon Multnomah County R M Tuttle plaintiff versus William Robb M Thompson J Schmidt and other defendants. The summons directs each defendant to answer within six weeks from May 9 1910 or judgment will be entered for 4600 plus eight percent interest from April 9 1910 plus 500 attorneys fees and costs. Publication ordered by Judge Robert G Morrow with first publication May 27 1910 and final July 8 1910 COLLINK COLLIER
The Court of the State issues a summons in a civil action where the plaintiff sues to recover property rights. The defendant, to respond, must appear at a stated time and place. Publication notices may follow if the defendant fails to appear, with deadlines and court details listed in the notice.
Bealed bids will be received by the Board of Directors of school district No 2 Multnomah county until June 15, 1910 for heavy fire supplies cords and delivery to the school. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Address J B Tanch School Clerk
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