Oregon Spectator, October 4, 1849 EMIGRANTS – Emigrant parties are coming in slowly from the mountains. Inclusive of a company of twenty-seven wagons, the arrival of which is daily expected, there have some fifty-five wagons arrived in this valley. Others are reported as coming in on the northern route, but how many we cannot learn.…
Oregon Argus, September 24, 1859 HYDRAULIC RAM – Mr. Milwain the other evening set up a hydraulic ram for Mr. Harvey, near his mill, for the purpose of supplying water for Mr. Harvey’s residence. The cistern in the street, containing about 1,600 cubic feet, was filled in something near thirty-six hours, through a supply of…
The Weekly Enterprise, September 18, 1869 MATTERS AT HOME – Mr. S. Ackerman and family, also his brother of Eugene, returned to this city on Wednesday last. Judging from the appearance of the goods unpacked, and the number of packages and cases already arrived, Mr. Ackerman has purchased a very extensive and superb stock of…
The Weekly Enterprise, September 11, 1869 As we go to press with our paper on Friday afternoons, in order to meet the mails for our county towns, we are denied the pleasure, this week, of giving proper notice of the doings of the Fire Department today, September 10, in housing their new machines in their…
History of Labor Day, U. S. Department of Labor Labor Day Legislation: The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During 1887, four more states – Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York – created the Labor Day…
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