JOTTINGS FOR A WEEK Items Received From Many Sources Jacob Leese, a Portland tailor, has been declared insane. No cause is assigned, save a natural melancholy disposition. Van Tassell, the balloonist, who was in Portland about a year ago, dropped from his balloon with a parachute in Honolulu recently, alighting in the ocean. He was […]
111 Years Ago Today in The Mercury
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111 Years Ago Today in The Mercury
A FREAK IS A FREAK Not long ago, there was seen in Pendleton a human freak which knocks the spots off any living skeleton or Chinese giant as a natural curiosity. It was an Indian child, of the Nez Perce tribe, with but one eye situated in the center of its forehead, like those of […]
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Flirting Babies
An Evil that Demands the Immediate Attention of Mothers
There is a duty devolving upon the mothers of this city which they seem very slow in performing, and that is in the attention they ought to give to the character of the associates their young daughters are selecting. It is no uncommon thing to see on the back streets of our city almost every […]