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| Vertical File Subjects | Auto Dealers Organize | Sun 2-3-1911, Crater Lake garage Jack Neff, Bear Creek Motor James Corrigan, Powell Auto co. Fred Powell, Offutt-Rornes Auto, William Sullivan, C… |
Medford Businesses Automotive |
| Vertical File Subjects | Meet the Pioneers | Meet the Pioneers living history returns in October as a fundraiser for the Friends of Jacksonville's Historic Cemetery after a 2 year pause.… |
Vertical File Subjects. Jacksonville History (1 of 2) |
| Vertical File Subjects | 113 years of trying. Mail Tribune obituary | On Nov.1, 1909 four newspapers merged to create The Mail. A newspaper had started in Medford in 1884, but the paper itself ended on October 1,… |
Vertical Files Subjects. Newspapers |
| Vertical File Subjects | Personal letter to Elks | H.L. Burford wrote a note to the Elks on Hotel Moore stationary praising them for raising their dues $! per month. |
Medford, OR, Elks lodge |
| Vertical File Subjects | Medford honors Hispanic heritage | Sept 2003 Mail Tribune article about Latino leaders . Ike Apodaca, chairman of the Chamber of Latino seNetwork said there were 80 Latino… |
Vertical File Subjects, Hispanic Community |
| Vertical File Subjects | History FirstHand | Tom Smith, a Native American cultural interpreter for SOHS presents a program for children a s a part of Heritage Day celebration. |
Vertical File Subjects: SOHS Clippings, Pre 2000 |
| Vertical File Subjects | Wild Turkeys in Jackson County | Mail Tribune, October 5, 1927 James Dinkens of Beagle claims that the wild turkey experiment is doing well. He estimates that there… |
Vertical File Subjects, Birds |
| Vertical File Subjects | Rogue River Railroad Bridge, C & OS | A photo and architectural description of the Rogue River Railroad bridge which was built near Grants Pass in 1911, The flood of 1955… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Railroads, General |
| Vertical File Subjects | New Book covers Jacksonville trails | Larry Smith, a founding member of the Jacksonville Woodlands Assn, prepared the book, titled Jacksonville's Emerald Necklace: From Goldmines… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Woodlands Association |
| Vertical File Subjects | Statue of boy, dogs given city in 1935 | The Mail Tribune featured a story and picture of a marble statue with a boy loving two cocker spaniels. There is a history of the fountain… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Medford, OR, Parks, Alba |
| Vertical File Subjects | Dedication of Presbyterian Organ Success | Three pages of articles from September 1927 documenting the new Reuter Pipe Organ from Laurence, Kansas. The organ cost $12,000 and was said… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Medford, ORm Churches, Presbyterian |
| Vertical File Subjects | Find Clue In Killing of Tommy, Scant Hope of Finding Slayer of Tom Nakano | From MMT, November 1927: Sheriff Jennings questioned several suspects for Tom Nakano's death at 5 am on South Front Street. Mr. Nakano… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Japanese in Southern Oregon |
| Vertical File Subjects | Pioneer Mine in Applegate to be worked | April 21, 1927 MMT: A Historic Million Dollar camp, idle for three-fourths of a century, above the Sterling placer diggings will be mined by… |
Mines and Mineral Resources |
| Vertical File Subjects | Pilot is Crushed, May Live | A southbound air mail plane, piloted by Pat Patterson, crashed into the face of a butte near the Mt. Ashland mine and fell 200 feet. … |
Vertical File, Subjects. Aviation, crashes and Aviation Airmail. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Kennedy says Administration Neglects Needs at Roosevelt Memorial Dinner, McLoughlin Jr. High | March 6th, 1959 Senator John Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy arrived at the Medford Airport to speak about Republican failure to solve current problems… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Politicians |
| Vertical File Subjects | History Talk to focus on Rogue Valley's Wayward Girls, Windows in Time lectures, Medford Social Services. | MMT article on talk by historian Jan Wright on wayward girls from the 1880's to the 1920's. One of the interesting aspects is how the… |
Vertical File Subjects, Medford, OR, Social Services |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Great Detour of 1846: Emigrants Tek New Trail, Trail takes Toll of Lives. | The Sunday Oregonian of 1946 carried stores of the Applegate Trail. The stories included tales of the many travelers who lost their lives on… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Applegate Valley. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Hoover To Fish Rogue On Monday | Republican candidate for President fished in the Rogue for the second time in July 1928, The first time he caught a number of steelhead in a… |
Vertical File Subjects, Fishing |
| Vertical File Subjects | Oregon Stages Improve Service out of Medford. Four stories about early Buss transportation in 1928 | There were a number of attempts to connect Medford to other parts of the state. One article tells of the old trolley line of Jacksonville.… |
Vertical File Subjects, Buses. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Gore and Hanley Ranches Have a Close Fire Call | A cigarette thrown from a car ignited 10 acres of W.H. Gore's ranch, and threatened wheat fields of Alice Hanley's fields. A backfire… |
Vertical File Subjects, Hanley Farm. |
| Vertical File Subjects | How First Boats Were Shipped to Crater Lake | This 1928 article goes through all of the steps used to have the Portland built boats transported to Ashland, reinforced, then moved to Crater… |
Vertical File Subjects, Crater Lake, 1 of 2 |
| Vertical File Subjects | How Elinor Hanley's Apple Pie Made Americans in Chile Cry | Elinor Hanley Bush was the second youngest child of six children of M. F. Hanley. After her parents passed, she traveled with her… |
Vertical File, Biographies, Hanley Bush, Elinor |
| Vertical File Subjects | Closure of Mail Tribune (Peter Sage's blog) | The last published issue will be Friday January 13, 2023. |
Vertical File, Subjects, Newspapers |
| Vertical File Subjects | The Truth about Medford Bridge and other stories | A 1912 article in the Mail Tribune gives the history of the bridge which was initially built in 1902 |
Medford, OR, Bridges |
| Vertical File Subjects | A History of Josephine County, Oregon | A description of clubs from the Josephine Historical Society. |
Vertical File, Subjects, Josephine County, OR, History |
| Vertical File Subjects | Will the Fun Never Cease, Peggy Dover column | Peggy covers many topics, but does cover her visit to the Hanley Farm. |
Vertical File subjects, Hanley Farm. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Pension Is explained (1928 Medford Mail Tribune) | Simpson Wilson explains his refuge in a fort in 1872 when the Modoc Indians were on a rampage. Although he was not an enlisted soldier he… |
Indians of North America, Modoc Folder #1 |
| Vertical File Subjects | Historic Fishways in Rogue River | The 1928 Mail Tribune stated that Carl Shoemaker and several fishing buddies blasted an adequate fishway in the Ament damn above Rogue River.… |
Vertical File subjects, Fisheries. |
| Vertical File Subjects | Green Spring Mt Lumber Concerns start operations | The Mon Lumber company is operating 2 sawmills in the Greenspring mountain district, cutting 50,000 feet per day. Two other sawmills in the… |
Vertical File, Subjects, Greenspring |
| Vertical File Subjects | How Mail Tribune owner cost Medford its longtime Newspaper | The paper went out of business on January 13, and Saslow will be remembered as the man who ruined the newspaper he set out to transform. |
Vertical File Subjects, Medford, OR, newspapers. |