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Ka-Ton-Ka patent remedy was Oregon’s own, sort of
In the mid-1870s, a fast-talking East Coast hustler teamed up with a famous half-Native Indian scout to cash in on his fame with a line of dodgy faux…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Dry town’s sting on secret drugstore pub went badly
Forest Grove drugstore responded to city's ban on recreational alcohol by adopting the 'marijuana dispensary' model for medicinal booze, and opening …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Oregon’s second largest city built in six months
BY EARLY 1941, the U.S. Army knew it was about to get sucked into at least one of the wars that were already raging around the world. The Selective S…
7 months ago
Mt. Hood: so mellow, you forget it’s a real volcano
Back when the Mazama Club formed, with membership open only to those who had climbed old Wy’East, standing on top of the mountain meant more than it …
7 months ago
Did Oregon miss a chance to catch the Zodiac Killer?
At the scene of a notorious double-murder of young lovers Larry Peyton and Beverly Allan, police paid little attention to Edward W. Edwards and soon …
7 months ago
A town’s friendship with its wartime attacker
Twenty years after he tried to light the surrounding forests on fire, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita returned to Brookings as an honored guest and prese…
7 months ago
Nobuo Fujita, the flying Samurai who attacked Oregon
After World War II started, submariner and pilot Nobuo Fujita hatched an idea: Use his tiny, rickety submarine-launched seaplane to attack an enemy 5…
7 months ago
Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: Silverton's nationally-famous Bobbie the Wonder Dog
A recording of a June 2024 on-air conversation with Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder of the Wake Up Call on Eugene's KPNW Radio AM 1120. Topic: 'Bobbie t…
7 months ago
Colorful sea-captain was like an 1800s Han Solo
THERE WAS NO reason why the U.S. Marshal should spend the night on board the cramped, smelly little freight schooner he was in charge of. After all, …
7 months, 1 week ago