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  • Page 43 in their old age, though not wealthy in the "Astorian" sense, still they had sufficient to keep the "wolf from the door," and drop something more substantial than condolence and tears in the hat that poverty hands round for the kind offerings of humanity.

    Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" 1858

  • According to this story in Oregon's Daily Astorian, a wife of a hunter named Bethel Honan put her cooking degrees and a freezer full of meat to good use when she started concocting wild game recipes and compiling them on a new site, recipesfromthewild. com.

    Wild Recipes 2009

  • The Daily Astorian in Oregon, reports that the United Way, which receives much of the funding from donations of voluntary payroll deductions, has seen those contributions decrease each of the last 4 years because those generous people are not employed anymore; or they have had to cut their donations to survive themselves.

    Marc Joseph: No Non-Profit Should Be Left Behind Marc Joseph 2012

  • The Daily Astorian in Oregon, reports that the United Way, which receives much of the funding from donations of voluntary payroll deductions, has seen those contributions decrease each of the last 4 years because those generous people are not employed anymore; or they have had to cut their donations to survive themselves.

    Marc Joseph: No Non-Profit Should Be Left Behind Marc Joseph 2012

  • According to this story in Oregon's Daily Astorian, a wife of a hunter named Bethel Honan put her cooking degrees and a freezer full of meat to good use when she started concocting wild game recipes and compiling them on a new site, recipesfromthewild. com.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • You bump into famous people, hear different accents -- French, Southern, Astorian, run into people you haven't seen in a while, fall into conversations with complete strangers.

    Andrea Chalupa: Are You A Born Again American? 2009

  • The Daily Astorian, Clatsop County's newspaper of record, published a great editorial today urging Washingtonians to vote down I-1033:

    Tim Eyman's Initiative 1033 is so bad that even Oregonians are urging us to vote it down 2009

  • The Imperial Library at Paris is computed to contain above eight hundred thousand volumes; the Astorian boasts of approaching a hundred thousand: the next libraries in size in America are the Harvard, with from eighty thousand to ninety thousand; the

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • University of Tubingen, it is not to be had for Harvard or the Astorian.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

  • Astorian Library, the selections of books have been made with great judgment, and that, after the boundaries of the common crowded market were passed, and individual rarities had to be stalked in distant hunting-grounds, innate literary value was still held an object more important than mere abstract rarity, and, as the more worthy quality of the two, that on which the buying power available to the emissary was brought to bear.

    The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

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