Old stories from The Dalles Chronicle, Hood River News and White Salmon enterprise a hundred years ago: An ape's skeleton is dug up, the Charleston is a forbidden dance, and horse deaths become a hot-button issue in Wasco.
PORTLAND, ORE. (UPI) — Ma Anand Sheela, the former personal secretary to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, faces new charges of poisoning two Wasco County officials and burning a county office, the Oregonian newspaper reported today.
A pet bear, belonging to J. Thurner, of Wyeth, badly mauled a 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jacob, of Cascade Locks on Thursday of last week. The boy started to climb a tree near where the bear was standing and this appears to have infuriated the animal...
THE DALLES — Melanie Brown can still remember what helped get her a job in the Wasco County Assessor’s Office 41 years ago: Her excellent penmanship.
Stories and photos from the last century of local newspapers. A hundred years ago this week, a severe thunderstorm struck, a The Dalles landowner planned a gift for industrial development, and a road was planned on Mt. Adams.
Longer stories from the last hundred years of local newspapers. This week in historyr, the Rajneesh attempted to change the name of Antelope, candidates flooded Klickitat and Skamania ballot slots and the scattered remains of a jet plane were found on Mt. Hood.
