Fewer Go Insane State Hospital Head Gives Credit to Prohibition
From The Oregonian, October 21, 1916
Insane Patient Escapes. Woman Picks Lock at Oregon State
From The Oregonian, July 24, 1916
Dogs tree insane Italian
From The Oregonian, February 23, 1916
Babe is Left to County Mother Sent to State Hospital and Father is No One Knows Where
From The Oregonian, February 22, 1916
Debts of county are easy to meet
From the Oregonian, October 5, 1909 Excerpt text from longer article listing Multnomah County accounts. On the other hand, the County Poor-farm and Hillside Farm receipts have dwindled from $2589.07 in 1902 to $517.75 last year. The expenditures of the Hillside Farm last year, which included those of the County Hospital, were $30305.29. In 1902 […]
Side Steps the Old Oaken Bucket
From the Oregonian, October 1906 “Joseph Groggin falls from water wagon en route to county poor farm.” DOWNLOAD – Hillside Farm – 10 6 06
Insane not dangerous
Published in The Oregonian, February 28, 1904 – not available elsewhere online. DR. HENRY WALDO COE DEFENDS INSTITUTION AT MT TABOR Says Patients Are Harmless, and neighboring Property-Owners Have No Right to Protest. Philadelphia, PA, Feb 1904 (Letter to the Editor.) — I experience more regret than I can express that I should in any […]
First recruitment advertisement for Oregon Insane Asylum
Staffing has been a trouble from the first moment in the history of the Oregon State Hospital. The public view of psychiatry in Oregon started with a recruitment advertisement in The Oregonian on July 23, 1862 for the Oregon State Hospital and Insane Asylum. At that moment, 148 years ago, Dr. James Hawthorne may have […]
Address on temperance by Abraham Lincoln
Address on temperance by Abraham Lincoln to the to the Springfield Washington Temperance Society on the 110th anniversary of George Washington’s birth, at the Second Presbyterian Church Springfield, Illinois, February 22, 1842 Although the Temperance cause has been in progress for near twenty years, it is apparent to all, that it is, just now, being […]