By Roberta McKern
For The New Era
In association with the East Linn Museum, we have been looking at a 1917-18 Oregon Blue Book.
These books, still published, are collections of facts about the state, listing town populations, current post offices, and population numbers – in 1900 Sweet Home had 202 residents, for example.
We were looking for possible information about World War I which ended at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of…