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Portland, Oregon, U.S. The Advocate was a four-page weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon, [1] [2] established as a news source for Portland's African American community. [3] It was founded in 1903 and was covered as an active entity in other Portland press until at least 1936. The Advocate was known as Portland's second oldest black newspaper. [4]
The history of the city of Portland, Oregon, began in 1843 when business partners William Overton and Asa Lovejoy filed to claim land on the west bank of the Willamette River in Oregon Country. In 1845 the name of Portland was chosen for this community by coin toss. February 8, 1851, the city was incorporated. [ 1]
Ruth Alice Kistler of Portland, Oregon, gave birth to a daughter, Susan, in Los Angeles, California, on October 18, 1956, at the age of 57 years and 129 days. The birth predated the advent of in vitro fertilization making Kistler one of the oldest women known to have conceived naturally.
Oregon would not see the AFL again until 2013 when the Portland Thunder were established by Clackamas billionaire Terry Emmert and would take the field a few months later. The Thunder were rebranded as the Portland Steel in 2016 after the league took control of the franchise from Emmert, then abruptly folded at season's end with no explanation.
In 1907, Lovejoy became the first woman appointed to direct a department of health in a major U.S city: the Board of Health in Portland, Oregon. Lovejoy worked on the women's suffrage campaigns in Oregon in 1906 and 1912, and founded the Everybody's Equal Suffrage League ahead of the 1912 election, [2] when Oregon became the 7th state to grant ...
41-59000. GNIS ID. 2411471 [ 6] Website. www .portland .gov. Portland ( / ˈpɔːrtlənd / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated in the northwestern area of the state at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the county seat of Multnomah County ...
July 13, 1952. (1952-07-13) (aged 80) Portland, Oregon, U.S. Occupation. Physician. Marie Equi (April 7, 1872 – July 13, 1952) was an early American medical doctor in the American West devoted to providing care to working-class and poor patients. She regularly provided birth control information and abortions at a time when both were illegal.
Abortion in Oregon is legal at all stages of pregnancy. [ 1][ 2] The number of abortion clinics in Oregon has declined over the years, with sixty in 1982, forty in 1992, and fifteen in 2014. There were 8,231 legal abortions in 2014, and 8,610 in 2015.