Editor's note.  Although eventually this page will list ALL of the keywords in the OLD NEWS FILES section, the list is presently not very complete.  Also, most of the newspaper issues haven't been fully keyworded yet.



MORE ON KEYWORDS

RACISM,.  Attitude toward race is very different today than it was 100+ years ago.
Racism usually indicates a bias, disdain or mistrust against persons from some other
races or ethnic cultures.  In general, "foreigners" (other than the English or Scottish, or
sometimes Scandinavian), seemed to be looked down on. Many with less education
or natural status were judged undesirable.  As successive waves of immigrants came
to America, gradually the groups who had been here longer were less disdained than
the newcomers..  At varying times, signifying someone as Irish, Italian, or even
German, could be a slur.  Conversely, the words just announced a person's
origins.  It was as common for newspapers -- at least in this part of Oregon -- to state:
Will Smith, colored, or Mike Fiero, the Italian, as it was to say George Banks from
Chicago, or Mr. Nash the Englishman.  Sometimes we have no way of separating the
slurs from the facts.  But we do know that much of the populace did not hold in high
regard the Native Americans (who were then always called Indians), Asians, Mexicans,
and black persons.  Therefore, my keyword "racism" signifies all items about the
aforementioned races.  It may also just signify the fact of other nationalities, religious,
or ethnic groups.  For sometimes we are unable to separate the slurs from the facts.  

The keyword sometimes appears as -- racism-ethnic.  Also, the keyword ethnic-origin, or
just origin, may be used for other nationalities that were sometimes looked down on, such as
the Irish, Italians, etc., but where no slur appears intended.)

SRH stands for Shipping, rivers, and harbors.
In some issues I've used the further subdivisions:
Srh-ocean    Srh-ship   Srh-Capt____ [of seagoing vessel] Srh-dock  Srh-harbor  
Srh-freight  Srh-trade (such as the Orient trade or the coasting trade (regularly scheduled
sailing trips up and down parts of the U. S. Coast.)

Srh-river Srh-[name of River] Srh-Capt____ [of riverboat]  Srh-dock  Srh-harbor
    Srh-dredging (to deepen shipping channel) Srh-boat

Some entries carry both Srh-(creek, river, bay: a waterway for commerce and travel),
and the same designation for a town or geographical area.  (Such as Locale-LampeyCreek
and Srh-LampeyCreek;Srh-CoosBay and Locale-CoosBay.)

Towns and Locales.  
TOT-followed by name (or abbr.) of town signifies villages and hamlets on Oregon's South
Coast.  OT-followed by name or abbr indicates a town or hamlet beyond this region, even
in another part of US or the world.  Locale-(followed by name or abbr.) identifies some
other geographical landmark or location. Sometimes Tot-, OT-, or Locale- (with hyphen,
and a space between hyphen and next keyword, means there are multiple name
designations within an item.)  It is often well to search under both the consolidated
name (CoqR, or CoquilleR, or Coquille River; LowerR or lowerRiver. L.R. or LR;
upperR or upperRiver or U.R or UR ) and the name or entry as it is likely to appear in
text: (on the Coquille, Coquille Valley, Coquille river Lower river.)

Hyphens or converged words [in the keywords] simply adds further explanations.  
Thus, "misc-word" is a classification under the subject "misc" (miscellaneous), for an expression or
unusual usage.
Novelty- (followed by a noun) is one example of an novelty enterprise, that is, not a common retail business
or heavy industry.  (Novelty-brick: brick making; novelty-grist, grist or flour mill
(as opposed to a lumber mill).  Novelty-wood is not regular sawmilling of commercial
lumber, but such commodities as matchwood (the sticks, or blanks from which to saw
matchsticks) to make matches; novelty-broom, the manufacture of broomhandles, or
sometimes entire brooms.  

Lbr, mill, sawmill, logging (or log) and timber, or timber lands, designate industry in timber
harvest and manufactory.

RR-CBR, or RR-local, denotes the local shortline railroad service;  RR-outside (or RR-other)
refers to railroads or spur lines beyond the South Coast of Oregon.  RR-natl is a national or
long line.  Sometimes RR category is further broken down.  RR-phy (physical: the cars,
locomotives and tracks, car shops or roundhouses).  RR-depot, the buildings maintained
for passengers and freight-check.  RR-spur: branch tracks off the main line, which are likely
to be logging railroads or connections to isolated towns or to send products to shipping
points.

RR-hopes (sometimes noted as RR-dreams) refers to hopes for bringing rail service to the
South Coast, or later, the idea of an extension to join local RR service to the national system.

Coal:  any reference to coal: veins, operations, fuel.  In many of the documents it's
currently presented as other-coal.  Beaver Hill coal, from the largest coal mine in
Southwest Oregon, has its own keywords, commonly Beaver Hill, Tot-BH, BH coal, etc.

Other keywords aren't documented here yet.

Of course not all keywords or sub-words appear in every document.