Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. Times do change! This advertisement appeared in a Jewish newspaper on March 31, 1916. The back of the advertisement lists the first 4 months of the Jewish Calendar of 5677. According to the Portland, Oregon-based Pacific Coast Biscuit Co., the swastika “meant brightness and prosperity” to
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Read more →Some Early Oregon Jewish Pioneers 1850 to 1860 The California Gold Rush spurred much of the Jewish movement from the East Coast, Midwest, and California to Oregon. Jewish merchants moved west to profit from storekeeping in mining towns. When one gold camp or town dried up,
Read more →Louis Fleischner Value Codes I – E – L – P Louis Fleischner was born in 1827 in Vogelgesang, Bohemia, now Czechoslovakia. Fleischner arrived in New York at 15 years of age. Along the way . . . Louis Fleischner first went to Philadelphia, where
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