Pigs require a varied diet to stay healthy and that is just what Bob and Molly Swaggerty and Bob’s father Charles “Hack” Swaggerty, provided in the 1950s. In addition to feeding the hogs well, the family was processing the community’s leftovers.

From the 1930s through the 1980s, Rogue Valley families and others across the nation received trading stamps when purchasing products from participating stores. Among the popular versions were S&H Green Stamps, founded by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson in 1896.

In 1988, the Klamath Falls Herald and News broke the story on an economic development scheme that became known as Project Juniper. Its backers proposed using private funds to build a huge “world class international aviation and international trade facility.”

One night shortly after the end of the Second World War, the infamous “Pine Cone Tavern Incident” startled bar patrons in Brookings, Ore.

Residents and miners in the Rogue River Canyon in the early 1900s, couldn’t have survived without men like John Billings.

On Jan. 5, 1919, the Medford Mail-Tribune published a reflective piece after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow enforcement of the 18 th Amendment, the National Prohibition Act that forbade the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States.

Oregon, the Valentine state, is 161 years old today. It became the 33 rd state on Feb. 14, 1859, when President James Buchanan signed the bill passed by Congress. A month later, the news reached the Pacific Northwest when the steamer Brother Jonathan docked in Portland.

George Geil had time in 1910 to carry on a flourishing courtship while paving Ashland’s streets and plaza.

An early barber in Jacksonville, Ore., George Schumpf, cut hair for 24 years from the time he opened his shop in a wooden building on California Street in 1873 until his death in 1897.

Two cowboys in Modoc County, Calif., hit hard when cattle prices plummeted during The Great Depression, found another way to make a living.