Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — The American Venice. [ARTICLE]

The American Venice.

Astoria, Oregon.—“ The Venice of America,” the city limits extending to the edge of the south channel of the Columbia River, almost the entire business part of the city being built on piles over the water. Lucifer was the star of the morning, but the wise theatrical star sticks to afternoon and evening performances. Never enter into a partnership with a man whose wife Is president of a woman-suffrage club. _ .