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A page-length report on the sinking of the ‘Lusitania’ published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (8 May 1915).

The report provides the following statistics in respect of the Irish Capuchin custody in the United States:
Hospices: 13
Students: 2 studying Philosophy, 1 studying Theology.
Members: 23 Sodalities of the 3rd Order with approximately 800 members.
Aspirants: 1 pupil in the College is an aspirant to the Order.
Current Novices/Postulants: None at the time of the report.
The report also details two specific properties recently added to the Custody, at Flintridge in California and McKenzie Bridge in Oregon.

Parish report and historical record for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Roseburg, Oregon, beginning on 21 January 1912, within a local population centre of 4,400 people. It outlines a chronological timeline of three serving pastors: Father Camillus Killian (1912–1913), Father Edward Walsh (1913–1919), and Father Adrian Sharkett, who was serving from 13 October 1919 to the date of the record. The document logs sacramental statistics, counting 300 parishioners, 138 baptisms, 34 marriages, and 16 converts, while noting that the community has one hospital and an eight-grade parish school staffed by two Sisters of Mercy. Financially, it records a substantial parish debt of $6,750.00 that was advanced and paid by the religious Order but is earmarked to be recollected from the parish itself. Finally, the log tracks regional missionary outreach, identifying the Holy Family Church in Glendale alongside five other regional mission stations – Myrtle Creek, Day’s Creek, Perdue, Yoncalla, Anlauf, and Cleaveland – detailing their distances from Roseburg and noting that they receive priestly visits roughly three times a year, or once a year if a church is nearby.

‘Report of Triennate 1928-1931’ for the St. Francis Hospice in Bend, Oregon, compiled by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., superior. It details extensive renovations, structural expansions, and religious additions totalling thousands of dollars, including church decorations, flooring, chapel roofing, a new baptistry, and altered dwelling quarters to establish a Canonical Enclosure. The report also tracks the addition of side altars ($1,840.75), specialized sanctuary installations, and several donated items like a Lourdes shrine and electric altar chimes, noting that property holdings valued over $7,500.00 are held under the Franciscan Capuchin Order (Diocese of Baker City). It concludes with a local economic assessment from December 1930, stating that a parish school remains impossible because parents cannot afford to send children, school upkeep is too high, and public tax inquiries predict Bend has ‘passed its zenith’ with local lumber mills expected to last fewer than 15 years.