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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1911
Page
3
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A roundup of notable items includes Hops selling at 36 cents in Portland markets, a potential strike on Western railroads, Democrats besting Republicans 12 to 9 in a House pledge game, and Balfour's failed censure of Asquith. Also, Hunniwell Kansas faces mayoral resignation and council clashes, Taft tours for reciprocity, two Alaska castaways rescued after two months, Stanford to offer football for credit, a kidnap threat to a Chicago boy, fire insurance rates drop in Eastern Oregon Washington, U.S. prep for Haiti intervention, Oregon gains another representative, San Francisco wool tariff anger, and a Seattle umpire assault incident.
The document lists commodity prices across grains livestock fruits and vegetables. Wheat oats barley corn hay and millstuff values mix with fresh fruit crates and per-pound options, plus poultry eggs butter pork veal hops wool cattle and sheep ranges with several grade distinctions.
A second death linked to beauty parlor procedures shocks the Bay Area. Mrs Mabel Jardine died after salon peeling treatment by Madame Olga Goldzier in Oakland, following a prior case where Mian May Gertrude Tig died after similar “outer cuticle” removal. Dr W E Chambers attended, but Jardine died from shock during the procedure.
In the House of Commons debate on the veto bill, a motion to postpond consideration was defeated 848 to 209 while a motion to begin considering the Lords amendment was approved. Sir Edward Carson warned forceful resistance to Home Rule by the government, and Churchill urged restraint amid dockers strikes.
Governor Stubbs said he would begin ouster proceedings against Hunniwell city councilmen if an investigation justifies it. Mayor Ella Wilson and four council members have clashed since her reform victory last April after a failed council meeting.
Berkeley science chiefs plan a term of experiments to restore bronze and copper artifacts buried for centuries. Professor A L Kroeber recently led thorough cleansing of corroded spear heads and relics uncovered in a recent discovery.
Four inmates at the Uhlrch Evangelical Lutheran Orphans Home started a blaze in their dormitory when denied Lincoln Park visits. Firemen put out the fire after about 200 dollars in damage. 100 other children were in the building.
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