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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1911
Page
3
An ad from Salem Oregon promotes monument headstones and sheet oil stock at a shop located in City View Cemetery offering monument services and memorial items.
Harvard analyst notes vacations harm most people. Seattle hosts a meeting as Portland singers win first prizes. Fire on a New York harbor pleasure boat alarms passengers but causes little damage. Postal savings bank sites expand to Walla Walla and others. Oregon extradition ruling affects alimony nonpayment. Denver Rio Grande faces large timber compensation. Aviator Atwood lands to orient after night confusion. Washington tests trigger quick Justice Dept alarm evacuation. A Shasta Limited robber suspect arrested at The Dalles. Secretary Wilson testifies on Dr Wiley matter preferring resignation to bureau fight. Alberta hailstorm devastates wheat stocks. Bourne buys Irish Killarney estate. Colorado Medical Assoc backs Dr Wiley. English rail strike threats halt transport nationwide.
A detailed price listing from the grain and livestock market shows various Wheat varieties 81c 77c 75c and 81c, Millstuffs Bran $24.50 per ton, oats $24, hay values, fresh fruits and vegetables prices, poultry and eggs rates, butter at 80c per pound, pork and veal quotes, hops contracts, wool values, and cattle, hogs, and sheep ranges with multiple grade distinctions and unit measurements.
Taft signs the joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico as states at 4 08 PM. Vice President Sherman signs first. senators and representatives from both territories witness. Taft uses three pens. he reads the document aloud and declares it done. Santa Fe and Albuquerque Mark celebratory scenes with a 48 star flag and a large public gathering.
Report from St. Petersburg alleges harsh conditions on the Amur railway route with many convicts used as laborers. It describes brutal discipline by prison officers, ill prisoners sent to work, scurvy and hunger, and filthy, underfed workers fighting for survival.
Mexican reports say a clash occurred between Federal troops under General Huerta and Emiliano Zapata supporters at Cuatlixco. Unconditional surrender was demanded, but officials claimed no agreement with Zapata and warned against false promises.
A model prison in Wuchang proved costly and overlit with electricity. Food reportedly superior to homes drew many inmates to stay long term. Authorities plan to cut monthly expenditures by removing electric lights and reducing jailers, while supplying two bowls of rice and each prisoner using his own clothes.
In Lewes Delaware a 17 foot man eating shark caught at Delaware bay mouth yields a curious interior inventory. The bric-a-brac includes an umbrella a barrel stove various scraps of steel iron and enough oil cloth to cover a kitchen floor.
A blaze at the Opel Sewing Machine and Bicycle factory in Russelheim near Frankfort destroyed the plant. Two workers died and many were injured as the fire caused losses exceeding $1,000,000.
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