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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1920
Page
3
Corvallis firm Corvallis Feed and Seed Co plans a new building project amid city development. The remark about attending dances reflects local cultural sentiment as construction proceeds.
Republican Marion county nominee Frank Davey urges next session action on raising state revenue via indirect taxes or fees to ease property burdens and protect permanent highways from heavy rotor vehicles. He seeks a law setting vehicle loads, speeds, wheel bases, and licenses with strong penalties, plus irrigation expansion.
The Kansas City Star notes fishermen advocate barbless hooks to spare fish, prompting questions about wormless baits and fair chances for worms as well. The exchange highlights debates over humane fishing practices and ecological balance.
The article traces early U S newspapers noting the New Hampshire Ga zette of 1756 and the Weekly Mercury of 1758 as oldest papers. It clarifies Franklin did not found the Saturday Evening Post in 1728, recounts Keimer selling the Pennsylvania Gazette to Franklin, and records the 1821 birth of the Saturday Evening Post from merged Gazette and Bee, with Thomas Cot trell Clarke as first editor.
A miner’s wife in Sand Coulee Montana set out a barrel of home brew to ferment. A cow drank, became intoxicated, and charged Deputy Sheriff Adolphson before collapsing asleep. The milksale rumor spread among camp workers for days.
An American obtains a concession from the Italian government to use 800 horsepower from the Marmore cascades near Terni for nitrogenous plant food at about 1 lira per kilo. Falls reportedly could generate 150000 horsepower. ammonia ingredients are stated as water air and electric energy. Alfred P. Dennis, U S commercial attache in Rome, reports this.
The Journal of the American Medical Association rebuts a Christian Science publicity reply by Lee White. It argues that a nine year old girl who died under Christian Science treatment shows the real danger lies in the diphtheria bacillus and its toxins, not in religious remedies.
A Scientific American note describes a three wire wall telephony system using two ordinary dry cells. The telephone is designed for youngsters, mounting on walls with two screws and simple assembly. Range extends to 1,000 feet with two extra dry cells.
A man is told by his wife she will travel to her mother's for weeks as the doctor orders him to quit smoking. The dialogue appears in a New York judge’s column.
A Galveston News column comments on social habits and gender norms, contrasting a fast woman with a swift daughter and questioning dieting, dress, cigars, and marital expectations amid sugar prices and a housing shortage. It cites Percy Nobles and notes a preference for a son-in-law who would not overstep housing limits.
The Red Cross expands first aid to include prevention and swimming instruction. Learn to swim weeks attract thousands of lessons, boosting water safety. Galveston life saving corps saves 16 bathers in one day and reports no deaths, signaling a future drop in drownings as aquatic participation grows.
Alaska farms prove more than snow and ice with crops including potatoes turnips beets carrots parsnips celery rhubarb radishes onions cabbages cucumbers and peas grown across the state.
Pulpwood will be sold from the Alaskan National forests with provisions to assure future supply and industry permanence.
Government estimates suggest southern Alaska National forests may yield about 250000 horsepower of untapped water power potential after full exploration.
Records show Prince William Sound ports average 90 degrees above zero matching New York and Boston. Nome averages near zero, similar to Manitoba and Montreal.
Alaska labor tends to work on a basis rather than time, a practice likely shaping hiring for logging operations tied to pulp timber in the Southeast region.
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