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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
7
A fragment notes wild red rice in Senegal that grows without cultivation. It supposedly floods with the river, turns the grain red and very dry, swells in water, and remains nourishing despite no farming. The text is from Harper's Weekly.
The article notes a newly named alliance ring claimed to be first in interest to the groom. It describes a single ring that splits into two through an inside pinhole, with the joint hidden and a pin inserted to separate the ring and the mate.
In Asheville North Carolina a woman reports relief from female troubles during the Change of Life after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Other testimonials praise better health after taking the remedy, noting it eases the difficult period for menopausal women.
Oregon Agricultural College will showcase a range of exhibits and demonstrations at the state fair to highlight the college’s work across courses and institutes. Faculty will be present at Handall to explain, answer questions, and give lectures, aiming to show the college’s service to the entire state beyond regular students. Hood River apple growers agree on a uniform packing system with grading rules for extra fancy, fancy, and choice, including size and color standards, affecting a crop estimated at 1,75,000 boxes.
A $25 000 Medford corporation plans a poultry farm a few miles from Medford with 6000 to 8000 laying hens on a 238 acre tract. James W Dunlop will manage and expects a 24 yearly profit per hen. Buildings to begin soon, full operation by next spring amid ideal Southern Oregon climate for chicken culture. Reports from Huckleberry Mountain say 600 people berry picking and enjoying an outdoors outing as the berry crop spans over 9000 acres with green meadow and water nearby.
Washington and Oregon claim against the government will go unpaid another year as Senator Chamberlain withdraws his amendment to appropriate 195000 dollars. He says he can hold Congress in session indefinitely but the House opposes his plan. He will renew the fight in the next session.
State board of pilot commissioners reports for the Columbia and Willamette rivers show that total bar pilotage for the year would be 89869 dollars under the law, but this sum was not collected and no method exists to determine collections. The year’s pilot service is described as efficient and pilots as a whole temperate and industrious.
Many Columbia River gillnetters plan to troll for salmon beyond the three mile limit during the closed season. It is understood local plants will receive fish caught there, though trolling or angling for salmon is not prohibited by law and outside jurisdiction would rest with state authorities.
Two hundred thousand young rainbow trout arrived for distribution in Linn county streams. The shipment was made in 200 cans and sent by State Game Warden Finley to Manager Stewart of the Albany Commercial Club.
BUILD LOGGING ROAD Portland-Flagg Standifer rail road contractors win a $6,000,000 contract to build a 25 mile logging railroad from Silverton into Douglas fir timber in Marion and Clackamas counties. S& Mortensen of Iowa is president. M. C. Woodard will manage. project plans include a large logging camp employing about 800 men and log dumping at a Willamette River point near Oswego.
Astoria deputy fish warden Gor reports light catches along the Oregon coast while touring streams. At the Umpqua cannery he observed a 49 pound salmon released from a Clackamas hatchery in 1904, eight years old, challenging the belief that salmon always return to their hatchery stream.
About 20 surveyors employed by Hill Interests work at Clear Lake near the Cascades summit. Packers haul supplies for the engineers from MecKinzie bridge and Fish Lake at the Santiam heads. They plan to continue until snow flies. The winter focus is gauging the lake’s flow.
John P. Wilbur of Union Oregon who ran the Union Woolen Mills has purchased the Stayton woolen plant. He plans to reorganize and operate it under the name Santiam Woolen Mills.
Fannie Merritt Farmer explains broiling principles to seal juices. She favors quick searing on both sides, with constant turning in the first minute, then cooking each side to taste. She notes best cuts, explains costs by bone and fat, and suggests using trim for other dishes.
Practical kitchen and sewing advice from an old guide. Use soft water for washing, parffin to brighten polish, fry onion to remove oily taste, thyme for seasoning, store lemon and thyme, remove machine oil with lard, bind darning holes with thread, rub zinc surfaces with vinegar, and air dry a frock on muslin-covered hanger to retain shape.
A historic recipe details barley soup using three ounces barley four hours simmering with stale bread one and a quarter ounces butter parsley salt and pepper. Barley is steeped twelve hours in water with a pea sized carbonic soda then bread crumbs and boiling water added and simmered slowly for four to five hours before finishing with parsley butter and white pepper.
A recipe describes layering buttered bread and sliced baking apples with sugar in a pie dish. Bake until apples are very soft, then turn out and serve. The dish should retain its shape and taste like a sweetmeat, with all ingredients thoroughly blended.
Wash the brains thoroughly in cold then hot water remove the skin fibers and boil with a pinch of salt for two or three minutes. Beat in parsley sage salt mace cayenne egg yolk cream and fry in butter to a light brown. Some recipes add flour and grated lemon peel.
Cherry vinegar recipe instructs pouring one and a half pints over two quarts of red cherries, letting stand three days, then straining. Measure and add one pint of sugar per plot, boil twenty minutes and bottle. Dilute with iced water when serving.
A late fact notes patch pockets appear as a design feature on tailor made skirts. Instead of placing a solitary pocket high on the left, designers place it just beneath the skirt frill for a novel look.
The article lists five peach varieties suitable for market from medium early to late, led by Mountain Rose praised for early ripening and hardiness. It covers Oldmixon, Elberta, Crawford Late, Globe Willett Smock Salway, and notes on flavor, shipping, and production. It also includes a stray ad reference to Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
A trawler at Granton Wagland brought in a quantity of extraordinary fish from the North Sea. Experts say they have never seen this species before and describe it as resembling a herring with a pointed head and forked tail. the eye measures a full five inches.
A garbled paragraph argues against backsliding and urges using children as a source of wisdom and healing. The text mixes unreadable segments and stray names, with distorted phrases and inconsistent capitalization. The overall sense is disrupted and lacks a coherent reportable event or attribution.
A North Westmorland farmer discovered a single nest with 25 eggs during field rounds. Upon inspection 15 eggs belonged to a pheasant and 10 to a partridge, with the pheasant likely the intruder due to its dominance.
A Brienne examiner asks Napoleon how he would supply provisions in an invested town. The sub lieutenant of artillery replies supply from the enemy, and the answer pleases the examiners who pass him without further questioning.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for swollen feet and easier shoe wear. It claims quick cure for foot discomfort, urges buying from local stores, and offers a free sample with a listed address.
A survey notes Italian belief in the evil eye and a false spirit that plays tricks on people. It also mentions the Fata Morgana, a darker hobgoblin said to lure youth to drown beneath the Straits of Messina.
A contestant who rhymes fine with find won a prize in a poetical contest. Critics argue that poetical contests are among the most ridiculous things, though the winner remains undisputed.
Classified ad notes a bag labeled ideal Apple Pickers Bag offered by Barker Manufacturing Co Rochester N Y. The jumbled text mentions selling terms and market context. A humorous exchange about love letters appears, including a farmer and two girls discussing Jack.
The fragment urges marking children's sporting equipment with es pr ograph style names for sticks bats and rackets. It notes painted names may wear or scratch off but deep burns endure. The text includes garbled phrases and unclear references to Prater and blue pot power.
The article describes the cat as a historic naval punishment used since at least the fifteenth century. In Drake's era the boatswain’s Monday morning whipping was seen as ensuring a fair wind for the week ahead.
A Philadelphia family faced a curious school entry requirement when a six year old could not recall the vaccination date. The father asked how long Janet had been inoculated and she answered without hesitation that the date was “on my leg, about an inch long.”
Fort Wadsworth in New York bar bor honors General James Samuel Wadsworth of Geneseo New York who raised a Civil War regiment and was killed at the Wilderness. The fort’s former name Fort Tompking was changed to Fort Wadsworth in his memory.
Women in Idria Krain Austria form their own fire brigade of 60 firewomen led by Commander Frau Marie Straus after dissatisfaction with the existing brigade.
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