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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1920
Page
3
Fragmented notes report school funds, county offices, and infrastructure plans. Mentions loan endowment totals, inheritance tax changes, mill investments, railroad and highway projects, and bank charters affecting local economies.
Oregon Dairy Council led a statewide campaign to educate families on milk’s value after World War I era shortages. It cited surveys showing Portland children drank less milk than rural students, and described efforts through schools, parent teacher associations, and clubs to raise milk consumption and dairy product awareness statewide.
Representatives of prominent coal mines warned the coal strike settlement commission that applying a 14 percent wage increase for all of 1920 would leave license companies, based on 1979 tonnage, with a net return below 1 percent on capital. They argued any higher wage rise would widen the deficit below the equitable 6 percent return.
Salem. If. J. Schulderman, state corporation commissioner, issued a permit authorizing Wallowa Pine Lumber to sell $60,000 of its stock in Oregon. The corporation, headquartered at Wallowa, is incorporated for $850,000.
Oregon faces varied land reclamation issues including seeped land on the Willamette tide lands along the coast overflow lands on the Columbia river marsh lands in lake regions and alkali lands in eastern Oregon totaling about 3 million acres with potential for irrigation profits.
Pullman J W Robinson of Robinsons bakery is named to represent employers at the Industrial Welfare Commission meeting in Olympia on March 6. The conference aims to improve conditions in public lodging houses and crowded hotels and restaurants and to consider a proposed minimum wage for female workers. The current minimum for young women is 14.40 for a seven day week of eight hours daily.
Samuel Gompers wrote to William Mitch of Terra Haute Indiana lab party denouncing a new political labor party as detrimental to labor interests and aligned with foes of labor despite its aims.
About 270 Oregon women made dress forms with help from home demonstration agents. Of the forms, 172 were plaster parts costing 40 cents to one dollar. the padded forms cost each, saving about eight dollars per form versus commercial purchase. Overall saving figures are outlined.
The National City Bank of New York reports a sevenfold rise in world paper money since 1914 with gold reserves lagging. Belligerent nations see currency surges while gold supplies surge modestly, reshaping debt, deposits, and postwar economies as inflation accelerates after the armistice.
Adelbert I. Newton and his wife from Exeter New Hampshire went on a Maine woods honeymoon. They wandered four days without shelter or food after losing their camp. Without a compass they followed a mouse trail and survived on berries before reaching a hunting lodge by a stream.
In Enfield the transfer papers for the King and Tinker show the public house has operated under the same name for over a millennium, suggesting it may be the oldest inn in England.
Officials of the U S Department of Agriculture warn that botulinus poisoning can come from any spoiled food and that no preserving method eliminates the risk. Even slight spoilage or odors warrant discard. thorough cooking may not always neutralize the toxin.
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