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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
7
Fragmented World War I vignette recounts Canadian engineers building an eight hour canal bridge in France under shellfire. It follows a trench battlefield scene with a wounded soldier seeking aid and an ironic gag about doctors and who doctors the doctors.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes that most public roads remain unimproved and many have poor surfaces. Road drags, though centuries old, are underused and their benefits are not widely understood, even as more miles receive some hardening.
The department of agriculture warns water, not cold, harms winter roads. Drying and drainage are essential. fill ruts and hollows in fall to ensure quick drainage. Remove standing pools by roadsides to prevent soaking foundations and future heaving during freezes.
The Pennsylvania highway department commissioned a six by five foot relief model from a Washington specialist to illustrate relocation of poorly sited roads. It shows landscape features and three common mislocated road types with proper remedies to achieve satisfactory grades and direct terminal connections, plus three road construction methods.
Over fifty years of printing has popularized great railroad centers. A new term, great highway centers, emerges as a restoring phrase with ancient roots but modern meaning.
Read about a rise in the year’s apple crop to 24,385,000 barrels from 22,519,000, with forecasters and writers debating causes and consequences. The piece discusses price impacts, waste, and suggestions to use surplus apples through storage, drying, or processing to ease winter supplies.
Internal revenue data for the fiscal year ended June 30 1918 shows cigarettes as the sole tobacco product with rising production. Total cigarette output reached 36 950 834 804 units up from 30 520 133 638 in 1917, about a 20 percent increase, while large cigars and chewing tobacco fell. Government tobacco tax receipts rose to 156 188 059 90, up 53 011 001 76 from 1917, with gains across categories including small and large cigars and cigarettes.
A reflective piece urges bearing sorrow without quitting service to others. It argues that usefulness to others prevents idle temptations and that incompetence and neglect cause much trouble. It calls for information, determination, and steadfast effort to avoid failure.
Popular Mechanics notes a palatable substitute for cow’s milk and cream made from evaporated skim milk, water, and coconut oil. A harmless stabilizer prevents separation, promising strong demand in cities with high milk prices and hard to find clean products.
Professor Clark e Northup of Cornell notes English word count has grown as dictionaries now list over 400000 words while old English literature contained about 30000. This reflects rapid expansion in global lexicon and scholarly counting methods.
Latest counts list New York at 6,732,492. London 4,522,004. Paris 2,888,000. Toklo 2,186,000. Chicago 2,185,000.
Light verse and brief jokes parade on topics from daylight saving and skirts to lawyers, politicians and everyday stubborn habits. Each gag delivers a quick punch about social foibles and public life with a wink at the era.
Thomas Nast first used an elephant to represent the Republican Party in 1874. The cartoon labeled the elephant as the Republican Party while showing the Democratic party as a fox. later the donkey replaced the fox in cartoons.
The text traces the formation of the first U S cabinet under Washington with five officers: state, treasury, war, postmaster general, and attorney general. It notes later additions: navy under Adams, interior under Taylor, agriculture under Cleveland, commerce under Roosevelt, and labor under Taft.
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