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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1920
Page
6
The Salon des Artistes Francais showcases canvases by painters who served in the trenches. War imagery avoids heroic clashes and trumpet flourishes, focusing on sorrow and endurance. Garry depicts a blinded soldier near a relief station while Michel and Pourargues render waterlogged trenches.
A historian notes that modern bobbed hair and current fashion mirror 17th century trends. In James I era writers lampooned women for doublets and hose, lampooning outfits like the French doublet and broad hats, and lamented hair tied to Puritan fashions.
Dean B. Stover, a southern salesman for Brockton shoes, secured an order after a flood blocked the town route. He hired a taxi to reach a 15 mile distant township, found the bridge washed out, found a flat bottom skiff, rowed across, interviewed the customer, paddled him back, set up a roadside display, and completed the sale.
Playwright Eugene Walter comments on a New York publisher's conviction for obscenity. He recalls a story about a girls' school principal at the Metropolitan Museum who warns her pupils to blush at the next statue, highlighting the era's censorship mood.
A first of its kind honeymoon colony forms near Farnham Surrey with six tents housing four brides and husbands made homeless by the Louse short age. More couples have applied for admission and the colony is expected to grow.
Dr Jay Frank Schumberg describes an immunity treatment in the Journal of the American Medical Association. After meals a preparation of tincture of poison ivy is taken in increments from one drop to a teaspoonful to confer about four months of immunity, with larger doses used for quicker effect.
The comic tells of a midnight collision with an iceberg on a ship carrying self raising flour and currants. Dough floats as buns baked by sun while sharks nibble. He survives and is left unable to eat buns without shivering.
A Scientific American Monthly writer compares the earths crust to an apple skin and notes our awareness of the globe is shallow. He regrets knowing more about the sun than the earth beneath our feet and suggests deeper vertical explorations, though none have gone beyond twelve miles.
The account recalls eight thousand men at work in the Culebra cut during canal construction. Despite nightly soil slides, morale remained high as Colonel Goethals toured the site and heard from foreman Hogan that despite the slide burying a steam shovel and disabling drills, the crew kept digging and stayed confident.
The Lady Surma d Mar Shimum arrives in London as official ambassador from the Assyrians in the Kurdistan mountains. Described as very handsome and highly cultured, she is noted for her fine physique and bright animated presence. The Archbishop of Canterbury commented on the extraordinary civilization she shows, contrasting it with expectations of barbarism.
The Dalles-Juniper Flat, a 100 square mile plateau, shifts from wheat to orchards berries and diversified farms due to six months of Wapinita Irrigation work. Towns include Wapinita Maupin Tygh Valley and Wamic connected to The Dalles by rail and stage. Deschutes Falls near town to be harnessed by Eastern Oregon Land Co. Hay surplus risks loss without baling wire. Hood River apple pack seen at 50 to 60 percent of last year. Booth Kelly Lumber resumes after repairs post Independence Day. Moore Dry Kiln seeks Oregon permit. a Mormon bishop near Canyon City has mined wire gold from a 200 foot shaft.
Portland-Ralph Schneelock & Co. secured the irrigation system contract for the North Unit district funded by a bond issue voted last March. Portland, the keel laying of the second of seven 12,000-ton tank steamers will occur by the Northwest Bridge & Iron Co. within two weeks as the yard plans to expand from 500 workers to several thousand once steel production and transport improve.
The Schaefer copper works, after setting up machinery for the seven largest milk condensaries on the Pacific coast, continues the expansion by equipping the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Grower and Canning Company plant at Puyallup Washington. The facility has new buildings and equipment and has doubled its capacity.
Portland reports rising solid fuel prices boost demand for gas furnaces from Hall Gas Furnace company. Increased fuel costs drive households and businesses to switch to gas heating, expanding orders and production prospects for the firm.
A fragmented note indicates a supply order in Portland with mentions of hall, plant items, and lumber slides. The readable fragments suggest a logistical update but lack clear actions, dates, or involved organizations.
A Portland based company plans a major wool operation, aiming to establish the largest wool center in the west. The project involves new mills and a significant logging and upscale upholstery focus, with additional camps and road work in Oregon.
After the Titanic wreck, leading European nations with the United States and Canada fund an ice patrol service. Coast Guard cutters Seneca and Tampa cruise the North Atlantic in warmer months, sending wireless reports on iceberg locations to ships.
An artist with bohemian habits admits he never paints sunrises because he is never up that early, explaining to a visiting young woman that sunsets dominate his studio works. The anecdote highlights a humorous self awareness about the artist’s schedule and creative focus.
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