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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1919
Page
7
A Rotary meeting featured a speaker on the power of advertising noting a partner Walkerson advertised for a boy and received word his wife had just presented him with two twins. The piece also shares aphorisms about optimism and avoiding quarrels, plus small anecdotes from papers.
Oregon buyers are invited to explore western Canada and Texas style farm tracts via Ringling inspired notices. Major listings feature Canadian Pacific Railway land deals, Portland agents, and promotional trips with appealing loan terms. Contact Loni Thornton in Portland for details and booking.
The council of national defense reports that postwar public works are expanding to employ returning soldiers and war workers. State reports show over 59 million dollars authorized for roads canals reclamation construction and public buildings with total likely exceeding 100 million dollars nationwide. More legislatures meet in states to authorize new projects as emergency measures.
The article explains how disinfectants destroy germs and parasites in poultry houses. It advises thorough interior treatment, including walls ceilings roosts and nests, plus boiling water disinfection of feeding and drinking troughs. Limewash is recommended, with carbolic acid added in virulent outbreaks.
Maj. J Maitland Addison explores future guns in the Journal of the Royal Artillery and Scientific American. He notes a muzzle velocity near one mile per second today and discusses velocities of five to seven miles per second enabling orbit or escape.
A compilation of short maxims and reflections from various authors. Notable lines emphasize judging by noble acts, forgiving faults, time’s passage, and the value of each person’s work according to their abilities.
A New York backed corporation uses 52 large tractors to work about 200000 acres of Crow Blackfeet Fort Peck on Montana reservations and Wing River in Wyoming. Last summer's plowing exceeded 1 acre per minute with 1880 acres turned in one day. About 83000 irrigated acres are plowed and seeded and the rest will be cultivated next season. The venture, led by Thomas D Campbell with support from Franklin K Lane and J P Morgan, aims to develop vast Indian farmland.
The World's Work notes two factions in the Russian socialistic party called Mensheviki and Bolsheviki meaning Minority and Majority. Menshevik is described as a moderate revolutionist while Bolshevik is a radical who seeks instant earthly paradise.
Japan's knitted goods industry began a decade ago in Osaka and now includes no fewer than 1,300 manufacturers in the city alone.
The department of agriculture reports national livestock on farms and ranges valued at 8.880204 billion dollars as of January 1, an increase of 546.006 million from the prior year. The figures reflect the broad rise in stock value across the country.
The article describes dogskin robes and rugs crafted from Manchurian and Mongolian dogs. It notes long thick hair in colors from black to white, praises the finest white coats, and explains thousands of dogs are raised as wealth. A robe requires eight dogs and each is strangled at eight months in midwinter. Export in 1910 reached 806000 pieces.
The United States Geological Survey reports domestic quicksilver production in 1918 totaled 83 492 flasks of 75 pounds each valued at 117.02 dollars per flask at San Francisco. This compares with 86 159 flasks in 1917, a drop of 2 727 flasks, while value rose by 194 095 dollars. The leading producing states, in order of importance, were California Texas Nevada Oregon Idaho.
The article notes studies on unfermented grape juice as a drink in European grape cures and laboratories. It claims that consuming a reasonably large quantity improves digestion diminishes intestinal fermentation and increases body weight.
The River Tinto in Spain hardens its bed sand so that stones sinking in the stream fuse after months. Fish cannot live in the water.
The text notes thirteen as a sacred number among Mexicans and ancient Yucatan peoples, who counted a 13 day week and revered 13 snake gods in their mythos and timekeeping.
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