State News In Brief Highlights Health and Civic Updates
Influenza grips the state with deaths reported. Tillamook city hall used as emergency hospital. Salem doctors back new Salem hospital with 25000 dollars pledged. Medford raises minimum teacher salaries to 1200 1250 and 1400. Radovan fruit dryer resumes after 50000 loss fire with new machinery. The Dalles plans civic auditorium ballot measure for May. Fossil snow eases drought concerns. Eugene mill upgrades contract for US Grain Corp export flour. Albany teachers gain future salary boost. budget increase approved. Hoolitiver mill plans March start employment about 25. Baker farmer reports quadruple lambs and income tax note. Salem insurers report 200 plus annual company filings. 50 more due. Eugene welcomes new Southern Pacific district freight office led by H D Morse. Albany bank safes breached. liberty bonds stolen.
Public Paying Highest Sugar Price Since Civil War Days
The public is paying the highest sugar price since the Civil War era with reports of up to 00 cents a pound for sugar. Comparisons show prices spiking during wartime and stabilizing at lower levels earlier, then rising again in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as refined sugar use and per-person consumption increased.
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TSIG
Isas
Fossil Seaweeds Mirror Modern Algae in Ancient Seas
Paleontologist Charles D. Walcott describes Middle Cambrian fossil remains from Canadian Rockies as sea plants whose film-like impressions resemble present seaweed. The dark shale preserves mucous structures replaced by silica, with original matter dissolved and replaced, recording ancient shoreline conditions.
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Charles D. Walcott
Suailiksoning Institution
Canadian Stocky Mountains
To Dry Shoes Quickly and Keep Their Shape
The note advises stuffing shoes with paper and placing near a heat source to dry them fast. It also suggests stuffing new shoes when not in use to preserve their shape.
Recipes From A Turbulent Mariner Era Kitchen
A distorted kitchen page mixes baking instructions with fragments of prose and stray phrases. The readable scraps reference milk yeast doughs cookies and cakes and a ham roast with onions and tomatoes. A few lines discuss chocolate treats and boiled frosting amid garbled typos.
Enigmatic lines show wit and gendered views in verse
Fragmentary text hints at reflections on envy failure and wit. A woman is described as always pretty in a man’s eyes. The wording is incomplete but suggests skewed gender perception in a poetic vignette.
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