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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
7
A fragment cites Sterne noting that books should serve by teaching titles and encouraging bragging about acquaintance, reflecting on how knowledge elevates status. The remark contrasts practical use with vanity and social display.
A brief sentiment piece from the Manchester Union notes a man’s enduring love that never leaves his heart. It reflects on love that waits and remains constant despite time.
An advertisement invites women with female illnesses to write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential female correspondence and expert guidance. The notice promises privacy, voluntary consent for testimonials, and offers a free 800 page Text Book by mail.
A practical guide to protecting dairy cows from flies with spraying and shade. Recommends spraying thoroughly during milking, using long light blankets if spraying is unavailable, and providing shade to prevent stress. Stresses sanitation and keeping cows away from foul water.
A. C. Toune shares a long used milking stool design with side pieces eight with 20 inches, a seat 10 by 11 inches, and a pall board under the seat. The back legs are 11 inch pieces, a front leg is round with a notch and bolt to stabilize. The note urges calf care to reduce flies and boost growth.
Dairy guidance covers milking cleanliness and udder prep, hand separator washing, timing and steadiness of milking, and caution against keeping summer forage for fall. Tips include feeding to avoid bloating, using Glauber’s salts for bloody milk, boosting milk letdown with feed, and preserving dairy vessels with a sun box.
A statewide industrial and resource prospectus to be issued by the Oregon State Immigration Commission under C C Chapman outlines a 92 page booklet of maps and articles on soil climate forests and population. The project includes a 25 000 appropriation with 200 000 copies for distribution and orders from Southern Pacific and Hill officials. Albany prepares a Willamette river improvement conference to choose between a six foot channel and an 85 foot channel plan with US Engineer corps input.
H H Weatherspoon plans a frost-proof addition to the Elgin warehouse to store 410000 sacks of potatoes in a 240 by 40 foot space. Digging starts immediately and over a hundred workers will be needed. Strong potato prices last year and publicity from a full trainload sent to Kansas City spur more plantings across several hundred acres.
Waldport residents anticipate a fruit cannery in the town next year as local farmers seek a site. The coast counties grow abundant wild berries including black, blue and red huckleberries and blueberries, whose harvest could reach hundreds of thousands of gallons, but transport costs limit sales beyond home use.
Oregon Agricultural College in Corvallis plans a wireless sending and receiving station at the Gamma Upsilon fraternity’s new home on Eighth and Harrison streets. Two OA C students who live there will operate it and they previously worked as Marconi operators during the summer. They aim to offer sending and receiving service to eighteen fraternity brothers moving into the new clubhouse around October 10. One Potato Produces 68 Pounds
Fair draws large crowd as Yamhill County shows and stock enter the pavilion. Garden products, stock, colts, horses, cattle and farm produce fill exhibits while farmers arrive by auto and wagon from surrounding areas. Roads into McMinnville bustle with heavy traffic of farmers bringing their best products.
Marshfield reports the salmon run starting with two canneries on the bay Empire owned by Southern Oregon company and Marshfield cannery purchased by W E Tallant of Astoria. Catches around four tons daily now with a larger season expected. Tallant cannery hires young women from Eureka to replace Chinamen. Coquille River run also large with two busy canneries. Fishermen expect big earnings this season.
Willamette University in Salem reports a heavy rise in attendance on the first day of registration versus last year. Three days remain, with dormitories full as every room is occupied. Lausanne hall now houses a third more women after refinishing another floor.
A Spurgeon quotation warns that indulgent parenting harms children as they grow. It notes fondness and excessive love can spoil, while overwatering crops without hoeing yields poor harvests, illustrating the balance needed in care and discipline.
A naval diver in Toulon was attacked underwater by a giant octopus. He signaled for hoist and was raised with the creature, whose 25 foot tentacles wrapped around him. The diver was revived after the octopus was stabbed. the carcass weighed 136 pounds with large suckers.
The exchange notes a soft well modulated voice is a valuable asset in life and marriage, highlighting gracious manners and gentle tone as marketable traits. It claims voices are learned, not born, and mentions a teething remedy for children by Mire Winelow’s Soothing.
The passage notes a near collision scene where a young physician arrives to find victims only slightly hurt and able to walk home, while his chauffeur jokes about finding business on the way back. It reflects a period tone with early 20th century social commentary.
Salem’s Northern Express company reports to the State Railroad Commission that it has never sent liquor shipments cash on delivery interstate or intrastate that it has way billed shipments correctly as to classification and that there has been no false billing nor shipments to fictitious consignees.
In Albany the white lilac tree in Mrs Margaret Keifer’s yard revived after she removed dried blossoms and leaves on August 1. The tree now bursts with blossoms drawing local attention as September novelty in the city.
The Southern Pacific selects a site near its freight depot for a five stall roundhouse to be expandable as the road grows. The move signals a division terminus and an increasing payroll for local SP employees each year.
A light exchange from the Houston Post describes a man and woman discussing a date ride. The man’s behavior is described as unusually eager, with the auto allegorically attempting to climb a tree or jump a fence whenever she speaks.
The ad claims a good doctor would say Ayer's Cherry Pectoral works best when bowels are regular and suggests consulting a doctor about Ayer's Pills to correct sluggish liver. Made by AYER CO. Lowell MA.
A physician recalled thirty years of practice before recounting a bizarre patient query about whether to drop eye medicine before or after meals. The tale highlighting odd patient requests shows how humor and miscommunication persist in medical visits.
Doctor Johnson and Macklin argued a literary question when Johnson quoted Greek. Macklin confessed he did not understand Greek and Johnson jeered that a lit critic should know every language. Macklin then spoke Gaelic and Johnson had no response.
Across the Turkish empire gold is being hoarded, especially in rural districts, in the form of jewelry.
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