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Newspaper
Lynden Tribune
Location
Lynden, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
2
A Walla Walla County trial compares seed treatments for rhizoctonia in potatoes. Plots used untreated diseased seed, untreated clean seed, treated diseased seed, and treated clean seed, each with 200 hills. Clean treated seed produced the most good smooth tubers, highlighting seed selection for garden patches to avoid rhizoctonia and scab.
The piece recounts Captain Jeremiah Thomas of Seattle recalling early Puget Sound ships and a Seattle lawyer who exploited a crewman suit. It contrasts old maritime life with modern shipping, noting shipbuilding, legal friction, and the evolution from small schooners to liners as Seattle grew.
Workmen at a steel plant lost control of a slag car and it rolled into the bay where it exploded with a force likened to the 1917 dynamite blast. Similar slag dumps in Tacoma daily produce comparable blasts, likened to an admiral's salute.
In Apia Samoa the British government under New Zealand rule deported over 200 German Samoans to Germany, stripping them of property without hearing. The Main carried sixty four children as it sailed June 16 bound for Rotterdam via Panama after a June 15 embarkation in unsafe port conditions amid influenza. The action echoes 1755 Nova Scotia deportations but with far longer displacement.
The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers Canning Company reports extensive operations from May with rhubarb to late season shipments. Tokyo? The text lists shipments of loganberries from Willamette Valley Oregon, 700 tons, 300 tons of strawberries to Mountain View California, 1000 tons Bartlett pears from Wenatchee and Yakima, and 500 cars of apples from Eastern Washington. The Puyallup plant along the Northern Pacific Railway shows a new jam plant five stories high, 76 feet wide and 286 feet long, costing 200000 dollars. Western Washington Fair runs Oct 6 to 10.
Trade at Oriental points shows stagnation with advices from Shanghai Kobe and Manila indicating a general slow demand. Market observers report quiet confidence in near term improvements but list unsettled prices and cautious selling across Asia and the Pacific.
President B. J. Palmer of the Palmer School of Chiropractic will lecture at the Masonic Temple in Seattle twice daily during the week starting October 10. The Davenport Iowa school has grown rapidly to become a leading authority in chiropractic, and the lectures aim to inform the public about chiropractic healing possibilities.
Claude G. Newton, former State University student, recalls building an 11.37 mile cutoff on Peru's Central Railway crossing the Andes to Morococha and Pachachaca. Materials shipped from the United States, dangers of high altitude work, llama pack animals, and the route's 65 tunnels and 61 canyons illustrate engineering romance amid Peru's mining boom.
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