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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
3
The Dallas Commercial Club adopted unanimously a resolution in favor of the 6 million road bond measure to be voted on June 4. The Polk County Better Roads association will be educated about the merits. A Good Roads meeting is planned next Wednesday seeking the attendance of highway commissioners Benson and Adanig.
St Helens Oregon April 6 the county court advertised for bids to pave a county road within city limits for about 1 1/2 miles. Proposals call for cement concrete asphaltic concrete and bitulithic pavement on a 16 foot wide street, the first hard surfaced pavement in Columbia county.
The opinion outlines how druggists may obtain permits to buy alcohol for business use and how physicians and pharmacists may handle prescriptions and bonds under the Bone Dry Law. It also notes a government test on mail weight versus space basis and details on Interstate Commerce Commission roles in mail rates and related industry notes.
R L Polk & Co publish the 1917 18 Oregon and Washington Gazetteer and Business Directory with a comprehensive listing of merchants professionals and businesses in each city town and village and a Classified Directory for quick reference. The work includes government offices post offices hotels newspapers stage lines population shipping stations and church data with a descriptive sketch of each place and street addresses shown in large towns. Offices in Seattle Portland Spokane and Tacoma price listed at 1000.
The seven day butterfat record is 50.68 pounds by Segis Fayne Johanna, with a 30 day mark of 171 pounds by Ormsby Jane Segis Raggie. Holstein Friesian cows total 18 above 40 pounds in seven days, 741 above 30 pounds, and 11,868 official records filed in 1916 showing average seven day milk of about 401 pounds and 3.53 percent butterfat.
A message urges parents to appreciate their daughters now while they live at home. It stresses expressing love, encouraging ambition, and helping with education and future opportunities. It warns against delaying support until daughters may be gone forever from the home nest.
The oak in a shaded forest weakens without support while the same tree in an open field becomes its own protector. Similarly a man forced to rely on himself develops character and resilience. It is better to pursue uphill effort with difficulty than to descend to easy, inglorious ease.
A patent for a steam powered apple cooker uses perforated cones to heat fruit through rising steam. Findings show a cotton ball weevil eating Egyptian worm is cannibalistic. A pump circulates water to produce clear ice without distilled water. A scenic railway patent twists cars backward via switches. Wireless telegraphy links sugars mills in Fiji. Salt volumes imply global land coverage by 1 percent of ocean salt. Odorless dish mops store in soda water solution. White border improves railroad green switch visibility. Washington DC foundation tests yielded a 16 inch diameter 60 foot concrete pile, largest to date.
A Louisianian patents a plough featuring a large wheel with multiple pointed steel rods attached. The rods are pushed downward and forward into the soil as the wheel revolves, creating an innovative soil-penetrating implement.
The Aquitania features the heaviest and most powerful turbine motors yet built weighing 1400 tons and containing over 1,000,000 blades.
A speech argues education should produce upright men and women with hearts and minds. It urges strengthening the common school system as millions attend, noting few graduate from colleges yearly and stressing that honesty comes from disciplined teachers who exemplify virtue.
Dr R R Daniels explains that modern milling removes bran from flour, producing white flour that lacks vital bran, protein, minerals, and life-giving elements. He warns this impoverishes bread and hampers digestive secretions essential to grain digestion.
The article notes a trend from no bran to bran heavy bread. It warns excessive bran irritates the intestinal lining and reduces starch intake, stressing the need for balanced bran consumption for digestion and energy.
The article advises using about one fourth bran to white flour by bulk to balance starch with protein and nutrients. It explains bran adds tissue salts and life-giving elements while white flour supplies starch for body.
An English inventor unveils a machine that passes fabrics under a microscope while exposing them to intense light from above and below, enabling detailed inspection of weave and fiber behavior during testing.
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