Dairying Topics Delisted at Corvallis College Week
Dairying topics and lectures form the Farmers Week program at Oregon Agricultural College Corvallis with speakers on Jersey cattle dairy work U S Dairy Division in the West milk testing the Babcock test farm records and farm business methods. The schedule includes talks on milk composition, soil bacteria, crop feeds, cheese making and farm building improvements. Other faculty will cover farm machinery land deeds crop rotations and cooperative associations.
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Corvallis
Ore
Oregon Agricultural College
J. M. Dickson
Ashburn Farm
Shedd
A. K. Rissdr
West‘ern Dairy Investigations
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
U. S. Dairy Division
West
Lewiston
Idaho
Albany
Withycombe
Cooperative
B. I
L. L. Kent
Babcock
Ialey Halle
Will Oki
Simpson
Myrtle Club Sets January Meeting For Final Constitution Action
The Myrtle Club held its regular meeting with amendments to the constitution and by laws read for the first time. Changes will be acted on at the January gathering. The club plans a masquerade ball on New Year's Eve and discussed invitations to a large list of friends. Ray Wyland has purchased his father's restaurant and assumed control this week.
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Myrtle Club
Parcel Post Regulations and Early Postal Reforms Noted
The article details new parcel post rules including an eleven pound weight limit, the use of distinctive parcel post stamps, mailing only at designated post offices, and return cards required on parcels. It also mentions officials receiving Official Parcel Post maps and guides to locate every post office. Additional items touch on public spending, pensions, and economic notes from 1918.
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United States Mail Service
Postal Service
H. B. Steward
Ethegs
Parcel Post
United States
Oregon Senate Accounts Show stark party split
Final election accounts from Oregon senators reveal Bourne Selling Lane and Paget totals with Clark absent. The House output shows 128 Republicans to 15 Progressives, while the Senate lists four Progressives. A California petition of 500000 schoolchildren travels toward Philadelphia, with honors in San Francisco. Shasta Limited fare boost noted, and a prairie fire endangers Saskatchewan to North Dakota. Taft to decide on Industrial Commission membership before Christmas.
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Senate
Oregon
A. E. Clark
Bourne
Ben Selling
Harry Lane
B. Lee Paget
House
Liberty Bell
California
Philadelphia
Market Street
San Francisco
Shasta Limited
Seattle
Swift Current
Sask
North Dakota Boundary Line
Panama-Pacific Exposition stamps to go on sale January first
Postmaster General announces Panama Pacific Exposition stamps will be available in post offices by January 1. Sheets of seventy will be issued featuring Balboa on the one cent in green, Gatun rocks on the two cent in red, the Golden Gate on the five cent in blue, and the Discovery of San Francisco Bay on the ten cent in dark yellow.
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San Francisco
Panama-Pacific
U.S
1915
Balboa
Pacific Ocean
Gatun
Panama Canal
Golden Gate
San Francisco Harbor
San Francisco Bay
Peare Bushnell Wedding Near Curry County Line
At the bride's parents home near the Curry county line southwest of this city on November 28, 1912, Westie Elora Peare married Carl V Bushnell. Rev. Thos Barklow officiated and guests attended a wedding dinner. The couple will reside on the groom's ranch on upper Catching creek.
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L. W. Peare
Curry County
Westie Elora
Carl V. Bushnell
Thos. Barklow
Catching Creek
Married couple Nellie Hermann and N. W. McDonald wed at Daily Show
Miss Nellie Hermann daughter of Mr and Mrs E W Hermann formerly of this city and N W McDonald of Star Creamery near Norway were married last week at Portland. They returned aboard the Breakwater and will reside at Ocway.
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Dan Cupid
Daily Show
Portland
N. W. McDonald
Star Creamery
Norway
Nellie Hermann
E. W. Hermann
Ocway
Magazine Subscription Offer Combines Two Papers
Mechanics notes the regular price of the Scientific American weekly at $3.76 per year and the Enterprise at $1.50 for a year. For a short time both papers are offered together for $4.50 in advance.
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Scientific -American
Enterprise
Oregon Health Board Reports 1911 Vital Statistics Progress
The 1911 Oregon State Board of Health annual report notes higher funding and better facilities, with births at 9 582 and deaths at 6 360. Death rate rise is linked to improved prevention, not population growth, and notable efforts include school sanitation, abolition of the common drinking cup, and a campaign against house flies. Tuberculosis deaths reach 705, with Indigenous and mixed-blood groups hardest hit. smallpox 249 cases, typhoid 417 cases, and diphtheria 965 cases with 31 deaths. Cancer death toll 960. goiter 10. Public violence includes 38 murders, 606 external deaths, and detailed poison and firearm fatality figures.
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Oregon State Board of Health
First Woman Elected to Oregon City Council at Barlow
Mrs M E Tull wife of the mayor won a council seat in Barlow marking the first woman to hold office in the area since women gained the franchise. The election gives the Tull family full representation in Barlow.
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Oregon
Barlow
M. E. Tull
Tull
Mail Delayed by Fallen Trees Reaches Clarification
Myrtle Polothes has not received mail from Roseburg since Monday morning. The Tuesday stage is sixty hours late due to fallen trees in the canyon between Camas and Rock Creek. Vernon Smith and F A Warner were handling local business affairs earlier this week while press time was uncertain if mail would arrive today.
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Myrtle Polot
Roseburg
Camas
Rock Creek
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College of Agriculture
Meeting OF
Ray Wyland
Cadillac
Federal
Atterbury
Menominee
Coquille
F. S. Dow
Marshfield
Jie EX
Punaroe
the Harness Man
Taft
New’ York
William K. Vanderbilt
Congress
Aaron ‘Moore
Booth- Kelly Lumber Company
Wendling
United States Geological Survey
Africa
Australasia
Bird Mexico
Russia
Finland
China
British India
Canada
South America
Industrial Commission
Uncle Sam
McDonald-Hermann
Columbia River
Moath
Vernon Smith
F.A. Warner
N. P. Peterson
Benson
Phon
Myrtle Point
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