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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1911
Page
6
The piece profiles English remittance men in New York who never work, rely on titled relatives, and live on small stipends while chasing grand business schemes. Some use top floor hotels as addresses and luck into loans through improvised introductions to aristocrats.
Frank Brown a self confessed horse thief involved with a woman posing as his wife, claims to have stolen at least 100 horses. Detectives say Brown sold or exchanged horses, creating a tangled batch to recover for owners in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They found a cave hideout in northeast Philadelphia where the pair lived for some time. Brown refused meals and ordered the couple’s meals at city expense.
Robert Matter, son of Philip Matter of Marlon, ends a 30000 mile around the world trek. He traveled as a modern hobo from New York to London Belgium Australia Egypt Gibraltar Fiji Hawaii and Vancouver before returning home to Swift Current Canada for a reunion with his brother John Matter.
Gus Miner head porter at the Baltimore hotel has built a $60,000 fortune in ten years from travelers tips averaging $500 monthly. He owns a $12,000 Roanoke district home and a lodging house earning $150 a month. His desk sits amid trunks as a dozen staff work under Miller. some tips slip to him though the boss should keep them. He vacationly travels yearly three to four weeks, distributing quarters like sowing seed. He notes travelers sometimes tip poorly, preferring to reinvest what he receives.
The passage questions claims that vertical writing simplifies learning and promotes upright posture. It notes skeptically that proponents argue vertical formats ease instruction, but counters with the idea that such writing may encourage undesired upright habits.
A detailed guide on salting butter with fine grained salt, proper measurements, and handling tips. It covers equipment like a hair sieve and V shaped butter worker, suggested salt per pound for market and winter packing, washing moisture, and applying weight and printing for traceable prints. It notes evaporation effects and recommends weighing prints and printing farm name for value.
Director Charles A. Thorne reports five years of testing at the Ohio state experiment station using cow manure in rotating crops. Open yard manure yielded about two bushels of corn, two thirds of a bushel of wheat, and 60 pounds of clover hay per ton, with total value around $1.50, while straw manure raised values to $2.50 per ton. Adding phosphatic rock then raised total value to about $3.25 per ton, and resulted in three bushels of corn, 1.75 bushels of wheat, and 125 pounds of hay per ton.
The article explains that bacteria cause souring of milk and ripening of cream and cheese. Dirty handling multiplies bacteria, so cleanliness in milking, marketing, and home storage is essential to prevent disease germs like typhoid and tuberculosis. Keeping milk cool below 50 degrees Fahrenheit slows bacterial growth.
There is one method to build a heavy laying strain etching from good layers and their line, aided by a male known as a son of a good layer. This work relies on trap nests to identify productive birds.
Washington reports a push to sell parklike forest lands to the government under the Weeks Forestry law. Aimed at Appalachian Forest Reserve land, 2,000,000 acres have been offered, with many resorts and hotels in the White Mountains and the Sapphire Country in Carolina priced for forestry use. The forestry commission will decide whether Uncle Sam should buy, at prices ranging from ridiculously high to absurdly low.
The United States government plans auctioning 43 obsolete warships including battleships such as Kearsarge Kentucky Alabama Maine Massachusetts Indiana Ohio Oregon Missouri Iowa Illinois Wisconsin and cruisers Brooklyn New York St Louis Charleston Milwaukee with total costs of about 110 million. The sale aims to scrap or redeploy these vessels as dreadnoughts surpassed by newer ships.
Washington reports indicate foreign spies and military attachés continue operating worldwide to obtain U S defense secrets. In New York spies and consuls are present, including a returned officer seen in Staten Island near critical Atlantic fortifications.
About eighty draughtsmen with annual salaries totaling a quarter of a million dollars were dismissed at month end. Treasury officials warned Congress for 200000 to last nine months, but no funds were provided. With 662 public buildings already erected, officials will save $250000 this year and continue this saving annually by using existing plans.
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