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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
7
Clarence Fields of San Francisco recounted riding on the trucks of a Lackawanna flyer and later coal trains across deserts and mountains to reach New York for medical treatment. He described soot, dust, repeated kickoffs, hunger, and a finale of beating his way across the ferry to the city.
Bernard F. O Neill once a New York newsboy, director of Carnegie Trust and Wallace banker, is arrested in Vancouver on a warrant for liability in the Wallace bank failure. Penniless, he seeks a new start after a career that included a million fortunes and a gubernatorial bid.
St Louis porter C W Massee, known as Croesus by night, balances a $12.31 weekly wage with owning nearly 3000 acres in Minnesota. He bosses twelve workers in York by day, drives a 60 mile per hour touring car, and lives in luxury with a nine room house and four servants in St Louis. He longs to farm Minnesota prairie life but remains tied to city work and local property holdings.
Traveling salesman L. M. Coachman sued a western railroad after being forced to pay 10 cents for an inedible hard tack and ham sandwich at McFarland. The suit claimed 2000 damages for distress and the cost of the sandwich. The railroad settled by paying Coachman an undisclosed sum and returning the 10 cents.
An experiment compares fertilizer with 14 percent phosphoric acid and 6 percent potash to superphosphate on wheat. Growth and ripening were similar. farmers observed no clear benefit from added potash, suggesting lime content in wood ashes may influence fertilizer effectiveness more than potash in this case.
The article describes a simple inexpensive drying house on concrete piers with inverted pans to exclude pests. It suggests solid or built up sills, a tight dry floor, drop siding walls, a water tight roof, a chimney at one end and a small steel stove at the other for quick drying, plus ample windows and ventilation. Anyone skilled with tools can build it at material cost plus time.
Alfalfa is praised as the farmer’s best ally providing weed control and high feed value. Regular cutting prevents weeds from seeding and chemical tests show its superior feed value. With 15 to 20 acres of alfalfa and 100 head of pigs, a solid income is achievable.
Despite steam cars and expanding trolley lines, and the rise of the automobile nicknamed the car of the million, well proportioned good horses fetch high prices. The period shows record profits in horse breeding beyond rising costs, reflecting strong demand.
Farmers urged to use hanging scales to weigh every milk yield. The method promises quick, exact records of each cow’s daily production for better herd management.
Farmers collect windfalls from plum and apple trees while pigs are turned into the orchards to clear fallen fruit. Occasional feeding reduces risk to the trees and helps clean the ground without damaging the orchard.
San Francisco appoints James Rolph Jr as mayor for a four year term with the Panama Pacific exposition on the horizon. He will oversee about 100 million dollars in public works and must lead a moral clean up of the city. Rolph rose from humble beginnings to business success and political prominence.
Rev Dr Robert Stuart MacArthur, former Calvary Baptist pastor in New York City and newly elected president of the World Alliance of the Baptist Church, is noted for expanding the church from 238 to 2500 members and for directing over 2 million dollars to church, city, and missions work. He began his pastorate May 15, 1870 and has retired from the post to pursue broader activity.
In Ottawa Sir Wilfrid Laurier vows he will remain as leader of the opposition for the near future and will see the next session as the opposition's teacher. He notes he planned eventual retirement but will not quit now and explains a house purchase in dispute was funded personally, not by a corrupt gift.
Field Marshal Viscount Kitchener is appointed minister plenipotentiary and consul general at Cairo with salary £7000 daily duties include guiding Egyptian policy under British oversight for Egypt and the Sudan. He is hailed as the trusted arbiter of regional affairs despite a reputation for sparing words and a storied nickname K.
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