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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1911
Page
6
The article explains that beef production requires beef breeds like Short horns Herefords Aberdeen Angus and Galloway. It describes beef type as a compact blocky animal with a short head wide breast deep chest broad back and heavy thighs. It notes dairy cattle are unsuitable for profitable beef. It ends with a note about Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children.
The report notes vast expansions in utility infrastructure with more than 288000 miles of pole lines and over six million miles of underground wire. Submarine cables add about 25000 miles, yielding a total wire network around 11.64 million miles and an annual increase near 1.25 million miles.
An Ohio telephone company manager has invented a compact telescoping aluminum device allowing motorists to connect their car with any point on any telephone system via overhead wires.
The notice warns against liquid bluing as mainly water and adulteration. It promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as the pure blue product and urges laundresses to buy it, available at all good grocers.
A concise Confucian maxims list outlining nine traits for the superior man to cultivate: clear vision, quick hearing, genial expression, respectful demeanor, truth in words, seriousness in duty, inquiring in doubt, firm self control in anger, and justice when the path to success opens.
Chicago based Marine Eye Remedy Co offers a free illustrated Eye Book and advice on proper application for reader eye troubles. The ad claims Marine Believes Bare Eyes strengthens weak eyes relieves pain and sells for 50c. It suggests use for adults and babies with scaly eyelids and granulation.
The will of Mrs. Mary Olmstead of Brooklyn filed in Kings County surrogate’s office delays all legatees’ shares until age sixty five, with two grandchildren exceptions who receive at thirty five.
The item recalls Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets first introduced about 40 years ago. The sugar coated granules claim to regulate a tired stomach liver and bowels and provide an invigorating effect.
A country visit ends in humor as a child laments missing the skunk night noise. The tale centers on Willie waking to his mother’s concern and the boy’s tearful confession about never smelling a skunk before. The episode captures small town charm and childhood mischief.
The article advises a small wad of white paper placed under the tongue to halt a nosebleed in children. It notes that this simple method, plus cotton pads dipped in water at the back of the neck, is a common standby used by many mothers.
A London Punch style note recounts a Yorkshire paper quip about Mr. Atkinson. It praises his sharpness in exposing covert methods of the rival faction, noting his habit of striking decisively and reforming public discourse.
The article advises washable kitchen rugs and sanitary care. It recommends rag weave rugs, line drying wool rugs weekly, wiping with soap bark and water, and keeping counters and sinks scrubbed. It suggests kerosene or turpentine wipes, coal ash to revive zinc sinks, disinfectants daily, and organized enameled or tin storage to deter pests.
A Minnesota inventor designs a compact heater for shaving water and similar items using a single gas burner. An arm on the chandelier pipe holds a conical pan receptacle that slides on the arm and can adjust in height and swing aside. A thumb screw fixes position and a stop bar keeps it parallel, spreading heat under the pan for even heating.
Step by step directions to assemble a layered bread sandwich using white and graham bread with creamed butter. Alternate white and graham slices, chill under weight, trim into halves, then slice and reassemble into a checkerboard block.
Tear beef fine removing skin and tallow. Cook in butter with flour, add two to two and a half cups milk gradually to smooth thick sauce. Pour over toast or serve with baked potatoes. Milk quantity depends on beef amount.
Whipping cream often clumps into butter. keep the mixing bowl in a pan of ice water while beating to prevent butter formation and maintain smooth whipped cream.
Before using a new iron kettle, grease inside and outside, let stand 48 hours, then wash in hot water with a large lump of cooking soda dissolved.
Louisville reports new marvels beneath Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave in Edmonson County near Green River. The Violet City wall tinting, bridal altars, and a five-tiered cave with Echo River draw scientists and tourists alike as exploration promises further discoveries in this underground world.
Dr H F Cameron of McGill University explained in Chicago that blind psychic impulse drives beauty marriages. He noted successful men like J P Morgan and John D Rockefeller overcame physical ugliness through humor breeding and wealth to attract partners.
A government source reports farmers increasingly use banks for deposits and payments. The National Monetary Commission shows retail deposits of four state totals at 4,894,181 with checks at 72.8 percent, currency 21.8 percent, and specie 5.4 percent, led by Nebraska 78.9 percent and Iowa 75.2 percent.
The war department plans to breed 100 stallions as stud animals assigned to stations nationwide with ex cavalrymen as grooms. They will breed with suitable mares and foals may be purchased at an agreed price after three years. Two thousand cavalry horses yearly would support the army’s remount needs amid declining riders and trolley displacement.
Dairy men report dried beet pulp outperforms corn silage and costs less than roots. A ration with beet pulp yields about 10 percent more milk than silage, supplies milk-marking materials, and is easy to digest. It is a natural vegetable feed, not medicine or cureall, and keeps cows in top condition.
The plan recommends sowing oats and peas in spring, plowing before oats ripen, sowing crimson clover and oats, then plowing again in October to sow rye and grasses. In March after, broadcast red clover. With thorough tillage the land will grow grass and, with 300 pounds per acre guano and five bushels wood ashes annually for 3–4 years, soil fertility should rebound to yield a large corn harvest.
The article warns of ongoing insect and disease damage to fruit and vegetable crops, noting vast losses and slow adoption of spraying. It urges constant and intelligent use of sprayers to save millions and improve orchard, field, and garden yields.
A Erie, Pennsylvania testimonial claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured a woman of five years of female troubles after two bottles, with six completing a full course. The letter praises the remedy's safety, notes its many reported cures for conditions like inflammation, ulcers, and nervous prostration, and invites others to seek free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Rhode Island houses all state institutions on a single farm including the state prison work house and Providence jail. Work house prisoners have reclaimed land removing stones improving the stream and building walls.
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