Astoria Plans a Grand Centennial Celebration
The Astoria Centennial marks 100 years since the Tonquin first anchored near Astoria in 1811. The event runs August 9 to September 9 with regattas, battleships, aero exhibition by Glenn Curtiss, fireworks on Gearhart Beach, and a coast-wide assembly of state officials, guards, and educators.
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John Day
Astoria
Oregon
John Jacob Astor
Columbia River
Washington
Idaho
State of
Clatsop County
New York City
Portland
United States
Pacific Coast
Peoria
Atlantic Seaboard
Northwest
Astoria Motor Boat Club
Pacific Coast International Motor Boat Association
Glenn Curtiss
Curtiss
Gearhart Hotel
China
Japan
Gearhart
Pacific Ocean
Centennial Committee
General Finzer
Oregon National Guard
National Guard
Gearhart Beach
Automobile Club of
Oregon Development League
C. C. Chapman
Portland Commercial Club
School Teachers’ State Institute
Board of Education
Language Compare Sparks Social Etiquette Meeting
A woman with strict etiquette principles remarks that a speaker’s language mirrors what audiences pay to hear in a theatre. Miss Cayenne agrees, signaling a clash over conversational decency and public performance standards.
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Miss Cayenne
No Use for College Education
A courtroom exchange centers on a father's disdain for college education and a judge's quip about trading his son for a trade, highlighting a humorous clash of priorities.
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Willia
Gillis
Novel Porcelain Tray Aids Room Service Efficiency
A new white porcelain tray with silver nickel trim holds two cups and saucers a teapot cream jug butter plate toast rack marmalade jar and breakfast plate. A compact salt and pepper stand with glass butter plate and knife fits beside a curved handle for easy lifting. A perforated tea spoon enables sending boiled water for properly brewed tea.
Handy To Bake Potatoes: Novel Tin Stand
A new potato baking aid features a tin 15 inches long by 2 1/2 inches wide with 80 degree turned sides to lift the potato from the oven. Spurs cut from the top form supports so heat circulates evenly around the potato. Popular Mechanics describes the device as improving even cooking.
Virginia Chicken Salad Recipe From a Christmas Menu
A traditional Virginia chicken salad recipe is shared for special occasions. Plump chickens are simmered in lightly salted water, cooled, skin and bones removed, and meat cut into small bits. Mix with celery, dress with mayonnaise, and chill to ripen.
Bancroft Pudding and Cream Sauce Recipe
Cream 4 tablespoons butter and 1 cup sugar and add 1 well beaten egg. Lift 144 cups flour with 44 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Add % cup of flour to the first mixture, and beat thoroughly, then add the rest of the flour and % cup of milk, alternately. Finally beat % square chocolate into the batter and bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Sauce Beat 2 eggs until very light, then add 1 cup of confectioner's sugar and 1 cup of thick cream. Beat until the whole is the consistency of whipped cream.
A Quick Loaf Cake Recipe
A compact bake instruction for a sweet loaf. It lists mixing one cup sugar one cup flour and one teaspoon tea break two eggs in oil and pour four tablespoons melted butter over eggs. Add milk to cup salt flavor bake in a moderate oven.
Instructions for ironing cold starch clothes
The method describes preparing a cold starch solution by dissolving starch in cold water and adding boiling water to warm it. Dip the item into the mixture, rub in the starch, fold, and leave overnight. This process aims to avoid sticking and starch streaks, ensuring easy ironing like normally starched garments.
Fruit Cake Recipe Heard in Historic Kitchen Test
A tested recipe lists ingredients for a fruit cake: butter brown sugar molasses eggs sour milk soda flour currants raisins and flavoring. It presents a simple old fashioned method yielding a rich homemade cake with tested results.
Red Spots Remedy in Lavender Water Touch
Advised home remedy suggests applying cologne or lavender water to red spots several times daily. Blemishes typically fade quickly with this routine.
Proper care for dairy calves by Oregon expert
Professor F L Kent of Oregon Agricultural College details a comprehensive winter calf care plan. The method emphasizes box stalls, strict sanitation, limited dam contact, precise milk feeding, gradual switch to skim milk, and balanced grains with hay for thrifty, healthy calves.
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F. L. Kent
Oregon Agricultural College
Preserving Posts and Poles in Oregon Timber Industry
Oregon foresters explain how preservative treatment extends fence posts life. Creosote heated in a hot bath and cooled in a cold bath penetrates thoroughly seasoned timber, boosting durability from about eight to twenty-two years. Savings arise from fewer replacements, a key consideration for hop growers and ranchers.
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East
Northwest
Oregon Agricultural College
Department of Forestry
Forest Service
United States
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