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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
2
The Myrtle Point Enterprise highlights a weekly wine tasting column with local selections and notes on regional varieties. Readers are invited to explore upcoming releases and owner recommendations at the town’s market events.
A collage of opinions and quips on crime politics marriage and economics. References include Caleb Powers Bradley and Mrs Bradstreet along with London income jokes. The piece satirizes public figures and social norms while noting inflation and governance concerns.
The piece notes the Commons first reading of a women's enfranchisement bill and its shelving, cites suffragettes making headway, and comments on political prognostication by a famed counterfeiter of presidential nominees while recounting a little incident in New York involving a dime and a police officer.
A manufacturers firm reports selling a 1907 second hand automobile to prominent figures including a vice president of a major transcontinental line a national bank president a noted real estate dealer two Wall Street operators a popular man of leisure a leader of a large commercial concern and a noted corporation attorney They say this class of buyers marks a shift as even top names economize.
France’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate approve a law that will translate a separation decree into a divorce after three years if either party requests it. The measure signals a shift in modern opinion on marriage and divorce in a country long seen as morally strict.
In a period spanning the revolution to Napoleon and beyond, the text laments a shift as the nation now makes divorce easy, allowing any married person unhappy with their condition to end the union without prolonged restraint. It critiques social change and personal liberty in marital law.
In a recent interview Bishop Samuel Fallows of Chicago argues from scriptural and scientific grounds for a natural human life of 120 years. He asserts maturity varies with individuals and species, impacting expectations of age, capacity, and intellectual needs in youth.
In Brooklyn a young wife suspects her husband of wine use and tests him via a list of long words. A bosom friend reads the term and notes the husband mispronounced most of them, revealing the suspected intoxication in a humorous pact with the wife.
A London Chronicle note describes a strange post meal grace at Clifford's Inn, where two bodies, the principal and the Kentish mess, share tables. The Kentish chair bowing to the principal lifts small bread rolls from a servitor and slams them on the table in silent ritual.
The common law is not a written code but rules of action binding from long usage and established custom rather than acts of a legislative body. It rests on tradition and judicial decisions shaping enforceable principles over time.
A Yonkers Statesman exchange features Proud of His Ancestors wondering what makes whales blow and Jill replying with an allusion to the Jonah story. The light dialogue evokes humor through ancient framing and biblical reference.
The article stresses two key needs for farm butter profitability water and quality output. It advises building a milk room with concrete for pure water access, a barrel churn and butter maker, and learning proper cream temperature, salt and color. It warns against practicing on customers and suggests waiting months to gain reliability before shipping to buyers.
A rustic gateway built at low cost between two cedar trees leads to a cottage. Locust uprights and top cross-piece with cedar fills create a simple attractive entrance. The design would suit informal settings and deter smaller animals while remaining durable.
The Outing Magazine notes that market demand governs egg color preferences with brown eggs favored in Boston and broadly across the country. even where preferences exist, a variety of colored-egg layers is wise. It also asserts horses cost less to feed and perform far more work than men, urging sufficient horse numbers to complete farm tasks.
The Farmers' Review notes labor shortages in the West and Northwest lead to using more horses. Five horses pull a double plow, allowing one driver to turn two furrows at once and nearly double work output. This relies on full use of horseflesh.
A Western timber man claims a new guide lets one person operate a drag saw to fell trees. The device uses a cord attached to a tree and an adjustable clamp at the saw end, with the opposite end held by a handle, eliminating the need for a second worker.
Land kept as a garden on a farm loses fertility through leaching and benefits from a two to three spot system rich in manure. Clover rotation helps by supplying green manure and deep-rooting subsurface enrichment, aiding cucumbers and melons and requiring heavy prior manuring to maintain fertility.
Feeding sheep and lambs for market is a lottery. The feeder must buy thin stock and fatten it for sixty to ninety days to profit. Key factors are cost of stock, price of feed, and market conditions at slaughter. This season the second and third elements have been highly uncertain.
Tips on cooling heated manure to prevent nitrogen loss. If odor and heat rise, drive a crowbar into the heap in several spots and pour cold water to reduce temperature.
The article advises that a hen’s productivity depends on balanced rations and attentive care. It stresses providing lime or gravel, grit as teeth, and constant access to food that promotes egg laying, while avoiding stale feed to prevent disease. It also notes careful incubator watching and occasional charcoal or burned corn to prevent indigestion.
A Pennsylvania inventor creates a dust pan with a hinged cover that stays open while sweeping and closes to contain dust. When shut the cover rests on the pan bottom, raised to block dust, and a spring holds the cover in place in either position.
Instructions describe making a cordial from sour orange juice by mixing three gallons of water per one gallon of juice and three pounds of sugar per gallon, fermenting, bottling, and aging for months. For unfermented juice add sugar and water per quart of juice, adjust sweetness, then bottle hot and seal.
Wash medium potatoes and boil in a large kettle. Add corn on the cob with husks and silks removed but with a thin inner husk layer. Steam until done and serve. Potatoes lift corn above water. If needed, kettle may be hung outside. Good for picnics.
White tissue paper is softened in water then kneaded with glue to form a paste. Ochers color the paste to resemble the wood shade. Calcined magnesia is added and forced into cracks. The cement adheres firmly to wood and dries with a smooth surface. Scientific American.
Scald milk and melt butter then cool. Add yeast sugar egg and seven cups flour. Knead and rise until afternoon. Roll and shape at 3 o clock. Let rise until half an hour before supper and bake. Brush melted butter over rolls halfway through baking.
A restaurant style method for Sienna eggs. Layer sliced hard boiled eggs with grated cheese in a buttered dish. Repeat layers, moisten with white sauce, top with buttered crumbs, bake ten minutes and serve in the baking dish.
Leftover cheese can be grated into powder for soup garnish or macaroni. A portion can be softened with flour, seasoned with mustard and cayenne, then blended with a touch of vinegar to form a paste for spreading or sandwich filling.
Sweetbreads are blanched cooled and finely chopped then smoothed with cream and folded with beaten yolks. Season with salt and pepper then whipped until light. The mixture goes into greased ramekins set in a hot water bath and baked until set and served in the ramekins.
A historic cake recipe lists ingredients including brown sugar molasses butter sour milk flour four egg yolks soda dissolved in milk and a blend of cinnamon nutmeg cloves and ale spice. Mix well and bake for a simple sweet loaf.
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