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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1912
Page
6
An Ohio byline explains winter butter issues from cream handling to churning. Proper ripening and temperature matter, with better feed and regular milking improving yields. The piece cites Daisy Grace DeKol, a Holstein from Maplecrest, as a high producer with 352.87 pounds in 90 days.
A vintage guide describes a DIY hay stacking outfit with a 12 foot sill length 3 inch planks a 23 foot mast and various braces and uprights. It explains joints pulleys ropes and steps for mounting two stacks without moving the device.
Saginaw Mich Ferdinand Heyman 23 faced high heart risk but endured a 45 minute operation without anesthesia to release lung congestion. Surgeons removed part of a rib after drawing off chest fluid with a suction pump. He stayed conscious throughout and is expected to recover fully.
Judge Day sentences William T. Daley to a year in Middlesex jail for nonsupport of his wife and child. The wife testified she had to wash for food while he spent money on drinking. The court notes the state may claim the husband’s wages during confinement and allocates 50 cents daily from the jail superintendent.
Eugene Stockton, a sporting goods merchant, testified before Judge Landis and a jury in Chicago’s United States District Court about methods gamblers use to defraud. He admitted mailing advertising for crooked dice and marked cards and a rules book. Stockton described loaded dice manufacturing and use of electricity to fleece victims, while asserting his aim was merely to sell goods.
Richmond Missouri report says Schooler, a sightless man, hauled a load of coal five miles to Excelsior Springs with no driver. After deliveries he found his team missing and feared theft, only to learn the mules chose to go home alone, traveling home safely without a mishap.
The article notes Petrified remains of a lobster and an oyster, about 50 million years old, added to MITs geological collection. Collected by Prof. Hervey Shimer and Mrs. Shimer during a six month tour of Bohemia France England Ireland Wales and other countries.
Annie J. Scott, born on a Missouri farm, rises from nursemaid to physician trainee, then builds a fortune in Kansas City real estate and home building. Starting with $2,000, she and partners profit on tracts, platting, selling 200 houses and amassing over $100,000 in five years while personally supervising every project.
Through the death of Miss Jane R Haines Wyck the ancestral Germantown mansion at Germantown avenue and Walnut lane faces possible destruction if the historic ground is sold. The house houses relics including a chair Lafayette sat in 1824 and contains floors bearing flags from the Battle of Germantown. Built 1698 by Dirck Jansen, later owned by Haines through Reuben Haines lineage, Wyck preserves Philadelphia history amid a now vacant, timeworn estate.
Lawrence Ring, a familiar Third and Chestnut streets resident and Civil War veteran, died at City Hospital of apoplexy. His will, filed for probate, leaves to a church fund and assigns a modest bequest for masses. A safety deposit box key was missing and his bank deposits were small. He lived in a single room at 6 North Third Street and spoke of Admiral Dewey as his former captain.
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