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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1914
Page
3
A vivid travel narrative traces a long trek from Russia across steppe to a dark evergreen forest. It sketches the approach to Irkutsk with ironic detail, notes frost and late dining hours, and contrasts frontier solitude with the metropolis. It ends with a grim, surreal view of murderers lurking in Irkutsk’s streets.
The forty eight state governments held total debt of 122 796 525 on June 30 1913 per Census Director Harris. National debt was 2 916 204 914 with 1 028 064 056 cash in treasury leaving 15 59 per person. France stood at 160 per capita in comparison.
Dramatic Shinhopple scene at Joe Binn's store centers on Hank Parsons tame bear case and a mock warrant. Jim Bailey, Bill Sanders, and locals debate Squire Ike Stratton use of law pints while Hank avoids action and the crowd disperses in anticpated political repercussions.
P K Edwards explains why heavy galvanized wire and cement posts create durable fencing. He recalls 55 inch woven wire fences and compares board versus wire costs, notes cement posts can be home made, and offers bracing tips for corner and end posts to prevent turning.
Popular Electricity describes a steel ring and a chisel edge bar joined by a pin. The tool fits over the can top and pries out the plug with a press in the shown direction. This method avoids hammer blows or tugging, reducing effort.
John Ball, steward of the schooner Eagle Wing, spotted river pirates in the Delaware off Cooper's Point Philadelphia. Police detained Henry Sels, accused of disposing of the schooner’s property to the raiders, though he claimed to be part of the crew.
At a Paris conversazione in the Society of French Civil Engineers rooms British visitors heard of a French invention by Ian Maitre and M Martin. A piano uses wires set in vibration by an electro magnet rather than hammers. The keyboard controls notes that sustain while the key is pressed, like an organ.
A popular grain feed combines provender corn and oats ground together for cows and horses. Corn on the cob and oats are as good as shelled, saving shelling labor. Fineness aids digestion but cost must balance gains. crush oats to expose kernels and grind ear corn to a coarse meal.
Losses from the revolution leave Mexico with an exceptionally large cotton crop that cannot be harvested or utilized since last September. The disruption in picking season renders the output nearly worthless and burdens farmers and markets alike.
The text argues no farmer should start large scale cattle feeding without experience and good judgment. It asserts that practical know how and careful judgment are as crucial as corn to fatten steers profitably, warning of high costs for trial and error.
Thinning should begin when small apples reach about one inch in diameter. Do not leave any apples closer than four inches apart.
The alfalfa crop may prove beneficial on diverse soils and can supply stock with less grain when well managed. It is a permanent, nitrogen fixing crop aided by nodules, but needs substantial potash and phosphoric acid. Experiments suggest 300 to 490 pounds per acre of a fertilizer with 8–10 percent phosphoric acid and potash, plus inoculation and liming.
Farmers shift from grain to garden crops as new machinery boosts productivity and profit. The piece notes better returns from vegetables, urging busy households to cultivate every available inch for economic gain.
The piece urges increasing dairy cattle on farms to improve soil health and conserve human food by producing more milk and butter. It argues more cows and ample dairy in homes will raise household cash through butter purchases.
A reader recalls a train story where Smith takes twenty francs to enter a mysterious Paris house and fight a stylized oriental tale. The exotic chamber, sultan, dancing girls, and Nubians build to a cliffhanger ending interrupted by a Frenchman declaring it a film.
A vague recount describes patrons leaving a venue in Losthurst after a screening. A village taxi is used to depart, and a vow is made to avoid further periods until finishing a story to verify accuracy.
A 20 year practice quote from Dr Brorg claims the new generation of women is undergoing a decline in vitality. He describes the physique changing with sinking breasts, stooped shoulders, cold feet, purplish hands, smaller faces, wrinkled foreheads, poorer digestion, pale complexions, reduced pore elasticity, and increasing baldness across women.
George Sharp a Pedro Creek miner in the Fairbanks district spent nine years unaware a fortune lay beneath his cabin floor. He located a claim on Pedro Creek opposite No 2 and prospected various holdings while ignoring the cabin site. Recently he sank a shaft near his cabin struck bedrock after ten feet and found coarse gold and nuggets in dust from a small dump.
In a dispute over a Clafiin suit two lawyers with similar interests clash. Judge Morgan J O'Brien was asked to intervene to end the dispute, but questioned if a woman could have prompted such interference.
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