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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1921
Page
2
Practical tips on keeping foods fresh and utensils clean. Includes using crushed eggshells to polish glass bottles and vinegar with soda to tenderize beef, plus methods to prevent scorching milk and keep veg green.
A head waiter notes generous tipping habits among visitors contrasted with spendthrift locals. A visiting farmer left a $2 tip on a $25 bill while another guest in a green suit handed out $5 bills and a half century note, prompting concerns about future paybacks.
English horticulturists paid ten thousand dollars for an American orchid named Catteleya gigas alba. It flowered in 1910, won a gold medal at a U S show, and was found a year earlier among related plants. The lone surviving plant, once near sale, later fetched perhaps the highest price ever for an orchid in London.
Instructions advise rubbing olive oil on baby chicks to remove lice and mites, claiming it is harmless and effective. If chicks appear droopy, a drop of olive oil is said to aid the liver and digestion and help cure white diarrhoea.
The state berry growers meet in Salem this week for their first annual convention. Horticultural experts and veteran berry industry men from major Pacific coast districts attend, sharing experience on production, disease control, canning, and marketing. The gathering aims to become a key yearly event for fruit growers.
George Stickney and wife convey to Frank Brooks mountain view addition Carlton for 300 dollars. Frank Takayama and wife to Frank C Bramwell .47 acres in Joel Perkins addition. Claude W VanBuskirk and wife transfer to Ruby Ruble lots 2 3 and 8 percent of 4 in Amity and 68 acres in East Williams deed. Cc L Webster and wife to Perie Mark et al lot 1 block 2 Bibee addition Sheridan for 10 dollars. Mark and others lots 6 7 8 9 block 22 chamerton addition Sheridan for 10 dollars. John Wennerberg by executor to A D Brooks lots 2 and 5 block 12 Wennerbergs addition and lots in Mountain View Carlton for 700 dollars.
State industrial news reports a slate of public works and industry items across Oregon. The Pendleton meeting will address irrigation policy at the downtown convention with regional officials and stakeholders attending.
The Salt Lake Tribune notes a British post office mailed an American traveler to his west end hotel, charging sixpence per mile. It cites past cases of reporters being sent similarly to illustrate the efficiency and oddities of the British postal system.
London reports J. Morewood Dowsett the hunter escaped a charging elephant after blasting the herd leader in Uganda. He and his party fled as the rest stampeded, Dowsett rolling under the bull and finally breaking free to safety.
Champion middleweight canine Schnops demonstrates boxing prowess in the ring with owner Joseph Fredericks of New York City. The great Dane is portrayed as learning the sport and possibly introducing it to the canine elite.
Sweden reports 5 903 762 residents in January, with 56 725 added in 1920. Officials call the gain the largest in a century, while mortality falls to 13.29 per thousand, a record low and claimed as a world health benchmark.
Dominion bureau of statistics report shows fur farming expanded in Canada to 582 farms by end of 1920 from 414 in 1919. Values rose from 3,968,591 to 4,032,005 dollars.
Four women with a combined age of 300 years shared a guinea hen dinner in Bloomingburg Sullivan County Middletown N Y The group included Mrs Salter seventy one Mrs Evans eighty Mrs France seventy and Mrs Mills seventy nine The meal was prepared by Mrs France and featured guinea hen spinach onions cabbage salad apple pie cheese and tea.
A Dundee, Oregon note argues there is no inherent conflict between theology and science, citing Darwin and Wallace and W. Spencer. It asserts religion should align with scientific truth, honors evolution as a method of life, and praises Lucretia Mott’s dictum that truth, not authority, guides belief.
Instructional fragments describe methods to prevent scum on pickles using a mustard seed filled cheese cloth bag inside the jar. It also suggests keeping icing soft by adding baking soda to egg whites and pouring hot syrup over them. A cedar bottle in clothing storage is proposed as a moth repellent alternative to mothballs. Also mentions using a wrung cold cloth when ice is unavailable.
The passage offers practical advice on stain removal and cooking. It describes using rapid evaporation to cool water on fabric, rinsing ink stains with soap, and applying hot water to dampen fabrics. It also notes a trick for removing ink stains with a match head and suggests slow baking cakes with 1 or 2 eggs to improve volume and texture.
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