Oregon Rural News Highlights in Benton County
Oregon's thrift drive grows as counties report activity. Leaders in Salem elected to head the state poultry association while efforts to curb crop blight in Jackson County proceed. Cattle thieves threaten Lane County with a $500 reward, and a Marshfield title issue prompts legal review.
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Benton County
G F. Williams
Salem
Oregon State Poultry Association
Oregon
Bend
Marahfield
Moose Lodge
Portland
Pies
Clackamas County
Molalla
Sun Dial Ranch
Proutdale
Lane County
Parker
Brown
E. L. Walters
Oregon City
Umatilla
United States Reclamation Service
Deschutes
Wheeler
Clatsop
Olcott
Jackson County
C. C. Cate
Rogue River Valley
Springfield
Eugene Mill & Elevator Company
Williams
Marshfield
United States
Canada
District Insoeotor Cattron
Washington
Idaho
History of hall marks and the rise of guild protection
An explainer traced from Paris early marks to England's 925 silver standard. It describes the guildhall mark, king s touch, leopard head and lion iterations, maker marks, and year letters. It warns of counterfeit ghost marks and notes silver’s survival through tumultuous periods.
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England
Paris
Goldsmiths’ Guild
Fellowship of Goldsmiths
United Kingdom
Brittania
Fairy stones of Virginia and North Carolina cross shaped mineral
The staurolite or fairy stone is a curious cross shaped mineral found only in Virginia and North Carolina. Its Greek name means cross, and legends say fairies made the crosses to mark Christ's death. The stones have modest value and are sold as curios for watches and lockets.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Christ
I Won’t Be Slighted Aboard The Schoolhouse Licking
A school principal admits to spanking a defiant pupil with a mild punishment. The father, a major local taxpayer, confronts the principal and vows strong action if the boy is mistreated again.
Rope Making Across Global Hemp Sources
The rope industry relies on Russian Italian American and Manila hemp with Manila predominating. Hemp fibers come from plant bark, are cut dried bundled then dew frost and sun exposure to loosen gums. The dry core remains as fibrous strips ready for cleaning baling and shipment.
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Manila
Phoenix egg found in China on view at New York museum
Naturalists in China collected a giant fossil egg hailed as the Phoenix egg by locals. The Museum of Natural History in New York confirms it is the egg of a gigantic prehistoric ostrich, about four pounds of contents, the only perfect egg known with a small hole.
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China
Museum of Natural History
New York
Boston Transcript
United States
Henan
Yellow River
Arabia
Hellopoli
Boloism and Money Power Spur Tammany Talk
Charles F Murphy of Tammany warns that money's corrupting power fuels Boloism. He recounts a South travel story where a senator makes a $20 offering in a colored church and a tense exchange arises between the collector, preacher, and elders over exposing the senator.
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Charles F. Murphy
Tammany
South
Telegraphic Operation in Australia by Distant Surgeon
An operation carried out under directions from a surgeon 1,800 miles away and sent by telegraph led to a life saving surgery in Hall's Creek northern Australia. The patient suffered a horse fall with serious injuries including a urethral rupture. no doctor within 1,000 miles. Telegraph instructions were sent to Perth and back for the postmaster at Hall's Creek to perform the operation with improvised instruments, chief among them a razor, successfully.
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Telegraph
Australia
Scientific American
Hall's Creek
Perth
The Turkish Sultanate as Hereditary Monarchy
The Turkish government is described as a hereditary monarchy with the sultan as temporal and spiritual head. Succession passes to the senior male descendant of the House of Osman, currently Mohammed V as the thirty-sixth sovereign. the sultan’s marriage status is noted, and all children born in the harem are considered legitimate, with the oldest male child succeeding regardless of the mother’s status or marriage.
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House of Osman
Mohammed V
Muccession
Constantinople
Turkey
Substitute for Coal Warns Idaho Residents to Conserve Fuel
Idaho State Fuel Commissioner Gooding urges careful fuel use amid shortages. Citizens should burn wood where possible, with forest reserve officials directing access to down and dead timber. Railroads may sell old tires and bridge timbers at nominal cost for fuel.
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Idaho
Gooding
Forest Reserve
Hornaday plan for wildlife sanctuaries spurs national debate
The piece outlines Remsen Crawford and Collier's call for sanctuaries in national forests to breed big game while Congress considers related bills. Dr. William T. Hornaday advocates protected breeding grounds to boost annual big game for meat, arguing a looming famine could be eased by such measures.
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Mr. Hoover
Remsen Crawford
Collier's
Congress
America
Hornaday
William T. Hornaday
New York
Doctor Hornaday
United States Army League
American Defense Society
United States
Meatless mince meat touted for meatless Tuesday meal
The national emergency garden commission introduces a camouflage mince meat as a meatless alternative. Tested by five hundred troops on a transport, it impressed and requested more. Recipe uses raisins prunes lemon juice and peel cider and brown sugar to mimic mince meat for pumpkin pie and ginger bread pairing.
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National Emergency Garden Commission
Food Administration
Sleeper Tax Hits Porters in War Tax Adjustment
The Kansas City Star reports sleeping car porters protest a new war tax. Since November first a 10 percent sleeper fare tax shifts the burden to porters, who say tips dropped from 25 cents to 10 cents, effectively cutting their earnings in half.
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Kansas City Star
Icelandic intellect and crisis shape national character
A writer argues that Icelanders possess strong political acumen and literacy developed since 1874, enabling a readiness for conflict with Denmark. The piece notes high literacy, widespread reading and writing among fishermen and common people, with literature emerging across classes.
Paper as fuel in Milan houses a frugal custom
Italian households collect odd scraps of paper soak them in water knead into balls and dry them in the sun to provide some heat. In Milan fashionable streets the paper bundles rise in pyramids on balconies of the rich showing a practical reuse of waste.
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Italy
Milan
John Masefield Sang In Greenwich Village Back Water
A New York Mail writer recalls John Masefield living in Paradise alley Greenwich Village near Patchin Place. He tended bar and rocked the boss’s cradle while singing odd chants that captivated the baby but baffled the boss’s wife. The poem’s future fame contrasts with the era’s rough, queer street scene.
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Paradise Alley
Greenwich Village
Sixth Avenue
Jefferson Market Jail
Eleventh Street
New York Mail
Patchin Place
John Masefield
New York Town
John Mansefield
John—Masefield
Boss
Masefield
Value of a Good Look-Out in Submarine War
Sir Eric Geddes argues that sighting a submarine by a lookout gives a seven to three chance of escape for the ship. He notes seven of ten attacks succeed when sighted, eight of ten when not sighted. Sir Alfred Yarrow offered a reward for early submarine detection on merchant ships, as the American destroyer case shows detection after torpedoing.
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Admiralty
Eric Geddes
Alfred Yarrow
Scientific American
War Beer Shortages Hit German Civilians
Berlin reports, relayed via London and the New York Times, that Germany faces reduced beer supplies. Malt for next year will be 10 percent of the peace quota in North Germany and 15 percent in Bavaria, prioritizing the army and munitions. Civil beer will be scarce and is described as thin war beer. Barley harvests deteriorate, shifting more barley to food.
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Germany
Berlin
London
New York Times
Bavaria
After the War Bargain Buys Spark Household Treasure Find
George Pipwistle returns home from the city with a mountain of parcels including corkscrews, a stuffed owl, brushes, a cloth bound Uncle Tom’s Cabin, walking sticks, a toasting fork, openers, and a roasting jack. He praises it as the best bargain sale ever.
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George Pipwhistle
Wartime plant substitutes and Civil War herbal sources
The committee on botany of the national research council seeks wild plants as wartime substitutes for costly crops. It cites Dr. John Porcher’s Civil War list of South plant substitutes and urges information from hunters, trappers, woodsmen, farmers, Indians, and foreigners. The piece notes a Hyde Benson land fraud case hearing set for November 13 and 14.
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Committee On Botany
National Research Council
John Porcher
South
Supreme Court
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Highway Commission
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Porter Bros
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United States Department of Agriculture
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