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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
10
Wheat grown in the Northwest shows year to year variation in gluten, with 1919 wheat containing less gluten and shorter dough rising times. Pacific Northwest crops trend toward higher starch and lower gluten compared with 1917 and 1918, altering bread texture and fermentation. bakers are advised to shorten dough rise by about one hour and monitor dough height to avoid overly tall loaves.
New York Oct. 16 Canada weighs a public benefit plan for horse racing. Promoters take a fair percent of profits while the rest funds public good. Commander J. K. Le Rom backs sharing surplus for breeding better horses and farmer stallions to aid rural development.
More than 2500 students from every Oregon county and 33 other states plus seven foreign nations enrolled at Oregon Agricultural College Corvallis. Multnomah leads with 486 registrations, Benton 444, Marion 67, Linn 101, while Canada sends 13 foreign students and New Zealand notes three in the summer term.
London Oct 16 Bombardier Wells Catholic Wells vs Jack Murphey set for a 20 round bout tonight in London Quet. Wells returned after a previous loss to Georgeton Carpenter and Beckett clash. Promoter Tom Rourke hypes Fulton as a probable future foe as publicity grows around the European circuit.
In North Bend on October 16 a resolution by the county teachers' institute pledges all Coos County teachers not to accept any position at a salary below 1000 for nine months, payable in monthly installments. The action passed by a large majority, with pledges to urge teachers in other Oregon counties to join. The current minimum is 400 a month.
October 16 union pickets around steel plants faced a strike within a strike as taxicab drivers refused to work the 19 hours demanded, carrying pickets to their posts.
An official warning reports counterfeit War eevings stamps circulating through dealers in Portland and cant areas. The prints resemble genuine stamps but use different ink and a missing fine line behind the portrait. Officials warn the risk to Pacific coast securities from these fakes.
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