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Newspaper
Tillamook Herald
Location
Tillamook, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1922
Page
3
The Union Pacific system plans immediate spending of about ten million dollars to build 4600 new freight cars. Cars include 40 foot double sheathed types and 60 ton automo bile cars, with lumber from Union Pacific mills and grain bulk cars for grain shippers. Also a guitar sale ad and piano dealer notice appear at end.
G A R Corinth Post No 38 of Oregon holds sessions on the second and fourth Saturdays each month at 1 50 p m in the Woodmen of the World hall Visitors are welcome and invited to attend and join the post for veterans activities and memorial duties.
Local column shares playful gossip about rolls of couples, a basketball referee tale, a jeweler considering synthetic gold outfits, and jokes on bran diet trends. It notes Rollie Watson’s eighteenth wedding anniversary celebrated at home, praises homemade doughnuts, and mentions shopping at Haltom’s store with Frank offering deals.
A terse note on cranberry origins from wild marshes across eastern and southern states and Canada. It notes a steady market with November demand described as phenomenal, highlighting regional growth and the fruit’s distribution.
The article recalls old family meals where guests chose from a central pot, risking a good or oily serving. It notes the pot hanging over the fire, a common practice in Europe, with edible scraps gathered as meals were served and time marked by a ceremonial pot balance.
The text describes historic drinking practices and table customs, noting potes and cups as marks of wealth. It mentions a cupboard richly garnished as a social display, and the claim that Lord Fairfax brought the first cupboards to Virginia, with early cup boards built atop casters and covered with drapery.
Anthropologists say a Pelew group of sixteen natives embarked in three canoes near the Pelew Islands in the South Pacific. A gale drove them toward Formosa, exposing them to hunger and exposure for months as they drifted about sixteen hundred miles. They reached Formosa exhausted and were aided by locals before returning home by trading schooner. The episode is cited as evidence that early humans dispersed across Oceanica from initial homeland routes.
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