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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1926)
I t S U P P L E M E N T TO C E N T R A L PO INT A M ER IC A N . M A Y 6, 1926 Making Synthetic Lumber i While nothing can excuse the prod igal waste of lumber In America dur ing recent years, it Is worthy of note that u new source of wood substitute has been discovered in the waving fields of sugar cane. Synthetic wood is being made, that is, from crushed cane stalks after the sugar has been extracted. This new industry Is spread ing from the center of the sugar coun try In Virginia over the valley of the Mississippi, and it is reported that from one $3,000,000 cane-wood plant in that region more than 200,000,000 feet o f wood substitute Is being shipped out in a year. This potential source of “ lumber” lg known technically as bagasse, and it has been tried and found wanting In a number of other directions. It is a troublesome waste product and thé attempt has been made to utilize It as fertilizer, live stock food and fuel, but without suc cess. Now it seems that not only has a use been found for it, but an ex ceedingly great need is in process of being met thereby. Amundsen is one more who declines to read in the fate of the Shenandoah the epitaph of the dirigible. He ex pects to use the Italian N-l, renamed the Norge, for a flight next May from Spitzbergen. Anyone who will put $100,000 into his enterprise can go with him. The doughty Scandinavian is undoubtedly right in his forecast of transpolar air service, on a commer cial basis, and not dependent on land ing places amid treacherous and fluc tuating lee hummocks, says the Hous ton Post Dispatch. Timing his next exploit, perhaps his final attempt, for next spring, to avoid the viscous Arc tic fogs, he may anticipate MacMil lan’s determined purpose to return and settle the question of land or mi rage north of Point Barrow. Much bus been written and spoken with re gard to the putative worth of the un discovered country; the better plan Is to find it first and determine its value afterward. * center through which T*.e Teas or the wearer can be thrust. My description may not give the Impression of an elaborate, nor yet an elegant, garment; hut 1 have never seen anything more expressive o f un affected grace than the manner In which a country gentleman of the Colombian Andes dona hla ruana when Located in Medford at 123 West mounting for his morning ride about the hacienda. With one hand he Main, are the agents fo r the famous gathers up the folds and opens the Hudson-Essex automobiles in, this slit in the center; then with a ma j section. Few cities o f the like size jestic toss he throws It over his head, I in the nation can boast o f such a allowing the folds to fall upon his modern and up-to-date motor serv- back and Moulders. If the weather Is fair, he turns up the two corners | ice. Not only because they are au- In front and drops them over each I thorized sales and service station for the Hudson-Essex, but because they shoulder. For the cold winds and drizzling render most efficient service. This rains of the high Andes, there Is no I well-known automobile company has better garment than the ruana, un ! become known as the home o f the less It be the woolen poncho of | Hudson-Essex in this section. Hud Ecuador, thicker and larger, to meet son and Essex are the biggest pro the more rigorous climate to which ducers o f six-cylinder closed cars in Its wearer ts exposed. It Is warm. It keeps out the rain, and at night lt the world, 95 per cent o f the output serves as a grateful addition to the in coach models. This permits the slender allotment o f blankets sup lowest prices in Hudson history, and plied by most Andean inns.—v ilson the finest Hudson ever built. Thus Popeno In the National Geographic it is more than ever the “ World's Magazine. Greatest Buy” and sales prove it. ARMSTRONG MOTOR CO. Hudson-Essex Its simplicity has always meant a lower selling price than is per- , mitted in complicated types. No de sign, however costly, has been found to excel Super-Six smoothness, reli ability and performance. Hudson quality has constantly been im proved. Easier steering, greater roadability, more comfort, better materials, finer workmanship, hand somer appearance and more lasting finish. This company employes only the expert assistants, no matter what may be your need in the line o f service, they are competent to exe cute it. The men in charge are authorities on questions pertaining to the auto mobile business and are always courteous and accommodating and D an B eard O rg an ized A m erican Boy Scouts standing in the community and are prominent in the commercial life o f the community. They are boosters for this section, and in this edition, embracing as it does, the most sal ient features o f the community’s progress, we direct your attention to this establishment as one o f the most important features o f the e f ficiency o f the community. C. E. GATES The experiences of Lieut. Gen. Sir | Robert S. S. Baden Powell of the [ British army with boys as messengers during the Boer war In South Africa so Impressed him that he came later to devote almost his entire time to Located in Medford at Riverside I business, it is able to o ffe r the best important feature, as it saves the j "° r k with boys. He organized the public much time when delay would boy scouts In England, and from there and Sixth is the distributor for the I o f service fo r their line. That the Ford is universally rec be costly. the movement spread to most other Lincoln, Ford, and Fordson, and also countries, and the membership has carry a complete line o f accessories, ognized as the greatest motor value The Fordson tractors stand with ! grown until it now Includes millions attachments and implements. They o f the age, is the opinion o f the out a peer, fo r never have these of boys. are one o f the most metropolitan experts as well as the casual buyer. values been duplicated. They have "The boys' general," however, free motor companies in this section. For service and reasonableness o f the latest improvements, and it takes ly acknowledged his debt to move Few cities o f a like size in the price the Ford reigns supreme. something besides engineering to ments of a similar character in the The Ford commercial truck has furnish a tractor like the Fordson, United States. And so, although the nation can voast o f such modern Not come to be recognized as one o f the fo r cuts farm costs in half. When Boy Scouts of America were not In and up-to-date Ford Service. corporated until 1910, which was some only because they are authorized indespensable features o f the latter ever power farming is being done little time after the British organiza sales and service station for the day business equipment and has Fordson is showing superior serv tion had been formed, the scouts In Ford and Fordson, but because they proven worthy, both in endurance ice. this country really date to a boys* render a most efficient service, this and speed o f the name it bears. It The managers are courteous and organization founded by Daniel Carter well known automobile company has has become the popular truck for accommodating and will be pleased Beard-Dan Beard—about 1005. This become known as the home o f the both the business man and the farm to show you the advantages o f hav body became, with another founded Ford and Fordson in this section. er and has greatly increased the pro ing this wonderful car. We are ! by Ernest Thompson Seton. the foun The man who looks upon his Job dation of the American scouts. When the firm started in business gress and prosperity o f both. pleased to compliment the firm on with real vision, and with an Imagina as the sales and service agents for When it comes to Ford parts, this the efficiency o f their service, and tion that Is properly tempered by com the Ford, by careful management firm is headquarters in this section. Learning mon sense, sees In that Job more than and good salesmanship, its business There are few establishments in the the wonderful value o f the car they “ I guess I'm the butt of a family have chosen to o ffe r the public of Just the mere fulfillment of those par Joke that will go down to future gen grew to large proportions, and fore larger cities that carry a more com ticular duties which he Imagines may erations under the title, “The Fable of seeing the future o f the automobile plete stock o f parts. This is a very this section. be actually demanded of him. He the Unwashed Dishes and Lemon looks upon his Job as a means, and a Bath Soap," a rueful young husband channel, through which he may accom related. “ It came about because of plish unusual and outstanding results, my wife, who had been hoping for writes Thomas E. Wilson In Forbes months that she would come hack Magazine. A limitation of duties, or some afternoon and And the luncheon dishes washed. So the other day I ft a line of demarcation separating decided to surprise her, and started what Is literally expected o f 1dm, from out to wash 'em. I had the water all what he shall do beyond that point— heated and the dishes In the pan be never enters his jnlnd. To such a fore I thought of soap, and then I This up-to-date floral shop is lo and efficien t establishments in this section that this establishment offers man his Job Is the great opportunity went Into the bathroom and picked which has been given him, and up a cake of bath soap. It was good cated in Medford at Riverside and section. Serving not only the city the trade a choice from the most through which he is determined to soap: It made the dishes shine like Earheart, P. O. Box 812, and is but all o f the nearby surrounding artistic and attractive line in the china; hut before I finished, my wife the popular florist establishment that territory with the floral offerings o f country. achieve outstanding results. came home, and I found I was using is furnishing Central Point and the superior beauty. In fact with a comprehensive There is no other one establish knowledge o f harmonious combina In passing It may be asked Just her own particular and expensive bath surrounding territory a choice selec soap. Apparently she was more sur tion o f Cut Flowers, Floral Designs ment more worthy o f prominent tions and arrangements that stamp what constitutes the normal In busi prised than pleased, so I've decided ness. With the growth of the country to follow the moral of the tale In the and Potted Plants in the freshest o f mention in this edition than that o f them as true artists in this work, the popular florist shop. they have wone no little distinction it should mean, of course, a constant future— 'Be careful how you please condition. The proprietor has provided a because o f the eminently satisfactory They also o ffe r metropolitian serv and consistent Increase In business ac your wife.’ "— Detroit News. ice on phone and mail orders and service and stock o f the highest and high grade flowers provided for tivities, subject to Interruption by Experiments In producing oil from maintain a telegraph service where character which compares very fav the convenience o f the people. those periodic disturbances which, be We are pleased to compliment this cause It has not yet been discovered coal. I d which various science depart by you can send your floral order orably with that o f the most exten how they may be eliminated, must be ments at Birmingham university have by wire if purchased from this es sive and artistic dealers in the larger firm upon its success and the lead cities. ing position which it occupies in this Included ns among the phenomena of been collaborating for three years, tablishment. It is a well established fact in this section o f the state. the normal condition. But when It have shown that 61 per cent of liquid This is one o f the most popular comes to the determination of Just can be extracted from Lancashire coal what volume of business In a given by powdering It and subjecting It to year, when subjected to these general very high pressures of hydrogen gas. rules, Is normal, there Is obviously Professor Nash, who has taken a lead room for wide difference of opinion ing part In research, when asked as says the Boston Transcript. That to the significance of the discoveries does not, however, diminish the valu* from the standpoint * * Industrial util I o f accurate comparisons with th< Ization o f British coal resources said | he was only able to announce that the business of other years. laboratory tests had demonstrated oil j We are too apt to think of revolu could be got from coal. The commer j tionary achievements In science and clal exploitation he was not compe- Industry as happening almost ovet i tent to discuss, says the Cleveland The liquid products | night: yet It was 24 years ago that I Plain Dealer. the first radio signals transmitted! have not been Investigated in detail, across the Atlantic ocean were re \ hut apart from small proportions of i celved by Marconi hlrilself at St unidentified substances they consist o f j John's, Newfoundland. They original hydro-carbons which are the basis of ed in Cornwall, on the southwest tig all fuel oils. o f England. By cable Marconi in structed the British operators to send Joop Lelt, a young Dutch pugilist, the letter "8." represented by code Ir is an honor to his country and his t l -ee dots, for a period of three hours profession. His sudden burst of oper j During that time he received the slg \ a tic song after triumphing over a Brit- I nals Intermittently. The experiment ish heavyweight In London proves him was repeated In a couple of days, am an artist o f wide virtuosity, says the j it was two days later that Marconi'» Baltimore Sun. The best that Ameri j achievement wa < mode public In at can boxers attempt is s season on the announcement I > the press. vaudeville stage or In the movlea- j surely an unconvincing expression of ; the nobler elements of culture. And | G racefu l G arm en t la Joop la also shrewd. Audiences at « 1 Lt 'ir-A m e rican R uana prize fight are severely critical of high The rua hi is the Colombian equiva brow stuff, but the one which be faced lent of t e pom ¡¡.I, so widely u»ed accepted the Singing Dutchman's of j elsewhere n Latin America. It is ferings. He did not vocalize before \ somewhat less ample than the latter, the bout. He wajtad until be had poi measuring usually four to five feet In dlatn- e r; It in square and made one good man on the ropes and then of two strip« of native woolen doth looking sternly at the crowd, be let sewed together, leaving a slit In the them have t. Lincoln, Ford and Fordson ROGUE VALLEY FLORAL CO. « i it is a pleasure fo r them to supply your wants. They o ffe r a complete line o f parts and service by mechanics who are thoroughly familier with the construction o f the engine, chassis, body and in fact, every detail. 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