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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1926)
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1926 WHY= Emotion Causes One’s Hair to Stand on End Wtieu next you read a book In tt W c I j the author makes the hair of one of the characters "stand on end with terror," don't pass judgment on the ex pression as being a convenient but no t-to-he-taken-literally way of de scribing the effect of fright. Our hair can. and does, "stand on end" under the stress of intense and sudden terror. Each hair is kept in position by a tiny but perfect muscle. Unrtexed, this muscle allows the hair to lie flat. Flexed into rigidity by emotion —all emotions affect the muscles—It pulls the hair, and It depends on the latter's length and the measure of fear as to whether the hair will but move slightly or stand on end. The operating cause is exactly the same as that which makes the hair on a dog's back bristle before a fight— strong emotion causing muscular mo\einents. The hair muscle Is one we cannot control; its action Is auto matic. W hy Average Man Today “ Has It Over” Ancestor easuren nv w-otit ne contrmutea to Its welfare. Thls Is an nge of servire ret.dered not recelxrd. There can he no hlghtr ambitimi than so to serve that fellon cltlren« shall "rise up ac ; (•alt tis hlessed."—Grlt. How Wool Is Tested H o w f»u tt*rT n ilk Cures Broken hones rial have stubbornly resisted all effort» to make them knit, have heen founc ta respond to a treat ment of calves' liver aod buttermilk. The experiment has been carried on at Johns Hopslns hospital. In Balti more. It Is reported that literally scores of patients who have heen suf ferlng for a year or more with unknlt bones have heen rnred and discharged after the liver and buttermilk diet. Why Milk Curdles » New York’s Old Guard Coming to Sesqui Myrtle Point— Construction begins on $12,000 hospital building. Hood River— Heavy street and Corvallis — Oregon Agricultural sidewalk program includes 1173 feet College receives g ift of $5,000 lab bitulithic paving. oratory equipment. Portland — Steamer "Dakotan” Portland — McCormick Steamship takes 2,000,00(j pounds wool to Co., will equip six steamers, fo r pas Eastern markets. senger service to South America. Salem— First Hungarian shipped from this district. plums Salem— Old buildings demolished, fo r new $350,000 First National Bank. Salem— Growers o f black cherries pol with fruit packers, to dry surplus cherries. Brick Ice Cream at Damon Cafe. W. G. T R I L L Oregon Central Point EDNA M E R R IT T — P IA N IS T E Graduate O. A. C. Conservatory of Music $ Hermiston — Growers expect to ship 5,000 holiday turkeys this year. Hood River— Apple Growers asso ciation makes final 1925 payment, to aggregate $1,736,000. Hpod River— Shortage o f Euro pean prune and apple crop will in crease demand fo r Pacific coast pro ducts, this year. Klamath county farms and ranges produced $5,240.000 during 1925. Forest Grove— Local plants have barreled 250 tons strawberries this year. Harrisburg — Clint Murphy has Royal Anne cherry tree that has paid $65 this year. h a y — Phone 41 Store G R A IN — SEED — W O O D Phone 54 Residence — Local and Long Distance Hauling— WE Instruction $1.00— 45-minute lesson | Central Point, Phone 12x2 Eugene— Heavy prune crop due in Willamette valley. Portland— Model residence to be built, to display 29 building special ties. At an Imposing ceremony before their headquarters In New York City the famous Old Guard of New York under the command of Major E. Have- meyer Snyder, commandant of the organization, received the invitation from the officials of the Sesqui Centennial International Exposition, opening in Philadelphia June 1 and continuing to December 1, to celebrate 150 years of American Independence, to attend the Flag Day exercises on June 14, when all the historic military commands of the thirteen original colonies will assemble for a big military display and parade headed by General Pershing. Captain James A. B. Ftanclscus, of the Old Guard State Fenclbles, of the Se-ioni city. U preaenuii* ,iie Invitation to Major Snyder. At Major Snyder's Jeft «'and the commanding officers of the Philadelphia organisations, while the >e»rs of (he two famous commands are grouped about their leaders In it . ir striking dress uniforms. Attorney.at-Law— Notary Public A D M IN IS T R A T O R 'S NOTICE T O CREDITORS Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned, has been appointed Administrator o f the estate o f Annie Wright, deceased, and all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same, with proper vouchers, to said admin istrator, at his o ffice in the Freeman, W iley & Company Store, in Central Point, Oregon, within six months from the date o f this notice. F U R TH E R NO TICE, is hereby given, that all accounts and claims due and owing said estate must be paid to said administrator. Dated this 1st day o f July, 1926. W. J. FREEM AN, Administrator. Date o f first publication July 1st, 1926. Reedsport— Winchester Bay sec — 5t tion o f Roosevelt highway, 3 miles, will cost $76,500. The Department of Agriculture say* that milk sours when the lactic add bacteria convert a sufficient amount of Cottage Grove— Loop trail built the milk sugar Into acid to precipitate the casein. Certain type* of bacteria | by Forest Service, into Bohemia produce an enzyme similar to that ex mining district tracted from calves' stomachs to curdle milk for cheese making. Under Eugene— City council considers some condition* these bacteria curdle anti-jaywaiking ordinance with heavy milk before enough add ha* been pro I fines. duced to give It a sour taste. Astoria— Beet crop exceptionally Why Trees Petrify ! good, and canning will be big in Petrification of tree* la produced by dustry. the Infiltration of water containing dissolved mineral matter as calcium Klamath Falla— Pacific Telephone carbonate, silica, etc., which replaces £ Telegraph Co., installs two large the organic material pactIde by par | new switchboards. ticle. sometime* with the original structure retained. Reedsport— Sash 4k Door Co. ship ping carload of garage doors a day, Why Man Must with $200,000 invested and 60 men A man s worth to a < working. > Portland— Jantxen Knitting Mills to erect additions, costing $200,000. Sandy— Contract let for $60,000 K c w E m a ire W a s Formed hotel at Wildwood. The foundation* of the P.rltlsh em pire In India were laid by the Eng Yokum— Wheut tests 60 pounds to lish East lmlhi company, which he.'an bushel and 24 bushels per acre. Its conquests In 1749 by driving out the rajah of Tanjore and claiming hit Milton— Freewater expects 1500 territory for England cars apples and 1000 cars prunes, this year. OREGON W E E K L Y IN D U S T R IA L R E V IE W Oregon scenery and resources will be filmed on full-year travelogue Clatsop county has exceptional program. loganberry crop. La Grande— Iron Works, twice R ainier— Menefee mill, burned burned since 1924, with $50,000 loss, with $400,000 loss, will be rebuilt. will rebuild. Marshfield— First unit o f Clayton I Mark log railway, 4 H miles, near The average man had no last name of tils own In 1428. no definite address. Frankport, under way. He had no particular idea of the hour Portland— Oregon Box & Mfg. Co. of the day, except a* the church bells builds b e tt'i plant, to replace one tolled it. Record keepers, surveyors ahd clock makers have wrought some burned. difference on that score, haven’t they? Marshfield— Logging and milling Or take It by races If you like. The French were once barbarous and Igno- o f white cedar unsurpassedly pros runt. the English Itizv and passionals, perous. the Scots dirty Hnd thriftless, the Ger Coos county road bills fo r May mans Impracticable and idle drunk were $42,560.50. ards. Are they like that today? Most men once lived according to Toledo— Heavy hay crop and ex their fears, not, as now, according to ceptional haying weather, this year. their hopes. There are libraries full of books that tell you all this. Read Portland— Heavy dock demands and think for yourself. You would not have dared do either In 1428, and no provide work fo r 1200 longshore responsible person would havs dared men. allow you to do so. Portland— Steamer “ Dorothy Luc- If man has a kinder heart and a truer soul, then his nature must have kenbach” arrives from New York, in changed. Five hundred years are not 21 days 20 hours. so long In the hlstor.v’ of the race, and there Is much more time than that Salem— State fairgrounds to have ahead of mankind. Do you think our automobile building, to cost $20,000. human nnture has stopped changing? —London Tlt-Illts. Klamath Falls— California-Oregon Co. employs 40 men, on power line Why One’s Hair Curls from Klamath plant. Why should one child's hnlr he curly Hood River— Hood River district and another's straight? The explana tion, where neither parents, grandpar expects bumper apple crop this year. ents. nor great-grandparents have had Astoria— Surveys start, fo r pro curly hair. Is that “ deferred heredity" Is responsible. Some remote ancestor posed $5,000,000 pulp and paper has had curly hnlr. plant. The "curly germ," If one may put It that way, has been passed along the Pendleton— New Oregon hospital line of life, but has not taken effect wing completed, at cost o f $225,000. for hundreds of years. Then, for some reason. It does, and a curly-haired Klamath Falls— New 6-story hotel child Is born. Originally all hair was to be built, costing $150,000. straight; curly hair was produced by wrong dieting. Springfield— City contracts for The oldest hair tonic, made for an white way lighting system. Egyptian queen, consisted of the paw of a dog and the hoof of an nss boiled Klamath Falls— New Olsen apart In oil with dates! ment house will cost $25,000. Wool fibers are short and kinky. They give a characteristic sensation when drawn between the teeth, smol der when Ignited, leaving an Irregular lump of ash and giving ofT the odor of burning feathers. Wool dissolves when boiled for 15 minutes In a solu tion containing one taalespoonful of lye to a pint of water. Larger amounts of alkaline washing wnwiler may be used instead of lye. This I* an ex cellent way to detect taPries made of both wool and cotton, as the cotton will not disappear awoer such treat ment. PAGE THREE CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN BUY P O U L T R Y Central Point Feed Store JESSE L. RICHARDSON Central Point . \ 0utside wall Insuk wall C u t - «w a y v ie w o f T h e r m o* B o ttle show ing t r i p l e - w a i l c o n s t r u c t io n . You know how the Thermos Bottle keeps liquids hot for long periods of time. The secret lies in the insulating air space between the walls. The T H E R M O washer is con structed on this same prin ciple. 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