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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1902
Page
6
The article surveys how Earth's rotation defines day length and time standards. It describes a plan to project a thirteen inch stream of light from sea to sky, compares ship searchlights with a Diamond Shoal light, and notes experiments and discoveries in entomology and meteorology.
The piece discusses the coastal superstition that death aligns with the ebb tide. It notes widespread belief among seafarers in England and America that people go out with the outgoing water, a motif echoed in coastal literature and in Dickensian scenes.
Harper's Weekly notes a shift after the 1900 census showing more bachelors than spinsters and suggests women manipulate social roles to keep men single. The piece mocks fashionable widows and matrons as stage managers, detailing categories like corner man and dancing man.
French explorer Charles Melson observed a species of gray ants in Stam. A larger ant carried a smaller ant on its back as it moved swiftly. The larger ants led the group by riding, then returning to the rear, guiding the expedition.
Fragmentary text notes a high level of Italian emigration to America with about 168 000 yearly figures and indicates roughly half return to Italy.
Elizabeth S Rabbets of Mile End Portsea describes her husband a shipwright at His Majesty's Dockyardinjury and recovery after using St Jacobs Oil and Vogeler's Curative Compound. She claims her daughter’s skin improved and urges others to try the remedies with a sample offered by St Jacobs Oil Ltd. Baltimore. The piece also notes a semantic shift in the term hoyden.
A New York Herald report notes St Ulrich in Tyrol is a village inhabited solely by sculptors. Near Windburck on the Ereack River, all residents live by sculpture, including men women and children in the neighborhood.
Mothers seek Mrs Winslow s Syrup for teething children while discussions heatedly ponder if a man with a family can be a good Christian on a five dollar weekly salary. Also promoting Allen s Foot Ease as a cure for swollen feet and corns with free samples.
A pupil named Johnny sits at a piano while his mother urges practice. Johnny protests by claiming he is practicing the page while insisting he hears no sound, highlighting a domestic humorous moment captured in a text fragment.
A signed note features endorsements for various medicines and a Ba for the pant Iszeane. It claims Dr. Cheney Co offers a cure and asserts the signer is honorable in business and able to fulfill obligations. Several named druggists and firms are listed alongside product claims and prices.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a judge remarking on graft related to selling gold bricks. The exchange references a person named Wilile Wazit and a Jays contact about current circumstances. Farmhouse pies and chickens appear as casual detail amid the legal tone.
The wife of General Miles has named a woman's auxiliary army post in Washington D C. The organization is identified as Mary Sherman Miles Auxiliary.
In a Brooklyn Eagle excerpt Mrs Barkey recalls an experiment by Latto to avoid speaking ill of anyone behind their back. The comment explores how such restraint shapes reputation and social perception.
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