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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1910
Page
6
A broad, satirical column notes public debt figures, the absurdity of luxury and money, and quips on politics, celebrity, and human folly. It jokes about Halley’s comet, a rumored assassination, a Russian terrorist, and a St. Louis divinity doctor disputing theology while citing farmers’ crop value.
An island resident discovers cans washed ashore containing a substance he mistook for paint and uses it to coat his house. He later learns the sticky red material is opium, wasting more than $9,000 in the process.
Rev. Hugh Birkhed at a New York church sermon argued there should be no poor with God watching. The note adds that J. Pierpont Morgan, a member of the rector’s church, may be urged to purchase another notable curio collection.
The Treasury Department in Washington destroys about two million dollars worth of worn-out paper money each day. People are urged to redeem torn notes for crisp bills, shortening the life of one dollar notes to about fourteen months from prior years. Larger bills last longer, and the rise in redemptions signals improving business and better times.
The text argues that longing for urban land signals healthy growth but remains only a wish without effort to save or study feasible small beginnings. It emphasizes action over mere desire to transform scarcity into opportunity.
The speaker urges prudent finances and self reliance through saving and controlled expenses. He dismisses luck and land lottery fantasies and promotes investing in a clear title home as a steady safeguard. He extols farming as a meaningful but practical path to profit and personal satisfaction.
The piece argues that capital moves from older nations to newer lands, citing six billion dollars from Europe to the United States over sixty years. It notes the shift from a borrowing nation to a lender, with US investments abroad including one billion to Latin America and a quarter more to Canada, and future growth to the Far East. It ties capital diffusion to foreign relations, civilization, and peace.
John D. Rockefeller Jr far along in his Sunday school talks warned that carelessness favors only one side. A coal dealer once challenged an employee over a load, claiming it looked too large for a ton. The worker replied the coal was two tons, and the dealer relented.
A brief quotation contrasts Mr Grafton Grady as a high type statesman with Farmer Corntessel calling him out of date. The exchange highlights differing views on political leadership and rhetoric.
A fragmented dialogue shows Abe Alderney and Bi i Sourgrase plotting schemes as a city teller arrives by airship to pursue an elopement with Tidge. The tone hints at satire and frontier wit in a period setting.
A fragment notes frustration with grocery shoppers who expect a free cigar with groceries and mocks men who play important on the telephone amid the store talk.
A critic contrasts divine creation with socialist fears, urging that true humanity lies in work as co-creation with God. The piece rejects reincarnation as unscientific, cruel, and hindering progress, calling for enduring effort and advancement through knowledge and technology.
A critique questions the reincarnation doctrine's practical impact on Hinduism after 2,000 years. It argues that ideals of equality and moral reform depend on social progress and education, and asks whether ancient Hindu societies produced modern technologies or communications.
The West is praised for industry science and empire yet critics warn that material success masks poverty and social decay. They argue the up-to-date craze robs spirit and national vigor and that urban life growth pushes rural flight and unemployment into a dangerous social shift.
A German safe design uses a two part construction that prevents metal melting by gas burners. It defeats the principle of burning through metals by increasing resistance rather than thickness, promising new protection for vaults in banks.
A pair of wall sections hides an armored safe mounted on lower ball bearings. An electric motor turns the safe during off hours, powered via a charging circuit controlled by a time switch set to halt next morning if needed. An outside switch starts but cannot stop the motor once rotation begins.
An urging to avoid the auction habit that lures women to bid on objects they do not need. The piece compares auction temptations to a drinker’s lure, notes how auctioneers recognize buyers, and warns against creeping purchases of antiques, bijouterie, or household knickknacks.
A description from Popular Magazine explains a safe rotating at about three feet per second until the time switch stops it. The rotating polygonal surface prevents attackers from using cut burners, as the distance between armor and melting tools changes constantly. Any contact would disable the burner and endanger the operator.
An old moralist advises husbands to seek to please their wives. He urges making a wife happier than others to strengthen bonds, noting a sweet, thoughtful approach will bind her more closely to the husband.
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