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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1911
Page
2
Washing Bagdad pouch covers or rugs risks color running. Separate strips and wash each in lukewarm white soap water with a pinch of salt, then rinse and hang away from sun. Do not rub, press wrinkles while nearly dry, and swap worn middle strips when resewing.
A mix of tips and local notes includes guidance on bluing for laundry using Red Cross Ball Blue, a claim of low cost whitening. It also mentions West Virginia's Bryson family, noting a 35 year old as the youngest grandfather in the state, married at 14 and 13. Also cites Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as teething aid.
The passage notes various speculative claims that Shakespeare was Bacon and that Shakespeare was multiple people, then dismisses such ideas as folly. It ends by mentioning constipation and promotes Dr Pierce's Pellets as a cure.
The excerpt contrasts a man who lives by his era's best standards with one who levels up to a higher, refined ideal. It argues that character is judged by adherence to prevailing virtue rather than impossible, elevated benchmarks.
Advertisement from Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago promotes a free illustrated eye book and eye treatment. It claims the remedy aids sore eyes strengthens weak eyes soothes eye pain and eyelid granulation and sells for 50c with druggist endorsement.
An incident at a Colorado farmer Howard Burton’s property ends with a game rooster rescuing a companion from a chicken hawk. The hawk releases the chicken after a brief tussle, sparing its life on a recent Sunday afternoon.
Solder will not adhere to any metal until it is as hot as the melted solder. To solder on to a thick heavy article either that must be heated or a copper heavy enough to carry and hold much heat must be used.
A goose at Gutersblum led police to a poultry yard thief by persistently blocking a house where accomplices were hidden. The bird's actions prompted investigators to uncover the culprit's whereabouts and arrest.
A buyer says the first use of a black dyed umbrella from a new line leaked dye onto the purchaser. The dealer notes the umbrella has self detectif features and hints that theft would reveal the thief by his clothing.
A publication quotes a sharp opinion that a man who lacks self-control should not carry a firearm and that those who cannot control themselves rarely need a gun, underscoring temperance and restraint in personal conduct.
An earnest adviser warns that a virtue pushed too far can become a vice. Taran tula Tim agrees, noting that while four aces are a blessing, five of a kind may invite unforeseen trouble.
Dr Fewkes urges excavating Betatakin or Kitsie l cliff dwellings as type ruins at Navaho National Monument in Arizona and Inscription House. proposes adding West Canyon ruins to protectants and expanding access. He details routes water sources and tourist access, and describes Cradle House basket cradle as a notable find with related San Juan imagery.
A device tests mental character by an adjustable rotating mirror in a dark box. Colored glass windows illuminate a screen and a viewer’s eye, with color afterimages guiding the test. Experiments by Bidwell and others show color persistence links impulses to perceived continuity.
A New York Tribune tale from a downtown luncheon club reports a man confessing he forgot to pay a newsboy and later handed five cents with a quip about collecting. The humor hinges on the speaker’s intended punchline.
The piece recalls Dr Francis A Harris’s quick wit at a banquet for Charles Dickens the younger. He quipped about an Asiatic collarer after a remark about a Chinaman on the police force. Charles Dickens the younger replied with dry humor, and Harris proposed a toast to Charles the Second who never lost his head.
In a theatre quarrel a singer presents a doctor’s certificate claiming she cannot sing tonight. The manager replies with a stingy retort, promising a certificate proving she never could sing. A humorous exchange unfolds in Tit Dits style.
An unnamed boy visits the narrator’s office to apologize for a misunderstanding over a nickel. He says he won’t demand payment until needed and won’t be sent for it, earning the narrator’s thanks and then a growing line of credit.
In Washington Representative Billy Hughes of New Jersey tours the capital with constituents. An elderly woman fixates on New York and New Jersey comprising most of the U S and meets Congressman Bartlett of Nevada in the War Department corridors.
More than half of the young women at Wellesley college are found deficient in spelling. Six hundred students will devote Saturday afternoons and additional recitation periods to drills in orthography.
Chicago readers recount relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Chicago woman recalls being refused at a store yet obtaining the remedy and praising its curative effect for months of distress. The advertisement urges insistence on the original formula and notes the product's long standing presence as a standard female tonic.
J. H. Libby the cement contractor muses on a future minister for his grandson Harry Wolfman. The boy resists and declares he will be a ball player, as reported by the Cleveland Leader.
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