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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1912
Page
3
A Hindu professor claimed occult powers but a routine electrician uncovered a clever ruse. A rug hid copper wire coils and a telephone transmitter fed by dry cells linked to the wall, the professor wearing a hidden headset and wires in his clothing. A velvet bag with questions was read by an assistant and relayed to the transmitter. The break with the occult world came from a faulty wiring joint.
The article explains how many common words and place names derive from Spanish. It notes terms like pickaninnies, sambo, mulatto, dago, colador, quinine, cinchona, coca, cocaine, garasparilla, hammock, grenadiers, cadestran, carayuel, flotilla, armanda, galleon, marinero, and lists U S states and regions such as Colorados Texas Nevada Florida Utah New Mexico Arizona California reflecting Spanish influence.
Comic dialogue notes a child named Ethel wondering why men discuss school days while Willie jokes grown men seek teachers’ homes to retaliate as their teachers did to them. The piece captures light humor about memories and adult curiosity.
The Anglo Russian reports police eject two revelers for improper outfits at a city theater ball. One wore a garment resembling Illodor the monk, another bore a sack marked Famine Year for Merchants and 10,000,000,000, while an empty bag read A prosperous year for the peasants and 0,000,000,000. In Tsheboksary two women are fined 75 rubles each for dress denoting the young constitution in chains and a carrot symbolizing famine.
A simple science trick uses a bread board half over the table with a newspaper covering it. When struck the board appears to stay put as the newspaper lifts, creating a momentary vacuum that holds the board down. The article suggests it is a fun party stunt and a school demonstration.
Two monks at Monte Cassino devised a quiet pastime using square dot covered stones. They matched pieces and whispered the vespers line Dixit Dominus domino meo to signal a win. The game spread beyond the monastery and became known as dominoes.
English paper notes a district used two gaily dressed monkeys and a brass band to lure children into a park. Officers then collected names and addresses to tally pupils, finding over sixty parents kept children from school and bringing about about 200 youths registered.
Practical advice from L. G Johnson on sow behavior and piglet protection. He links cannibalism to poor housing, nutrition, and stress, then outlines humane, well-fed brood sow management. Details include basement pens, 16 to 10 foot squares, wheat middlings and hay diets, sugar beets, cow water, and mineral mix.
Two year old Ayrshires set milk and butter records, with Canary Belle yielding 10118 pounds of milk and 437 pounds of butter and Fearnot of Oakdale at 5218 pounds of milk and 292 pounds of butter. Johanna of Juneau produced 7681 pounds of milk and 335 pounds of butter. Costs, feed, and value of these cows illustrate high profitability and feeding rations.
A reader recounts two bulls to argue that confinement harms both health and temperament. One bull suffered in a yearlong pen, while another gained better disposition after humane exercise in a well fenced enclosure with a chain and overhead wire. The piece urges humane treatment for better breeding.
Farm manure remains the key soil improver and a common stock farm byproduct. US production nears two billion tons annually with a plant food value around two dollars per ton. Wasted manure equals ten times the value of all commercial fertilisers used nationwide.
The Willamette Valley Chautauqua at Gladstone Park Oregon City Oregon runs July 9 to 21 1912 with famed performers including Lou J Beauchamp Rev Wm Spur geon S Platt Jones Mexican Troubadours and Judge F P Ledier among others directors announce a record crowd and park improvements The P R L and P Co reballasts its branch line to improve half hour service from Portland and Oregon City.
A young man argues that poets are born and not made, while his wife replies with a plan to prove otherwise by making him watch the baby while she shops. She threatens to withhold her father’s money if he refuses. The exchange hints at thrift in small matters like bluing.
In a sharp exchange from the Rev Mr Gude era, a question rises about sustaining church interest while Deacon Tightwad jolts the debate by proposing to raise rates to eight percent on chattel mortgages if fellow lenders in the congregation agree to cooperate.
Advertises Automobile Eye Insurance after sun wind and dust exposure. Marine Eye Remedy freely applied offers relief with eye comfort claims.
A fox chased by the Essex Union Hounds enters a High street home at Billericay and bolts upstairs. Punch reports the animal feigning a wolf act from Red Riding Hood during a cinematograph show. The piece ends with an odd remark about Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething babies.
The article notes Aesop as one of history’s most renowned slaves. It states his fables delighted people for twenty five hundred years and that he was eventually freed after his Greek master decided his wisdom justified manumission.
A fragmented quip warns to save for a rainy day while joking about a tea or beverages leak spoiling a planned stash. The lines imply caution and thrift in the face of possible misfortune.
Shake in Allen's Foot-Ease to cure hot sweating aching feet and corns. Sample mailed free. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York 25 cents at druggists and shoe stores. Do not accept substitutes.
An exchange between Hunt Secretary and an assistant after a run centers on a poultry claim. The assistant notes they were shown empty rooks rather than actual fowls or corpses, suggesting skepticism about the claim.
The excerpt notes claims that Red Cross Ball Blue offers exceptional value and mentions soap paper as a portable, single-use concept for public areas. It also highlights Guayule rubber gaining acceptance, with investment, factory growth, and town development around guayule fields as an important rubber source.
The fragment mentions Murine Eye Remedy Co. and eye treatment products. It references Avon and Chicago in connection with eye care items and terms like watery eyes, granulated lids, and man or client use. The readable text suggests a product claim or company slogan context without coherent narrative.
The piece notes Sam Vale as the London comedian behind the character Sam Weller and his Wellerisms. It recalls Vale’s fame at Covent Garden and in farce, and mentions his death in 1848.
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