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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
2
The Cincinnati Post laments the minister's wife burden in church life. It lists duties she shoulders from teaching, visiting, and organizing to music and sewing, noting many expect her to carry church work while others neglect their own duties. The poem ends with a call to divine reward for the meek and a rebuke of shirking communal responsibility.
Naval speed depends on water depth. Seattle's hill removal will move 34 000 000 cubic yards of material by hydraulic sluicing. Karl Harries may have produced synthetic rubber though not commercially. A Woeikof argues meat will be scarce but science can boost agricultural productivity and vegetable foods will dominate. Wireless time signals show sub second accuracy between Paris and Montsouris. Thorpe recalls Davy’s rapid discovery of alkaline metals and imagines his reaction today.
Practical advice for canary care including cage placement, diet, and cleanliness. Directions emphasize avoiding drafts, offering rape seed canary seed water cuttlefish bone and sand, weekly baths, controlled room temperature, warm care during moult, regular feeding, and varied perches to prevent foot and nail problems. Also notes on bird tonic and a closing reflection on debate and wealth.
A lavender silk kimono sent from Japan to Somerset Ky baffled three women and five men at the customs office. After much debate, a Louisville department store silk buyer valued it at 14 dollars, with a duty charged of 8.20, as officials tried to identify the garment and owner.
A decanter filled two thirds with water is closed with a cork having two apertures. A short pipe stem passes through one aperture and is fixed by a second cork with two apertures. A bent tube forms a siphon with the other cork. Priming the siphon pulls air through the pipe, creating a vacuum that draws air in and allows the pipe to light and smoke as water remains.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that even with aviation advancing there will still be disputes. Mrs Ebbs remarks about a husband across the street quarrelling with a neighbor, but the wife says they merely dispute nightly. George is a monoplanist and Mr Stiggins a biplanist.
A Baltimore American note praises a farming family for their hospitality and willingness to host guests. The item recalls staying with the couple last summer and underscores their kindness in opening their home to others.
A brief quip from the Chicago Record-Herald contrasts a father’s unfamiliarity with a term seen in vehicle jargon with a mother and daughter’s differing handwriting styles. The exchange highlights early 20th century attitudes toward automotive knowledge and gendered behavior in writing.
Anopinion piece laments social pretensions and petty mores in town life. It notes how loafing fishing people, mean behavior, and gossip erode respect for effort and industry while mocking calls for “sensibility” and ignorance of true advancement.
The back view of this dress is notably attractive with a jackety waist tab and a distinctive girdle knot that tucks up to it. In front, the overskirt ends in a deep point, creating a stylish silhouette.
London begins trackless trolley move while India and Argentina push monorails and hydro power. St Petersburg edges toward electrified horse cars as Buenos Aires approves an electric subway. Cincinnati pilots a church on wheels and Colorado endures repeated lightning strikes on a transmission line. California water power spurs industry growth.
The J. C. Ayer Co. of Lowell Massachusetts announces a new improved formula for Fine Care Ayer’s Hair Vigor. They claim it is the latest most scientific and best hair preparation for falling hair and dandruff.
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish wittily mocks suffragettes at a New York luncheon. The vignette features Mr Dash admiring his wife in a couture gown from Rue de la Paix and joking about money, while she feigns indifference to wealth in favor of pleasing him.
A young girl preferred to pay a half fare and after the conductor asked her age she calmly added two pennies from her purse. She snapped the purse shut and replied that the state taxes are her own. Brooklyn Life reports the brief exchange on a Brooklyn trolley car.
A broad, consoling claim on medical science notes that over 90 percent of adverse influences on human disease can be cured if not hindered. It cites Woods Hutchinson M D and the adage about man at 40 being a fool or a physician, reflecting on Nature’s intelligence.
A Birmingham Age Herald item reports a man missing from his town for two years returning with a tale about sitting up with a sick friend. He claimed the friend was a chronic invalid and convinced his wife, prompting amused reactions.
A Sunday school teacher asks who was glad when the prodigal returned and who was sorry. A child answers that the father was glad and the fatted calf was sorry, reflecting a humorous take from the Pittston Gazette.
A housewife asks why a man does not follow a trade. He replies he works fourteen hours daily using his mind like great inventors, attempting to think up a substitute for inju rubber, as narrated in the Chicago Tribune.
A Washington Star diary snippet portrays a precocious student Ty who excuses errors in his geography lesson by planning to become an explorer. He says he will avoid minute accuracy to prevent discrediting his future observations.
A grandmother negotiates time off for her office boy grandson to attend an opening ball game. The exchange frames a small domestic scene with humor about work and leisure.
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