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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
3
A quick exchange quoted from the Chicago News features a globe trotter claiming in Norway no girl may have a beau until she bakes bread and knits stockings. A fussy bachelor retorts that in this country a law should bar any girl with a beau until she can navigate streets without a guiding dog.
Charles Edward Russell argues in Success Magazine that past independent merchants become wage earning employees under giant department stores and mail order houses. He compares the shift to Rome rebuilding from temple fragments and notes the bleak life prospect for former shopkeepers. Mothers are advised to use Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children.
An elderly uncle urges his nephew to adopt definite purpose and unwavering drive to succeed. The youth replies that he already possesses those traits but lacks the crucial sixty horsepower automobile to advance his ambitions.
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease powder cures painful, swollen and smarting feet and sweating. It makes new shoes easy to wear. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. Do not accept substitutes. Sample address A. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A humorous dialogue shows a fisherman and a sheriff debating worm rebates. The sheriff jokes about being taken for lawbreaking as the fisherman ties a new worm after the perch escapes. The piece reflects satirical regional tone of the era.
A dialogue snippet shows a financial magnate dismissing his doctor as tyrannical and unnecessary while traveling. He jokes it is cheaper to be treated after returning from a tong trip, as a confidant comments on not taking the doctor along.
An old resident stockholder asks about the elevated loop problem while a visitor seeks a concise explanation. The response notes the issue centers on extracting meat nickels with minimal expenditure, as discussed in the Chicago Tribune fragment.
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