This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 21 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
7
A description of childhood games where a blindfolded player uses a large spoon as a wand to identify others by touch. It notes disguises to hinder recognition and compares it to the silent game Silence, with tips for players to alter their appearance.
A reader describes cutting a radish in half and pressing the cut surface against a plate to create a suction that allows lifting the plate. The trick relies on surface contact and adhesion, comparing it to a wet leather disk sticking to pavement.
Freddie reports the neighbor offered a penny to reveal his mother’s words. The mother praises Freddie for keeping quiet. Freddie boasts he’d told her that what his mother said was “something awful” and worth half a dollar.
Miss Muffet visits a food show eats seven breakfast foods and collects ten pounds of samples. A scale shows her weight rose ten percent after the tasting, and if she had eaten double the breakfast food the gain would be eleven percent. She weighed 111 18 pounds on arrival.
A string of puns and jokes about hospitality, astronomy, schooling, vowels, myths, receipts, desserts, and barbers. The speaker ties each question to a witty linguistic twist, delivering quick, clever one liners.
The author recalls boyhood mischief trapping woodchucks on farms. Farm kids faced trouble from farmers over damaged fences and pastures while woodchucks were kept as pets and fed from hand. Woodchucks burrow near orchards, are easy to trap, and pose risks to farm animals but can be fought by a strong dog in spring.
An exchange writer favors pole limas for quality and long season, noting bush and pole types have distinct advantages. Pole setup uses eight foot poles forming a wigwam, spaced four feet apart, with careful cultivation and weed control to sustain moisture, promoting slow yet steady heavy bearing for nearly ninety days to maturity.
Prof F L Kent of the Oregon Agricultural College dairy husbandry department outlines the key benefits of dairy farming in the Oregon Country. He notes soil productivity rise, steady monthly income turning hunger to cash, balanced farm labor, and market ready dairy products of high grade with ready sales.
Get a purebred dairy herd by purchasing a sire and several cows. Build your own stock for reliable milk production and improved breeding options.
The article discusses motion study to reduce housework fatigue caused by steps. It highlights labor savers like washing machines vacuum sweepers dish carts Lazy Susan trays and other devices. Fuel savings are emphasized with fireless cookers three deck steamers and insulated tea kettles as top fuel savers for efficient kitchen operation.
The article explains starching methods for smooth bright results. It covers boiling starch with cold water for a smooth mix and gradual addition to boiling water, with optional additives like kerosene sugar or butter. It notes alternative no cook starch and stresses thorough drying ironing and precise thickness.
A seasonal vegetable salad uses lettuce, romaine, tomato, beets, or celery as a base. The dressing is made by mashing one hard boiled egg, adding paprika, salt, French mustard, hashed chives, oil, and vinegar, then mixing into the greens and serving.
This recipe uses five egg yolks two cups cream and two cups maple sirup. Heat the sirup pour over light beaten yolks stir constantly cook to custard thickness cool stir in vanilla and cream then freeze with three parts ice to one of salt.
A vintage kitchen note suggests a fruit jam using one pint rhubarb, half pint raspberries and red currants, half pint raisins, half pound walnuts, juice of two lemons, plus one to two oranges with peel. Cook orange peel first, cut into strips, then weigh and use equal sugar. Bake or boil for three hours or less, aiming for a soft spread.
To remove mildew stains mix soft soap with powdered starch and salt in equal proportions plus lemon juice. Apply to both sides with a small brush and lay the article on grass all day and night if possible until stains disappear. Then wash as usual.
One and one quarter cups cornmeal two cups sour milk one teaspoon soda one teaspoon salt two eggs two tablespoons butter mix soda salt and corn meal gradually add eggs well beaten and milk Heat frying pan grease with butter turn in mixture place in middle grate in hot oven and cook twenty minutes You can halve this.
Dissolve one pound sugar in half pint water and boil to a thick syrup. Add one teaspoon ground ginger to a portion, return to the mix until smooth, then boil to thread. Stir in grated lemon rind, boil again, and when hard ball stage is reached drop spoonfuls as small cakes on a buttered tin.
Does memory in humans ever refuse to function while other mental and physical parts carry on their routine? The passage questions if memory lapses could explain frequent disappearances and wanderings of men and women.
In parts of India where mosquitoes are common it is said that violin music draws swarms of insects. The first notes reportedly cause clouds of mosquitoes to hover around the player making hand movements difficult.
An pharmaceutical advertorial explains how a blood purifier cleanses skin conditions like pimples acne eczema lupus by cleansing the blood network in the skin. It describes cellular stimulation and toxin elimination, urging readers to obtain S S S from Swift Specific Co with an Atlanta address and drugstore availability.
A dialogue from Harper's Round Table features Jacky refusing his mother’s plea to let Katie indoors during a rain scene. Katie is cast as a sinner in their Noah play, trapping her outside in the weather.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.