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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
7
The text mixes medical ads for Allen's Foot Ease with a brief note on Prince isna of Ghiseh in Egypt, described as a famed horticulturist and patron of a flourishing cultural society. It mentions vaccination parallels and a colonial era tone. The fragmentary source ties medical consumerism to regional cultivation achievements.
A historical outline details China’s territorial losses through treaties and leases. It notes Formosa ceded to Japan in 1805, Kiou-chou port leased to Germany in 1907, Port Arthur and related areas leased to Russia in 1906, Britain occupation of Wol-Fial-Wol, and Hong Kong’s cession to Britain in 1841, among other territorial arrangements.
A feature discusses the devil's birthday in China and Chinese household rituals. It notes burning the kitchen god to heaven, selling gifts to the idol, and dipping a finger in molasses to sweeten tales. It cites a Luther City woman who blamed the idol for illness and punished it to protest misfortune.
The Kakime lamp described as an ancient primitive torch uses stones with natural cavities or artificially formed pits for oil and a side wick. Similar lamps occur in St Lawrence Island pottery remains, with size and shape matching surrounding waterlines. No ancient forms are known in America south of the Eskimo region except for one doubtful example.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Church Temperance society funds 12 free ice water fountains in tenement districts of New York. In operation May 1 to October 1, they ease costs as ice rises, with $200 needed to erect each fountain. The article mentions other era notes and curiosities from the period.
In the kingdom the legal leadership shows ethnic and regional balance as Sir Richard Webster, new master of the rolls, is Irish, joined by Sir Eadward Carson as solicitor general, while Sir Rotors Finlay becomes attorney general with Scottish roots.
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