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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
4
The Seattle Letter notes continued optimism in the Northwest with strong bank deposits and rising loans signaling abundant cash for the 1909 crop year and a robust holiday season despite national financial tensions. Local analysts see increased spending power as money centers pull funds from other regions.
The piece cites twenty nine dead twenty two fatally hurt and hundreds injured this season and calls for an end or major safety changes. It urges repeal of laws against prize fighting and bull rings, notes Annapolis and West Point bans, and suggests Oregon mud as a safer playing field to avoid fatalities.
A montage of aphorisms on gender roles money and social friction. It contrasts views on fairness sympathy jealousy and class through quips about wives husbands incomes and neighborly annoyance. The piece ends with a wary note on weather politics and party loyalties.
The text mentions a brakeman remarking about a young girl seen on the streets. He says if he had legs like that girl, he'd keep out of sight. The line implies the girl has notably large legs rather than exceptionally thin ones.
Mrs Edna Daily returned to Norway to finish school after visiting her sister Mrs Clark Bunch at Dora for two weeks. Miss Angie Krantz completed a term of school at Rural and went home. Mrs Wm Smith visits her daughter Mrs B H Laird in Myrtle Point this week. Mrs Alfred Mullen from Yreka Calif visits her parents Mr and Mrs J D Culbertson and plans to spend part of winter here. Fred Minard reports logs running during high water and road driftwood cleanup. Mr and Mrs Louis Hellar spent a few days with brother J D Culbertson, early in the week. Road supervisor I T Weekly has much work due to high water drift debris.
A list of Coos county students enrolled at Oregon Agricultural College is given, naming individuals by town. The ENTERPRISE promotes a refreshed clubbing offer with Farm and Fireside and Toledo Weekly Blade. An ad for Bucklen’s Arnica Salve highlights skin cures and is sold by N G W Perkins for 25 cents.
The ENTERPRISE offers a bundled rate with the Portland Journal for new or arrears-paying subscribers. Deals include two papers for 6.75, daily alone 7.50, and other combinations with the Enterprise. orders go to The ENTERPRISE at Myrtle Point. Also a home remedy for back pain via Chamberlains Liniment is advertised for sale by druggists.
Proposals will be received by I. E. Rose City Recorder of Myrtle Point Oregon for twenty two thousand dollars in bonds not to exceed six percent for Waterworks. Bids open December 6 at 7 30 p m at City Hall. Bonds dated December 15 1909 mature in thirty years optional after twenty years payable in gold coin with semi annual interest. Bonds range from one hundred to one thousand dollars and shall be stamped.
A notice from Myrtle Point Oregon outlines a series end marker water ends and invites bids with a $500 certified check payable to City Recorder I Rose. Bids must include the check and any unsuccessful bids will have refunds. The item lists addresses and references local commerce alongside medicinal ads for eczema and rheumatic relief products.
County Court of Coos County Oregon appoints L A Roberts as Administrator of William E Rackleff deceased. All claims must be presented at Roberts office in Myrtle Point Oregon within six months from first publication. Published November 12.
War with Japan could not cause so many cripples as rheumatism yet Ballard's Snow Liniment claims to cure all aches and pains. Sufferers urged to apply night and morning, as advertised by N. G. W. Parkins.
The Oregon Agricultural College announces winter courses from January 4 to February 11 covering General Farming Fruit Culture Animal Husbandry Dairying Poultry Keeping Forestry Carpentry Blacksmithing Mechanical Drawing Cooking Sewing Dressmaking Home Management and related subjects. Farmers week runs February 14 to 18 with lectures discussions and a reunion. Address the Register for more details.
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