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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
3
Ellen Martineau visits Ridley’s agency in London seeking a French teaching post after a perilous escape with a stranger who helped her flee her husband. John Senior, a banker’s son, aids her as she navigates agency offers and a gamble on a teaching position with Madame Perrier in France, amid tension and uncertainty about her future.
A narrator in fear describes noises outside a door and a girl saying a man is upstairs. Mrs Wilkinson and a mysterious woman arrive with a child, as footsteps climb the stairs and a door opens. The scene ends with the narrator’s urge to escape and a note that the tale continues.
An account recalls the Greek royal family hosting Mrs. Schuyler at the king and queen's Dekelela palace. The king joked with children, the queen showed an icon, and she begged for a pen as she wrote in the Vishore book. The queen helped with the baby bath while the king assisted with towels and prayers.
In a reception scene Professor Figgera and Mrs. Goldwin discuss Prudence's coming out, noting she is twenty today and recalling she was sixteen ten years ago. The dialogue highlights astonishment at a young woman’s growth and social milestones.
A Sydney Telegraph anecdote describes Auckland City Council appraising rats with a head price. A grocer’s boy in the tale earns skinners by collecting scalps, but the master insists the bounty belongs to him, remarking the rate is his not the boy’s.
The readable fragments reference illegible dialogue about work, theft, and arrival of tools amid a confused scene. Names and places are indiscernible, leaving no clear event, date, or organization to anchor a concise summary.
A Canadian Pacific freight train on a steep curve near the Fraser River fell 300 feet after a rock slide. Engineer Randall and the fireman were killed as the engine and three cars careened down the slope. The wreck delayed westbound traffic for six hours. Weather was clear and frosty as the rock failed.
Congress man Edgar Weeks of Michigan arrived from Manila and said Aguinaldo is not clever but clever enough to be a dead issue. He favors letting Aguinaldo escape and blames U S policy on educating natives with college women. Weeks also deemphasizes the Sultan of Bulu as insignificant amid larger questions.
General Leonard, governor of the Cubs, conferred with senators at the capitol on Cuban reciprocity. General Wood cautioned about alleged U S influence from Havana reports, saying precautions are taken and such influence is likely overstated.
A portion of the Frankfort railway station was wrecked when the Orient Express failed to brake, plowing into the platform and stopping in the waiting room. Several passengers were badly bruised and the crowd praised remarkable escapes.
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