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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1912
Page
6
The sun sinks behind varied city silhouettes as dusk arrives and trolley bells echo. A lone policeman slips into a cafe while a few hundred people fill the streets and chimneys vent the evening air. The piece closes with a judge’s quip and a moral about forgetting others' wrongs.
Mrs. Helen Bryce Brooks offers practical tests to judge fabric quality before purchase. She advises fading, shrinkage, strength, finishing, spotting, and fiber tests for cotton linen and wool, warns against starch and cheap glossy goods, and urges disciplined, expert buying.
The article recalls King George VI as a naval lieutenant who played polo, shooting, fishing, rugby, swimming and cycling. It notes his rescue of a drowning bluejacket, his long-standing interest in cricket, and his habit of staying active across many sports during his reign.
A fragment cites Robert Louis Stevenson and his cigarette use. It asks why he smoked and notes he lived on the island of Samoa while he wrote there. The passage hints at connections between habits and setting.
Des Moines reports Garcia a mule in a Hollingsworth mine who rode the escape shaft stairs down to the bottom after a vacation. He then trudged back to work, arriving right side up and ready to haul coal again, proving a stubbornly curious beast can complete a strange trip.
Chicago report profiles Miss Gertrude Burk touted as the largest woman in the world at 22, weighing 825 pounds and standing five feet seven inches. It notes her measurements, shoe and glove sizes, and remarks on her birth weight and childhood growth. It mentions she sits between two chairs and can only pass through doors sideways, with showmen once courting an exhibit but she refused.
In Pocahontas Pennsylvania Harry Yaist Fil mer Yutzy and A G Yutzy battled a granary full of rats in Yutzy's barn. They plugged outlets closed doors and fought with clubs for half an hour. Four men were bitten as 412 rats were killed.
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