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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1912
Page
6
The article argues New York hosts a diverse mix of Jews Italians Greeks Armenians Hungarians and others and notes the city’s population includes a large Jewish community comprising about one sixth of its 5,106,000 residents. It claims New York is not a typical American city due to its crowded diverse population.
A critical portrait of city life decries unfriendly manners and unAmerican influences. The piece warns that vast, ignorant crowds in New York exert a harmful effect on society and morality amid crowded urban conditions.
A historical roundup notes prominent marriages and domestic care in which widowers bequeath fortunes to caretakers and associates. It highlights Ida Corey Maxphy, Miss Car rie Catherine Gombily, Ruth Alice Cole, Nora Hessian, and others who received sizable estates after nursing, maid or companion service. The piece links these unions to social expectations of ongoing risk and affection in affluent circles.
Chicago reports its oldest street car conductor Michael Moran age 66 and motorman Patrick Brady age 65 have driven together since 1864. They began on horse drawn cars, later worked all old routes, stayed paired except brief separations, and now operate on West Sixty third Street. They have missed only about eight days yearly, averaging 100 miles daily and 6,500 miles yearly, totaling 292,060 miles.
A Kansas City study cites Watatatithe? and Jackson County statistics showing about 80 percent of divorce plaintiffs are women and 80 percent of suits arise from trivial charges. The report notes mothers often bear the burden of custody and comments on social attitudes toward mothers and mother-in-law relations.
The text links each month to global wheat harvests, listing areas such as January in Argentina and Upper Egypt, February-March in East India and Asia, May in Central Asia and Japan, and August in Holland Belgium Great Britain and Western Canada, outlining a pattern of regional harvest timing. It names many countries and places by month to depict a worldwide harvest sequence.
A fragmented dramatic scene follows Molly Ashwell and Blair Blair as they drift through a theater world. Molly contemplates happiness and the Vagabond Dreamer, while a distant John Gray connection lingers. The play within the piece shows a father and son motif, ending with an embrace and audience acclaim.
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