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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1912
Page
6
Private 99202 endures hours of shelling and nerves under fire as the line holds against a wooden ridge assault. Shrapnel bursts, a doctoring Maxim rattle, and a last stand with bayonets leads to a victorious counterattack by the regiment amid cheering and retreating screams.
A Chicago shopper describes visiting department stores to learn salesgirls by name. She notes she compiles a list of preferred attendants, then returns to request Miss Barton by name, believing familiarity yields superior treatment and larger purchases.
Prof John Spencer Bassett uses a Douglas anecdote to close a lecture, recounting a tale of Stephen A Douglas asleep in a Capitol corridor when Adeline Cutts a Washington belle passerby stopped to show compassion. The tale aims to deliver a moral and provoke interest among listeners.
A story recounts Douglas waking to find a handkerchief laid over something by a woman, he seeks the owner and eventually marries her. The professor concludes with a moral about having pockets marked to identify personal items.
An investigator notes three insect tones: a low tone in flight, a higher tone with wings held still, and the highest tone when the insect is immobile. The last is described as the voice proper, sometimes produced by the thorax stigmata.
A brief fragment from Fliegende Blatter shows Lisa writing to mamma and expressing longing. She notes papa is happy to cheer her up, illustrating family warmth during trying times.
A detailed report from Professor H V Tartar of Oregon Agricultural College explains ground limestone as a carbonate of lime with impurities. It neutralizes soil acids, improves nutrient availability, and aids legume bacteria, with trials needed to confirm statewide usefulness and cost considerations.
Woods Hutchinson argues in Exercise and Health that any fitness plan lacking two to four hours outdoors daily, three meals, and nine hours of sleep is evil. He condemns systems pretending to replace real exercise and fresh air as frauds and failures.
A west end school teacher tried to drill the class on the word felt. A young pupil volunteered a sentence saying I felt down stairs. The anecdote comes from the Boston Post.
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