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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1914
Page
2
A simple indoor game tested by villains profiles using candlelight and shadow play. Players guess the owner of each profile, with fake profiles mixed in to increase challenge. Best results come from using boys profiles only.
Advice on winter preparations includes relocating bee hives to a cellar with ventilation, keeping them dry, and avoiding floor ventilation. It urges snug poultry houses, whitewash with carbolic acid, road maintenance before frost, selecting quality flock stock, trimming tops of turnips and beets, using sifted coal ashes for fowls, and installing storm doors and ventilated storm windows to save fuel and ensure safety.
Charles Dudley Warner urged Mark Twain to walk, citing scripture. Twain resisted with humor until Warner cites Matthew forty one about bearing burdens. Twain finally agrees and goes on the walk, a light anecdote of friendship.
Washington died in the final hours of the day and week, marking the close of the last month and year of the eighteenth century as memorials begin nationwide.
A brainteaser asks what is unwanted yet indispensable and equally what one does not want to lose. The riddle juxtaposes the notion of a bald head with an unwanted but essential truth.
Fragmentary remarks on a Chinese lady’s character and the concise expression of inner life. The terse voice hints at cultural observations and personal demeanor without clear events or identities.
Oregon Agricultural College agronomist Professor H DaSCudder discusses green manures like crimson clover and vetch as nitrogen sources and soil enhancers. He compares to stable manure, notes lime needs, crop timing, and long term soil benefits.
The article outlines designs for hog houses to efficiently manage large herds, favoring eastwest orientation and rowed pens along a central alley. It notes 7 by 8 foot pens for single sows, 8 by 10 feet for larger sows, and discusses advantages like disease containment, easier labor, and flexible placement with several house types such as A type and rectangular configurations.
The article argues farm homes suffer unsanitary conditions due to defective waste and sewage disposal. It cites noisome pools and undrained kitchens as health hazards, undermining the natural country air and still favoring city health if proper measures are not taken.
An unclear dialogue notes a servant's health, describing her as progressing though repeatedly labeled as slow. The fragment hints at concern for care and a belated improvement in her condition.
In a quaint aside, neighbors learn the newly married couple share intimate nicknames Birdie and Pet. The full Christian names remain undisclosed, with details to be released next week.
In Cleveland the Leader reports an inventor boasting a new practical device a SMA collar button with a phonograph inside that calls out when rolled into a dark corner under a dresser. The wife asks what it is and the inventor explains its function.
In Chile there were 2947 free schools in season with an enrollment of 87 116 and a daily attendance of 169 744.
The guide stresses greasing the pan and lining with paper, warns against greasing the paper, and cautions against using a too fierce oven. A simple oven test uses a white paper to gauge heat, aiming for light browning without scorching.
Prepare rice by soaking a quarter cup in two cups cold water and cooking. Drain, rinse, then cook with one and a quarter cups milk and one cup salt codfish after overnight soaking. Bake with white sauce, bread crumbs, and butter until brown.
A frugal home tip shows how a top drawer can stay neat by dividing it into compartments. A woman used thin boards to create sections for gloves and handkerchiefs, cutting clutter. Cardboard boxes without lids, fixed with tacks, provide an inexpensive substitute when smooth wood is unavailable.
Fry onion in butter then blend in flour and curry powder. Add hot water with bouillon, simmer until smooth. Insert four hard boiled eggs cut into quarters, season with pepper and salt. Heat through and serve, with deli stores open late for convenience.
A simple batter uses cornmeal flour milk eggs melted butter baking powder and salt. Stir cornmeal into a bowl with boiling milk and melted butter, then add cold milk and eggs. Fold in flour and baking powder, mix lightly, grease gem pans, bake two dozen gems.
A coconut cake recipe shared by October appears with ingredients: one cup sugar two cups flour half cup milk cocoa soaked in milk two eggs two teaspoons melted batter one half teaspoon cream of tartar one half teaspoon soda one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in a moderate oven.
A recipe for two pies uses one cup sour milk one cup chopped raisins one cup sugar half cup butter one egg one cracker ground cinnamon and half teaspoon clove. Mix and heat on stove to thicken.
A rough OCR style note describes buttered beets with pest and chop steps. It mentions adding batter pepper salt and a little sugar and serving hot. The text notes a change from sliced beets and hints at Hoge’s suggested trial.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts a late night scene where a tired father sleeps under the dining room table after drinking the aquarium water and a boy discovers the missing contents including goldfish pollywogs and turtles, prompting a plan for new water.
Mrs Sourspite warns against marriage, Mrs Newed reveals the warning saved her from a year of doubt. Sourspite gloats as Newed admits the reverse regret, while Puck notes the exchange.
A New York teacher sought a boy’s father’s name in a Yiddish section. Asked what his father is called, the boy replied by asking what his mother calls him. The boy answered that his mother does not call him anything she likes him.
The county fair official laments a hurried advertisement move by a colleague. He warns the aviator’s farewell appearance may be affected by using grand opera style promotion and considers hiring a new advertising man for clarity and respect.
A young Baltimore man enters a shop, asks for a comb, and clarifies he needs a comb for a stout man with rubber teeth, prompting a witty exchange with the attendant. The exchange highlights quick humor and local color from the scene.
A fragment caption shows a taunt where a character demands Edwin’s candy and warns of revealing his character. The dialogue shifts to a defiant reply, labeling Edwin as a sucker.
Countryman at the national gallery identifies the same pictures seen the day before and suspects a hotel clerk’s claim that the pictures were changed. Attendant notes the likelihood of changes across leading picture houses.
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