Comet Sightings Stir Local Reactions On Throop Street
A Throop Street resident recalls a local superstition about comets as bad luck. The discovery night sparked curiosity among neighbors while some view celestial events with wary sentiment.
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1906
Page
7
A Throop Street resident recalls a local superstition about comets as bad luck. The discovery night sparked curiosity among neighbors while some view celestial events with wary sentiment.
A fragmented listing of Portland advertisements shows Kodak development and printing services, lanterns, separators, clothing, millinery, and medical tonics. It mentions Clarke & Co, Cooke & Co, and Allen & Albert with addresses on Alder Street and Morrison, plus various product offers and free samples.
A Mc Clure's Magazine piece recounts Roosevelt's famed bear tackle in the Rockies, detailing a perilous hunt and his composed grit. It also critiques Erie Canal spending, comparing costs to other grand projects and noting public misconceptions about the canal's steam-powered progress.
A friend's warning telegram invites a young physician to a western settlement. He arrives and learns all is well, then quips he would come only if everyone is sick. In a separate note, M Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is promoted for teething children.
A schoolgirl confesses to her aunt that she has burned the midnight oil, lamp low to avoid waking others. The aunt remarks on pale appearance and asks for truth. the girl confirms but insists it was not much, citing low lamp lighting.
A wife scolds her husband for forgetting matinee tickets after inviting friends. He stammers and suggests a lame excuse to cover the lapse, highlighting a domestic mishap and social embarrassment.
An advertisement proclaims deafness arising from catarrh can only be cured by constitutional remedies. It explains the Eustachian tube inflammation causes hearing loss and offers a $100 reward for any deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sold by druggists with Hall's Family Pills also recommended.
A fragmentary verse exchange vibrant with playful flattery. A speaker praises Miss Hippo while addressing an unnamed darling, calling out flirtatious lines and theatrical rhymes. The tone echoes a theatrical, whimsical mood.
A brief London Punch quip notes a passerby asking about pork on the road and a farmer clarifying there is a pig of his out there while a motor car has just passed by.
A historical ad offers a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease from Olmsted, Le Roy New York. It claims to cure sweating, sweat irritated feet, and aching feet, caluses and bunions with universal druggist availability and warns to avoid substitutes.
Mrs Gaswell asks if the artwork is still in progress while Mrs Sudden-Clymer confirms ongoing work. She recalls painting a golden red scene so lifelike it caused hay fever in the observer.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a guest confronting a clerk about room assignment and crowding. The garbled text references a Cleveland Leader item and mentions a quarantined message and Pettrudieg Vito, with illegible later phrases.
Incomprehensible OCR fragment presents a garbled exchange mentioning Mr. Rockefeller and a plan to “try water” after extracting all there is, with two speakers named Anander and another called Warton.
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