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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1900
Page
6
A man in a Waterloo bridge area lodging house endures a bare Christmas with a sickly child in a window seat. He longs for work and fights poverty while planning Boxing Day theater hopefuls. At the theater he finds a small coin windfall and hurries home to share Christmas with his daughter.
Nigel Halliday battles nerves and delay to perform. A child in the gallery, Babesie, appears on a entertainer’s shoulders to echo the refrain, lifting his spirits and delighting the audience. Babesie is reunited with her father after the show as the crowd cheers.
A fragmented vintage page discusses penny toys and a 1800s craze for penny watches sparked by a clever hawker near the Mansion House. It mentions profits for makers and hawkers, then shifts to a crowd on a river steamboat hearing veteran reminiscences of the Mississippi and Bill Jones.
A survey lists major events of 1809 including armed conflicts in the Philippines and Africa, the Dreyfus trial in France, Samoa’s political frictions, deadly fires and disasters, and the deaths of Felix Faure and other leaders. It notes battles, strikes, and political changes shaping the year.
A new French pistol type called pletet anter attracts notice in the French war department. It uses a free arm to the Bilt and discharges when the sword meets resistance. The saber remains usable when the pletet is not loaded, and tests claim the bullet penetrates a breast plate.
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