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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
7
Hope lies in a grim prison as two assailants discuss hidden currency and his fate. He receives a coded note demanding the location of 250 thousand dollars while Kane’s menace looms, and a mysterious wan inmate appears at the partition.
Two feet in size had been cut from heavy timbers and lay on the floor amid sawdust, the earlier disturbing sound now explained by the discovery.
In a dim chapter, two inmates plot a jailbreak inside a dreary asylum. A weak man recalls a railroad crash and eerie hospital confinement while the other, driven by a secret mission, vows to use a fellow captive’s freedom to break out before dawn. The dramatic moment hints at a looming midnight breakout.
Mrs Skimpem tells John she resents constant press exposure and uses the talk to ask for a new silk dress after five years of bargain calico. John, surprised, must respond to her radical stance on wives in print.
A restaurant proprietor boasts meat prices rising by 3 cents in three days as he serves ouchingly tough porterhouse. A patron complains the last steak leaped off the table before he could eat it, echoing the jumpy market mood in a witty exchange.
A Chicago Journal excerpt rails at helpless women who rely on men, praising self reliance and critiquing feminine dependence. The piece contrasts female behavior around men versus other women and edges into social satire. In a separate note, Bishop Donahue of Wheeling doubts Knights of Columbus secrecy, then humorously claims to know their signs and passwords from cathedral view.
The best man peeks around the room of presents at a wedding and finds the groom alone and unhappy. He asks if he has kissed the bride, and the groom’s curt reply reveals a hidden tension beyond the two words Not lately.
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