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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1906
Page
7
Ely of Buffalo, president of the American Street Railway Association, told a Philadelphia convention tale about a woman who gave her son a half-dollar to pay the fare. The boy examined the coin, handed it to the conductor, and then kept 40 cents in change while exclaiming the conductor had taken the bad half dollar.
The dialogue presents a father and son debating a minister serving as a referee at a fight. The son asserts the minister officiated, while the father dismisses the claim as nonsense, noting the unseen Sight in the air.
A dated kitchen list describes Fish Salad with cooked fish onions cucumber potatoes and a lemony dressing, Preserved Ginger Padding with butter sugar flour and ginger, Geed Soup with onion milk and croutons, Raisin Bread dough rising with yeast and raisins, and Fig jelly using gelatine sherry and figs.
A fragment lists methods for pickling cucumbers in quart jars with cider vinegar salt and no heating, and describes Silver Cake Brown Peppernuts and other dessert ideas with butter sugar rose water and spices. The incompletely transcribed text references baking powder rose water almond flavor and buttermilk or sour milk in baked goods.
The habitual adviser tells the youth to be tedious to gain a Hall of Fame tablet. The youth questions the value, fearing that ordinary effort is rewarded while true genius is ignored, in a Washington quotation.
A fragment from a Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Bend and a Paradelphia firm, with jokes about nerves and waists. The piece mentions trial battle and treaties, and a quip about smaller waists this season, blaming Jane Purfeigh and Lucy Waddles.
Advertisement for Allen's Foot-Fase in Le Roy New York offering a free sample. Claims to cure bunions corns and ingrown nails and to ease fitting shoes. Sold by druggists urging not to accept substitutes.
Cleveland Leader quotes a farmer asking why quit a good job after being called a fool. The boss refused payment, and the bees were blamed for the decision in a humorous rural anecdote.
A garbled ad claims a patent remedy for a persistent ailment sold by Cheney and Partners in Toledo. The notice mentions wholesale druggists and a "Catarrh Cure" with bottle pricing, urging readers to try the advertised product and implying cures through their preparation.
Daniel Kelleher of Wilmington Delaware reportedly smoked 17 863 linear feet of tobacco in his lifetime estimating his habit at three large plugs weekly since youth. If measured end to end the plugs would stretch three and a half miles revealing a lifelong ardent smoking pattern.
A fragment from a Baltimore American item recalls an organist playing a wedding march and a bride and groom nearly dancing up the aisle. An exchanged quip notes the march is a two step, humorously.
A collage of quotes and ads includes a joke about a humorist in the Hall of Fame from Cleveland Plain Dealer, a boast about a football team from New Orleans Times, and a New York shop selling colorfully scaled fish scales flowers. Piso's Cure for Consumption ad urges cough and cold relief.
A brief 1920s style romance note shows LT declaring affection and the reply seeking a return of feelings. The dialogue reflects cautious sentiment and mutual hesitation in a social exchange.
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