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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1910
Page
2
A garbled column captures a collage of opinions and anecdotes about figures like Peary and Cook, royal life in Athens, suffragettes, and Lipton. It muses on honesty, courtesy, and thrift, linking conservation and farming shifts to broader social values.
The text weighs economy as a gamesman’s restraint and frames scientific inquiry into Mars habitability. It discusses how water vapor and oxygen claims affect life prospects, noting uncertainty until traces are proven. It ponders life beyond Earth within a vast, imaginative universe and our planet’s place among many suns.
A French writer notes that translation rights for foreign novels pay far less now as editors turn to translations from English German Italian and Russian sources. Once top tradesp paid steep fees. Jules Mary and D Ennerny earned large sums but the market now favors low translation fees and cheap foreign works.
The text recalls Walter Savage Landor carrying his library in his head and giving away books after reading. It notes his method to retain valuable passages and his anger in old age if he forgot any book name date or quotation. It contrasts his habit with a loafer seeking busy company.
Opinion piece by Joba Temple Graves questions the aggressive suffrage movement. It argues it degrades men and inflames gender tensions, urging balanced educational reform and civilizing progress without hostility.
Belle Squire discusses Tess of the D Urbervilles and the idea that Tess is two centuries ahead of her mother. She argues this reflects hope for civilization as youth bridge generations. The piece notes urban cosmopolitanism and movement of people from many nations and civilizations into modern cities.
An essay by Sie We. HH Bailey argues for beauty and art in city planning as a means to educate, uplift public taste, and promote health and prosperity. He cites imagination as key to success, notes unemployment among artisans, and advocates developing local industries to produce imported beauty locally.
F Fitzpatrick urges stronger fire safety measures citing five year losses of 1 257 716 000 and annual cure costs of 300 000 000 with water and 195 000 000 to insurers. He calls for prohibiting combustible construction and making individuals responsible for damages, proposes tax grading by construction class and building labeling to improve prevention.
The Pueblo Chieftain reports rising Colorado land values driven by irrigation and cultivation. Fifteen thousand acres of government irrigated land and 50 000 acres of fruit land in Grand Valley will be available for settlers, signaling statewide prosperity as irrigation projects expand.
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