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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
7
Captain Sabron, in Algiers bound service and solitude, bonds with Pitchoune the Irish terrier as letters from Julia Redmond reach him. Pitchoune follows Sabron across the desert while Sabron reads Miss Redmond’s heartfelt note, revealing a sacred trust and a longing for companionship in distant sands.
Sabron's evocative missive from Africa strengthens Julia Redmond's sense of distance and shared fate with Pitchorne. She mourns the soldier’s exile, torn by longing and fear, while the Duc and Madame Esclignac watch her as tension rises in Tarascon. The chapter ends with unresolved yearning.
The Canal du Midi, begun under Louis XIV with Riquet the engineer, links Toulouse to Cette through 150 miles of locks and tunnels. The article praises its scale, water supply feats, and the city’s monuments, noting its impact on Toulouse and inland commerce and recalling Vauban and local geography along the route.
In East Africa the Germans wired wild bees on both sides of narrow tracks to attack advancing troops. Bees freed when touched by soldiers swarmed the attackers, hindering assaults more than rifle fire. Royal North Lancashires men reportedly endured over one hundred stings.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney pledges a 250000 dollar field hospital for warring sides as the war drags on. She laments the conflict while recalling a boyish reply from Willie, and a father teaching resilience amid hardship.
In Mack’s Monthly Magazine a homeless farm boy John Henderson asks a town squire to draft a marriage letter to a black eyed schoolteacher. The squire pens a vivid life story of John including his farm and cottage. John hopes the letter wins the woman though admits he has never spoken to her. If the letter fails he jokes she can marry someone else.
A Daily Mail reporter recounts a scene where French villagers surround a motor truck as a London omnibus driver complains a girl has taken his A B C badge from his shoulder. The driver laments the souvenir demand and a French boy’s insistence on unrolling his patties.
The piece compares women’s legal and social standing across regions, noting 25 independent women shoemakers in Philadelphia, five post mistresses in Linn county Oregon, varying divorce rates from Switzerland to the United States, and harsh treatment of New Guinea women as slaves with little intervention when husbands murder wives.
A rural man boasting about wealth in a small town contrasts with a New York friend who can spend freely. The exchange highlights the pain of earning much yet living where it cannot be spent versus having little money but the freedom to spend.
The Lee Highway Now project is under consideration in the South and has attracted substantial publicity. It would run parallel to the Lincoln Highway, staying south of the Mason and Dixon line that divides the two Virginias.
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