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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1911
Page
2
The Michigan led a fleet of 15 battleships in Newport and New York harbor drills off Virginia Capes. It fired a flawless four bullseyes at 12,000 yards, a record in naval gunnery. The crew showcased extreme discipline and precision amid heavy sea, earning the nickname of top sharpshooters on the oceans.
An English traveler Maude M. Holbach describes Lake Popovopolje on the Gravosa to Mostar route in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The lake remains for five months each year and dries up in summer allowing ground cultivation. Local inhabitants adapt like Nile villagers and evidence of inundation appears as trees rising from water while boats rest on banks. Water reportedly escapes underground and a unique fish is said to inhabit the lake.
A local business college adsed a professor who argued that Gray could have written the Elegy in seven minutes with stenography. He claimed graduates have made the poem in that short time, contrasting speed with traditional authorship.
A National Magazine anecdote recalls Senator Frye of Maine and Senator Spooner sharing a trout tale. A fish dealer mixed up orders sending smoked herring instead of fresh trout, prompting a witty reply that smoked bait cannot catch live fish and the exchange ends with a humorous boast.
A visitor points to a red collared widow bird and notes its Africa origin and polygamous habits. The thrush sized black bird with a long red collar nests with many wives each spring, appearing handsome yet lazy, possibly feeding on hookworms.
The Atchison Globe notes there are many kinds of fools but the man who neglects his work for another loses the most in foolishness.
In Oregon politics lore the late gubernatorial candidate Jay Bowerman defends a participant in a Fossil shooting case. A Tennessee witness testifies with a rural accent, recounting events and travel to the marshal’s arrival as counsel questions the timing of the shot.
A compact note observes that all flowers in a conservatory flourish while the wallflower remains unblooming highlighting a contrast in a casual garden remark.
Two government employees Dr Marion Dorset and Logan Waller Page chose to give public inventions away instead of patenting them. Notable examples include a hog cholera serum and a new concrete mix, with others like John Jacob Astor and William Kies2 Jr contributing their patents to public use. The aim is to prevent monopolies and ensure broad access while maintaining competition.
New York woman Fraulein Yrma Bleyer, a nobility broker, claims American heiresses may marry Count Hugo Christalnigg and attend King George V’s coronation in June. She cites photos of the count and says dozens of American letters offer themselves as clients for marriages to Austrian nobles. Her plan hinges on a London-Vienna meeting during the coronation crowd.
Clarence Edwards seventeen of Philadelphia has been admitted to Cooper hospital for laughing hysteria after a funny scene at a moving picture show. He laughed uncontrollably even after leaving the theater, fought the ambulance crew, and had to be strapped to a cot to be quiet an hour later.
Walke Far to Cure Leg. Chico Calif Night watchman M E Crookum of the Diamond Match company received a leg injury over six years ago. Doctors said only walking could cure it. Since then he has walked every day for the remedy and has continued in his post for six years, four months and twenty four days.
The city will pay $11,690 in fees and $115 for damages tied to a Broadway upper area subway extension. Court approves the commissioners' bills, with payments ranging from $2,800 to $5,100 each. The $115 settlement relates to claims totaling over $850,000.
The new Episcopal cathedral of St John the Divine dedicated on April 19 features a complete telephonic system connecting every area through a central switchboard, unmatched in any church.
A patrolman states he has logged 27 006 miles on duty and commutes two miles daily. he reports his leg nearly healed. Crookum covers a one mile beat hourly twelve times nightly seven days a week, with only two days of absence.
Hazleton Pennsylvania witnessed the first public display of a harem hobble skirt. An unknown young woman modeled a combination of hobble and harem, with the hobble sewn to the knees, but the scene caused no disturbance as crowds watched along the main street.
The widow of Hungarian novelist Maurus Sokal offers to donate all manuscripts busts and portraits of her husband to the Hungarian National Museum in exchange for a pension A commission has been appointed to report on the proposal.
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