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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1910
Page
2
A string of satirical observations on wealth gender manners and society from Topics of the Times. It skewers marriage money in fashion weather bets and public figures while riffing on aviation medicine swimming and manners with wry irony.
The Attorney General cites a new opinion holding foreign steamship companies doing business at American ports must pay the corporate tax. The ruling hinges on a law that subjects foreign corporations to tax for income earned here, despite debates over whether the levy is a license fee or a direct tax on property. If the Supreme Court upholds the law, a method to collect a roughly fair tax from these ships may be found.
The article laments that despite extensive giving by multimillionaires from medical colleges to orchestras, the American theater remains neglected. It argues that no major effort exists to raise the common level of American culture through theater.
The text argues that national ties rise or break due to government strategy, balance of power, and economic interests rather than race or temperament. It cites England Germany Japan and Russia to show shifting alliances, noting that while open hatred has lessened, arbitration and goodwill between nations grow gradually despite commercial rivalry.
A London telegram cites J. de V. Roos showing the Rand has the world’s highest per capita crime rate with 1.5 million people. In 1909 convictions reached 89 005, with 5 585 undetected crimes including 27 murders and 131 robberies. Native offenders rise, fingerprints urged to track recidivism.
The piece explains belief in turning points at certain ages in a man’s life. It highlights the mystic number seven and its multiples 21 35 49 and 63 with the sixty third year deemed most fatal, influencing health and fortune beliefs.
A fragment notes that a boy will receive everything promised and more, while warning that relying on friends to fight battles will likely backfire and invite more trouble. The text hints at expectations and consequences within social duties.
Verse notes Mark Twain’s funeral mood and readers finding solace in a captain’s praise. The poem imagines lips once taught to smile now dimmed by sorrow as shorelines recall mirth and a stream offers quiet comfort beyond danger.
A widow recounts Cyril Otterson repeatedly proposing at Henley and in a theatre box and finally in her drawing room. He insists on a February 7 wedding with a plan to marry by special license, and she, after growing torn between loneliness and caution, agrees to marry him at short notice after a last telegram.
The era moves beyond valuing being good about taking medicine as the chief virtue of childhood, signaling a shift in parental and societal expectations.
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