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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1914
Page
5
Hortense, engaged to Robert Rolin, wrestles with his stifling adoration and old doubts. She crafts a bold plan to test him, then shocks him by kissing him in a dramatic, revealing display that upends their standoff and forces honesty about their relationship.
A reflective passage contrasts the grandeur of ancestors with modern marvels, placing eternity above famous works and daily life. It cites Thoreau urging to read the eternities, as discussed by O W Firkins in Atlantic.
A store proprietor worries about women voting at tomorrow's polls while a nearby moralist dismisses the idea as improper. The exchange highlights resistance to women's suffrage with colorful local dialect and humor.
The item notes a witty exchange about awarding Got rox a Doctor of Languages degree. The remark “money talks” highlights speculation that his $40,000,000 fortune influences decisions.
The article notes growing demand for fancy table stock and urges more attention to uniformity of potato size and shape. It describes the tuber unit and hill selection methods to promote high grade seed potatoes and outlines steps for selecting, cutting, and planting tubers to observe vigor and uniformity.
The Perdue Agriculturist explains bees harm no sound fruit though they may suck damaged fruit juices. While nectar gathering aids pollination and crop yields, they do not puncture healthy fruit. damage occurs only when fruit already has a break.
The article emphasizes thorough soil prep before planting for several years of orchard use. It notes there is no best season except after a good fall rain when the subsoil is moist but not wet, so plowing subsoil deeply yields lasting benefits.
Instructions urge draining barn and hog yards every spring and scraping up filth to burn, including hen parks. Warns that tuberculosis and other diseases rise from shiftlessness and filth. without spring cleaning the heat of summer worsens the situation.
The Tobacco Sprays by AtL Melander of the Washington Experiment Station highlight tobacco sprays as valuable for aphids, leaf hoppers, red spider, flea beetles, young scale insects, and oyster shell bark louse. They act mainly by contact and suffocation, outperforming kerosene and whale oil soap, with best results when applied as soon as pests hatch.
Artificial incubation shows lower hatch percentages versus hens. Investigators note ventilation excess as a probable cause, citing higher carbon dioxide around eggs in natural hatchings than in well ventilated incubators, and question its essential role.
The text argues plowing under green crops such as peas oats and clover, with barnyard manure, as the best method to renew depleted soil. It asserts that combined with crop rotation no soil deterioration occurs and that keeping livestock to produce beef mutton and poultry before sale will make land richer each year.
The notice warns buyers that a poor corn planter costs more in the long run. It advises testing the planter with this year's seed and stresses ordering a replacement now to avoid delays at planting time.
In extending bean growing into new territory there are no positive rules to be followed. Simply try out some of the different varieties and watch results.
A New York artist seeking quiet rides a swamp road and meets a bewhiskered farmer driving an automobile. The rider’s horse spooks on the narrow path as the farmer calmly stops, helps pass, and explains the machine as an automobile.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer fragment depicts General pressing for a diversion as the insurgent chief Gonsalvo weighs renewed fighting after a failed firing squad effort. The aide notes soldiers growing weary and casualties among comrades.
The Native notes the structure dates to 1092 with a 1373 tower. It was unroofed by Cromwell in 1643 and burned in 1914 by militants. The Tourist remarks on extensive past use and wear.
A terse exchange hints at personal history and opinions about a speaker's prospects. A remark about a lurid past is contrasted with a claim of a brighter future, suggesting a tense confrontation between two individuals.
In a museum scene Mrs Green reads the catalogue aloud while Mr Green questions the reference to Rosa Bonheur and notes cows depicted in the artwork. The excerpt highlights a mix up between the scene and the painter.
In a London Opinion cartoon dialogue the Lady questions why the Artist paints only nudes. The Artist replies he cannot afford gowns as fashions shift rapidly.
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald excerpt clarifies a misquote about proposing to support a daughter. The exchange distinguishes between proposing to marry and offering financial support, framing the core question as about wedlock rather than alimony.
A dialogue questions whether knights of old law held retainers. The reply denies the premise with a reference to a book noting each knight had retainers.
A late night exchange reveals Gladys and Jack discussing a marriage proposal while Mnoude reacts to a prior rejection with indifference. The fragment hints at tangled personal relations and conflicted feelings.
A miner found a vein and funded a mill, shipping $100 ore daily. An ore hauler paid a man named Slim for a gold streaked rock and later sold a larger piece to a Denver collector, exposing a salted ore scheme where the owner’s own ore was fraudulently sold to himself.
A contemplative note reflects on an osteopathic practitioner who died by gas in a Long Island summer cottage. It questions whether life’s ultimate mystery can be solved by self-destruction and cites Hindu ideas of rebirth. The piece urges finishing the game of life before discovering if one has won or lost.
A Lancashire railway platform scene features a newspaper boy and two young Scotch soldiers on route to Liverpool. They exchange a football friendly taunt about a recent club win, with one soldier shouting Bannockburn as a comeback.
An Indianapolis attorney charged ten dollars for defending two thugs in police court. Despite the defense, the court imposed heavy fines and a workhouse sentence. The attorney remarked ten dollars for defending you, prompting puzzled replies from the convicted men.
Studies in Spartanburg County South Carolina by the U S Bureau of Entomology and Thompson MacFadden commission indicate the buffalo gnat unlikely to transmit pellagra. The results point toward the arable fly as a likely carrier, already linked to other diseases.
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