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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1911
Page
9
Professor Pumperdinck detects a fingerprint on an unripe peach specimen after a garden theft. He confronts Jake who collapses, confessing the theft and showing his corduroy trousers as the source. The tale centers on a single incriminating mark and a final admission.
A young man visits a doctor with stomach pain. Diagnosed as dyspepsia the doctor prescribes a pickle to keep on the stomach. The patient reports that he can keep it on while awake but it rolls off when he sleeps, highlighting a humorous misunderstanding.
The piece notes tribes blending as borders permit and traces a population drop from about 1,000,000 before European contact to 350,000 in 1885 and an estimated 50,000 fewer today. It discusses assimilation trends among Native peoples.
An excerpt presents Ruskin arguing true wealth lies in life and its powers of love joy and admiration. It states a country’s wealth equals the number of noble happy people it nourishes and a man’s riches come from perfecting his life and widening his helpful influence through deeds and possessions.
A London paper once offered a prize for a fog tale. A merchant receives a telephone from a clerk saying he cannot come to work because of the fog and that he has not yet arrived home yesterday, in a humorous exchange.
The passage notes that the best European market oranges come from a sandy land and command top prices. It cites a joking remark among Jewish colonists about Palestinian fertility and mentions orange trees bearing fruit two months earlier than those in Italy and Spain.
Researchers like Reibisch and Heineke found that fish bones scales and otoliths bear annual growth rings similar to trees, offering a trustworthy method to determine age beyond size. The discovery marks a shift from size based aging to ring analysis in ichthyology.
A young Colorado ranchman sold two hardened dinosaur tracks for a college course. The remark notes that valuable footprints rival the legacies of great men, with a playful line about the dinosaur’s imprint across time.
The article urges fruit as a breakfast cornerstone when fresh options are limited. It recommends baked apples with figs, grapefruit prepared on ice with pulp, and crisp toasted bread with a small pat of fresh butter, highlighting flavors and textures to tempt diners.
Mix one ounce borax with one ounce gum camphor in one quart boiling water. When cool add one pint alcohol. Bottle and cork tightly. Shake well before use and sponge garments. Excellent for cleaning soiled black cashmere woolen dress coats collars and black felt hats.
John Randolph argues that individuals possess two educations one from others and a more valuable self taught education. Personal effort determines wisdom goodness and social status beyond formal instruction and influences fate after life.
An old advertising blurb touts Redicross Ball Blue as the best blue for laundry. It claims a half cent’s worth of bluing mixed with water yields frail results and promises laundresses a week of smiles. The ad promotes a large package for five cents at all good grocers.
Dr Paul Kruger, a Vienna physician, says the mustache aids health by shielding the nose from dust and bacteria. In 500 cases of headache and throat and nose trouble among his male patients, 420 with shaved upper lips showed a link to cleanliness. Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are advertised as a stomach liver and bowels regulator. Sugar coated tiny granules and easy to take.
A Maryland woman develops an improved comb in which hollow perforated teeth deliver tonics as hair is combed. The device features a reservoir on the back for dispensing the tonic.
Allen's Foot-Ease offers relief for painful swollen and sweating feet and eases wearing new shoes. Sold by Crurgists and Shoe Stores with a free sample. Address A. S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
The passage describes dirt as the ideal culture for disease, where microbes of plagues thrive undisturbed by cleaning and uninfluenced by soap or knowledge. It contrasts dirt with modern science that should illuminate and eradicate such illness.
Druggists offer Murine Eye Remedy in liquid bottles at 25c 50c and 1.00 with a soothing effect for red weak weary and watery eyes. Murine Eye Salve comes in aseptic tubes priced 25c and 1.00 and free eye advice by mail from Murine Eye Remedy Co Chicago.
The author argues teaching reading has two aims: first make learners fast and automatic in recognizing word and letter forms and values, second cultivate interest in content and the spiritual element of printed forms.
Mothers learn that Mrs Winslow's Soothing Grub is promoted as the best remedy for teething children during the teething period.
An editor portrays humanity as a small body of people wholly enclosed by trouble, emphasizing collective fragility and the surrounding societal pressures.
A layered batter method mixes a white outer ring and a red center. White part uses sugar milk egg whites butter flour and baking powder. Red part uses egg yolks butter red sugar milk baking powder and flour dredged raisins. Bake with red center and white surround.
Instructions on cleaning ebony brushes mention applying a small amount of vaseline to the backs before washing with ammonia or soda water. After washing the backs should be rubbed dry and polished with a dry cloth.
A fragment describes combining arrowroot with water or gelatin with con gomine to create a dressing that should be put away to harden. The text appears as a brief culinary note with incomplete steps and unclear terms.
Testimonial from H. L. Huggins of Welch Arkansas praising Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney and bladder relief. After one month he could work again and spent about eight to ten dollars on the remedy, saying he would not take ten thousand dollars for the good it did. Witnessed under oath by W A Paces dated September 20, 1909.
Promote Swamp Root with a sample bottle offer from Dr Kilmer & Co Binghamton NY. The ad promises to convince readers about kidney and bladder benefits and to send a booklet. Available at drug stores for fifty cents and one dollar.
A London exchange notes that under the German criminal code an attempt to commit death by one’s own action is not punishable. The remark adds that if the act succeeds, the actor must be prepared to face consequences.
A reader quotes the nursery rhyme about the king counting money and the queen in the kitchen, then a modern child dismisses it as a fairy tale, with a barroom remark about a cook. The fragment hints at memory, humor, and cultural references in a social setting.
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