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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
3
The text urges couples to work, plan, and stay united, favoring long engagements under trials. It extols first love as a safeguard, warns against self centered views, and urges parents to guide children away from vice while stressing reading that edifies. It ends by noting genuine hustlers do not complain of hard times.
Poem recalling unknown graves and honoring fallen soldiers. The speaker urges covering heroes with flowers and remembering parents spouses and lovers as years pass toward earth's funeral day. The poem envisions a bright judgment and blessings for those who died in war.
A hortatory piece urges boys and young men to consider life and cultivate daily character. It warns that honest, principled men will uphold the law and shape a better community while resisting temptations and corrupt influences.
A reflective piece contrasts choosing a simple forest cabin life with royal power and urges immediate expression of love to mothers and wives. It blends a rural longing with admonitions to praise family members, share kindness, and value women’s work, ending with a vignette about a publisher and subscribers.
Marshfield Oregon June session hears A L Mills president of First National Bank Portland warn of postwar shocks. He weighs optimist and pessimist views, urges bankers to brace for a business low mood, wary of war profits, and cautions against rushing plant expansion amid forthcoming overseas competition.
Marshfield Oregon June 9 The Oregon State Bankers convention adjourned at noon selecting Bend for next year s gathering and electing officers led by President State Senator E D Cusick Albany vice president E G Crawford Portland Secretary J L Hartman Portland re elected treasurer H M Branhall Grants Pass and a full executive committee including W G Tait Medford N U Carpenter Portland Dorsey Kreitzer Marshfield I S Hudson Bend and Rand Luke L Goodrich Eugene Delegates enjoy a seafood spread on the beach and a ball in the evening with departures planned for tomorrow
A speaker warned manufacturers and merchants to avoid expansion and war profits, urging conservative buying and debt reduction. Banks should clean house, eliminate loans tied to insiders, and shift dangerous loans to weather postwar slowdowns, with Northwest banks least affected by the transition.
Oregon Red Cross fans expect $400000 state goal with $200000 for Portland as part of a mass fundraising push. H L Corbett urges direct contributions without teas and specials to maximize Red Cross Service amid wartime needs. Communities will be district rolled and reports issued as progress bulletins.
Poem about the joys of fishing and simple virtues. It extols a man free of malice who bonds rich and poor, finds peace by streamside, helps others, and lives by honesty, humility, and the pursuit of wholesome dreams. The verse celebrates nature, friendship, and a God designed world.
Salem Ore June 9 employees pay raised by the state board of control at several state institutions. Farm hands at the asylum gain 5 dollars monthly to 35, baker 75 to 85, assistant bookkeeper 50 to 60, cottage farm supervisor 75 to 85, FeebleMinded carpenter 10, Tuberculosis sanatorium kitchen helper 5, DeafMute school carpenter 5. Dr Ross and Dr Bates to be called into army service. 26 employees registered for military duty.
President Wilson calls for a nationwide 100 million dollar drive with the Red Cross mobilized to raise funds. The text describes frontline Red Cross activities including stretcher bearers, base hospital care, nurses, and bandage production by women, plus training for disabled veterans and support for mothers left by servicemen. It emphasizes the Red Cross as essential to wartime relief and national strength.
Classified note from the Enter prise office advertises sale of large bundles of old exchanges priced at six cents each. The town notice hints at a general sale location Po oT que.
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