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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
2
A Mississippis reader seeks guidance on safe entertaining for young people aged eighteen to twenty. Advice covers dress ideas like princess styled gowns with sashes, serving punch and ice cream, cake varieties, and suitable party schemes. Reader offers to mail book recommendations if a self addressed envelope is provided.
A reader asks for money making ideas with only 16 cents in the treasury. Suggestions include a home delicacy sale on Saturday afternoon, selling popcorn and peanuts, and taking orders for odd jobs that boys can do, inviting further details to tailor tips.
A Leap Year dinner concept suggests a menu plan and dance after. Centerpiece uses tinsmith made 1912 figures with small flowers. Favors feature cleverly written proposals at men's places and doll-sized mittens for the girls, with place cards attached.
The text contains disjointed phrases about serving oysters and creams, with unusual spellings and symbols. It mentions a hostess crest in gold, color schemes, and various food terms, all jumbled and hard to parse into a coherent item.
A reader seeks the lyrics to the song Welcome to Lafayette, recalling a first verse and asking for help from readers. The writer explains they do not have the words and asks that anyone who knows them send the lyrics to the newspaper office for forwarding.
A reader seeks rules on leaving Husband cards when visiting couples and how many to leave for men and women. The guidance: leave one husband card per woman and one per man, such as when visiting a widow with a father or son.
The article notes a vogue toward simple lines in spring millinery and gowns. White crepe de chine blouses balance a normal waist, while large hats feature changeable silk with a single bright rose. Favorable gowns use flowered mousseline and brocaded foulards in blues, cerise, violet, and gold tones.
A tale from Kisogawa shore follows Uraghi who seeks the great sea to prove wonders of the world. His voyage ends with a stormy descent, his boat breaking away and him drifting into a night of darkness and strange guiding lanterns on the water.
Urashima sails away from the Sea Princess after promising to return with his father’s net. She gives him a silver box with the instruction not to open it. He awakens on the original rock, finding his surroundings transformed as time seems to have passed differently.
The tale follows Urashima Taro three centuries under the Sea Princess spell. He opens the box hoping to break the charm, but upon returning to the village he ages rapidly. His parents remain, but his appearance shows the toll of three hundred years in enchantment.
The article recounts how hemlock juice was used to execute condemned prisoners in ancient Athens, noting the slow action and symptoms such as spasms. It mentions wine as a potential antidote, and cites Socrates and others, with recent medical commentary by Dr. Charles R. Marshall affirming Plato’s account against newer doubts.
Old woman in her nineties and lifelong Culloden resident Isabella Macdonald died. She recalled the battle with vivid detail learned from ancestors and was famed for storytelling at the battlefield, where her grandmother’s sobs supposedly spared her grandfather from execution.
A politician asks a newspaper man to craft a speech about happiness and money. He considers an hour and a half and muses on the old saying money cannot buy happiness, hoping the quip can be stretched into engaging talk.
A witty exchange about a sly man who bets on horse races to pick winners and, when races are absent, supposedly picks pockets. The jokey stereotype paints him as a persistent, roguish figure.
A farmer records a humorous local event as a goat prefers a treetop bed over any stable. The animal’s nightly slumber in a high branch led to a delayed shipment when it vanished to the “cleaners” at the National Stock Yards, then reappeared asleep with one eye open after a passerby noted the animal’s odd perch.
The article notes nobles in Annam and Co chin China allowing nails to grow to four to five inches on the second third and fourth fingers while the first finger nail remains short. It describes Siam Annam and Cochin China as regions practicing these long nails to signify religious life and status.
An inquiry explains why a pear shaped weight sits above crane-chain hooks. The weight counterbalances slack chain behind the pulley, preventing sag when no load is hoisted and ensuring the chain runs smoothly over the pulley.
Millions of fish drift into barrels yearly, but the American rudder fish stands out by seeking barrels and even sheltering inside them. Found in British waters once, inside a packing case, it drifted ashore. The name refers to its habit of swimming near ship rudders.
A well known naturalist notes lobsters are highly susceptible to mesmerism. Rubbing rapid finger tips along the shell shield between the eyes induces a comatose state in 20 seconds to a minute. Lobster remains in this pose from minutes to two hours, and returns to normal upon returning to salt water.
A man on holiday in northwest England watched a sheep become stuck in a peat bog while a green grassy bank tempted it toward a tarn. The lamb, lighter, hopped along the surface and backed toward its mother, leaping onto her back in anxious distress.
An architect asks Mrs. de Noo about nest arrangement for eggs. She notes she had not considered it but agrees eggs should come in layers. This humorous line appears in Harpers Weekly as a playful take on architectural planning and poultry.
In a drawn scene George W Wilson asks where he should stand beside Béwin Booth. Booth and Barrett discuss stage positions with Wilson noting a preferred spot, while Booth asserts he will locate him wherever he stands.
Ralph Rust of Michigan praises Hood's Sarsaparilla as a long standing household remedy for cleansing the blood and expelling humors. He notes spring use, frequent exposure to bad weather, and positive results with both liquid and Sarsatabs tablet forms.
Professor James Dryden of Oregon Agricultural College argues that doubling farm flocks to about 100 hens could cut imports and add billions in state wealth. The poultry demonstration car tours the Southern Pacific to promote local egg and meat production, stressing feeding, housing, and the colony house system.
Prof H D Scudder of Oregon Agricultural College champions dry farming alfalfa seed in cultivated rows across Oregon. A Arlington wheat farmer plans 160 acres and a Gilliam county farmer to plant 1000 acres next spring, signaling broad interest and expected scale gains.
Quoted tidbits describe a bride who appears modest yet exerts firm control over her wedding. The Atchison Globe notes her iron hand behind the event, while accompanying quips reference marital dynamics and social expectations without sensational detail.
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