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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
6
A Boston-tinged note from the Houston Press imagines a future dominated by a college graduate wife who handles dishes, bills, voting, and chores. The piece jokes about husbands losing work to efficient new methods and mocks bachelor fears with playful satire.
Rev Denis ODonaghue bishop of Louisville is famed for telling jokes about himself. On a Chicago bound train he joked with a puzzled traveler who asked if he was Bill Nye. The bishop enjoyed the moment and shared the tale with friends.
The Perry Memorial commission selects J. H. Friedlander of New York as winner among 54 designs to create a 320 foot Doric column memorial at Put-In-Bay Ohio. A $600000 contract covers memorial construction with a plaza museum on one end and a peace-building on the other to mark a centennial of Lake Erie victory and the 100 years of peace with England.
A sharp boss refuses an office boy request to skip work for a hockey game scolding him for trying to fool the boss. The boss warns the boy he might sneak off to funerals and orders him to stay and work.
A well to do New York state farmer's young daughter and her sister crossed a field with a doll. A cow spotted the calf eyeing the toy and, with maternal instinct, stepped forward. The doll dropped to the cow's feet and was licked by the infant bovine while the children watched from the fence.
Readers are told the U S flag canton is not a Union Jack though popularly called a jack. The article explains the flag’s 48 stars after New Mexico and Arizona join the states, cites a 1818 law on adding stars, and discusses the Union Jack misnomer linked to Jacques or Jacobus and the British flag.
The periscope is described as the submarine eye. It extends above water to reveal surface sights via prisms at the head, reflecting them onto an interior sheet. The operator then lowers the scope and steers using the compass.
A Bradford England chimney is built with each brick layer offset by three sixteenths of an inch, creating a continuous twist. The owner aimed for originality and a front edge would complete one full turn after 50 yards of height.
In natural history a note on parrot family birds that roost upside down like bats. The bat parrots or hanging parrakeets are small, about sparrow size, green with colored patches, living in warm parts of Asia and East India.
A fashion column outlines topcoat avoidance for spring, promotes two versatile suits per woman, and highlights cutaway coats, paneled backs, and minimal trimmings. Serge remains staple with navy and browns leading color. silk suits with chiffon blouses offer versatile outfits for day events and teas.
The article surveys markets flooded with cheap taffeta and praising charmeuse for tailored suits. It discusses tan neutrals, depassants of white ratine, swallow tail coats, wide flat panels, and efforts to move away from corseted finishes with new silk folds and embroideries.
A new method uses friction of a steel wire to cut a twenty inch tree in about six minutes. Rapid wire rotation burns a thin carbonized kerf that preserves the trunk while marking with chalk. Benefits include less waste reduced labor and no usual bulky apparatus, suitable for close quarters.
A century old editorial laments widespread nervousness from lack of rest. It condemns late evening social life and business hours, urges parents to teach children the value of sleep, and extols early to bed as a cure for fatigue and mental strain.
New York correspondent John Dunsmore recalls a Sunday sermon in Edinbro where the kirk crowd fell asleep except a simple minded boy in the organ loft. A quarrelsome exchange erupts with a laughing retort from a parishioner.
An embassy attaché recounts a Dufferin story about a ruined castle on the Duff erin estate near Belfast. Lord Dufferin drew a circular line with his walking stick and ordered a protective wall, only to find the castle vanished upon his return, allegedly pulled down by Mulligan to make way for the wall.
William R. Steinway, preparing to sail to Germany, asserts Germans pay cash and avoid living beyond means, highlighting strict class distinctions recognized by their people versus American practices.
Wisconsin inventor patents a circular disk centerpiece with loops and sockets to create a uniform ribbed kite frame. Six equal length sticks form the ribs, thrusting through loops into sockets for a firm, even flying structure. The frame supports muslin or paper coverings and is built to outlast heavy coverings.
A shivering boy on Church Street helps a horse by holding a nearly empty nose bag so the animal can reach the last oats. He pats the horse and continues on his way, spreading word of kindness amid a cold day.
An essay explains half mast flags as a symbol of universal respect for a great man's death. It traces the practice from military conquest to public life, noting the space above the flag for the Angel of Death as the conqueror.
John B See and James discuss a scent bottle and seek the penny within, as an unusual item exchange unfolds.
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