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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1911
Page
2
Denver revenue officers report an enormous rise in reported salaries in corporate tax returns. They say many Denver firms may be deducting large salaries for office staff, skirting tax liability. Some salaries suggest living in mansions despite three room flats. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are touted for digestive relief.
Quote on village champs funding college buildings and the lack of opportunities for youths from small towns to pursue education.
An ad claims Hamlin's Wizard Oil on insect bites can remove poison and stop itching. It cites malaria and fever germs as the diseases purportedly addressed by the remedy. The wording reflects a historical patent medicine style with strong health claims.
A humorous exchange features Mr Crosslets explaining a Welsh rabbit technique using a chafing dish. An admiring guest praises the host and asks for guidance, prompting a joke about combining prepared foods and stirring until a wife signals to stop.
A Washington Herald note claims an emancipated woman remains human and unchanged. The quote suggests a woman would skip a convention due to lacking a stylish gown, illustrating social expectations around attire and status.
Waurika Oklahoma and Huntington Massachusetts letters praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier for restoring health after years of nervous, run down conditions and failure of doctors. The ads claim relief from inflammation ulceration displacements fibroid tumors irregularities backache bearing down and nervous prostration.
The United States government reportedly owns Explosive D, a powerful compound said to outclass earlier explosives and make New York harbor defenses impregnable. Inventor Beverly Dunn and Hudson Maxim discuss its capabilities, tests show it could obliterate ships and trenches, with limited personnel privy to its exact ingredients.
Harper's Weekly notes carrier pigeons as long range messengers during the Paris siege. One pigeon reportedly carried forty thousand messages in a single trip, using photographic reduction to compress twenty word notes into tiny films. Under favorable conditions pigeons could bear substantial weights over short distances.
A biographical sketch in Leading American Men of Science portrays J Willard Gibbs as modest and self critical. It notes his Yale tenure and his reluctance to seek praise despite garnering the 1901 Copley Medal from the Royal Society for a pivotal scientific wartime contribution.
A quiet army officer in Bay Shore Long Island has allegedly developed an explosive with tremen dous power tested at Sandy Hook experiment grounds. The claim centers on experiments with novel high explosives showing unprecedented force according to observers.
A writer recalls receiving durable chessboards with spikes and imagines play aboard ships in storms. He admits not playing recently and jokes about blindfold games and the Bay of Biscay. A past dispute over whose move it was left him sour on the game.
Popular Mechanics notes large beds of edible white clay 10 to 30 feet underground in the Carolinas and Tennessee. The clay, used by poor whites in backwoods areas, is valued for its purity and absence of grit and finds uses in card sheen, wallpaper color mixes, and especially porcelain and pottery production.
A quiet man in the corner is described as meek and heartbroken, but the speaker reveals he has long played desperate roles in melodrama, contrasting appearance with vocation and past stage work.
A passenger asks about speed and the driver replies in plain terms. The scene ends with a humorous exchange as dust clouds the efforts to clear sight.
A brief note shows Mr Gibbs dismissing a published announcement as possibly in error and advising friends to refrain from congratulating him. The Youth's Companion quotes him urging caution and warning against premature celebration.
A witty exchange recalls a pretty French maid once employed by Mrs Flubber who was discharged long ago. The tale attributes her dismissal to an incident when he took Mrs Flubber’s precious Fido for a drive on a cold day without the dog’s blanket.
A husband struggles to explain his feelings but is interrupted by his wife who asks which one he prefers her or his first wife revealing a sharp, witty moment. The exchange highlights enduring jealousy and humor in a domestic scene.
A fragment rumor references questions about payment methods and per person costs in a casual exchange. It suggests skepticism about ongoing charges and implies confusion over billing structure.
A Hyde Park teacher Misa Ida Isham ordered a sleeping game for her class in Cincinnati. Most pupils awakened, but one child Peggy Gordon remained unconscious for two hours until her mother arrived and cried awake. Doctors call it an unusual case.
Explorers say extreme cold wards off colds but older whaling skippers from Dundee’s Arctic era held that long journeys on the ice promoted hair growth. It was believed even the baldest Beamen could grow a decent crop before sailing home.
Wide tracts of Singapore’s waste land are being planted with rubber and Malacca’s former lalang fields, once tiger hides, are converted into productive rubber plantations.
A recipe notes using powdered fuller's earth and alum to clean white gloves. Rub in well, brush off, then sprinkle with dry bran and whiting to finish.
Druggists offer Murine Eye Remedy in liquid form at 25c 50c and 1.00. Murine Eye Salve comes in aseptic tubes priced 25c and 1.00. Eye Books and Eye Advice are available free by mail from Murine Eye Remedy Co Chicago.
A drunken man staggers across a road as a friend urges him onward. He replies the distance is long but the breadth of it is what’s killing him, a line from Le Fann's Irish Life.
The passage argues that a person who calmly accepts misfortune as healing medicine and admits defeat without bitterness is wiser than the optimist who claims never to be handed adversity. It portrays resilience as forward thinking, not false cheer.
A financier proclaims self made wealth with pride and a critic quips that, without inspectors, his enterprise might have avoided scrutiny. The exchange frames wealth, pride and oversight in sharp, ironic terms.
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