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Myrtle Point Enterprise

Location

Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America

Date

Mar 15, 1901

Page

7

Composition of a Penny in Early Minting

The penny contains 95 percent copper with 3 percent tin and 3 percent zinc. It costs about 42 cents per pound to mint excluding stamping, with 148 pennies to a pound. The government earns a profit on each pound minted and pennies are redeemable in gold, though few are presented.

Loyalty to His Employer Inspires Unlikely Heroism

A fragmentary tale shows a youth agreeing to a risky act to save his employer, illustrating the powerful appeal of duty. The passage contrasts courage with temptation and hints at a charitable, courageous stance amid hardship.

Donkeys Supplant Dogs as Draft Beasts in Berlin

Berlin sees 1000 donkeys imported over 18 months to replace dogs as draft animals amid agitation by the 8 P C A. The shift reflects concerns about dog use. donkeys are being used to shoulder loading tasks once done by dogs.

Doge Berlin

Modern Miracle Cure Restores Sight and Mobility

Samuel Carnock of Melrose Park credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing locomotor ataxia after a 1900 police magistrate sworn statement. He says prior illness from 1898 left him unable to walk, blind in one eye, and bedridden, but within months of treatment regained sight and walking. He purchased pills from Dr Williams Medicine Co at Schenectady.

Samuel Curnock Twenty-second Avenue Melrose Park Dr. Williams Medicine Co Schenectady N. Y

Mandy's New York Trip and a Briardale Encounter

A quirky tale follows Mandy as she tours New York seeking fortune and fame and ends up back home. Percy Citntha pursues Briardale Hall, courting Cisle Melville with playful vanity and a vow to rescue the manor if she agrees to marry him.

Pears and peril on Briardale Manor tree scene

A woman named Cleale Melville climbs a fruit tree at Briardale Manor to retrieve a pear. She notices a young man seated on a wooden bench below and speaks to him while contemplating the danger and options to avoid dropping stones or causing alarm.

Cleale Melville Cleale Damening

Hero of Shiloh Gen Benjamin Prentiss Dies at 81

Gen Benjamin M Prentiss known as the hero of Shiloh died in Bethany Missouri at age 81. He organized a volunteer company as a youth, served in the Mexican War, joined Lincoln's call for volunteers, commanded the Seventh Illinois infantry then a brigadier general. He fought at Shiloh and was briefly held captive before later becoming a major general and retiring in 1883 to civil life.

Benjamin M. Prention Missouri Benjamin M. Prentiss Shiloh Bethany Wools Smith Nauvoo Lincoln Prentiss Ilinole Infantry Ile Grant Pittsburg Landing John Porter

Cheetaute for Food From Fringes of France

In parts of France chestnuts from schist lands are a staple daily food. They are boiled, mashed, and sold in fall and winter, with poor residents gathering around roasting pans at noon to buy ten cheat meta.

France Consw Jane C. Covert

Common lilac plants traced to central European roots

The article notes the common lilac long cultivated for over 300 years with native home in mountainous central Europe from Piedmont to Hungary. It discusses twelve species across Mongolia China and Japan and mentions some varieties native to the American continent.

Kélace Surey Europe Piedmont Hungary Mongolia China Japan

New Zealand Plans 140000 War Medals for School Children

The New Zealand government intends to strike 140000 war commemoration medals and distribute them among the colony's school children. The cost will be about 12000 pounds.

New Zealand

Plainspoken 1919 Public Notices and Advertisements

A garbled mix of governmental bids, weapon production talk, cosmetic claims, and miscellaneous quotes. The fragment references American bids for a plant to produce ammunition and notes on a blood purifier product plus an automatic gun burner and cold remedies. It ends with a witty Life magazine quote about women.

Population growth in Ohio cities over 16 years

Ohio cities and towns added 586 021 residents in 16 years an increase of 792 above the state rate. Nonsense phrases follow with unclear names and stray quotes.

Ohio R&t

Ex President Cleveland Receives Honorary Fox Hunting Membership

Former President Cleveland accepts an honorary membership in the Mercer County Fox Hunting Association of New Jersey. The gesture honors his standing in outdoor sports circles and ties to regional fox hunting traditions.

Cleveland Mercer County N. J

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