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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
2
A 1917 editorial warns of sustained high living costs amid war and rising food prices. It discusses seed shortages, pricey potatoes, cotton incentives in the South, condensed milk price jumps, and calls for increased production, conservation, and curbing cross‑sea shipments to avert hunger.
The article argues every town needs a City Beautiful club to maintain beauty. It stresses women's role in cleaning, vacant lots use for crops, neglected back streets, and pride in surroundings as Myrtle Point prepares for the 1917 season.
From the Elmer Journal announcing its discontinuation due to inadequate support. The note cites costs and a national crisis of excess spending, urging community backing for small town papers and warning of rising living costs and taxes.
A columnist's satirical tirade rails at war profiteers, Wall Street, and political figures, praising Senator Harry Lane while mocking economics, German connections, and cultural trends. The piece blends humor with social critique, referencing war prices, censorship, and patriotic displays.
Myrtle Point readers learn that back ache and kidney pain signal weak kidneys and should be checked. Mrs L T Thompson of Roseburg says Dean's Kidney Pills relieved her congested kidneys and back pain after a few doses, with a full recovery after one box. Price 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Propr., Buffalo NY. 192
Fourteen dollars seventy cents for room and board per man per month supports twenty men at old Alpha hall Oregon club. Richard J. Werner organizes and leads the group, aiding workers through college while objecting to sending funds abroad. The club’s first month cost is higher, meals are cooked on site, and a cook plus a student manager handle duties.
In connection with the club an employment agency is maintained. The club backs each member in this branch of the work, and any who do unsatisfactory work are taken in hand by the members. Many have already secured work through the agency.
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