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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
3
Jane Gerson of New York struggles with a missing trunk at Dover and smooths through the Calais to Paris journey. A grey lounge suited stranger assists, guiding her through the station and onto the Express du Nord as the train departs for the French capital.
Captain Woodhouse of the signal service meets Jane Gerson a self assured New York buyer in a train compartment. She probes Egypt and the Pyramids with sharp questions while revealing her role as a foreign buyer for Hilderbrand's department store. He admires her poise and hints at a possible business alliance as they discuss gowns and Worth labels during their journey.
In a pre election message Frank B. Tichenor declares support to abolish fishing by seining on Rouge River and to ban salmon fishing except by hook and line. He favors an open river, opposes private seining privileges, and outlines a bill to become law if elected. He proposes a 60 foot river center dead line between Edsen Rock and Doyle Rock and emphasizes Governor approval.
The Press Journal voices a policy stance that notices of candidates in exchanges should be paid for. It equates newspaper space to flour for a grocer and argues editors must earn revenue, urging candidates to fund their own publicity rather than expect free notices.
A fragment shows a scene of a neighbor offering home news to a reader as the city daily intrudes, with a playful line about being a buyer for Hilderbrand. The passage ends with the line to be continued and a character’s amused reaction.
Large timber deals, new public works contracts, wage increases, and expansion plans across Oregon are detailed. From 85 million feet of timber purchases to public building contracts and new mills, communities including Wasco County and Klamath Falls show growth while rail and highway work faces challenges.
A Marshfield attorney I N Miller, 34, married and ten years at the bar, is urged by a county campaign committee as ideal prosecutor. The notice highlights his honesty, fairness, opposition to railroading defendants, support for labor, and belief in strict but just enforcement including bootlegger penalties and juvenile crime suppression. It urges voters to support Miller in the May 19 primary, asserting he will be elected.
The piece argues country churches once strong are now numerically weak as young people move to congested cities. It stresses the church as a social and moral center of rural life and calls for encouragement to sustain rural communities.
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