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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
7
The passage laments modern life’s overload as people fill every hour with chatter work or reading and resist quiet moments for deep thinking. It urges reclaiming the lost art of doing nothing and the discipline to sit and reflect.
A quirky mock tale recalls a diva’s car breakdowns between Worthing and Brighton. The piece contrasts with a sales pitch asserting Hamlin’s Wizard Oil cures consumption from neglected colds, recommending chest application to draw out inflammation.
A safety note advises securing nursery windows by placing a large screw or nail in the lower sash groove to limit opening to six inches. This prevents children from squeezing through while allowing ventilation.
A dialogue contrasts public optimism with the reality that prices can fall. The speaker notes the public struggles to accept declines and wonders why confidence remains so persistent amid shifting values.
A discussion of extreme fasting cites a 21 day entombment of French miners rescued alive, a British Medical Journal note of a woman with cancer surviving 56 days without food or drink, and fakir practices in India where abstinence resembles a deep sleep and minimizes tissue wasting.
Professor C J Lewis of Oregon Agricultural College outlines pruning aims to vigor and fruitfulness, notes bearing habits by bud type, and gives year by year steps for young apple trees. He cautions on summer pruning and sun scald, and stresses selective heading back and avoiding excessive cutting.
A preview envisions cheesemakers of the next century adding seed germ laboratories to factories. Pure cultures of cheese bacteria will be grown for flavor, allowing cheeses like Brie Stilton and Gorgonzola to be produced cheaply from a single facility.
Druggists offer Murine Eye Remedy in liquid form at 25c 50c and 4.00 with soothing action for red weary watery eyes and granulated lids. Murine Eye Salve sold in aseptic tubes 25c and 100c. Free Eye Books and Advice by mail from Murine Eye Remedy Co Chicago.
The text advises polishing furniture by rubbing olive or raw linseed oil into the grain and restaining as needed. It notes ordinary oak benefits from warm beer rubbing, and that linseed oil darkens mahogany.
The Continent notes the preacher's trade as shaping public discourse through knowledge and articulation. Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, first launched forty years ago, are sugar coated granules claimed to regulate and invigorate stomach liver and bowels.
Scientific American reports that black lightning streaks seen in photographs are caused by over exposure of the photographic plate and the reversal of the negative into a positive. The effect creates branching dark lines extending from the main flash as a photographic artifact rather than a physical phenomenon.
In Sherbrooke a power company dug a dam and found a perfect round well bored in the riverbed. Engineers descended and learned the shaft was 380 feet deep and still being bored by a rolling stone worn smooth by millennia of water. The stone continued to whirl, turbine like, as it bore onward.
Distemper in all its forms among horses and dogs addressed with Spahn's Distemper Cure. Claims cures and prevention with guaranteed bottles. Reports sales over 500000 last year. Priced at .50 and 1.00. Requests agents and free book from Spahn Medical Co. Goshen Indiana.
A clipped dialogue discusses a young man’s pay and a potential doubling by his boss. The page also promotes Bromo Quinine laxative with a World over to Cure a Cold in One Day claim and a signature of E W Grove. The ad price is 25 cents.
A brief exchange features Tommy and a minister discussing truth and consequences. The minister asks what Tommy would say if asked about wrongdoing, and Tommy replies uncertainly about truth versus lie and the devil’s fate.
Advertisement claims the product alleviates weakness fatigue despondency and digestive issues. It stresses no alcohol or habit forming drugs and describes a glycerine fluid extract from native American forest plant roots. World's Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo NY backs the claim with sworn ingredient disclosure.
Dr Kilmer and Company of Binghamton New York issues a Panipmen address. The notice alerts readers to a medical preparation distributed by the firm and details services or remedies offered.
A railway official scolds trunkmakers and travelers for tossing trunks, warning they dent the concrete platform. The scene unsettles onlookers as the porter and passengers react, while an ad touts Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children.
Worth's Companion notes Doctor Grenfell extols the Labrador coast as beautiful as Norway and reveals he is drafting an accurate chart to guide pleasure craft through its bays and channels. The piece adds that Europe holds little appeal beyond the ruins.
A druggist offers a refund if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days. The advertisement guarantees relief from symptoms with a money back promise.
In Barry O Brien’s John Bright work Sydney Smith critiqued an unfinished portrait of a famed Nonconformist divine and urged the artist to add a stronger expression of hostility to the established church.
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