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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
6
A jumble of old advertisement blurbs and generic notices mentions Allen's Foot Bane promising foot relief, a teething syrup for infants, Carters Ink, Piso's Cure for Consumption, and electric light baths. It quotes various period sources and references prices, locations, and promotional claims with no cohesive event.
Postal address indicates an offer for a free cook book. Text markets a lard substitute and cheaper Setas vehicle, promoting economical options. Advertisement notes sale by all grocers and targets Portland area readers.
In Chicago a farewell to a volunteer regiment unfolds amid cheers sobs and patriotic fever. Eugene Brockway waits on the platform as a young woman Miss Hardman sends him a coy message through a friend. A later carriage reunion reveals his fate and a double wedding that autumn joins Brockway and Horace Judson to their brides.
After Charles I’s execution and the Restoration, judges Edward Whalley and William Goffe fled to America and hid in a rock cave near New Haven Connecticut. The cave became a noted landmark once known as the regicides’ cave, a curiosity in the area. A young man once drew closer to the home, revealing a fragment of the tale.
Five students bartered a barber’s pole for ten dollars and attempted to cart it through the city. Police intervened multiple times, but the boys explained the purchase and were dismissed with the joke that the pole belonged to them and the prank cost five dollars each. The tale ends with the bemused sergeant and a sleepy city.
In Wotton Surrey a charity linked to William Grant died in 1718 and left a will directing burial in the churchyard and annual payments of 40 shillings to five poor parish boys. Each year on the anniversary of his death the boys were to recite key prayers and lessons, including First Corinthians 15, by heart.
A fragment mentions Two Centera and a playful exchange with Polly about spelling ox and other words. The obscure text evokes a rural scene with a picture spelling method and childlike dialogue, citing a Times reference and wartime era mood.
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