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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
7
The passage reflects on lovers of words seeking the moment of genius when a line is finished. It contrasts Thackeray’s dramatic triumph with the broader idea that true artists chase an ideal form even as the dream remains elusive.
A humor piece from the Cleveland Leader features Mr Gabbler advising his wife Mrs Gabbler to keep her mouth shut while sleeping. She questions how to stay quiet asleep, and he suggests practicing while awake.
Instructions describe selecting ripe berries, crushing imperfect ones, straining juice, measuring, and making a sugar syrup. Combine juice with sugar for jelling, then weigh and simmer whole berries with sugar, then fill jars and seal. Raspberry variation noted.
A dated kitchen note lists Rock Candy steps with sugar water cream of tartar vanilla or lemon. Besten Brewr Bread uses mixed flours and molasses, steamed in a mold. Temate Pie covers tomato filling with crackers crumble, butter bits, pepper and sugar baked in a deep crust.
Recipes describe a dessert process mixing cornstarch milk custard with prunes and vanilla, then orange cream with arrowroot, sugar, and lemon juice. A wheat gem batter follows with whole wheat flour, sugar, egg, shortening, and hot water. The text presents a jumble of steps and ingredients from an old cookbook fragment.
A humorous tale shows Patrick asking for a pane described as fourteen by tin inches, and the shop clerk jokes about a fourteen-by-ten. Patrick grins, decides to take the fourteen-by-tin, and notes the wrong orientation would be unnoticeable. Also mentions Piso’s Cure and a money-saving quip from a Cleveland Leader column.
H T Newcomb of the District of Columbia shows that 5 174 718 depositors in savings banks across six eastern states directly own 424 364 006 of steam railroad securities and that Massachusetts insurers hold large railroad investments. Institutions including educational bodies and life insurers rely on these securities, totaling over 1 500 000 000 dollars and representing a major share of railroad capital.
A fragmented scene features a sad faced speaker arguing for removing the speed limit from automobiles while a stranger questions ownership of a machine. In a separate aside a reference to a Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co appears amid shuffled dialogue and an exchange about courage and cooking.
Tembleton asks Harker if he ever won a prize by smoking. Harker replies he won a prize by stopping, pointing to his hammock as his wife, implying a humorous twist.
Fragmentary OCR describes a case of foot discomfort from new shoes, mentioning sweating, swelling, and irritation. Details are unclear due to garbled text but indicate a medical or personal care context.
A playful pair chat about summer pleasures as a young woman carries oysters for a date at no cost. They toast outdoor leisure under trees and enjoy the mature songsters’ concert in a lighthearted moment from a Practical View vignette.
Recent excavations in Egypt reveal a bond dated A. D. 100 showing a slave apprenticed for two years in a semigraph system to learn shorthand. The teacher received 93 to 120 drachmas about $23 for the instruction.
Fragmented item discusses a method for teaching children to read using a typewriter and mentions Dr. Kline and a nerve treatment trial. It also notes emigration data showing 80,406 Swedes left Sweden last year for new homes in the United States.
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