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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
2
The campus diet described in old Harvard dormitories depicts sunrise breakfasts of coffee biscuit and butter, boiled and roasted meat on alternate days, two potatoes, cabbage and dandelions on boiling days, cider served in pewter, plus milk and bread for supper, reflecting sparse colonial fare and a forcible "seize it" entry from McMaster’s history.
The article notes winter ascents of high Alpine peaks near Podresina and major Swiss mountains such as the Jungfrau. It states feats in winter climbing, once deemed impractical, are now common.
The article notes about 23 000 muskrats 600 minks 1 000 red foxes and a few weasels are killed annually on Prince Edward Island. Black foxes are bred secretly by locals. A good black fox skin is valued at 1500 dollars.
Elwood Indiana resident Mrs. Babre Mullen credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing months of illness and avoiding surgery. The ad touts the remedy as a standard treatment for female ailments including displacements, inflammation, irregularities, backache, and nervous prostration after three decades of use.
Practical farm cheese making using a reliable dairy thermometer and 100 pounds of milk. Steps cover coloring, rennet tablets, room temperature milk handling, cutting curd, cooking to 98 100 degrees, salting, molding and pressing, and curing in a cool moist cellar. The article warns against sour milk, overheating, excessive salt, and dirty utensils.
Fancy waists hold an important place in a well dressed wardrobe. Semi barbaric tendencies appear in many models with bead work as a popular trimming in colors and black and white. The sketch shows a chiffon waist with bead work on the vest.
A citizen in Cumae stops at an orchard while riding a donkey and tries to pluck ripe figs from a tree. The donkey moves on leaving him suspended, and the gardener arrives asking what happened. The man explains, I fell off the donkey.
Druggists offer Murine Eye Remedy liquid for 26c, b00c, and $1.00. Murine Eye Salve in aseptic tubes with 25c and $1.00 price points. Eye Books and Eye Advice are free by mail from Murine Eye Remedy Co of Chicago.
Sweden maintains agricultural societies that aid dairy farming by hiring itinerant teachers, funding schools, and supporting exhibitions to improve the industry.
A magazine editor rejects a stylish detective story for absurd ungrounded deductions and overblown mood. The exchange questions clues and psychological reading versus plausible detection amid a tale of absinthe hasheesh and a dreamy quotation about mirrors in streets and windows.
For more than a quarter century Cypress water tanks have resisted decay and corrosion. Local officials note their longevity stands out among water infrastructure. The tanks remain in service amid aging municipal systems.
Irrigated truck, fruit and alfalfa lands in the Rio Grande Valley to be watered by the Nine Million Dollar Elephant Butte project. Price sixty dollars per acre on installments. Experienced salesmen wanted. Elephant Butte Land & Trust Co., Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Hasleton residents argue a claim that the state’s highest inhabited point lies in their city at the corner of Thomas and Eleventh streets, with an elevation listed as 1,895.7 feet above sea level.
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