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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
2
A shy young man narrates an afternoon ride with Miss Prescott in a bubble of a car. A spark of romance blooms as miscommunications and a faulty gas valve create delays before a playful confession reveals mutual affection.
The note sketches several women in varied fields. It cites a large voter registration turnout in Chicago and mentions Miss Sarah Edmond as Cranford Public Schools' supervising principal. Other items highlight Mrs. Alice Wells as a pioneering policewoman on lecture tours, Miss Mary Orr on the Remington Typewriter board, Mrs. Laura Potter in a divorce case, and Miss A E Amendt as secretary to oil magnate Charles Tarbell.
In a Somerville Journal fragment Mary exclaims a burglar is downstairs in the dining room while John dismisses the danger as a misfortune of misplaced confidence. The brief exchange captures a tense domestic moment with local newspaper tone.
Speed, Covington, and ranch rivals plot a high stakes race for a prized phonograph. Helen Blake schemes to secure Covington through a race result while Fresno and Willie scheme to sabotage Speed. The Flying Heart house party buzzes as preparations and tensions rise for Saturday’s decisive run.
The Louisville Courier-Journal essay extols the mule's enduring utility and resilience. It notes the animal's mixed reputation, its role in war and labor, and its longevity and practicality compared with horses, framing the mule as noble and steadfast despite prejudice.
An account describes Andaman practices where parents’ bodies are lowered into the sea on ropes and left to decay to bones. A watcher sits by to guard the bones, hung high to deter evil spirits. The absence of a bone signals a looming family calamity.
Lost on Him unfolds a playful exchange where Jim and a friend riff on a riddle about poets and plumbers. The friend insists the joke hinges on the difference with a punch line about pipes and a lay, ending with a sharp jab about Jim's sense.
The piece catalogs Christmas named locations across the globe. It cites three Christmas Islands in the Pacific and Indian Ocean with distinct features, a Christmas Cove in Maine, Christmas Harbor in Ker Greenland and Christmas Sound near Cape Horn, plus Natal known as the Garden of South Africa named for Vasco da Gama's Christmas Day discovery in 1497.
A southern congressman's daughter recalls a college friend’s wedding and the lace veil once worn by her great grandmother. The old mammy, Aunt Comfort, reacts with astonishment calling it a remarkable family keepsake.
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