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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
7
E W Fratton of San Antonio Texas describes severe catarrh in summer and fall 1902 with night sweats deep cough and chest pains. After a thorough Peruna course his alarming symptoms disappeared and his health improved. he says he has used Peruna again on occasion to cure bad colds.
A humorous exchange from the Chicago Tribune describes a wife who, while her husband fished for trout at a mountain resort, found a place with a splendid echo and enjoyed conversing with it for hours.
A bottle floated for twenty one years before a message was recovered off Ireland in 1899 after being cast overboard near Newfoundland by an American sea captain. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland loved skating and riding as a girl and kept poultry as a hobby.
Diarist Hearne recalls forced juvenile smoking during the London plague. A former Eton pupil mentions severe punishment for not smoking as the plague raged, amid discussions of social behavior and a humorous aside on a Providence clerk with many suits. Mothers are advised Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children.
The Phoenician alphabet is the root of European scripts and many others, with only limited Egyptian influence through hieratic symbols used in trade. The piece credits the invention to the Yankees of antiquity.
An old advertisement touts Wall's Catarrh Cure taken internally to affect the blood and mucous surfaces, claiming it cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. Also promoted is Null's Family Pills for constipation and a mercury-vapor quartz lamp described as a 220 volt, 8000 candle, 1000 hour life device with no electrode replacements.
Mrs Outsome complains about the heat while Mr Outsome compliments her sunburn as a playful exchange. The line is quoted from a Chicago Tribune item and emphasizes humorous dialogue about tanning and tolerance of discomfort.
The Doctor laments delaying a family country weekend due to professional duties. The VProfessor blames the fates. Naggus questions which magazine will publish Porus's last short story, to which Porus replies seven magazines will not publish it.
A fragment from a dialogue shows a boy named Bobby accusing his companion of swearing while weeding. The other answers that the sound may have been part of a curse originally.
The article gives household guidance on preserving fruit including selecting ripe fruit, using a flannel jelly bag, cheesecloth for straining, and proper jar handling. It notes porcelain kettles crack and warns against metal pots, then discusses electric kettles as a modern convenience for cooking and heating water.
Instructions describe brining and soaking nuts for three days, then a spiced vinegar bath and six weeks curing. Also includes a maple flavored ice cream substitute recipe using corn starch, maple syrup, and a maple sugar fallback, with chilling and mold setting.
Instructions describe boiling molasses sugar and butter to make candy, testing stiffness on a plate, and pulling until firm. It advises using vinegar for crisp taffy and achieving light yellow color. For plain ice, it lists boiling sugar and water into syrup, adding lemon or fruit juice, straining, cooling, adding two beaten egg whites, and freezing.
A schoolboy from Coopers Town delivers a humorous ecclesiastical essay about clergymen including bishops rectors and curates. The boy jokes that bishops tell rectors to work while curates must do the work. He notes a curate is thin and married but a rector grows fuller and preaches longer sermons. An unrelated medical ad promotes Dr Jines nerve restorer with a free trial bottle offer.
The Taiyo of Tokyo argues that the white peril in the East rivals the yellow danger in the West. It calls for China and Japan to unite to stop Europeans and Americans from cornering Far East industrial and commercial markets.
A sharp exchange unfolds as Mrs. Struckoyle deflects compliments about her son’s “ambidextrous” nature. She retorts that his togas are straight, hinting at social snobbery and propriety in a genteel setting.
A Louisville Courier-Journal caption riffs on a dating back image scene. A man questions a woman about treasuring another man’s photograph, while the woman counters it is a portrait of herself from earlier days when she had hair.
A United States study finds Aowa leading with 23 illiterates per thousand, while Louisiana sits at the opposite end with 885 per thousand. No state with compulsory education has more than four per thousand. Eighteen states lacking compulsory laws range from 111 to 335 illiterates per thousand.
The Well Informed favor a known value liquid laxative formed by Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. The California Fig Syrup Co. markets this remedy as ethical and wholesome with gentle yet prompt action. Buy the genuine product from leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
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