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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1912
Page
7
In a 1914 era tale, Stanton’s Mercury racecar trio faces danger after the mechanician dies. Jesse Floyd volunteers, Miss Carlisle aids, and the Mercury triumphs in a 24 hour race. Stanton ignores a message of Sowers, then encounters Miss Carlisle aboard a train and an accident amid a tense plot unfolds.
Stanton and Floyd push the Mercury through the turn at high speed as fans watch. A tire blowout causes the car to crash into a field. Floyd is badly injured while Stanton emerges largely unscathed and rushes to aid his mechanician.
Stanton and Floyd overcome crash wreck and damaged gear to finish five hours fifty eight minutes, placing second aboard the Mercury behind the Atalanta. Stanton's exhausted drive earns a postrace dinner with Floyd despite personal tensions and a noted race-night crowd.
In a dim hotel room Stanton recovers from a violent seasick spell after a near derailment. Floyd, his calm mechanic, cares for him while probing the night’s strange events and the lingering ache of a failed appetite. The two men discuss Miss Carlisle and twins Jessica and Jesse as the room settles toward rest.
A wealthy man outwits extortionists by alerting the police. A servant carries a worthless paper packet to a railway station to meet an express train target. A woman leaps from a first class compartment and grabs the packet, then flees in a waiting motor car with three men. The train delays hide the escape.
A fragment shows a discussion on prominence and publicity in the suffrage era. The quoted exchange suggests a desire for greater public attention and questions about suffragist strategies.
A writer in American Boy describes a bird refuge using three shallow boxes arranged in tiers with four internal compartments. Each box 18 inches square and 6 inches deep, a galvanized roof with triangular laps, painted steel gray, mounted high on a post. The piece notes robin behavior, shelter value, and prompts readers to study robin habits across seasons.
A swimming mitt is shown in the illustration with a body sized to fit over four fingers. The mitt aims to prevent water from flowing between the fingers and thereby enhance stroke efficiency.
A writer from Our Dumb Animals explains beavers build dams and store branches beneath water in their houses to feed on green bark during winter. A Mesa County Colorado dam measured six feet high and water depths of six feet, built entirely from willow bushes due to lack of large timber nearby.
One day four year old Charlie and his infant sister played with marbles. A marble vanished and the worried mother searched. Charlie cheerfully calms her saying there are enough marbles left.
The note suggests a distinction between play and display in boys activities, with emphasis on love and aiding others. It presents questions about Ney and display and how boys express affection through play.
The Devil's Lake Sioux in North Dakota preserve a custom where guests are served abundant meals. When guests cannot finish, professional eaters sit beside them and finish the portions for a dollar or more per meal. One eater reportedly consumed seventeen pounds of beef in a single sitting.
In a downtown cafe two telegraph operators joked about a couple at a nearby table using knife tapping as a private telegraph. A woman later revealed she is the husband builder and maker who eats fresh little boys, causing the wires to go silent.
Fisher Ames argues there is no exception to the law of good faith among nations. Treaties gain sanctity beyond mere binding force and even in Algiers a ratified truce remains an obligation. Nations cannot despise engagements without undermining justice as the fundamental law of state.
Barnave argues that commerce forms a large class allied with the government, enriching cities and expanding labor classes while empowering urban voters. It also impoverishes peasants through new pleasures and ostentation, fostering mercenary bands and luxury that threaten republican virtue.
A historical note on evolving casket design and customer needs in funerary practice. It describes demand for unusual durable caskets, rising costs, and a tale of a costly casket kept for long after the buyer recovered, later disposed of at a loss as life moved on.
Harriet Quimby notes in Leslie's that the cliff dwellers remain enigmatic with many theories about their origins. Legends claim descent from Montezuma while others say they carved caves high in cliff faces for safety and power. The piece reflects on the fragile knowledge of American historic relics and homes.
A New York Times anecdote describes a mission giving funds for lodging and the lodge’s sign promising guests may leave valuables with the clerk. The self-respect claim hinges on the manager's policy as a sign of trust and restraint.
A cheerful narrator drops his mood after meeting a former sweetheart who shares that her second daughter has just graduated from high school. He reflects on the wrinkles around his eyes and wonders if his aging shows.
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