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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1905
Page
7
The article extols the banana as a valuable source of nutrition not just for taste but as a durable fuel and muscle aid. It notes dried banana matches fresh in nutritive value, praises its digestibility, and claims it invigorates appetite and body without causing drowsiness or heaviness.
A pantry guide offers soap making from kitchen fats using washing soda or lye with grease until absorbed. It details mixed pickles with varied vegetables, a vegetable salad dressing, peach preserves, and strawberry curd with milk and eggs. Also describes cucumber boxes carved from fresh cucumbers and filled with salad.
An old man warned of danger if they did not seek oat santhin and the conductor dismissed concerns. The man steps off the street car, trips, and falls, claiming the danger was a dinged comet aimed at his back. Other passages reference a hotel scene with a talking machine offered to a patron.
Fragments from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page mix legal claim notes with jokes. References include Brave ov Onwe and Lucas Courry, a One Hundred Dollars payment claim against Tig Co. and J Cheney, plus assorted quips about public figures and domestic life.
A fragment from a Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange mocks national finance with a 24 million dollar yearly deficit and a jokey claim that an 80 million population share would approach thirty cents per person. The dialogue features B. M. Kites and a remark on fiscal mismanagement.
An old reliable company from Minneapolis promotes Pillbury's Vitoe the Meat of the Wheat as a guaranteed pure wheat product. The two pound package yields twelve pounds of nourishment, with no impurities or cooking needed. Ask your grocer for Pillbury's Vitee in two pound airtight packs priced at 20 cents.
A humorous vignette contrasts a lighting bug with a dimwitted merchant who ignores ads. An ad for Pise's Cure claims relief for coughs colds and consumption. The village editor jokes about the devil rushing in to report a wife elopement with the butcher, prompting a weary reaction.
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