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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
4
The Myrtle Point Enterprise includes editor Milton Schulz notes on topics such as Wall Street, Standard Oil, bumper crop reports, voter astuteness, and social stratification. It hints at Italy Tripoli tensions and Carnegie's peace efforts, advocating arbitration and minimal bloodshed.
A western Kansas merchant built a patrons list from mail order customers and stored it for future use. As crops failed and credit dried up, he denied new credit by directing fearful applicants to the cash-only store, a harsh retaliation noted by the St. Joseph Comet Journal.
A mill owner dismisses safety measures while boasting lavish spending on wines, travel, and luxuries. The speaker condemns the mindset that values profit over lives, noting costly fire escapes and ignored safety amid a social critique of excess.
A historical snippet quotes Walt Mason on frugality and ethics, contrasting wasteful spending on machinery with the value of human lives and the hidden cost of safety measures like fire escapes. The line laments sacrificing people for cheap efficiency.
An advertisement notes good positions for ambitious young men and women in wireless and railway telegraphy. With the 8 hour law and expanding wireless stations, there is a telegraphers shortage. Beginners earn 70 to 90 dollars monthly, with advancement prospects. The National Telegraph Institute in Portland Oregon, supervised by R R and Wireless officials, places graduates into jobs. Write for full details.
Sunday school at 10:00 and services at 11:00 in two churches. Christian Workers meeting at 7:15 p.m. preaching at 7:30 p.m. Regular Sabbath services at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8:00. A J Irwin and Rev F E Scoffield listed as pastors.
A middle western daily proves its strict editor is precise when a reporter prints Willie Brown burned by a live wire. A sharp follow up note asks which is the west end of a boy, answered with a playful jab about the Sons set on the Ladies Home Journal.
By mutual consent the partnership Schroeder and Black in Myrtle Point Oregon is dissolved. All interests and liabilities are assumed by Gustave Schroeder and all accounts are payable to him. Gustave Schroeder signs with E Black. 48-5t Herbine advertised as remedy for indigestion sold by N G W Perkins at 50 cents.
Department of the Interior Roseburg Oregon 1911 notice states Frank Adolf Lindh of Bridge Oregon intends to prove up his homestead entry 04149 in NEW Section 30 Township 29 S Range 11 W Willamette Meridian. Final proof before United States Commissioner Edgar A. Dodge Myrtle Point Oregon October 20 1911. Witnesses Fred Nosler Solomon S Endicott Gustave S Breuer Samuel Breuer Myrtle Point Oregon. Benjamin F Jones Register.
Neuralgia of the face shoulder hands or feet seeks a powerful remedy. Ballard's Snow Liniment claims deep penetration when rubbed into the painful area. Priced at 25 50 and 100 cents and sold by N G W Perkins.
Collected notes show Dr. Hermann eye care and glasses trips, local sales of green goods at half price, agent ads for nurseries and tailoring houses, and social notices. Residents visit from Roseburg and North Bend. church services announced. mining trust meetings planned. a San Francisco Exposition note. and a Detroit Journal cry about infant sales.
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