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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
2
A collage of aphorisms and moral reflections appears in the Myrtle Point Enterprise page, including lines about life, debt, knowledge, and human behavior. The snippets reference sailors, weddings, divorces, and the idea that practice wanes when preaching occupies time.
The text muses on successful men forecasting their plans while the average man questions past actions and laments the dirty appearance of the world to those who neglect to keep their vision clear.
The writer mocks hell as a fudge eating realm and critiques domestic harmony. He suggests paying the freight and letting the wife run the home for peace, then notes occasional belief by a wife that her husband knows as much as he thinks.
Elinor Glyn declares Mark Twain our greatest man. Twain responds with a gallant restraint, declining to express his full thoughts about Glyn.
A heated battle over the William B. Leeds will is anticipated as legal maneuvering looms. A fifteen million dollar estate promises extensive attorney involvement and prolonged courtroom action.
A Michigan farmer reports curing a snake bite using coal oil, crediting the remedy to access provided by Rockefeller oil supplies. The note hints at gratitude for the availability of the needed oil through Rockefeller.
A Paterson New Jersey woman who warned she would die on June 4 is alive and in good health. Her husband has become one of Paterson's most pessimistic observers, reportedly troubled by the prediction.
The Atlanta Constitution questions why Bell might succeed in teaching monkeys to talk, suggesting it may be beyond him and many others to achieve such a feat.
A magazine offers Roosevelt a dollar per word for his writing while no farmer will hire him at one seventy five dollars a day for field work. The note highlights how even a president’s versatility may go unvalued in certain labor markets.
A remark on celebrations suggests 1912 may dedicate a day for cheering and 1916 could require a week at each party convention to surpass past records. The speaker proclaims national greatness and remarkable achievements.
Boston awarded contracts for furnishing single and double teams to a woman who submitted the lowest bids in open competition. Her independent figures defeated a group of men whose uniform bids raised suspicion of price fixing. The award proved popular as her clear costings demonstrated her ability to meet obligations.
The piece argues that some women chase titles like princess or baroness to woo and invest in foreign ventures. It notes the disparity between outward glamor and true means, pointing out that money drives these schemes and that women continue to fall for such cons as long as money is at stake.
The conference of Governors urged conservation of national resources and suggested actions, noting that the discussions have already yielded early fruits and proposed further steps to improve stewardship.
The President names a national Conservation committee to advise and cooperate with state bodies. Roosevelt reappoints the Inland Waterways Commission with new members and forms commissions on forests lands and minerals with an executive panel to coordinate the four. It signals a nationwide view that minerals lands forests and waters are national wealth and of public interest.
Leading physicians urge strict laws for tuberculosis tracking and reporting. New York passes a bill signed by Governor Hughes requiring physicians to report name age occupation and address of consumptives within 24 hours with records kept secret. Health boards may post notices on infected premises directing disinfection and renovation before reoccupation.
An eccentric elderly man named Absalom Foote relocates from the city to buy and run Foote's Shoe Store in a rural town. He plans to add to the sign to reflect his new venture with the quip This place has changed feet.
An editor notes that gifts or favors sought by a candidate under oath are not worth much. The piece argues skepticism about integrity and questions the value of unearned favors in politics.
Three hundred years after Champlain founded Quebec, the city staged its largest celebration in the New World. British and French Canadians joined in ten days of pageants parades and naval reviews with vessels from England France and the United States. VIPs included Prince of Wales Vice President Fairbanks and Admiral Cowles.
A historical overview traces the street car from a wooden beam track laid by an English coal miner through iron plating and flange rails to the 18th century shift by William Jessop, the emergence of horse drawn omnibuses, and ongoing efforts to speed up travel as cars grew larger and more powerful.
The text traces the growth of street railways from the 19th century, noting John Mason’s name above a center door and a wave of new lines. It highlights a boom with about thirty companies in five years, eighty-five railways from 1860 to 1870, and 769 railways two decades later rising to 987 in two years. It mentions suburban use of “dummies” steam engines and the shift to the electric system led by Lieut. Frank G. Sprague in 1888.
The piece recounts early cable railways and magnetic attempts beginning in 1835, credits E S Gardiner with the idea, notes the 1888 Richmond Union Passenger Railway as the real start of American electric street rails, and mentions the shift to underground wires as cities modernize.
A Pittsburg Post item quotes a candidate asking for barbies at a farmer's place. The farmer replies no barbies, noting babies are grown and marbled off. He suggests putting in the forenoon plowing the fields.
A terse saying notes that people and sheep alike lack satisfaction, comparing human restlessness to a sheep's lack of feathers and implying perpetual discontent.
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