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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
7
A foreign tourist asks the village name at a station window and is met with a blunt rubbernecking remark from a local. He thanks the station and notes in his notebook how remarkably odd names are for towns in the country.
An advertisement touts Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer claiming to cure Vitus' dance and nervous diseases. It offers a $2 trial bottle and a treatise from Dr L D Wilne at 92nd Street Philadelphia, Pa.
The Chicago Tribune quotes Pope debating a provocative idea from the early twentieth century. He notes the danger of presenting the proposition to the public while the elevated loop was not yet completed.
Maria Slenpeck pursued her late husband through legal channels to challenge his will. She has enlisted lawyers to press a second challenge to the bequest, reporting to the Ilouston Post.
A preacher overhears a parishioner claim the sermon was stolen. After visiting the man, the accuser refuses to retract unless proven, then admits he was wrong when he finds the book in his own home still contains the sermon.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure such cases and offers a $100 reward for unsolved cases, urging readers to send for circulars and buy the remedy from local druggists.
In a conversation about a circus stunt a man recalls a performer who did a double somersault in an automobile. His friend counters that such feats are common, noting people in front of cars often execute similar moves.
The dialogue notes different opinions on a man with one speaker arguing there is nothing remarkable about him while another counters that the man is noteworthy. A winter cold reference shows a missed remedy during daily encounters.
Free catalog promotes 1000 presents from Pacific Coast Borax Co. in Oakland. Local agents invited to write for money making plan using Carton Tops and Soap Wrappers from Mule Team Borax products.
John H. Lewis argues for state control of water rights based on models from Wyoming Idaho and Canada. He critiques Oregon and other Western states water laws and warns that without clear titles and a phased water master system, reclamation funding and settlement will suffer.
A Seguin farmer asked for apple varieties suitable for his locality. Winter apples recommended include Baldwin Spy Northwest Greening English Russet Wagoner and Grimes Golden. For early apples plant Yellow Transparent Duchess Gravenstein and King. Delicious and King David are noted as newer. experimentation advised. Peaches uncertain with Alexander noted as only viable in the area. Grapes are reportedly easy to grow.
S A Sevier recounts renewing friendship with Gen T Estrada Palma in Cuba. Palma lives quietly at Bayamo, avoids politics, teaches local children daily and leads night classes for farm laborers. He spent much of his life as a school teacher and now finds satisfaction in teaching.
The passage traces the evolution of the phrase government of the people by the people for the people. Daniel Webster spoke of the people's government made for the people made by the people and answerable to the people. Theodore Parker in 1850 alluded to a government of all the people by all the people for all the people. Lincoln in 1863 gave democracy its watchword.
Huggins jokes that Fan ning is laid up from baseball as Muggins notes he never played. He sprained his larynx telling the umpire how things ought to be done.
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