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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
2
A reflective piece urges citizens to repay their communal indebtedness by supporting local projects from roads to schools and churches. It contrasts self made wealth with environment driven growth and critiques wealth concentration and wartime loans while noting civic duties and moral reminders.
A writer in the News Letter outlines essentials for effective State highway administration. Key points include removing politics from highway work, central State highway department control of all State funded projects, steady funding for maintenance, and State supervision of surveys plans and specifications for bonded road and bridge work.
An editor is a man who sells soap by the year not by the cake. He runs a newspaper that lies about brides looks and candidates fitness. He tells the truth about few things. Newspapers are supposed to be fair but many struggle under grafters and wholesale influence. Subscribers pay up only if they stay with the paper.
A reflective piece on editors and the newspaper trade noting editors’ habits, the clash with paper manufacturers, and the pressures of advertising and mortgages. It contrasts public opinion shaping with the realities of press freedom and what editors truly know after entering the field.
Lorenzo D McBee of Bridge Oregon filed for final five year proof to establish his homestead claim on Sec 30 Tp 29S R 10 W Willamette Meridian. Proof before U S Commissioner Edgar A Dodge at Myrtle Point Oregon on September 26 1917 with witnesses Lawrence B Jennings Edson Carpenter Beason C Endicott and Hiram Hatcher all of Bridge Oregon.
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