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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1910
Page
6
Three weeks on a limited diet at Memorial hospital in Orange drives James McGowan to dream of mushroom steaks and fried potatoes. At 4 a.m. he escapes his room in a bid for porterhouse, prompting officers to intervene as he pleads for food and a change of clothes.
Bruno the Cubs bear mascot escaped from a basement cage at the Monroe club and roamed the West Side causing panic. Club members, police and pedestrians pursued the animal, which was wounded and exhausted before being tethered with a red ribbon. He planned to debut as mascot at the West Side ball grounds that afternoon.
A motherly customer asks a music counter clerk to play When the Roses Bloom Again at a store. The clerk vows to quit music duties, saying customers rarely buy and music work pays poorly compared with other tasks.
In a General Sessions court, Victor Nelson, a Black man, is acquitted of murder in the Claude Humphreys case. Lawyer M Rourke Cockran argued for Nelson, urging jurors to judge without prejudice by recounting personal bias and social hardship. The defense portrayed the crime as rooted in harsh economic conditions, stressing Nelson’s limited opportunities.
The article surveys early 20th century advances and statistics from around the world. It notes Calcutta's electric mint, Hudson Fulton innovations, urban transport power use in Great Britain, coal, tin, milk for poultry, and various regional economies. It also covers cultural items and a Royal visit anecdote from Isle of Man with King Edward VII.
The article notes a summer outfit lacking one or more dresses, featuring a light blue handkerchief linen dress trimmed with Irish lace. The style is understated, not extreme, yet dainty and becoming for the wearer.
Practical tips on cleaning household items and cooking. It covers gargling with salt for sore throat, using gasoline to clean white leather, serving frozen puddings with whipped cream, ammonia as cleaner, potato selection, upgrading leftovers, mackerel skin placement, tin wash-basin painting, kerosene cleaning, repurposing a whisk broom, almonds in desserts, and mint in boiled potatoes or peas water.
The Albany Journal notes that Japanese is the most difficult language to master. It claims even Japanese struggle, with seven years to learn basic signs and 214 characters. Reading higher newspapers requires 2,500 to 3,000 ideographs. mothers are advised to use Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup during teething.
An old farmer tends a roadside field and explains to a passer by that he grows weeds. He says his years of experience prove that cultivating weeds is the only way to exterminate them. The exchange ends with a wry lesson on practical farming wisdom.
A suffragette meeting grows red hot as the leader asks what will become of the great brewery buildings if votes fall to the reformers The discreet attendee mutters a cynical line about chewing gum factories and complexion powder mills in the exchange
Mrs Lapsling recalls a wedding last night where the organist misplayed the procession as Meddlesome's wedding march and Lonergan's march as the couple left, provoking remarks in Chicago.
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