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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1917
Page
4
A Home Circle note warns tired mothers about unscrupulous schemers posing as small investments. It urges dealing with trusted locals and supporting home industry to avoid fraud. The poem about Mary and the lamb emphasizes advertising as a path to prosperity.
An assortment of everyday topics discusses water's bodily importance, home beautification for farms, the duty to protect neighbors and property, a Supreme Court ruling on barking dogs, and civic pride. The piece links health, aesthetics, and community responsibility with rural values.
A reflective piece emphasizes home education as the best training ground, praising mothers and daughters, farmer virtues, and the value of modesty. It laments rising school costs, notes chemistry budgets and paper shortages, and urges civic boosters to improve town life while avoiding waste that invites disease.
In a defense of advertising the piece argues that ads raise store traffic, keep clerks busy, and allow merchants to buy in larger quantities. Costs like heat, light, and labor stay the same, but higher sales enable lower prices and greater profits.
Rose flees California with her childless past and a plan to start anew in Chicago. She writes to Portia, hides from Rodney’s world, finds a cheap room, and vows to quickly secure a job as she embraces a disciplined life and a fresh page.
The quote extols love as a force that transforms housework into pleasure and makes home life feel blissful. It warns that too little love spoils the atmosphere, while sufficient love enriches domestic life and harmony.
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