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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1909
Page
6
Dr A F Thomson relays a romantic origin of forgetmenot for the Myosotis. Two lovers meet beside a lake as a knight risks his life to pick flowers, throws them to shore, cries forget me not and drowns, leaving the tale as the cited cause for the name.
A jumble of colonial era reflections on the rhinoceros as a feared hunter, a vignette from Hampton's Magazine, followed by a London Standard anecdote about autograph albums and a Morocco travel portrait describing pale light and colorless scenes. Notable notes include a 1903 Russian revolutionary tale of Regnier and a comic gag about a clock with a face.
A Philadelphia Ledger witty remark notes the baldheaded man confessed he misses his hair only when a food question angers him enough to pull it. The Town Topics quip adds that the faln falls on the last and unjust, yet the latter often borrow the former’s umbrellas.
Four inmates escaped the Oregon state prison briefly with a butcher knife before wardens and guards halted the attempt. John Branton died after slitting his throat during the siege. Other escapees were J P Colgar QO H Spaulding and L P Lothridge. The article also covers a Pendleton publicity drive for Umatilla County and various local notices.
More than nine in ten rheumatism cases are muscular, caused by cold or damp or chronic rheumatism. In such cases no internal treatment is required. Free application of
An advertisement touts Chamberlains Liniment as all that is needed to relieve pain and soreness quickly. It invites trial and notes a price of 25 cents for a regular size and 50 cents for a large size.
Notice of a court ordered sale in Umatilla County Oregon. Referee B B Richards announces auction on April 10 1909 at Pendleton Court House to sell lots 1-6 in Stafford's addition Athena and a three acre tract, to satisfy a circuit court decree in the Russell vs Welch et al case.
To the County Court of Oregon for Umatilla County the matter of the estate of Adele St Dennis deceased. The administrator appointed by the court has qualified. Creditors must present claims with proper vouchers at Peterson and Wilson law office in Athena Oregon within six months from February 6 1900. FB 8 Legion Administrator.
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