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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1911
Page
5
A Westchester luncheon hosted by the heiress celebrated the "closed season for books." The round table featured a Dutch pine centerpiece with a pond, miniature turkeys, sugar plums, and fruit. Each guest received a small jewelry gift from the hostess attached to a turkey or plum.
India remains the leading cane sugar producer with about 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons in the crop. Despite this, the sugar market has been captured first by beet sugar and later by cane sugar from Mauritius and Java.
A historical note suggests brightening gilt frames and mirrors with a mix of three ounces of white of egg and an ounce of chloride of potash or soda, dabbed over the surface with a feather or watercolor brush. The text also includes scattered reflections on conversation, education, and a medicine ad, all in period prose.
A comical scene unfolds with Dr Overdose chastising a patient for not improving despite strict diet orders. The patient laments hopelessness while recounting odd eating habits, including apple cores, burnt match ends, boot buttons, and a three penny bit, following guidance meant for a child.
A guest asks for a room without a fire-escape. The landlord agrees but notes the guest’s prior stay where a fire escaped during the night and nearly froze. The brief anecdote highlights caution in lodging choices and safety features.
John Baird died at a New York mill when he fell into a vat of boiling starch. Workers dragged him from the vat with hooked ropes. The starch melted his clothing and caused a fatal injury.
An old trade note recalls PETIIT'S Eye Salve first sold in 1907 with sales continuing yearly at Buffalo New York firms All erator How an Bros Creaccu Garments. It also gives a home care tip for removing creases by steaming clothes in a bathroom.
A young member of a women’s literary club, known for her writing, chats with a gushingly admiring stranger at a club reception. The caller compliments both her work and her husband’s, assuming he is also literary. The bride replies that her husband is in the coal business.
A sick man tells the doctor his nerves are bad but the physician replies that the real issue is the patient has ignored his regular statements for a year and a half, implying the nerves are fine. The exchange highlights ironic humor about attention to medical advice.
A garbled mix of ads and notices notes Marine Eye Remedy products from Chicago with eye salve and free eye advice, plus a theatrical pickpocket incident in New York. It includes PILES CURED claims with PAZOINTS MENT, Dr Pierce's Pellets, a Sun ray machine being tested in South Africa, and a Bible proverb quote.
A witty exchange features a line about a cunning mustache and a quip about not knocking it while it’s down, reflecting playful wordplay in a comic or dialogue fragment.
A faded excerpt portrays a character named Silvane-Is Ruckert or Slivvens-Well as exceptionally kind. He walks with a close friend and encounters famished tigers, offering to sacrifice his friend to ease the tigers’ suffering, revealing a paradoxical moral dilemma.
A brief dialogue notes the irony of pity for a man who is admired now but will soon be denounced. The speaker suggests the difficulty the man will face adapting as public opinion shifts against him in the near future.
A fragment shows dialogue about Teddy and Bables, touching on purchases and adult views in a small town. The lines hint at a sale or exchange and the characters' attitudes toward Teddy within a childlike context.
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