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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1907
Page
2
A column of satirical observations and social commentary spans politics, gender roles, wealth, and morality. It lampoons Tom Watson, Anthony Comstock, and Hugh Baroness Burdett Coutts while noting Oklahoma corncobs, New York insanity judgments, and a New Year’s kiss tale. It reflects on prosperity, manners, and the limits of wealth with a mix of humor and caution.
Simple home remedies claim to break up a cold attack with hot baths hot drinks and sweating at night. Rinsing with warm salt water and rubbing the nose with petrolatum are advised while cautioning against going out. Diet tips include light meals stewed fruit hot water figs and drinking nine to ten glasses of water daily for symptom relief.
A lyric fragment notes on the Promenade that a new style would turn the head of every girl that day and make them turn to admire the wearer. It references a mirror that reveals how a man appears to others, not just to himself.
A collection of anecdotes and jokes from various figures including Mr Whistler John G Saxe and Oliver Wendell Holmes and a tale about a Syracuse University tutor Chancellor Day Barbey D Aureville and a post office bear hunting note plus a temperance reminiscence from Sidney Dallas of Melbourne and a humorous account of ex Senator Cockrell delaying President Roosevelt at a dinner with a laundry miscue and a lemonade price riddle in a bustling old letters page.
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