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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1914
Page
4
A pharmacist answers a customer asking how long to wait for a prescription, saying about thirty minutes and suggesting a visit to a moving picture show. The piece notes licorice root supply from marshy plains of Turkey and Russia.
Curious mix of advertising and household tips includes a 25-cent Danderine hair treatment promise, plus columns on dessert planning, nutrition, and kitchen hacks. Notable references include Mark Twain anecdotes, Japanese napery ideas, and practical recipes like Jellied Salmon Salad and Tomato Ketchup.
A historical agricultural piece outlines two main alfalfa inoculation methods. It notes soil transfer from an established alfalfa or sweet clover field as effective, and seed treatment with culture costing about $2 per acre. It stresses inoculation’s reliability and advises on application techniques and related farming practices.
Doctors nationwide report grip waves causing run down feeling and kidney related symptoms including back and urinary troubles. An herbal remedy named Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root is marketed as healing kidneys and urinary issues with trials offered by mail and available at druggists locally.
A collage of garbled lines from various papers notes quirky exchanges about excuses for lateness, a playful exchange involving a student and a teacher, and scattered quips on fashion and proverbs. It mentions Harper's Bazaar, Indy, and Kansas City Journal with cryptic phrases and business stock comments.
A French traveler pays his London hotel bill and, upon learning the amount, jokes that he will never return. He tells the clerk to “see the proprietor” and then embraces him, claiming the bill proves he shall not return. The note ends with a phonetic aside about meaning and return.
Cure sick headache constipation biliousness sour stomach and bad breath with Cascar ets. They cleanse and regulate the stomach remove sour food and foul gases take bile from the liver and carry off waste. A 10 cent box keeps liver and bowels clean while you sleep.
The article argues for docking lambs to improve saleability and uniformity, noting docked lambs fetch more and docked methods reduce maggot risk. It describes using hot iron pinchers, two handlers, a pinch board, and a portable forge, with cautions on heat and timing for lambs aged six weeks to two months.
A playful dialogue features a painter and a client admiring a lifelike portrait. The client and painter exchange remarks about the realism of the work, blending humor and praise in a concise, characterful exchange.
A fragment recounts Mrs Pankhurst denying that women are more deceitful than men and mocks male deceit in marriage. Another line notes a boy answering a biology prompt with Grandme, a toothless mammal query, cited in a Boston Globe clipping.
An old advertisement promises five minute relief from sour stomach indigestion and dyspepsia with Pape's Diapepsin. It touts a large fifty cent bottle from any drug store and claims to end stomach trouble permanently. A stray humorous booth line about a Skye terrier appears nearby.
An advertisement claims 8 8 8 cleanses the blood by acting through the intestines, noting rapid effect within minutes. It promises benefits for the skin liver bowels kidneys and bladder and asserts the medicine dissolves accumulations of acid and impurities.
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