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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1914
Page
4
A younger man complains his wife won’t sew a button as an older man, claiming, Never ask a Woman to mend anything. He boasts of flailing a rag bag to force repairs. The wife inspects a worn shirt and declares it beyond saving, while comments reveal domestic tensions and rival views on household work and science.
Notice to farmers and dealers about Alamo Gas En-Wi and Idaho engines, stock extras, repairs, and easy terms. Mail catalog free from The Western Machinery Co. Portland Oregon for traction engines threshing machines saw mill machinery and irrigation plants. Also mentions submarine cables valued at 250 million dollars.
An engineer on the Tyrone and Clearfield Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad recounts kidney and bladder trouble ending in a cure after using Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root. He praises the remedy and urges other engineers to try it, noting lasting relief after early 1900s treatment.
A promotional notice touts Cascarets as a nightly remedy for sick headache sour stomach and sluggish liver. It claims a 10 cent box cleanses constipated bowels and keeps you feeling good for a month, warning of indiges tion foul gas and yellow skin if not treated.
The passage urges maintaining normal digestion, an active liver, and regular bowels as the basis for health. It suggests trying methods to achieve this balance, emphasizing practical steps over mystery.
In this item readers learn about Mrs De Style and her celebrated hair. The article highlights her styling prowess and public interest in her dramatic, fashionable strands.
An assortment ad and brief quotes including hair care pitch for Knowlton's Dandeline promising lustrous hair and dandruff relief, followed by short fictional quips and a note on Radhimore discovery in Ferghana with artesian wells gaining favor in London due to municipal water costs.
An appeal invites women with female illnesses to correspond confidentially with the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co of Lynn Massachusetts. The firm promises private, woman-to-woman replies, never publishing testimonials or exposing letters, and notes its long history of confidential support and a free 80 page Text Book available by mail.
Instructions describe breaking an egg into a plate, beating with water, using a fork and spoon to dip croquettes, rolling in bread crumbs, and shaping. It notes draining, avoiding crumbs contamination, and using a wire egg whip for large croquettes. Bread crumbs are prepared by drying bread, crumbling, or grinding, with separation by fineness.
A collection of old kitchen hints covers ink stain removal with lemon and salt, plaster casting with alum water, sugar and egg meringues, rug flattening by dampening the underside, rubber elasticity with ammonia and water, keeping stiff collars crisp, judging duck age and fat, potato prep to avoid slips, making baked Apple Patties from dough and apple sauce, fat removal from broth via ice and a wire sieve, buttered bread with cheese, and custard from scalded milk.
A humorous snippet from the Philadelphia Record features a classroom exchange where a student named Robert insists none of his paper wads stuck to the blackboard. The quip underscores a playful exchange about luck and folly.
A Philadelphia Telegram excerpt cites Congressman Samuel M Taylor lamenting mean neighbors. Mrs Smith complains the new adjoining family causes uproar with nightly domestic scraps in a foreign language. The comic tale underscores parent rights amid childless reformers and costs cited at nearly 50 million dollars annually.
Dr A R Taylor recalls a Kansas City Star anecdote about a dignified man and a younger person mocked by posters on their backs. The tale warns that self perception shifts when seen by others.
Instructions for dweet potato puff and French rice pudding with butter sugar lemon rind milk and eggs. Dried apple pie recipe covers soaking dried apples with minimal water orange peel spice and beaten egg, baked in two crusts.
Free to Our Readers offers advice on eye trouble and Marine Eye Remedies, including a claim about eye strength and a baby’s eye treatment. The page also reprints jokes and quotes about war veterans and philanthropy, plus a note on mineral resources and US production values.
An English engineer suggests a warfare plan involving suspended bombs dropped from balloons. The bombs would be detonated from the ground as a hostile airship or aircraft nears, offering a passive defense in wartime.
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