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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
5
The Philadelphia Press quotes Lies Low saying she dislikes discussions about ages. She avoids answering when queried, often remaining silent or lying low. The piece highlights her strategy of evasion in age-related questions.
In Medias Men Gar rein says for three days he has been working under the head of unfinished business. He then asks what is happening and notes he has just moved into a new house.
A prospective buyer asks for a recommendation while the dealer argues the phonograph speaks for itself. The text also mentions Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup as a teething remedy for babies, reflecting old time consumer language.
A brief, odd clipping notes a hospital scene with two interns mid banter about a patient and a comic appendix. The exchange highlights a darkly comic undertone in a clinical setting.
The excerpts reference a trial bottle and remedies tied to Dr. H. TL Kline, with oblique notes from a Philadelphia address and Baltimore chatter. Interspersed are dialectal quips about effort, fitness, and a humorous exchange about an elevator joke.
Broadway Magazine notes rapid advancement in New York where merit propels individuals from minor roles to top posts. It highlights Oren Root and H. H. Vreeland rising from brakeman to president of the Metropolitan Railway and cites Charles E. Hughes selected to lead a national investigation despite little prior office experience.
The Arkansas experiment station advocates flat cotton cultivation over hill tillage to save labor and seed. Old practice sowed in a drill with continuous planting, then thinned to a single stand by removing nineteen of twenty stalks. Flat method plants in checks eighteen to twenty four inches apart for bidirectional cultivation, reducing chopper work and seed use.
The passage presents a terse exchange where First Author laments life and wishes to vanish, and Second Author retorts with a sharp quip about marrying a famous woman, ending with the word Judge as a punchline.
The Baltimore American quotes a quarrel between Mrs Luckie and a neighbor about who must fetch coal. The husband’s willingness to walk on hot plowshares is mocked as he would not be obliged, revealing a bitter household tension.
Excerpt from Outing Magazine describes Winnipeg as a melting pot with fifteen languages. Immigrants arrive by rail, rail yards of the Canadian Pacific stretch over 120 miles. The piece recalls a frontier vanished as diverse settlers reshape the city.
A collage of light anecdotes and quips from Life, Cassell's Journal, Ally Sloper, and other periodicals. Jokes touch marriage, family, sleeping habits, religion, and social scenes with sharp one liners and comic exchanges. Notable quips involve birthday gags, revolver humor, and editorial wit about everyday life.
Mrs Aline DePasse of New York testifies Peruna and Manalin cured seven years of catarrh of head throat and digestive organs after twelve bottles. She recommends the remedies to friends and children. Another reader Mildred Grey of Appleton Wisconsin reports Peruna relieved chronic stomach catarrh after six bottles and gradual recovery.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip notes a courtroom moment where an insanity plea meets self defense as two litigants clash over business and a joke about a law loafing for a job. Separately a motorist in East Wolseley England was fined 115 shillings for passing a cart on the wrong side.
The Sherman Clay & Co piano house reports a strong first year since acquiring Allen & Gilbert-Ramaker assets on July 1, 1906. They avoided hype and advertised plain pricing, attracting orders from far and near as customers preferred honesty over flashy sales. With stores from Canada to Mexico and brands like Steinway Knabe Everett Packard Angelus A B Chase, they earned the title The House of Quality and expanded across the Northwest.
Readable vignettes mix art gallery humor in Washington with advice from Tan Maclaren in New York. A retired merchant recalls mustache cup gift labels from the 1800s and Rufus Choate jokes about professional fees. Dr. Evans cites cross examination and an old farmer’s quip about rain.
A massive fish measured about twelve feet across and seven to eight feet long. The taxidermist at the Pasa estimated its weight between 1500 and 2000 pounds, based on heft and rigging effort. Its rough sandpaper skin, fixed mouth, and movable grill-like interior suggested it functioned as a bottom scraper. The creature towed thirteen boats and twenty six men for several hours before being brought ashore.
The sturdy reindeer pull sleds weighing 600 pounds with a daily range of 30 to 90 miles. Weighing about 400 pounds, they travel from Kotzebue to Point Barrow Alaska 650 miles the most northerly post route. No food is carried for the deer as they forage on arrival.
A clipped exchange features Hawley and Jost debating a challenge to Huskie’s remark. The Catholic Standard quotes a playful, caustic line about language and character, noting that few men match their neighbors’ low opinions.
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