Local notice of rates and publication details from Athena Oregon
Published every Friday at the Office corner Third and Jefferson Streets. Subscription rates listed for one year six months and three months. Advertising rates include display and local reader notices with per inch or per line charges. Lodge resolutions notices and admission details noted. Athena, Oregon, August 11, 1911.
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Third and
Jefferson Streets
Mont
Cathena
Ore
Be a Good Loser and Rise After Defeat
The Omaha Bee notes that a good loser embodies discipline and calm under stress. Success follows those who lose with dignity, learn, and refocus, a principle valuable in business, politics, and sports.
Freedom of the City in Medieval Guild Rights and Poetic Farewells
The piece traces how medieval cities granted freedom only after guild enrollment and seven years apprenticeship, noting burgess privileges and gates opened to citizens. It recalls Montrose and More as literary figures who faced death with calm wit, reflecting on honor and civic status in history.
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Bitalnens
Ste Hvery
Avery Anch
Suntet
Montrose
Amy
Scotland
King Verous Kirk Bustiens
Warristown
James Graham
Thomas More
Cecil Rhodes Grave Buried in Matoppos Rock Memorial
Fragment from a 1902 notice describes Cecil Rhodes as buried in Matoppo on the hill called the View of the World in Rhodesia. It quotes his will for a rock square with a brass plate bearing Here are the remains of Cecil John Rhodes and reflects on his life and the era.
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Cecil Rhodes
Africa
Matoppas
Rhodesia
Matappaa
John Rhodes
Spanish Treatment in Cuba Highlighted by Old Prison Case
The London Family Herald recounts a past Havana incident where an English sailor, with an American and an Irish companion, killed a Chinese man after a street clash. Spanish authorities convicted all three for two years, but the British protested, prompting a re-trial and twenty-year sentences. The Englishman endured years in Ceuta, witnessing companions die, then escaped and was recaptured. He finally left prison in better health, having married a Spanish woman.
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Cuba
Havana
Cuban
Ceuta
London
Herald
Laughs and the Point in an Orient Smoking Room
In a two month run along the equator islands a British observer recalls a Bemused scene where a single man laughs and one Englishman with a shirt becomes the joke center. The group shifts to sorrow as the true point lands on the owner of the shirt and the joke turns to shared bonds among Orient veterans.
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Aittle Koninklijke Laketvaat Mantsehappij
Equator
Malay Peninsula
Stralta
Frederick
Isham
Orient
Baltimore
Fissures In the Rockies And Ancient Oxonian Wit
Fissures in the Rockies described as deep crevices in high mesa plateaus where animals fall during winter heat, becoming mummified by cold air and dehydration. Also recalled is Goldwin Smith and Robert Lowe, famed for near sightedness and sharp Oxford wit noting Lowe’s writing missteps contrasted with his academic honors.
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Rockies
Rocky Mountains
Goldwin Smith
Robert Lowe
Lord Sherbrooke
Oxford
Tim
Lowe
Ira
Dodged Mie Duty and Dinner Table Drama
A chaotic handwritten snippet shows quips about a dog growling at a visitor, a man named Butta threatening to replace his dog, and one line about social gossip. It includes tangled dialogue with names like Cholly Old Butts and Mabel, and odd phrases scattered through a humorous column fragment.
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Cholly
Strict Rules at Kingswood and Odd Cure Tales
A London Chronicle excerpt recounts John Wesley’s strict discipline at Kingswood, banning holidays and play with workdays for children. It also shares a tale of St Bartholomew's ointment fame, a New York traveler bragging about Atlantic crossings, a Chicago reply, and a humorous exchange about old love letters as a moral boost.
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John Wesley
Kingswood School
London Chronicle
Administratrix Notice in Estate of Charles Wilson
Maggie Wilson of Athena Oregon was appointed administratrix of the estate of Charles Wilson deceased on June 1 1911 by the County Court of Umatilla Oregon. All persons with claims against the estate must present them with vouchers to the administratrix or her attorney Homer I Watts at his Athens Oregon office.
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State of
Oregon
Umatilla
Charles Wilson
Maggie Wilson
Athena
Homer I. Watts
Athena Oregon
Not Easily Caught In a Witty Exchange
A brief dialogue contrasts a wife admiring a new coat with a husband swallowing a quip about old clothes and fashion. The lines hint at pride and practicality while weaving a proverb about worry as a potent poison.
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Mlegende Blatter
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F.B. Born
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American Museum Journal
Shola
Alue
Toledo Hinde
Jack
Mabel
Botlo
Rabelata
Josiah Oldield
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Leicester
St Bartholomew's
New York
Chicago
Union
Hicks
Lie
William
Louisiina
Willie
New Orleans
Forrester
Edmond
John
Lucy
Baltimore Sun
George Eilot
James F. Ballard
ST. Louis, MO
Byron N. Hawks
F. Sharp
Dalla
Athena Oregor
Newsom
M. D
W. G. Hughes
Athena Ore
Peterson & Wilson
Attorneys-at-Law
Pendleton
C. W. Lassen
M. D. V. Ducial
Votiniig College
Phonge Mary
Troy Laundry
Henry Keene
North Beach
Tsk Potter
Portland
Ash Street Dock
Dreamer
Hassalo
Sturdy
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co
WM. McMurray
OW. R
N. Co
Eid
ST. Nichols Hotel
J. Be, Froome
Prop
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ST. Nichols
E A. J. Parker
Oregon Agricultural Potuion
Woodlark
Cumacar, Co
Our Mail Order Department
Olds
Chamberlain Radio Moda
Chamberlain Medicine Co
Anuisctcrifg Poareaceers
Des Moines
Iowa
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