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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
6
The piece argues coal's decisive role in global power and progress. It claims coal would halt rail, electric, transport, and industry if cut off, asserts US coal supply will keep leading, and notes Europe’s mines nearing limits as industrial supremacy shifts to the United States.
A St. Louis Republic piece surveys ancient playful art. It cites a New York Museum tile showing a cat in Egyptian fashion sipping wine while a tomcat fans it. papyri from the British Museum and Turin display geese driven by a cat and goats driven by wolves. other scenes show a pharaoh figure and animals in comic roles, including a rat pharaoh in a carriage.
An insurance examining physician extols annuities as the best elixir of life. He notes many annuitants live to eighty, ninety, or beyond, arguing fear of poverty hastens death. He says releasing old men from worry by annuity keeps them vigorous and rejuvenated.
In the East Indies bamboo hat production is a major native industry. Children often surpass mothers in weaving strips and forming designs due to their quicker, simpler fingers. Workers transport bamboo stalks by tying two stalks ends together then spreading them forward, adding a crosspiece and carrying them on their shoulders.
The passage discusses a peculiar fish power found in the diodon and tetrodon, tropical Gahos known as globo Ash. It explains these species can inflate abdomen skin by swallowing air, enabling them to turn over and float back downward, with notes on its contested validation by Cuvier and later correction.
The St James Gazette notes sharks and dogfish must roll onto their backs due to their underjaw position to seize prey. They swim while inverted using fins and tail muscles, not a globefish like apparatus.
In Labrador the mosquitoes swarmed from start to finish, making life miserable for travelers and locals. Buzzing filled the air, bites were constant despite nets and repellents, and even candlelight failed to protect tents. Natives used rancid seal oil as a remedy, while cold nights offered little relief as temperate conditions neared freezing.
Boston Post recounts a 400 year old fashion craze begun under Queen Elizabeth I. A Dutch woman tied to the court allegedly innovated starching and collar enhancements to flatter the queen. Blue starching sparked rules, prison penalties, and a frontier of professorships in London while fashion persisted despite royal admonitions.
A New York Post item recalls how fraternity pins, engraved with owner and chapter, often resurface. One retiree who bought a new pin received his original years later after a brother noticed it on a wrung bandanna worn by an elderly Black woman in a Virginia town and retrieved it.
A fragment from Tlarper s Weekly recalls a quirky exchange about a life ring with a watch inside. Pa asks why given, while a son notes the desire for a ring that fits and tethers to a person. The piece preserves a humorous domestic moment.
Notice describes a sheriff sale of real property in Pendleton Umatilla County to satisfy a judgment of 3009 plus 20 damages at 6 percent. Public auction on August 28, 1909, in Pendleton. Also includes notices of final account for estates of James Rainville and Joseph Rainville with court hearing set September 18, 1900.
Guardian Hugh Molotyre files final account for the guardian of John Molotyre insane. Hearing set September 7, 1909 at 10 am in Pendleton County Court House to hear objections and settle the account. First publication August 6, 1909. last publication September 3, 1909.
The Circuit Court suit titled Lewis versus A T Lewis requires the defendant to appear and answer within six weeks from the first publication. If the defendant fails to plead, the plaintiff will seek relief as permitted by law.
Lela CG Lewis sues A T Lewis in Oregon for dissolution of marriage. Summons issued under circuit court order dated July 16 1909. First publication July 28 1909, last publication September 3 1909. Homer J Watts attorney for plaintiff.
Notices announced in Athena Oregon cover estates of Madeline LaCourse and John McIntyre with hearings set for August 14, 1909 and executor Hugh McIntyre named. Also a notice to creditors with six month claim period and a local M E Church resolution endorsing Sabbath enforcement and a Broncho Exhibit event.
An old advertising note warns idleness brings trouble and laziness harms health. It claims Dr. King’s New Life Pills cure liver trouble and boost health, advertised at 250 at all druggists.
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