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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1914
Page
4
A garbled clump of early 20th century items mentions fashion, theater, and industry. It notes women in sheer attire, Domente nervante stage plays in many homes, cab services entering Germany, US corn harvest figures for 1915, and a beauty shop run by Prince of Sphin in Paris.
The text compiles diverse items from a philippine assembly to forestry, weather, local anecdotes, and odd stories about lightning, signals, telephones, and a preacher like claim about labor laws. It mentions Panty Arenas, Vike national forest, and a Danish city visitor, with scattered observations on money, births, and salaries.
Fragmentary speech notes discuss a dubious claim about a canal moving 5000 miles between New York and San Francisco, with remarks on travel distance to the Philippine islands and a defensive response about a fire claim. The text mixes quoted dialogue and stray phrases with no clear event or attribution.
A Navy department bureau reports a new smokeless powder discovery from experiments by Rear Admiral Stravin and associates. A process using colored glass is said to render smoke harmless, aiding Army and Navy regulators. The report also features unrelated crude market comments and a defiant exchange on criminal interventions.
A garbled OCR page blends scattered topics from a farmer’s roar about taxes and plowing to ship histories and fertilization debates. Names, places, and numbers are incomplete, with disjointed phrases about world liners, fertility value, and agricultural methods.
The article urges careful methods for mushroom cultivation using horse manure and straw litter, noting prices from 20 to 80 cents per pound. It describes bed preparation, compost ratios, moisture control, temperature targets around 57 to 67 degrees, and planting depths to yield mushrooms in six to eight weeks, with risks of overwatering or drying.
The United States Department of Agriculture reviews potato powdery scab, a disease causing wart like pustules on tubers. Quarantine proposals may ban potatoes from foreign countries to prevent spread, potentially affecting Canada and most European nations.
Darrow Indiana farmer Creele Chandler describes a simple plow shoe device from Missouri Valley Farmer. The craft uses scrap pieces a quarter inch thick and inches long, a wooden board, and two holes to balance the plow.
A railroad official says preparations to be made for the new dye system. Details remain unclear due to fragmented text but indicate plans to implement easier handling and safer application methods. Further information is awaited in later reports.
Guidance on feeding and watering setting hens during cold periods. Recommends plenty of water and corn, modest fat to maintain weight, specific handling tips, and keeping hens warm with cover and bedding. Advises moving birds after dark, using a curtain to calm nervous hens, and collecting eggs after dark to reduce disturbance.
A fragment notes that Indian Runner ducks are a strong money maker for farms with wet eggs and high egg yield. It suggests a “Gay Cee” producer to improve profits and protect bred stock, claiming Indian Runners outsize typical ducks and offer better bone structure for market demands.
A fragmented home preservation note explains saving lemon rind strips and using 16 lemons with pure grain alcohol. The text describes soaking the strips, combining with alcohol in a jar, and letting the mixture stand briefly to yield a flavored liquid.
The excerpt describes choosing a chunky piece, removing the brine after soaking, making deep cuts, stuffing with nuts, wrapping in cloth, dipping in vinegar, and simmering in boiling water. It instructs about 20 minutes per pound and draining before serving.
A fragmented recipe describes combining one cupful of rice with five large cooking apples, washing rice, paring apples, and cooking until tender. The dish is finished with whipped cream or jelly, browning briefly in the oven, and serving with a drizzle of jelly.
The Lloyds Bank of London, after merging with the Wilts and Dopiet Hunklhe Company, becomes a leading financial corporation with more than 500 million in deposits and current accounts. Founded in 1765, restructured in 1880, it has absorbed 44 banks since 1465 and operates 580 offices across 46 English and Welsh counties, with a Paris venture started in 1911.
A scrambled OCR fragment lists varied items from 1914 era: Marine eye remedies, legal prohibitions on tinted lenses, duels, ice cream rituals, South African runners, Canadian land, Swiss wages, tax debates, abolitionist murder penalty talk, early moving pictures, Los Angeles telephone subscribers, Bermudians exporting onions to the United States, and other disjointed notes.
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