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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
2
The Athos Press weekly paper based at Third and Jefferson Streets announces subscription rates and ad pricing. It lists single and multiple issue options, display and running ads, and local reader pricing with month and rate details. The note is dated August 16, 1912 in Athena, Oregon.
The Pennsylvania Dutch are descendants of German migrants who arrived in 1682, with Dutch Berlines from Holland, settling in Germantown and forming a distinct dialect. The term Dutch derives from Deutsch, and the group includes Mennonites who fled religious persecution, primarily in regions like the Rhine Palatinate and Alsace, stabilizing in southeastern Pennsylvania.
In an English museum box of exchequer tally sticks shows how accounts were kept by notched edges dating to Norman times. An 1066 system was abolished after Westminster Palace fire and later unrest. The text also riffs on Zeno style puzzles about infinity and counting.
In a fragmentary college tale a student named George narrowly misses admission to a society as a prank endures. The backbiting rite supposedly signals selection, but the boy is struck by a bully who mistook him for the targeted culprit. Cleveland Plaza reacts to the moment.
A garbled OCR fragment from the Chicago Record shows a tense dialogue about love and hatred, with lines suggesting a reluctance to commit and a veiled implication of consequences. The text includes distorted names and phrases, inconsistent capitalization, and partial sentences.
London Standard compares past dandies to modern youths noting medieval bishops and earls boasting daily changes of raiment. It recalls Chaucer era color excess, mid eighteenth century bright coats, small sleeves with large buttons, and lengthy vanity routines by valets for beard starching and perfuming.
The article surveys land and sea tramps, praising Yankee skippers for developing ocean tramp shipping. It notes tramp steamers emerged during the Civil War, boosting Britain’s naval power, with Norway following Britain by buying aging British tramps.
The London Chronicle explores how rook and gull shifted from noun meanings to verbs meaning to cheat. Rook became a cheat, while gull, originally a young bird, did not follow the same semantic path. The piece notes Elizabethan English sense of gull as a callow youth who aspired to wit.
In Andrews 1780 Anecdotes Ancient and Modern a claim ties salamanders to fire, stating a salamander would form from prolonged heat in a glass house. The piece notes the belief persists though the creature supposedly hides under stones and endures heat, not sun.
A Row Street police court case describes an intoxicated man charged with disorderly conduct. A constable testified the accused acted violently and quarrelled with a cabman before being restrained. A doctor reported tobacco chewing produced effects akin to alcohol.
The article traces early zinc smelting from Upper Silesia about 1708 to 1800 by Johann Rubberg and Bergrath Dillinger in Carinthia 1790, noting Dony’s later 1805 discovery. It questions Belgian unawareness of English downward distillation methods and cites Ingalls on cross-border metallurgical knowledge despite Belgium and England separated by water.
Charles Stuart Moody offers guidance on forming dramatic cloud photos. He stresses foreground landmarks, avoid flat water scenes, and explains rapid exposure without requiring fast lenses. Moody notes using an ordinary rectilinear lens and limiting exposure to eight steps to prevent overexposure.
Describes how meals were served and eaten in the dark ages. Soup was served in a porringer with ears. spoons were scarce and shared. Central meats were eaten with fingers. knives were shared or borrowed, and napkins are not mentioned.
A humorous critique extols the London bobby as exemplary in urban conduct. The policeman is described as the politest and best informed city resident, contrasting with rude shopkeepers and Hyde Park elites. The piece cites Percival Pollard's Vagabond Journeys as the source.
Sir Harry Johnston, renowned explorer, once escaped a deadly African peril by a curious ploy. Surrounding natives were deterred when an envoy claimed smallpox was in camp and a frightened Albino appeared as a common enemy. Within minutes the assailants fled, fearing the so called white disease more than any weapon.
A playful exchange has Tommy pressuring Wigwag to whistle for money Pop owes. Wigwag refuses, claiming his whistling days are over. Tommy insists he must relearn whistling to collect the debt, prompting a humorous standoff between the two characters.
Oregon Agricultural College begins its fall term on September 20. The catalog lists courses across agriculture, engineering, sciences, humanities, and professional studies, including Veterinary Science, Civil and Mining Engineering, Pharmacy, Forestry, and Public Speaking. Address for the Registrar in Corvallis, Oregon.
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