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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
5
Rural telephones spread where neighbors pool funds and neighbors share social ties. The piece cites a farmer ordering 100 bushels of seed oats by phone from ten miles away, saving a day’s trip, and notes community fund-raising to establish service. Also covers hog cholera prevention, fertilizer dropper invention, water for chicks, and the King ventilation system for barns.
A collage of quips and short exchanges from various 19th and early 20th century newspapers. Jokes touch on poetry, cooking, speeches, boarding houses, color painting, and social manners. The snappy items reference Puck Chicago Daily News Louisville Courier Journal and other era periodicals.
A handy guide describes building a simple box trap with a top crosspiece and slats to swing the door when a hen enters. It warns on fertilizer basics, naming lime and sulfates as indirect aids and explains how to sharpen a lawn mower by filing the revolving blades and adjusting them to skim the stationary blade.
Instructions describe barn air flues with fresh air intakes on exterior walls and multiple outlet flues. The poem recounts a neighbor’s boy stealing vegetables nightly, then shifts to a weed-spraying method using iron sulfate in a 50 gallon barrel with a sprayer for a misty application to control weeds without harming grain.
A collage of comic exchanges and gags from a Chicago Tribune page. Jokes about ministers, consuls, speedometers, and travel pace mix with classroom quips and playful misunderstandings among waiters and pupils.
A fragment cites quotes about polygamy rumors surrounding a person named Bings and his supposed marriage to multiple relatives. The excerpt also references a sales line about Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup and a family dynamic involving Mortiner and Riderly Relatives, with terse dialogue on intentions and propriety.
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