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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1893
Page
4
A Chicago Tribune story describes a mother, tearful and desperate, brought to a baby trial in a nursery when a matron refuses her claim without a check. After a staged scene with twenty toddlers, one child cries “Mamma!” and identifies the mother, validating her claim.
Oregon forecaster Pague has moved to San Francisco to head California weather work. The examiner notes his Portland origins and humorously predicts he may forecast rain often, likening him to a valley farmer tempted by cloud to promise showers despite a long dry record.
The Portland Telegram notes Rufus Haggard of Walla Walla and Milton receives a full pardon from Guy Penney after a February larceny sentence in the county. The document restores all citizen rights, returning him from a penitentiary fate to ordinary life.
A domesticated six week old pigeon, released from confinement near a rectory barn, flew for days and finally vanished near St Pauls church steeple likely crossing 500 miles to its island home. The story sits amid notes on county division politics, property sale rules, and a Missoula relief news item.
A scattered digest of odd items notes rail delays due to a steer on a bridge near Diaine Washington, a double safe lock for car safes by Battimons to foil thieves, a social ranking claim on who earns most, a life-like brown spherical mass in Middlesborough Kentucky turn hopping after air exposure, and a running encyclopedia misfit list of sweet terms.
The report highlights 93 year old Timothy Dre of Vinal Haven Maine who caught a 22 pound halibut from a small boat. It notes Mme Biouyr remarking on Honolulu native women as cultivated. It mentions Baxon Hrscn selling £1,000,000 Italian rentes and investing in American rails. Avetin Conix leads an underground New York railway plan costing about $10 million. Guy Mariu Ann of California spends vacations in southern mountains, camps in woods, and enjoys fishing.
A collage of wry jokes and light verse from Galveston News Boston Commercial Cleveland Plain Dealer and others. Includes lines on love the stock market train conductors and a star actor. The items reflect humor and market chatter from early 20th century newspapers.
Sir Henry Bessmuen, now eighty, writes a sketch of his life. The Harpers hold over fifty thousand dollars in accepted manuscripts. Cowrer kept many pets including rabbits, hares, birds, dogs, and a squirrel. Dr. Ovtven Weyertt Horas says he feels younger than he is. Insey rues not speaking English, hindering heart reaching audiences. Most dramatic writers aim for profit.
A collection of dated curiosities notes vaccination voting rules for noncitizens, extreme heat affecting matches in Australasian summers, high freight costs in Turkish Asia Minor, the Hite Eskimo Bulletin published once yearly from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, and crude generalizations about Thibet inhabitants including cleanliness and dress practices.
A fragmented excerpt cites crude figures about brain size body composition and appetite alongside social observations. It mentions bacteria benefiting plants and warns against overburdening animals. It notes a phrase about the road to fortune and a quip about using a Concord grape or similar.
A letter praises 8. B. Cough Cure from Mr and Mrs J P Ford claiming their eight year old daughter recovered from severe wasting. They report lasting hoarseness relief and urge others to use the remedy with a positive guarantee and price of 80 cents per bottle.
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