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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
5
A New York magazine editor recalls George Moore praising Esther Waters obscurity. Lunch at Claridge's reveals Moore’s encounter with a young American admirer who asks which Moore story Kansas readers favor most. She replies Talla Rookh, far and away.
A mis-spelled, mixed text fragment describes a supposed universal cough cure with home made tea and a laxative formula, warns against high priced medicines, and includes stray quotes about dentistry and epigrams from various sources. The passage mixes medical claims with unrelated literary lines and jokes.
A Forest Service report titled The Timber Supply of the United States warns that the United States is using timber three times faster than it can regrow. It cites forest areas, growth, and depletion across mature, partially cut, and severely burned lands and calls for coordinated action by individuals states and the federal government to achieve sustainable production.
A Hartford Courant correspondent describes Leipzigs University of Leipzig Institute for German and World History housed in the Golden Bear building on Dalversitastrasse. The three story structure once housed Gottsched and inspired Goethe, reflecting Gothic manuscript trade and Goethe’s praised dwelling, now renovated to fit its historic role.
A German library houses the largest It and United States history section outside the United States with strong Belgian English colonial East Asiatic and Chinese Japanese holdings. It spans art music sculpture religion education and customs with about 140 000 drawings by children and rare family letters.
The article surveys forthcoming German exhibitions with prizes for lighter yet solid metals and various hull types for battleships authorized by Congress. It describes new air measuring instruments, wood consumption versus growth, a simple fire escape design, and Nelson BC electric smelting of lead and zinc ores. It also notes debates on mammoths, rubber production, synthetic rubber, and a lampoonish mix of jokes and trivia reflecting contemporary life.
Edward A. Marx of Albany endorses Cascardta tablets for biliousness and indigestion. The testimonial claims quick cure and family reliability with palatable potent medicine that never sicks or weakens, promising guaranteed results.
A string of brief comic lines and quips from old papers. A doctor relocation joke cites a dentist replacing a former office. A child Molly questions her Aunt about marriage, while a general and colonel caricature lampoon military recklessness. The right hand’s heat sensitivity is noted.
A jumble of quotes and opinions on poetry books and authors. The piece riffs on Castoria advertisements and literary taste, noting how families shared magazines to save costs and mentioning writers like Schiller and Col. Mulberry as a foil to modern best sellers.
The advertisement touts Ayer's Hair Vigor as a stronger new preparation for falling hair. It claims no color change, warns against changing hair color, and asserts the product stops falling hair and cures dandruff. Distributed by J. C. Ayer Co. Lowell Mass.
A humorous dialogue features a young Benedict asking a bachelor why he never married. The bachelor explains he vowed not to marry until he found an ideal woman, admitting initial pickiness but claiming he eventually found her. He then reveals she sought an deaf man, prompting a wistful turn.
A Sunday action teacher laments a sermon on loving our neighbor while a boy named Tommy Tucker quietly resists, showing confusion and reluctance to participate. The fragment hints at misheard lines and incomplete dialogue reflecting community moral instruction.
A garbled London Opinion note depicts Limel Brows entertaining at a strange venue. He waits for a train and plays a perilous game with a Dampless old gent, facing odds of 40 to 100. The remark about odds suggests risk and confinement.
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