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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
4
A playful exchange from the City Star features Us Miss Wose and Mis Wose arguing about pockets and visibility. Bertie is noted as having a charmed life as Ralph jokes that petitions disappear before he can pursue them.
An advertisement extols 8. S. S. as a safe vegetable blood purifier for eczema. It claims rapid skin healing by circulating purified blood, saturating tissues, and renewing skin with no mineral drugs. It urges visiting drug stores and writing The Swift Specific Co. for trial packs and cautions against substitutes.
An analysis notes 1880 rural population 71 percent and 1910 urban 46 percent, warning urban concentration harms health and strength. It urges realized benefits of medium towns and rebalanced growth to support rural areas and national prosperity.
A speaker asks why a daughter left hospital duties and reveals she refused to nurse poor patients for two years before caring for millionaires. Her plan is to pursue a musical comedy stage career.
A Pittsburg Post note quotes an actress dismissing a daring dress idea as unsuitable for the stage while street fashion may accept it. The column adds a tip for cleaning kitchen walls stained by matches using lemon, whiting and soap. Beulah comments on Belle and a joke about a cloak model in Yonkers Yeoman.
Dialogue framing a jealous husband and wife in an office setting reveals a comic mix of flirtation and suspicion. The conversation shifts as the wife confronts jealousy over a stenographer and a man is brought in, then turns to a new play title and a joking deadpan about branding. The piece ends with mock product lines for a cure and tonic.
A clipped dialogue ponders civilization with sharp wit and irony. A gloomily focused man challenges the notion of progress, noting civil and frivolous elements, suggesting mixed state of society.
Cincinnati housemaids organize a Maid's union and vow to refuse handling articles made or delivered by non union men, aiming to improve wages and working conditions.
The article stresses proper training for draft colts focusing on backing with a load and standing quietly when stopped. It warns against starting before told, highlights the Walking gait as essential, and advises gentle voice cues with light rein pressure over brute force. Proper training increases safety and efficiency for farmers and dealers.
The American Cultivator reports Danish experiments on milking methods showing similar milk yields from hand and machine milking in most cows, with hand milking slightly better for aged cows and machine milking better for halfera. One man with two machines can replace three hand milkers, milking 50 to 60 cows in two and a half hours. Machine milk may have fewer germs if teats and equipment are kept clean, as dirt on teats can be drawn into the milk by air.
Investigations show work horses in American farms are used only about three and a half hours daily, wasting power and raising costs. Doubling working hours could cut hourly costs from ten to five cents and reduce crop production costs. Also notes on dairy barn sanitation using whitewash and chloride of lime, and advice on dry, well ventilated hog shelters. critique of farmers resisting changes.
Practical farm tips cover tool readiness and repairs, hiring and equipment care. Advices include crowbars and ten foot spikes for moving loads, copper rivets for harness repairs, duplicating fragile harvester parts, a small forge and anvil, and stocking a basic shop with bolts nails rivets and iron stock. Also advised are using a roller on uneven lawns with ungelded horses, removing runts, avoiding thick collar pads, treating poison ivy with hot water and Grindelia, and cow horn turnips supplying hog feed.
An advertisement touts a hair tonic made from Bay Rum Lavona de Composee and Menthol Crystals with optional perfume to combat dandruff and hair loss. It promises a pigment-restoring ingredient and hair growth stimulant, asserting safety with no dyes. A separate anecdote recounts a doctor visit gone awry after a mother’s miscommunication with a rude physician.
A Paria millionaire banker hosts a social event where a lady laments a missing pearl necklace. A witty plan to reveal the thief with a lamps-out salver trick fails as the salver vanishes, causing renewed uproar. tangled quotes reveal financial tensions and oddities amid the interrupted party.
A Jersey cow on a Nebraska farm produced 5 000 pounds of milk and 360 pounds of butter in a year. Bred from a common grade grandmother by thoroughbred bulls she shows good form though the head is a bit large. She yielded 6 900 pounds of milk and 260 pounds of butter last year with a net profit of 40.25 dollars. The owner, a woman with nine cows, keeps the best bull in the county to ensure high efficiency.
The column advises placing coops on high ground to keep turkeys dry during rain and storms. It notes hens’ care of chicks, warns on damp nests, and stresses sturdy roofs. It also covers weed destruction through crop rotation and frequent soil tillage. Another item compares meat rations to grain rations in fowl production and mentions a treatment for sour crop in young birds.
United States geological survey figures show pottery output in 1912 totaling $36,504,164 with Ohio the leading state. A practical tip warns against chipped china from kitchen taps and suggests slipping rubber hose pieces over faucets to prevent damage.
The city of Salonika marks a 2000 year continuous history though it has not always borne that name. Founded by Alexander the Great in 315 B C, it is said Philip of Macedon named his daughter Theasalonica after winning a Thessalian victory the day she was born.
A Washington Star quote features a prominent theatrical star claiming an income tax will affect his salary while in court. He quips about being “ostentatiously sober” when asked if intoxicated. The exchange highlights the court hearing and the star's provocative attitude amid legal scrutiny.
A Mogadore Ohio woman describes years of severe female troubles and pain that nearly required surgery before Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health. She now has two healthy children and endorses the remedy. The ad imitates typical testimonial style urging letters to the company for confidential advice.
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