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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
3
A St. Paul Globe poem urges immediate charity and comfort. It warns against delaying praise of a good man or aid to the poor until he is buried or until suffering burdens are heard. The piece exhorts readers to offer help and prayers now, while compassion is possible, rather than after loss.
George, courting Josephine, faces her father Horatio Gregg who tests his suitor’s lineage with Civil War and naval ancestry. A British certificate hints the grandfather fought for Britain, causing a dramatic confrontation before George declares his intent to win Josephine.
A fragmented line from the Houston Post describes a stuck mechanism during an early test. The dialogue hints at an urgent stop and concern over potential damage, reflecting tense conditions in a transportation or machinery report.
Houston Post quotes a playful exchange about a food item. the fragment suggests a question about liking a dish and a reply indicating preference if referring to edible form. The snippet is part of a larger dialogue.
An old agricultural column details handling aggressive birds, pigeon coop design, and varied feeds. It covers clipping wings, mating pen construction, movable divisions, and practical roosting coops. Emphasis on whole wheat, vegetables, and seasonal feeding. notes on keeping stock clean and robust.
The Scientific American notes French scientist A da Lapparent’s preserving meat with sulphur fumes, usable for home or army supply, leaving no sulfur taste. Experiments show minimal sulfur compounds in meat and rapid fumigation after slaughter. Also covered is England’s bisulphite immersion method and a California study finding brown and white eggs have similar food value with negligible color-based differences.
Thorough cultivation is hailed as the best muleh practice for spring to winter, promoting deep root growth and food search. In severe cold climates a straw cover is used but should be removed early spring. fall stirring helps air flow, while late winter plowing risks fertility loss from leaching.
Birds are easier to destroy than insects but fly away when birds are reduced. Wrens provide pest control near homes and can be encouraged by offering nest boxes and feeding while preventing sparrows from entering the boxes. Protect wrens by limiting entrance to under an inch and creating safe feeding and shelter options.
A Poultry Farmer warns that ducks and geese suffer vertigo and sudden falls when fed excessive grain. He advises grazing on a short abundant pasture to reduce feed costs and disease losses, and notes nonproducers need no grain after warm weather ends their laying period.
A rural find along the East Auburn to Turner road features a dozen small white coop houses arranged around a farmhouse. The nearest building imitates a church with a perfect steeple, making passersby mistake it for a child’s play town rather than a chicken coop village.
A quirky description from a Misgour named B. P. Wagner outlines a device called a potato coverer. Instructions mention two boards joined into a long beam with a brace, a single tree attached by clavices, and a horse walking in a row as the tool covers potatoes.
Do not save your own seeds without cautious steps to avoid cross formation. Melons may be fertilized by pumpkins and seed used next season can fail or ruin quality. Old geese are better for breeding. keep a few older geese as breeders, with one gander for several geese.
Described is the ambitious reclamation service aiming to convert 50,000,000 acres of desert into fertile farms across the United States. The program would cost about 1.5 billion dollars and is projected to create 2.35 billion dollars in taxable property and homes for 8 million people within fifty years, based on four years of effort yielding 280,000 acres of productive desert.
The Utica Press notes extensive reforestation over the past year in upstate forests. Millions of trees have been planted on barren tracts, with 1,000,000 young trees on a highway north of Paul Smiths and 200 to 400 acre forested zones near Lake Cedar and Lake Placid road. Plantings include white pine, Douglas fir, European larch, and black locust, with only about 10 percent loss due to drought and winter conditions.
A London report notes stewardesses on liners between Liverpool and New York earn from 20 to 80 pounds monthly with tips ranging from 10s to 10s and occasionally five pound notes. Military and civil officers returning from India are the most generous, while some stewards report larger sums from wealthy passengers.
A compact digest of notable events and figures from 1450 to 1904, naming battles, expeditions, political shifts, and discoveries. Highlights include Yorkiste victory at Bloreheath, Columbus second voyage, Salem witch trials, Yorktown siege, Jefferson as Secretary of State, Neptune’s discovery, and Garfield’s death fast day.
Dispatches from Vienna report experiments by Prof. Belar of the Lalbach earthquake observatory using a seismographic apparatus to determine the location and direction of distant artillery by ground vibrations. Results were satisfactory and may continue during forthcoming auto artillery maneuvers in the Kara wanken bilis.
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