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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1907
Page
5
A fragment from a 1907 periodical blends Shakespearean verse on life stages with satirical snippets. It includes a garbled section of Sonnet-like lines, a quip about an umpire, and brief notes on peruna remedies, along with curiosities about English usage and a tale of a lawyer seeking a continuance.
Mrs Mary Wagner of Bridgeport Connecticut recalls severe kidney illness with constant pain backache headaches and dizziness. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with improvement after the first box and a complete cure after five boxes. Sold by dealers 50 cents per box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Ayer's Hair Vigor markets itself as a regular scalp medicine that quickly destroys dandruff germs. It claims an unhealthy scalp becomes healthy and the dandruff disappears. The advertisement notes the product has sold for over sixty years and promises benefits like healthy hair and clear skin.
In a New York club John Kendrick Bangs discusses plagiarism rumors with a smile. A Yonkers boy anecdote follows about secrecy and mischief. A Parisian fashion mishap on Broadway ends with a delicate bow and a revealing glimpse of a Petticoat as reported by the New York Press.
In a wartime vignette Doctor Perry of the Twentieth Massachusetts awakens to pins gripping his coat pillow. Surgeon Hayward shouts at him to jump as a moccasin darts beneath the pillow, then coils under Perry’s neck waiting for movement. The tale shows patience as a strange virtue.
A garbled page fragment cites cures and remedies, health statements, aphorisms, a love question about marriage, and a literary prize offering 1.5 million rubles for a winner of Alexander I era poetry. It mentions Imperial Health Board, laxative branding, large Colorado pea beds, a leopard remark, and Araktcheles’ fortune.
A cluttered page cites an old medical claim about quick relief for piles with a 14 day guarantee and money back offer via a product called PAZO. It also contains assorted nonsensical captions, humor, and scattered references to ads for foot powder and barber history. The jumble mentions Brandreth's Pills and dust laying for roads, with unrelated literary snippets.
An argumentative exchange features a boarder urging immediate improvements to street car service, while a philosophical boarder counters that the present duty is to ameliorate it for now, leaving future questions about broader reforms.
The transcript shows a courtroom scene with a defendant named Goodman Gon rong and a judge addressing him. The judge remarks on the defendant’s descent from revolutionary thinkers and then sentences him to many days, prompting the call for the next case.
Ancient Egyptians used marble and stone coffins while Romans employed similar receptacles for their dead. Alexander the Great is said buried in solid gold. Athenian heroes rested in cedar coffins for aroma and incorruptibility, with England's earliest wooden coffins dating to King Arthur's era. Patent coffins appeared around 17 and metal airtight variants were advertised in Birmingham in 1861.
A garbled ad promises a one hundred dollar reward for a cough cure that cannot be cured and lists numerous place names and drug brands. The text includes promotional claims and rhetorical questions about belief in occult power, resembling a dubious vintage advertisement with scattered proper nouns and unclear actions.
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