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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1918
Page
2
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In a Portland based Oregon Voter column editor C Chapman argues Umatilla County leads national patriotic subscriptions. He cites Armenian Relief drive figures and urges coordinated state wide drives under Oregon headquarters to spread burden and avoid skimmed cream from stronger counties. He features a historical cartoon and laments secrecy around wartime preparedness.
N A Miller requests all parties knowing themselves in debt to him for the year 1017 to come forward and settle the amount owed. The notice urges prompt payment and identifies the debt as due to Miller.
The article explains torpedo boats are unarmored swift craft armed with torpedoes. It notes torpedo boat destroyers, about twice their size, with torpedo tubes and small guns, are built to counter them. It mentions dreadnoughts and battle cruisers rely on rapid fire batteries for defense against attacks.
A fragmentary note traces how czar and kaiser derive from Caesar, detailing historic rulers from Julius Caesar through Charlemagne and the Byzantine emperors, and noting modern shifts in title such as the Bulgarian king adopting a variant. The piece links royal titles across centuries and regions.
An antiquated tale links Gordias in Phrygia to a prophecy about a wagon tied with a knot that would decide a king’s fate. A peasant father of Gordias’s son arrives in a royal assembly and a hero later cuts the knot to claim kingship. The passage also mentions concealment sticks and various beetle references amid a babel of mythic imagery.
The text blends fragmented observations on nature and a final account notice from the County Court of Uevatute County Oregon. It notes Maggie Latache-trane’s estate, with the court set to hear the final account on Saturday February 10 at 10 am in the county court room.
A jumbled collection blends quotations from Lincoln Disraeli and others with irritable mood guidance, torpedo handling notes, and a formal final account notice from Umatilla County Oregon dated 1914. The text moves through humor, submarine warfare mechanics, moral exhortations, and probate proceedings, ending with final accounting actions for William A. Wood.
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