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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
2
A fragment discusses how music and voice lower a tone can improve listening experience. It references Tremen and Denestriones, noting that steady, lower speech or vocal delivery engages audiences better and clarifies the speaker’s origin in southern women.
The text outlines infant care focusing on a simple, adjustable bandage garment for newborns, use of a few essential clothing items, and strict daily routines. It emphasizes regularity in bathing, feeding, and sleeping, the role of consistent schedules for healthy development, and practical sewing tips for baby and bedroom decor. It also notes dyeing processes and garment care, including advice on choosing fabrics, colors, and construction to avoid stretching and ensure durability.
The article discusses ornate millinery items and trimming methods, detailing dior-like feather plumes, ostrich varieties, and curling techniques. It notes new season styles, use of black fur accents, adjustable cuffs, broad sashes, and velvet folds to enhance winter frocks, with emphasis on freshened plumes and refined gown finishing.
A fragmented fashion and home care column offers advice on hats, hair care, skin routines, and simple remedies. It covers rinsing habits, shine and pliability for hair, use of sprays, facial rubs, neuralgia relief, weather protection, glove testing, brass bed polish, girdles, gloves care, and fabric quality tests.
A 16 foot batten cot seals tracks between boards and a larger cot holds seven to nine hogs. The cot with floor door and window costs about 12 50. Also shown is a horse feeding sack made of ducking with harness leather bottom and strap and buckle for easy use. Town Monestead May HM Cottrell notes cowpen hay rivals alfalfa for feeding growing cattle pigs and dairy cows. A Maine station reported a hen laying 250 to 262 eggs in a year from 200 egg layers. Condiments for hogs include ashes salt and copper. cobs are burned to provide charcoal and mixed ashes fed to swine.
A Wisconsin Agricultural Station note describes a portable bog cot with six by eight feet base and adjustable two-door design for two stalls. It also outlines disinfection methods for livestock and facilities, notes on weeds like fox tail and ivyweed, and urges farm management to cut waste, invest in better seeds and machinery, and improve barn practices.
Prof W. and Masey warn sawdust from resinous pine decays slowly, souring soil. Bedding with sawdust yields less manure value than ordinary bedding. In abandoned mill sites across piney woods, vegetation takes long to reestablish where sawdust is scattered.
The Longfellow home in Portland Maine closes for the winter with nearly 10 000 visitors this year. The piece mentions literary notices and cultural commentary including figures like Major General C C Howard and references to Jack London and Mrs Wiggin among others.
A Nashville Tennesseean recounts how Dr Coxe of the Bodleian Library exposed a fraudster selling forged gospel manuscripts. The tale includes the author’s claim of handling ancient papers and a cautionary note on rattlesnakes and a whistle trick. The piece blends anecdote with commentary on authenticity and wit.
A fragmented dialogue shows a salesman touting a smooth ride and springs rated as easy, while a prospective buyer compares the vehicle to a rock and jokes about needless cleverness. The text reflects a dated, clipped exchange with satire on self-styled experts.
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