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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1907
Page
3
A poem in dialect celebrating seasonal joy from spring to winter. The speaker envisions sunny days, harvests, fall leaves, hunted hounds, and Christmas bells, ending with a cheerful exhortation that the world sings when the heart makes holiday. References a carefree, rural life and natural imagery.
Alicia describes losing her purse while shopping with a strangerly young man in Spoon derby's and Raxtrell's on State Street. A clerks description matches a polite unknown Vola voice with a tall, dark suitor, while her companion frets about impositions and possible engagement.
Dr Ella K Dearborn explains pneumonia as an infectious disease often due to diplococci, with high fatality rates and common in vulnerable groups. Advice includes early physician contact, bed rest in a ventilated upstairs room, 65 degree temperature, light easily digested food, lambs wool coverings, avoiding cold compresses, and restricting visitors while expressing sympathy with cards or flowers.
Maj Edwin C Hardy argues the American farmer leads in industry and commerce. He cites the Secretary of Agriculture annual report showing farmers as the nation’s wealth generators and welfare providers. He notes farm product value this year exceeds two billion dollars more than before, implying bright future prospects.
By Dolla Austrian the piece argues women misapply belligerence as a male trait and urges tact and judgment for wives. It asserts that a domineering husband may persist despite virtue while a patient, strategic wife preserves energy for constructive outcomes.
A Boston Transcript verse piece reflects on laughter in nature and life, noting dawn, sky, breeze, flame, stars, sea, meadow brook, wine, and affection. It elevates the child at play as the happiest, ineffable laugh among all.
In a fogbound railroad camp, Danny endures a trembler and a ruined track. He fends for himself with a torch, narrowly survives, and is found by a Pennsylvanian foreman who reveals he is his father returning from the old home in Missouri to reunite at last.
A New England coast lifesaving crew, famed for bravery, misses training as rain keeps them from the usual drills. Summer boarders at a nearby hotel await an exhibition, and a hotel guest learns the reason from a veteran fifehaver who asks, What, in this rain?
A foreign minister aboard an ocean steamer envisions a welcoming American future as the ship nears the land of freedom. Moments later a red faced customs official blocks his reception, denying he is an anarchist or criminal, prompting a tense exchange.
A fragment shows a man asked to fix a key in a daughter’s plane despite claiming no knowledge of planes. The line “I’m a fowlemith” appears as a misspelled defense, while the demand is stated to enable locking the aircraft. The passage reflects clipped dialogue and era style.
City hospital doctors tested an air based healing plan on Johnnie Cottle, a burns patient. The boy’s chest was exposed to open air for two weeks while a nurse prepared his donor mother to provide skin grafts, but the treatment progressed without grafting and the wound began to heal with oxygen and nutritive salves.
The report compiles various court references: Everett vs. Norfolk & Western holds freight liability for full value despite limited valuation. Horton negates criminal intent for a hunting statute violation. American Book Co. confirms foreign contracts predating permission aren’t invalid. Harris Banking Co. vs. Reed discusses gifts via bank deposits. Standard Marine Insurance rejects liability for master's deliberate risky actions. A O U W bylaw on intoxicants does not override existing business. Megury Knickerbocker Trust re impairment of contract via statutory change. Louisville Courier-Journal length error noted by editor overexaggeration.
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