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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1910
Page
2
Poem fragment reflecting tired children at candie Mehit as day ends. Parents bid good night and trust to a higher care. The verse notes prayer and introspection on daily gains and losses before sleep.
A woman rejects marriage to Jim until he proves courage beyond schooling and athletics. She insists a brave man must perform a meaningful act, preferring a future husband who has faced real danger over assumed nerve. He jokes about a perilous war but vows to become her husband if he can earn her trust.
Jim Halliday defies danger aboard a deck boat to save Mary and another man from drowning. He factors pride and a failed engagement, but his bold act earns admiration as a rope crew pulls all three to safety and the crowd praises his heroism.
A royal match story about King Manuel of Portugal, aged 18, set to wed Princess Alexandra of Fife. The piece notes Alexandra’s country upbringing, sharp mind, Manuel’s sluggishness, and questions the romance amid political maneuvering. It mentions Alexandra’s lineage from King Edward and her sister also named Alexandra.
A devotional tract argues that education should reveal the world's movement and God’s purpose. It contends wealth should fund good works, warns against hypocritical piety, and emphasizes joy, providence, and faithful home conduct as essential to true Christian living. The piece frames happiness as rooted in doing good with what God provides.
At the stair head a crowd pressed as Mary whispered to Jim that his nerve was all right and then drew his face down to kiss him in an intimate moment reported by the Pennsylvania Grit.
Welsh nurse Ethel Wharton becomes the first British recipient of the Carnegie Medal for saving a baby during a Jersey Beach Hotel fire at Aberavon. She entered smoke filled corridors, saved the infant with a blanket, leapt from a window, and survived after weeks in hospital though she will be crippled for life. Her deed is celebrated across Britain and Wales.
The article discusses bird migration mysteries, noting sight, hearing, and instinct plus a purported sixth sense of orientation. It cites the Harriman Alaska Expedition finding murres flying home through thick fog and Prof. John B. Watson's experiments with fifteen seabirds, thirteen returning to the Tortugas after eight hundred fifty miles, suggesting directional sense beyond human ability.
A fragment from the Houston Post shows two speakers debating how to view the Peary Cook controversy. They express uncertainty and difficulty forming an opinion, noting personal distractions like a spouse out of town.
A fond mother laments her baby crying when guests visit. Mr Growcher replies that children will imitate adults, noting visitors prompt recitation or music on the piano, and implies social gatherings influence child behavior.
Fragmented quotation scene features a cynic and a parson debating true friends and value. A side remark about a woman buying a newspaper and seeking familiar death mottos hints at themes of money, worth, and recognition. The readable content is limited and ambiguous.
A past Wisconsin experiment on milch cows tests ample vs deficient stable ventilation. A ball basement stable with 980 cubic feet per cow, three outside doors, 13 large windows and a stairway, used bay chutes and a roof shaft to ventilate. Cows drank more water during poor ventilation and lost weight, despite similar feed intake.
The report cites 1909 wheat export decline and rising home use, with 27,768,901 bushels exported in nine months versus 68,178,936 the previous year, plus a Virginia experiment showing skim milk improves laying hen yields. It also recounts Count de Choiseul’s wall fruiting method, pear yields on north and south sides, and practical fruit row cultivation.
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