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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1907
Page
3
Chas W Bowman 1st Lieut and Adjt 4th MS M Gay Vols writes from Lanham Md endorsing Peruna as a cure for colds. He claims a severe cold cured in forty eight hours and used preventively, with family use and recommendation to friends. Calls for free 1907 Almanac via druggists.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt shows a capitalist musing on contributions to rival committees. He contemplates giving $5,000 to each to neutralize impact, or $10,000 to secure a preferred automobile, illustrating the idea of buying influence through money in politics.
Captain J W Logan, once Indianola postmaster now in Austin, describes long suffering from pain across hips shoulders headache neuralgia and eye weakness. He attributes recovery to Doan's Kidney Pills after trying climates and medicines, noting restored health and perfect eyesight. Sold by Foster Milburn Buffalo 60 cents a box.
In a memoir fragment, a woman recalls a fat red leather diary gifted by her father at age 15. She records favorites like Westward Ho by Kingsley, marks rereads, and uses symbols to judge fiction and nonfiction, noting a cross for trash and honesty with her critiques.
In a playful survey of monarchs and consorts, the text notes women often surpass their husbands in height. Queen Alexandra and empresses tower over various kings, including Kaiser Wilhelm III and the king of Spain’s queen. A witty exchange over St Patrick’s shamrock closes the piece with a sly line about tomorrow’s payment.
A mosaic of notes mentions a remote mission on Terschel Island in Canada with scant mail, a vast London housing count, a naval boast about the Vernon’s trials, a Jenkintown centenarian family reunion totaling 450 years, and quirky anecdotes on opals and fish bowls from the Kansas City Journal.
The Vermont completed standardization trials off Hock Lane and in heavy seas, reaching 18.3 knots while expected to make 18. The ship returned to Boston harbor coated in ice with forward sections heavy from frozen spray, hailed by a trial board as the queen of the American navy.
An 19th century tale recounts Charles Francis Adams guiding an English gentleman to Boston’s Bunker Hill. The pair discuss Warren’s death as the English guest probes the monument’s height while Adams explains the fatal outcome with quiet humor.
A store proprietor tells clerk Tom to handle a live animal purchase while upstairs. A gentleman asks to see a live monkey and the clerk calls it down from the stairs. The scene ends with caution and a light note on romantic anxieties in a judge's library excerpt.
A muddled dialogue features a summer girl named Ealth and her mother scolding about engagements with two young men. The scene pivots on parental disgrace and the girl’s insistence she needs more time to secure a favorable social outcome.
A garbled newspaper snippet presents various ad like lines and quotes about gasoline alcohol experiments a reward notice and medical cures. It includes phrases about Catarth a Toledo company and Halta Careteh Cure with drugstore mentions and a rail bandit quip about not sharing swag with politicians.
The Catholic Standard and Times reports on claims that Allcock’s Planters plasters are safe and speed relief for muscles nerves and skin. It notes assertions of genuine ingredients only and scientific manufacturing, amid a dismissive exchange about authenticity.
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