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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1911
Page
5
Jim Nixon rode his steam threshing traction engine to church last Sunday after exhausting drives with his horse and wagon. He grew tired of ditch encounters with automobiles and decided a rig would ride smoother and avoid jar while traveling the road.
London Punch notes a Gloucestershire report of a shower of frogs as welcome relief amid heavy rain. The quip contrasts frogs with rain and busy weather, framing the unusual event as a morale booster.
The passage describes a rest room with gray paper, green hangings, light oak furniture, and green upholstery to soothe nerves. It then highlights a popular North Chinese fruit, likened to a crabapple with pink flesh and subacid, cranberry-colored flesh, called hung kuo meaning red fruit.
A Bilville man writes from the city that after being hit by three automobiles he expects substantial damages to fund a family move and farm. The note mentions legal action and a hopeful future amid injury concerns, reflecting optimistic rhetoric and a mix of local slang.
The passage praises Goethe as the prolific author of 44 dramas and travel writings, noting that his works, beyond the famed Faust and Wilhelm Meister, span poetry, criticism, and vast literary output, described here as an enormous dumpling with few currants.
A fragment from a historical column notes Malherbe the founder of pure French diction, reacting to a confessor’s praise of paradise with a dig at ungrammatical style. It also mentions remedies for teething, open air in hospitals, and buckwheat cakes, ending with a quip about Abe Martin and shoes.
Washington Experiment Station notes describe the bark borer threatening young orchards in timber districts. Prof. Me lander recommends sulfur lime trunk sprays next June and summer to deter egg laying. Also discusses wireworms, grain weevils, and fumigation methods with carbon disulphide or potassium cyanide. warnings on safety and practicality.
An insurance interview notes kidney trouble is widespread and many cases go undetected. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is praised as an herbal remedy with a strong cure record. Sample bottles offered by mail with free trial, by Dr Kilmer Co.
A fragmented late 19th century clippings piece mentions Cherubini giving dry wit to a young singer, plus miscellaneous notes about dusty window screens, kerosene cleaning, and a physician’s laxative. It also includes proverbs on peace and a short dialogue about exchanging a grand home for a white cottage with a red automobile in front.
A musician, after much praise, asks what to play and jokes about playing anything to annoy their neighbors, provoking light laughter.
The speaker muses on what lies ahead noting continued high pressure. They predict a peculiar seven ring circus node cigar with three bands as part of the forecast.
A brief, fragmentary note compares corn mills to biblical times and mentions Moses forbidding corn mills to be pawned as akin to taking a man’s life in pledge, reflecting early legal attitudes toward property and collateral.
A fragment from a Ladies Home Journal text depicts a shipboard conversation where a doctor asks about keeping food on the stomach and a man replies with a faint, odd confession about his body. The dialogue hints at illness and tension aboard a voyage.
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