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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1910
Page
5
A jumble of comic dialogue about real estate and dancing floor springs, interspersed with old time product ads and a snippet from Chicago Tribune humor pages. It includes a quip about a lifelike stair system, a family argument, and a mock medical ad for laxative bromine quine ethos.
In a stockholders address the president of a public service corporation reports a strong year with rising assets and profits and notes the danger of J Pierpont Morgan potentially attacking the firm. He warns of possible engulfment as investors react with a tense silence.
Maori women from New Zealand appeared as features at the Hippodrome in New York City. They are educated and seek suffrage in their homeland and sent three delegates to Mrs Pankhurst's Carnegie Hall lecture. The delegates were Kiri Matao Waap Diana.
A dialog from a summer resort dispute features a boarder questioning mosquitoes and a proprietor asserting the booklet printed in February proved no mosquitoes then. The exchange is tied to a Chicago Tribune citation about mosquito absence and truthfulness of promotional material.
In a Bohemian tale, Joseph Jefferson is shown a rival dog act with a clever house dog that fetches the exact left slipper and the second Dickens volume on command. The audience, including Jefferson, laughs as the trick mocks a bragging animal trainer.
A Memphis News-Scimitar story questions why love leads men to imprison women in hardship and tyranny. It notes the paradox of affection and gratitude masking control, then shifts to Cape Town’s Table Mountain and a brief, playful vignette about Priscilla and John Alden as a quip on speaking for oneself.
An old newspaper ad proclaims Hood's Sarsaparilla as the world's greatest blood purifier and strength giver. It promotes ingestion in liquid form or as tablets named Sarsaparilla. The offer lists 100 doses for $1.
The Label Language describes how hotel labels on trunks signal tipping habits. A courier notes labels mark generosity at the top, middling from the middle, and low indicates poor tipper, a practice seen among porters in various European towns.
A Boston Record item describes a man waiting for a street car at a transfer station who is approached by a highly excited woman. She asks if he is the map here and then if he is the man here. He replies with a concealed smile that the man here is over there.
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