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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1913
Page
4
A London Standard note links costermonger to costard apples and Edward I household accounts, tracing the term from costardmonger to coster. A vignette from Harper’s Weekly features a quip about a wife rifling a husband’s pockets over small changes, contrasting minor affection with a bank-account sweep.
A fox terrier named LN Hanley won a license tag for killing 100 rats after a council member offered the prize when 80 rats were slain in two weeks. The Carline Advocate notes the endurance contest, while the Atchinon Globe recounts Mary Broken Up and a domestic scene ending with a sharp judgment.
Florida experiments use pine sawdust and soil layers to create durable roadbeds in Leon County. Sawdust mixed with earth forms a low cost, stable base that supports heavy traffic, with statewide potential as a by-product reuse. The article notes lime and clay resources that aid road paving. It also mentions the Delaware grape origins and popularity in the region.
The article notes improved corn thinning using well adapted tools and disk cultivators to destroy weeds and level rows with plentiful rainfall. It also covers G L Cooley of the federal good roads department at the Dallas fair urging science in road building and criticizing misapplied road funds.
The article notes keeping grit and lime near the poultry for fowls at all times. It explains country fowls gather grit from fields, but having it in the poultry house helps during bad weather when birds would otherwise lack it.
The article argues that although building good roads is expensive, no community would willingly revert to inferior highways. It emphasizes the long term benefits and public support for maintaining progress in road infrastructure.
The quince propagates well from cuttings and the orange quince is noted as one of the best for early ripening and high quality. Cuttings should be kept in moist sand in a cool cellar or buried in the ground until use.
A vague critique notes that this year’s road enhancements in the United States would be more effective with a better overall system. It argues that much so called improvement stems from general reform rather than targeted, coherent planning.
Judge Lumley Smith said forged checks of eight pounds were common since altering the sum by a single digit could convert eight to eighty. The current case showed a check for £8 14s into £80 14s, illustrating an extensive forgery operation.
A nineteenth century instruction notes the two slab log drag with set back as the most satisfactory for road scraping. It warns against making drags too heavy and using squared timbers with dull edges, and it explains sizing, placement of holes, and the concept of wet back for even road contact.
An essay argues that large bond funded road building cannot be universal. true progress lies in extensive road improvement across dirt roads. It urges separating road-building from road-improvement, promoting rational funding for the vast mileage of dirt roads and sustained maintenance over costly new construction.
A veteran Quincy baker recalled his own wedding cake baked twenty-five years ago when a local man brought the same cake to be refreshed for his silver wedding anniversary. The baker had made the cake for the original ceremony.
A jumble of quips and misspellings shifts between a signoff joke about God and an orange, a bon mot about Mrs Gobtaway, a joking claim of descent from kings, and a note on a double blade safety razor plus a line about Bymbollem being acceptable if the words are not worth saying in plain English.
A vintage ad urges readers to stop coughing and use Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for coughs and colds. It claims decades of use and markets it as a regular doctor’s medicine.
Instructions describe boring a 27 inch hole for each stake and placing two slabs ten inches apart. Straight grained timber is used for stakes tapered to ends with no shoulder. Stakes are wedged in place and a diagonal brace rests on the front slab, its lower edge near the ground.
New Jersey led the good roads push but New York has built 80 000 miles of improved highways and will spend 21 million dollars on roads this year, surpassing all eastern states.
Montana road experts report that spraying crude sugar beet syrup on dusty dirt roads creates an impervious surface. Two coats annually could keep roads in good condition at a very low cost.
The piece urges reflection on road conditions during harvest and market travel. It emphasizes that spring is ideal for driving improvements, noting that thorough dragging and rolling after rain can boost road conditions by about fifty percent until the next heavy rains.
Thirty three Michigan counties adopt a county road system with about 1 000 000 available for improvements. The aim is to improve trunk road grade at the county level across the state.
A notice explains that adding one tenth of a grain of hypochloride of lime per gallon can sterilize cistern water though it does not guarantee safety for laundry or bathing. The text also includes a dialogue about the value of diamonds, noting carbon's link to coal and its appearance.
A thoughtful reflection on choosing words with care to avoid wounding others. The author urges listening with empathy before speaking to prevent hurtful or unadvised remarks and to preserve harmony in conversations.
Emblems used in ballots illustrate party aims and the earnest political purpose, though cartoonists add a cheerful, satirical mood. The cartoonlet thanks readers for attention to emblem representation, noting the blend of tradition and humor in elections.
In a hotel parlor, an accomplished pianist played several selections when a group urged Mozart's Twelfth Mass. A determined visitor especially pressed for the piece, noting her husband served in that very regiment.
The article outlines various hiccough forms including nervous and emotional hiccough tied to moral shock and fright. It notes rare forms and describes hysterical hiccough as a notably coarse, rough sounding variant.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes that hundreds of Mayflower descendants exist across the United States, tracing lines to Miles Standish, Governor Bradford, and other founders. The piece quotes a remark about a son’s misstep and a critique of acting too late to avoid losses.
A fragmented reflection mixes farm life with religious themes. It contrasts farm steadiness and seasonal hardship with moral instruction about discernment between a sinner and sin. The text mentions insurance of table, landlord fears, and solitary mountain setting.
A cursory collage presents a Persian saying about eight social sins deserving rebuke, then notes on death’s law and pacific acceptance of mortality framed as a “congeling mer” hope. It includes brief lines on changing hues and a joke about lovers during a fortune teller scene.
Ashland Kentucky wife claims long lasting relief from female and kidney trouble after taking a famed tablet compound. A Camden New Jersey woman credits the remedy for relief from displacement and fatigue, with doctors saying operation unnecessary. Ezra Johnston of Vine Street endorses the product and suggests others seek advice from Lydia E. Pinkham.
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