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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1914
Page
4
California advances a major water power development that will eventually transmit 160000 horsepower about 240 miles to Los Angeles and surrounding areas. The under construction system promises sizable electric output and regional energy growth.
A jumble of vintage ad copy and brief notes on remedies and schooling. includes an infant laxative pitch for California Syrup of Figs and Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, a quip about temperate zones, a public-spirited note about Puerto Rico schoolhouse construction by ninth graders, and stray lines about college heads and animals.
The Ottawa streetcars will have doors of double thickness with tarred paper between to improve warmth and reduce motor noise versus the old single floor design. A Pittsburg Dispatch joke about mailing a letter includes a humorous exchange between Mrs Peck and John Henry.
A fragmented advertisement touts a “most effective” medicine for poisons, rheumatism, catarrhal infection, malaria, and other ailments. It emphasizes a pure botanical formula with no drugs, claiming quick, reliable blood health benefits and urging readers to request the product by mail.
An early study notes hay marketing in the United States has grown since 1870 and now involves millions of tons. It cites varying bale sizes and grades by region, highlights losses from low grade hay, urges producers and shippers to learn standard grades, and stresses meeting market demands to secure fair prices.
Green manuring can improve poor soils and soil structure in sandy, clayey, and adobe lands and is beneficial in orchards where it does not affect fruit crops. It is less suitable on good soils unless long intervals exist for humus or nitrogen increases. Red clover, alfalfa, and sweet clover offer in-soil green manure benefits, but sweet clover hay is hard for cattle to eat.
An advertisement from Knowlton's Danderine at Finke Bros 183 Madison St Portland Oregon touts a 25 cent bottle to stop dandruff and itching, claim better hair health, lustre and growth. It references a British Arabian worker wage and attendance at Independence Hall Philadelphia with bold promotional language.
An aged newspaper column promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier with anecdotal claims of relief from cramps headache backache and digestive distress. It cites Mrs Chas McKinnon of Cedar Rapids Iowa and references broader claims about the remedy's widespread benefit across the United States. The page also includes miscellaneous product notes and agricultural tips.
A New York inventor has designed a blackboard marker that draws multiple parallel lines at once. Chalks are placed in holders on lazy-tongs mounted in a slot of a bar within a U-striped frame with a rear handle. The distance between lines is adjusted by extending or contracting the lazy-tongs.
A device adds screw-based joints to hold a marker in any chosen position enhancing stability and ease of use. This adjustable feature simplifies aiming and maintaining angles for precise writing or annotation tasks.
A schoolmaster doubted a small boy’s excuse for missing a day. The boy said his brother’s tooth was pulled and he had to holler for him to sell produce due to their father’s asthma. The boy’s truth was accepted and he earned top marks.
The Brooklyn Eagle reports an eastern educator who criticizes modern writers for overusing punctuation and misplacing marks. A rival agrees punctuation is essential, while the writer contends that text can be produced without any punctuation marks, prompting a tongue in cheek quiz on punctuation usage.
A compact 28 inch two piece steel bow with a nickelplated handpiece allows indoor or outdoor archery with care to avoid windows and pictures. The 15 inch hardwood arrow weighs 8 ounces with a soft rubber tip. The item is described in a period kid friendly style with a short domestic scene about a penny and sixpence.
Marjorie bursts in with a worm on a pear tree claiming it will perform a trick. The mother smiles and calls it a small worm while the child promises to show it tuck on itself, a moment recounted in a Youngstown Telegram item.
A Kansan City clergyman reforms zealously targets private dances, calling them worse than public dances after witnessing questionable venues. A separate note invites readers to request a free illustrated eye remedy book by Mail.
A lively anecdote recounts a polite guide explaining an engine boiler to a curious young lady aboard a Baldwin locomotive works tour. The tale blends humor with a mild quip about engines boiling to tender them, reflecting period newspaper tone and light social observation.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a quick cure for indigestion and dyspepsia, promising relief in five minutes and urging readers to buy a fifty cent box at any drug store. It also mentions licorice root in beer and notes Turkish harvests and American control by Indianapolis Jewish merchants.
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