Athena News Briefs From A Busy Week In Pendleton And More
A tight week of local business and social notes includes Jaz Bryan visiting from Helix, Burke in Pendleton for jury duty, and Chan May arriving from a mountain ranch. Community events span church services, Mother's Club meeting, a hard times dance at Athena Opera House, and the Dreamland theater program. Nearby towns report snow, banking stability, and a busy slate of auctions, talks, and sports as Weston faces Columbia College of Ilton with 6 feet of snow at the summit noted by travelers.
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B. B. Richards
Pendleton
Earl Urquhart
Beggar Prince at Athena Opera House Draws Western Audiences
An eastern musical comedy arrives westward with H Guy Woodward and H G Moseley leading an excellent cast and chorus. The Beggar Prince opens at Athena on Monday evening January 20, offering a good, clean laugh for those who attend. A mass meeting for Athena voters is set at City Hall January 1 at 7:30 p m to nominate a Mayor three councilmen treasurer and a recorder for the coming year.
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Northwest
Enat
Middle West
Rockies
H. Guy Woodward
H. G. Moseley
Athena Opera House
Athena
Tressurer
E, E. Koontz
Plasterer’s Noon Whistle Ruse in Kansas City Skyscraper
During construction a plasterer on a high floor wanted change from his pocket book and sent his tender to fetch it. The tender returned pale eyed and innocent claiming someone had robbed the plasterer’s money from the clothes left below. The bemused plasterer learns the clothes and money vanished with no theft by others. Kansas City Star reports the odd exchange.
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Kansas City
Plasterer
Kansas City Star
A Quaint Oriental Story About Moses and the Upper Story
An English traveler relays a Century Magazine tale in which a holy man asks Prophet Moses why the world remains unhappy. Moses complains the upper story of his house has fallen and no one will mend it, as people choose pleasure over duty. The Lord grants happiness temporarily but the problem of neglected duty persists.
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Moses
Music Of The Negritos In Philippine Tribes
National Geographic Magazine notes the Negritos’ music and dance as remarkable with bamboo flute and a jewelry-like bow fiddle crafted from bamboo. The bronze drum or ganza remains widely used varied in playing style. Many dances are pantomimic and singing often extreme. the piece acknowledges limits of description.
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National Geographic Magazine
Anecdotes and lace making from distant lands and dialogues
A collection of antiquated snippets includes Sheridan’s early writing habit with his wife and a quip about time for law studies and meals. It mentions Paraguayan lace makers called nan dotl meaning spider web and notes lace design borrowing from local spider webs. Also a domestic exchange about baking biscuits and a Dublin themed exchange with Arry and Harriet about an opal ring and luck.
Unstructured delegation aim noted in Boston area text
A fragment references a misattributed delegation from Boston with mentions of a Boston Life Retail and a mirror image motif to show everyone their reflection. The passage remains obscure and lacks clear events or outcomes.
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F. G. Loess
Jaz
Bryan
Helix
Freak Berlin
Ferguson
Washington
Brown
Maceré
Boos
Lana
Mosgrove Mercantile Force
Milton
Mic. Kinnear
Worthington
Lowell Rogers
Adama
Byron N. Hawke
Spokane
Misa Georgetta Dolezal
Freewater
B. D. Clemons
Harry Alexander
Richard Wright
Hood River
J. Ws. Wright
Agnes Craft
Walla Walla
Wa. MaBride
le Grow
California
Prof. Gordon
Dreamland Theater
Pelog
Lynn Bill
Wm. Tomptine
Portland
State
I Athens Track Company
Weston
Weaton
Columbia College of
Ilton
Millard Kelly
Pat Shaw
Methodiat
Mothers’ Club
W. W. Wiley
B. Kidder
Kidder
Bondy & Christine
Lillian Anderson
Wella Walls
Donald MacFadyey
Grood Rapids
Micb
Methodist Church
Young People's
Erren Soll
Golden Rule
Salt Lake City
Sherman Borden
Okanogan Country
Win Borden
Mr. Borden
Halsey
Oregon
the Christian Church
Bible
J. F. Zorba
H. ©. Caplinger
Mre
W. BR. Taylor
Ones Gannon
Claude Walton
Chop
May
Dita
D. B. Sanders
Bert Cartano
M. L. Watts
Vernita
Dean Willeby
Dean
Parcela Post
BE. A
Dudley
Thomas Wilkinson
St Paul
Mino
Robert Wilkingon
North Dakota
the Dreamland
Central
Lobia
Tenderfoot
Bob
Selig
Boya
Figure Two
The
Pather
Pathe
Biograph
Jack Vincent
Rome Pumpking
Preas
Wood
Soe
Fix & Radike
Grocery
Te Shoe Department
Stevens Lodge Knights of Pythias
Pythian
Waeston
Leo Johnson
First National Bank of Athena
Della Crowder Miller
Miller
Wallace
Oriano
Ben Har
Aller
Maroh G. Vea
Athens
Hawes
Chamberlain Medicine Co
EAFO
Des Moines
Lows
USA
Children
Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Tom Erekine
Paraguay
David
Mrs. Copperfield
Dora
Arriet
London
Mise
Fifth Avenue
Mandle ¢I
Boston Street
Boston
Hetaiior
Goethe
FIX & Radtre
High Cut
Kensington
Plain and
Alaska
Duck Pac
Aska’s
B & H Green
Musgrove Mercantile Co
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