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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1913
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR reveals musings on ancient insanity care, noting few lunatic asylums before the fifteenth century, plus scattered anecdotes about Daniel in the Den, a Willie's circus visit, a trumpeted dolphin tale, and quips on age in London society. Minor dialect humor closes the excerpt.
A Lamar Republican Sentinel editorial argues autos will spark country road improvement. Since bicycles ushered good roads efforts, the auto now reaches rural areas, and widespread farmer ownership is key to solving highway conditions within decades. Auto tours, it states, produce civic momentum and spur road associations to follow.
Campaign for good roads urges fall and winter work to pack and harden gravel binding materials. It argues autumn and early spring offer time and lower costs, recommending state and federal cooperation to build public highways as a lasting effort.
Ernest Mage in Century notes European roads show France’s average road thickness at five and one eighth inches with 11 percent under two inches and 42 percent under four inches. Despite thinness, these roads endure heavy transport and remain in repair, underscoring that regular repair is essential to road durability.
A reader argues for hiring competent crews to lay out roads rather than a loose team of individuals. Weeds clog corners inviting pests, and timely hog housing and feeding floors save costs as weather changes.
To succeed with poultry breed that which you like best one must have pride into appearance of his birds. In order to become interested in them end creamed.
The Texas Farm and Co-Operator discusses Tennessee road policy where courts lease public roads to firms for ten years with tolls, supervised maintenance, and annual permits for citizens. It notes stone macadam surfaces, concrete bridges, and a funded highway system, urging Texas to adopt similar widespread, uniform good roads for growth.
A British firm receives a bronze medal for new pavement blocks made from clinker residue and oil mixed with Trinidad asphalt. Blocks 9 by 4.5 by 3 inches, weigh about ten pounds, produced at Kensington destructor, tested over years, noted for durability, noiselessness, sanitation, and weather resistance.
Washington news: Curtis Guild Jr, U S ambassador to St Petersburg, urges the United States to provide ponies and riding instruction for Boy Scouts. He cites Cossack troop drills before the emperor as inspiration and notes plans to present the idea to the State Department via James E West.
A visiting panel of leading sanitary engineers, including Dr. John Watson, Dr. George W. Puller, Dr. Roper and James C. Webster, praised Washington’s sewerage as the finest globally aside from German cities. They noted 600 miles of underground rivers, a system started in 1810, current cost about 13 million dollars, and annual sewer expenditures around 350 thousand dollars with a yearly mileage increase of about 26 miles. Mosquito control via biweekly catch-basin treatments costs about six cents per basin.
Report from the land office notes vast western lands underused after a century of grants. Congress lowered cultivation and residence hurdles to spur entries on public lands, including a three year residence requirement for patent eligibility and one year of claimed service credit for veterans.
The big railroads have equipped a locomotive with modern firefighting gear and placed it in service to assist district firemen in extinguishing yard blazes, especially near New Jersey and Virginia avenues. It can clear right of way quickly, has yard water access, and operates from a switchboard towers system. The engine will mainly serve yards but can reach Union Station as needed. The system has already helped extinguish numerous fires solo.
A Goeter's patient in Excelsior Springs answers questions before starting treatment. The physician asks, Are you steady or a periodical shrinker. The fragment lists strange ingredients like lime and phosphorus as humorous misreadings of common household items and medicines.
The financial editor notes uneven trends across professions and trades with cautious optimism in some areas and decline in others. The piece mentions dentistry, steeplejacks, autos and roads, pork products, and astronomy as the varied sectors affected.
Hair was blown from Hidward Kones head when his Sullivan County house was struck by lightning. The electricity reportedly plowed small furrows across his scalp and removed hair at every contact point. Injuries described as slight beyond the hair loss per Philadelphia North American.
Louisvile Courier Journal excerpt shows Prema Pettis Eve Salve remarking on wealth and a goal to test money in the chicken business once finances allow. Mrs. Bacon and Mrs. Ebert discuss learning languages via phonograph with amused anecdotes about neighbors and husbands.
Rome reports a new finding from Palatine excavations and Pro Romulan remains including 12 ancient lifts. One lift descends into the earth is being cloned for the Archaeological Congress. In Santa Cruz a 50 foot whale was caught near Fred Peres nets. five launches failed to tow it.
In a quip filled exchange Bachelor Bockwedder refuses marriage citing his vain game rooster and a goat chewing a rag fan aeroplane that gets him up, while an automobile keeps him broke. The Philadelphia Record notes the exchange and labels it unforgivable blobb a mystery.
Fragmented OCR text shows garbled lines about coughs and colds, attendance and dates. No clear person or organization can be reliably identified from the readable fragments.
Experiments in Europe show paper can match metal in strength and rubber in elasticity while offering cost advantages. Early tests indicate paper may become a viable material for pneumatic tires, combining durability with affordability.
The Washington Herald reports a wife asking what became of her husband after he was sent to match a sample at a department store. A sighting notes he was seen yesterday at the third counter of the fourteenth aisle and starting toward the fourteenth counter of the third aisle.
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