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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1907
Page
2
A column surveys how temperament, not courage, explains different responses to danger among Latins and Teutons. It notes sailors of the Silo disaster, praises disciplined northern nations, and contrasts Latin impulsiveness with northern steadiness, arguing ultimate equality of bravery across peoples.
A party of college students in New York clashes with police leaving one wounded. A surgeon struggles with a stubborn patient who keeps pulling stitches while joking about love. A typewriter asks why marriage notices sit under death notices. A joke compares second marriages to hand me downs and ponders a girl who crocheted trimming for her wedding clothes.
An 19th century guide explains venomous snakes in the country and how bite symptoms vary by snake and weather. Local signs include pain swelling and possible gangrene. general signs feature rapid weak pulse nausea vomiting and prostration. First aid advised: apply a tight band above bite, cut wound to bleed, avoid sucking, use purgatives and warmth. Alcohol in moderation may help.
A gang of five men stole about 15 coils of copper wire worth 500 dollars from the Postal Telegraph Company’s former office around midnight Wednesday. They loaded the loot onto a wagon driven by a gang member, but fled before patrol wagons arrived under Detective Sergeant Ed Gibson. Junk thieves target valuable metal for melting and resale to Eastern smelters, with wire scavenged from burned districts and junk dealers paying cash. Police later confiscated junk at Lowden High School and many offenders faced nominal fines in court.
A Philadelphia Ledger note humorously riffs on the phrase the way of the transgressor. It then recounts a tall tale of a man who enters a parlor seeking a wife, only to be told she must be more at home in the kitchen, a gag reflecting domestic expectations.
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