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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
3
Local notes report a postponed basketball game between high school boys and a town select team scheduled for tomorrow night at the gym. scattered items mention numerous residents traveling for business or visiting Pendleton and Weston, plus smallpox cases in the county and civic updates.
An excerpted passage from the Century describes Greenland Eskimo homes built of sine and turf with pallet rooms along a central passage. Each pallet room houses a family, divided by skins, and the innermost room is occupied by the owner or oldest. The piece also notes unrelated gossip about Henry Doane’s orphan children, Emma Susan Baxter, and local selectman talk, via a Youth’s Companion quotation.
A village tenor laments choir strain on Sunday as he jokes about tiring with his tenor and aiding trebles. The mock dialogue contrasts a weary singer with a comic tone. A brief aside notes a beauty query about becoming handsome enough to wear colors not becoming to the speaker.
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