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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
4
A compact green feed rack design allows fowls to feed on green crops without reaching the roots. The device uses a frame and netting, enabling the birds to prune the leaves while fertilizing the soil. The method suits close-range poultry farming and promotes regrowth.
A quirky newspaper snippet mentions a Queer Customer, a tailor planning to clothe Sam Bullings, and a pig, with a digressive note on Sumatra Wrappers and tobacco plantations spreading to neighboring towns. The tone blends humorous dialogue and distant agricultural detail.
A Current Literature writer ranks steel and iron mill work in the Pittsburg district as the harshest human strain. John A Fitch of New York state labor dept finds workers physically robust due to precautions, yet the extreme heat imposes extraordinary stress. Medical consensus from Russell Sage Foundation supports the heat's severe effects on workers faces turning red under high exposure.
Professor James Dryden urges Oregon farmers to form an egg marketing co operative to improve handling, grading, and shipping. He warns current methods waste value, notes winter shortages in cities, and outlines a scheme with grading, central packing, candling, and officer oversight to raise quality and prices. The plan aims to unite producers, standardize care, and stamp eggs with a unique ID for traceability.
An Austrian school head master patents a device using a clock to ring electric bells at irregular intervals across an orchard. The unfamiliar sound startles birds, protecting fruit trees without traditional scarecrows or visible deterrents.
An elderly Vermont couple heated by decades of wrangles faced separation as the husband lay near death. The wife checked him and noted his cold feet hands and nose. He Responded in plain dialect that they may stay cold. She pressed for his fate and he admitted ignorance about his own future and his care for her.
A collection of quoted conversations and musings. A tearful woman questions a man about his refusal to offer suggestions and a worker’s anger follows a simple request. Included are brief opinions on libraries, literature, and a child's remark about gender.
A guide to keeping eggs fresh in water glass for eight to twelve months using forms of lime and water, with notes on cold storage as safest for large-scale keeping. Mentions prices, methods, and cautions about packing eggs for winter use. Also includes brief health and household tips and jokes from Washington Herald.
Besieged Beira of Ancostanres mediates with Alexander the Great. Alexander orders Acuphis, eldest ambassador, installed as governor and to send 100 of the beet eitizena at once. Acuphis smiles and asks to send 100 of the ms eltizena instead.
A Harper's Weekly note reports the octopus changes color like a marine chameleon. The color shift is tied to envelopes in its skin containing muscular fibers actuated by nerves. relaxation of these fibers yields a dark pigment, akin to blushing. London’s Italian Colony in London is described with 14,000 residents including ice cream vendors and organ grinders. most work as plaster workers, models, cooks, valets, teachers, artists, and hotel keepers.
The seashore shop packed with shoppers bought best sellers priced at 1.15 1.25 and 1.50 while the proprietor bragged having wired New York for two extra salesmen. He explained uncuts are books with uncut edges from Scotland where readers could sample chapters before buying. The incident showcases local humor and a juvenile quip about prodigies and baseball.
In the sixteenth century no lady was considered in full dress without a mirror at her breast. It was oval in shape about 4 by 6 inches in size.
A promotional softened copy praising Red Cross Ball Blue for wash day. Describes a large ten cent package, neat and spill safe, claiming it leaves clothes snow white and superior to any liquid bluing. Encourages readers to ask their grocer for it.
A dialogue theme shows a Shakespeare club fining members for nonattendance and using the fines to fund a musical comedy. Distrust grows as a political assistant questions loyalty. Senator Sorghum says he must stand by him to stay safe and observe closely.
The practice aims to collect all fallen fruit as sheep in orchards eat the debris. Fallen fruits harbor grub-insects, and removing them helps lessen next year’s pest problems.
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