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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
3
A scattered OCR page bundles patent medicines, odd ads, and snatches of humor. It touts Sarsatabs and other cures, mentions Piles and PAZO OINTMENT, and inserts quips about a lord mayor’s coach, a May Day sermon, and a bald joke.
A submarine diver wearing underwater gear entered Hollis and Rich's cold storage to stop a dangerous ammonia leak. After donning a diving suit, he fitted a new cap on the tank. inside the building under thirty minutes, he reported the fumes would soon be cleared and the store saved from damage.
Charles Wilson first Lord Nunburnholme dies at Hull aged about 72. Native of Kingston upon Hull, he built Wilson Line to eighty nine steamers with £2,500,000 capital and served Parliament for thirty years. Succeeded by son Charles Henry Wellesley Wilson with daughters Lady Cowley and Lady Chester Held. Owl weather forecast tale follows.
A Panama era note describes a plant found in Nicaragua that conducts electricity. Touching a branch yields a shock, and its magnetic influence extends to a half a dozen yards, causing a compass needle to circle when near. Influence varies with the time of day, per the Kansas City Journal.
A wife scorns her husband for staying out late reciting poetry at the literary club. He recalls a line about chips that pass to the night, deriding his own memory of the verse. The snippet captures a domestic dialogue with playful literary misquotation.
An advertorial piece touts a home made mixture claimed to cure rheumatism using common drugstore ingredients such as dandelion extract and syrups. It asserts kidney involvement in rheumatism and promotes a patent medicine style remedy with warnings about generic tonics. The text also mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure and a Vienna philology lecturer appointment.
The article explains how cast iron shrinks as it cools in molds, varying with alloy, section, and pattern. It notes gray iron's minimal shrinkage, higher melting charcoal iron, and the need for pattern adjustments including an eighth inch per foot for typical shrinkage. Patternmakers require precise technical knowledge of the metal and process.
A collage of child quips and light anecdotes from a humor column. Jokes about being an orphan, a child wanting a postal card, a student’s reply about tiea, and a nurse, plus a family dinner misadventure and a playful remark on eye color as impulsiveness.
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