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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
4
A skeptic questions if old medicines truly keep people alive. The doctor replies that his prescriptions have sustained three druggists and their families in the town for twenty years, a claim cited from Harper's Weekly.
In the sixteenth century many Veraifications tested the Bible text. William Hunnis was a prolific verifier issuing rhymed versions titled Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Sin and A Handful of Honeysuckles among others. His works, though quirky, are now valued by bibliophiles.
A fragmented garbled clipping blends a family music portrait with corny humor about a New York firm failing over $700,000 in liabilities and women abandoning petticoats. It mentions a cartoonish family with varied musical talents and a late girl who was once caught drawing on Sundays.
A tourist from the east visits an old prospector in a lonely hill cabin. The prospector, smiling despite hardship, recalls cheerful resilience from past toil in How ton and says he remains happy no matter what happens.
A dialogical exchange shows a father asking to support his daughter in the style she has been raised to. The Sultan counters, noting conflict with his wife and mother and challenges the adopted approach used in prior years.
A woman recounts her poultry venture with 65 hens showing costs and revenues. She details feed and egg income, value of birds, and a total profit of 145.08 after accounting for chicks and on hand stock. The setup includes a 16 by 20 foot south facing building with an incubator room and multiple poultry houses.
A playful excerpt notes a line about wearing gloves versus carrying them, suggesting it as a trifling matter yet revealing social perception. The Bystander comments on a hypothetical encounter, while a character named Mr Womber warns Maria about too much bridge playing.
The excerpt centers on urging daily kindness and genuine praise, noting the value of loving words as a tonic even for the happy. It contrasts comments about women’s honesty with a biting aside about a celebrated woman lawyer, highlighting social commentary on gender and virtue.
A brief anecdote recalls Thomas Carlyle in a park when a man picked up a fallen hat. Carlyle accepted it with a bow and thanked the man, saying he could claim to have found the hat of Thomas Carlyle. The vignette appears in That Fourth Generation by Janet Rosa.
A fragmentary note discusses limits of underwater observation without instruments. It mentions that no scope can reveal sixty feet below surface and describes crude methods like a green bottom box or bucket with light exclusion, noting limited effectiveness without electricity or illumination.
A quirky remark notes how curiosity about others can pry into private matters. It warns that discovering someone’s secrets can provoke anger, especially if the same private facts were learned about you in error.
The article stresses that careful home planning and suitable furnishing materials ease household work. It highlights the need for adequate water supply and conveniences for comfort, labor saving, and home hygiene.
An old note discusses child coughing linked to liver issues and suggests doctors may recommend occasional doses of another remedy. The fragment hints at common home health beliefs and medical guidance of the era.
Street apparel leads this season with draped effects and ceintures from New York to Chicago. Velvet dominates, especially white and embossed brocades on metallic gauze, while taupe tones and color accents shape after noon gowns and street coats. Designers favor long backs, restrained collars, and rich fur trim as coats and gowns showcase dramatic draping and waistline play.
The piece describes a new fashion trend with frills and lace enhancing gowns. A fallor for afternoon wear features a cutaway coat in dull green satin edged with green mousseline frills. Elbow sleeves show multiple mousseline frills and a four-panel front skirt with wide overlapping frills from waist to knees.
The display features a brown gown in heavy chiffon with a full underskirt and a draped left front panel. Chiffon sleeves and bodice, dark fur trim at the sleeves neck and skirt hem, plus notes on three piece suits with cutaway coats and draped skirts in velvet and broadcloth fabrics.
The smart belt for dresses uses narrow black velvet ribbon with one upright loop and two long ends finished in a netted trim. A painted artificial rose, color uncertain, fastens at the waistline side. The blue rose is popular, mauve and orange also regarded as smart.
A brief note notes attempts at auto suggestion for a husband to buy a product. The speaker admits frequent use but says she cannot induce her husband to purchase. The fragment hints at relationship dynamics and decision resistance.
The Wisconsin Agriculturist urges no loosening of road beds in November. Keep highways hard and well drained, remove weeds and sods, and use proper tiling and culverts. New Jersey officials push an ocean boulevard from Bay Head to Cape May with federal aid, aiming to boost coastal roads and inland waterways for safe pleasurecraft travel.
A Farm and Fireside piece by Isaac L. Totten condemns Indiana’s three mile gravel road law as a lax system that invites graft. It details township petitions, county supervision, and contractor influence, noting superintendents pad salaries while contractors profit from signatures and inflated bids, urging direct government handling to save funds.
The text notes the boll weevil causes millions in Texas losses and introduces a mud hole as a costly, improvised method in the eradication effort. It contrasts spending on approaches with a call to build effective solutions, tagging the pursuit as an ongoing struggle with limited success.
An archival note warns against roads scoring above 414 percent and suggests avoiding high grades on routes. It mentions constructing V shaped surface features and references a phrase saying thank you mam. The fragmentary text implies a discussion of road grading concepts or survey shorthand from an older publication.
A fragment urges remembering the King drag and applying directions to cows with a brush. It then discusses Sheep Pastures where sheep have run, recommending plowing to prevent land spoilage and maintain pasture.
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