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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1907
Page
2
An instructional note from The Circle stresses hold the camera absolutely level to avoid tilted buildings, and explains when tilting is advantageous for clouds, water, balloons, or crowds. It warns against time exposures with the camera in hand due to heart-induced vibrations, and notes upright or upside down positioning can yield good photographs without the subject knowing.
The coast sees steamers converted to oil burners amid coal shortages. New mosquito screens called Invisible roll on from window casings. Alaska stations at Sitka Rampart and Kenai report trials in grain, potatoes, vegetables, and dairying with Galloway cattle introduced at Kenai. Species origin notes include comparisons of boreal mammals and native ethnology efforts by American Anthropological Society.
The government runs four agricultural experiment stations in Alaska at Sitka Copper Center Rampart and Kenai with a fifth planned midway between Obens and Fairbanks. Sitka focuses on horticulture testing fruit trees and bushes to see what thrives in Alaska. Apple varieties have been the most studied fruit tree.
A summarized guide explains how facial moles indicate fortunes in love and marriage. Right cheek or arm moles signal happiness, left side moles warn of unfavorable matches, and combinations favor love over money. Other spots predict wealth, loyalty, or caution with partners.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a macabre quip about Mr. Chumley as a four man lives topic, remarking he is a dead pest to the undertaker and enjoys shim work with wild cat sowing implied.
A juvenile court story from Denver features Judge Lindsey guiding a 13 year old boy named Tim who shows little progress in school. After persistent truancy, Tim reveals his mother’s death and his plan to buy a headstone, paying fifty cents at a time, to honor her memory. The judge’s exhortations highlight patience, responsibility, and reform through education.
In Western Pennsylvania at White Rocks near Uniontown the fate of Polly Williams is recalled. Philip Rogers allegedly cast her from the rocks to die in August 1810, a tale long told in song but now recounted with fresh detail by Charles B. Pennington of Carmichaels. Williams’s parents moved to Ohio leaving Polly with a neighbor to be wed to Rogers. The couple reportedly fled to marry, and Polly’s body was found near the edge after friends spotted clothing on a bush. Rogers faced justice only through his lawyer’s efforts and lived a troubled life thereafter.
A fragment shows two youths strolling the shore as one recalls Emerson on two views of life. A wistful exchange ends with the man unable to afford a yacht.
A concise line from a Philadelphia Presa piece features a courteous boy praised by a kind old lady who asks about siblings. A narrator or character replies with a count of two half-sisters and three half-brothers, illustrating family ties within a social vignette.
A muddled account recalls a man nicknamed Reddy hardening his resolve after a near fatal wood chopping incident. The tale shifts to a domestic scene titled The Broken Vase where two children repair a shattered family heirloom and face telling their mother, who returns to find the scene already shadowed by remorse and tense atmosphere.
In a quiet night scene from Youth's Companion the two children Kentle and Marjorie wake and decide to tell their mother about a family spelling mistake. Mamma listens, warns about truthfulness, and they end the night with lighter hearts and a promise to be honest.
Farmers across Orcas Whidbey Lopez and Mercer Islands complain deer invade farms and threaten livelihoods. They ask for legal authority to exterminate as deer feast on crops, warning they may otherwise relocate near towns and abandon island properties. A resident who killed a deer was arrested, then freed by courts.
A column fragment describes a home remedy for neuralgia using hot water for the opposite hand. It cites cross nerves and tactile endings as rationale. The text then shifts to unrelated notes about East Indian Review and Bohemian court actions amid brief social observations.
A collage of jokes and witty exchanges from newspapers and magazines. It features playful dialogue about horses, weddings, dowries, disguises, and social mishaps. Prominent lines include a horse predicted to win yet misrouted to a running event and quips about marriages, dowries, and daily life.
London now uses the term tubes for electric underground service. Five more tubes are under instruction for protection. The railways of London including underground and surface carry about 500 million yearly, with underground lines handling 253 million. Nearly 600 stations exist in greater London, and trunk stations receive over 300 million passengers annually.
A fragmented Baltimore American passage questions keeping a secret and who could know the truth. The garbled lines discuss whether a secret can be kept and who might reveal it, hinting at a wartime or personal secrecy theme.
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