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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1917
Page
4
An old West barnstorming company, led by Robert Mantell, attempted Shakespeare. The crowd complains about the Ghost in Hamlet performed by a less capable player. The piece notes a noisy era of theater with satirical quotes about actors and a dissolved set of jokes.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston urges housewives to conserve nutrients and grow and prepare agricultural products at home. The speaker emphasizes avoiding waste, using every ounce of food, and supporting the war effort through economical, proper meal planning and household thrift.
An excerpt from the Washington Star presents a dialogue about a wife voting and related social expectations. The scene involves Mr Meekson and a teacher figure debating involvement, privacy, and information sharing in a fragmented dialogue style typical of a printed column.
Uncle Sam's experts from the Department of Agriculture seek better ways to move agricultural products from producer to consumer. The article notes evolving shipping methods, markets, and grading practices, with emphasis on parcel post and farm-to-market links, plus cautions on perishable goods and refrigeration challenges.
A broad appeal urges jewelers nationwide to conserve platinum and halt use where feasible. The committee advises coordinating with plating industries to adapt and protect precious metal supplies amid rising concerns about future availability.
A fragmentary note describes a welding compound named weiging alumioum that supposedly joins metal without flaws. The text is garbled but implies successful bonding of copper and tin alloy components with no apparent weakness.
After a year of experiments in his laboratory, Dr Hedlund and colleagues announce a perfected porcelain and cast gold inlay crown for bridge attachment. They claim it surpasses gold crown and band crowns, offering virtually pain free dental work with imported German Novocain.
An advertisement extols a corn removal product as a painless solution, claiming roots lift out with a finger and can be removed easily. The piece also includes a short dialogue about a daughter studying music, from a Washington Star line.
A garbled clipping cites Roosevelt remarks on unworkable ideas and the Franco Prussian war analogy, then shifts to Gov Goodrich asking how many corn rows separate to avoid shading. The torn text includes quotes about leadership and a joke on holes in cheese, reflecting a newspaper item of uncertain origin.
A jumble of humorous misprints and wartime quips from two era papers. The Boston Transcript riffs on a bride and a child’s lesson while Life magazine humorously distills human divisions. The Baltimore American cites a waitress joke about being born to work, reflecting light social sarcasm.
A jumbled passage extols a morning habit of drinking hot water with a teaspoonful of phosphate to cleanse the body. It argues that daily flushing of the stomach, kidneys, and liver removes waste, toxins, and bile, improving health and sleep. It claims many ailments improve and urges readers to start this routine for a "morning battle-bath."
The United States National Museum at Washington showcases uniforms, swords, guns, and intimate items tied to American founders and presidents. Notable pieces include Washington’s Continental Army uniform insignia and a life mask of Lincoln, with artifacts from Grant’s era and offerings from the Colonial Dames and Daughters of the American Revolution enhancing the historic display.
Fragmented OCR recalls a wartime era exhibit noting Cuticura as eczema remedy alongside a vast array of military relics and historic figures. It mentions John Paul Jones and stars and stripes relics, plus artifacts linked to Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras and general officers.
Richmond Ind traveler recounts two years of illness and weakness. After trying Lydia E Pinkham’s remedy at home, she reports improvement and renewed mobility despite severe debility.
An old item describes Sage Tea and Sulphur remedies to restore natural hair color, noting a low cost and simple application by strand test. It also includes a scattered collage of trivia and quotes from exchanges and a Louisville Courier Journal line about army training and humor.
A fragmented instruction list advises home upkeep steps such as painting, glazing each window with a sauk, adding drawers, placing a stone collar around the well, finishing on each window weight, equipping with hone, ensuring a good one on the chimney, patch jackets around the fur and radiators, and mufflers.
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