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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
2
A bluebird pair guards a nest box near Fort Lee. They plaster the box shut with mud and straw to imprison a sparrow inside, while observers recount a related tale of honesty from an old family precept and a children’s verse about a rubber plant.
A writer notes a circular moulding from which a conical brick furnace emits eight bright holes showering orange light. Through the holes, observers glimpse seven hundredweight of molten metal shining silvery green as it forms. The material quality, termed bated, determines the nature of the giant indents.
In a Maine biography of pioneer printer Peter Eyles, the Bangor scene shows early nineteenth century authority restricting Sunday activities. An apprentice named Orrack faced fine threats for walking after indoor work as tything-men enforced Sabbath norms. An ad in the Bangor Weekly Register announced a school by Mr. EDe offering orthography, grammar, geography, composition, and ornamental needlework for girls, among Maine’s early female education efforts.
Avelyn, not yet three, exclaims with delight as she learns to spell cet cat amid excitement. The playful moment unfolds within Harper's Monthly, where a humorous note on a peckish husband adds charm to the scene.
A Kansas City Times column explores landladies as observers of boarders. It argues trunks deceive, noting paper suitcases fooled hosts while sturdy old trunks carried mothball odors. Landlords see vanity, schemes, and character in acts, not appearances, and advise caution in choosing tenants and in marriages.
An old field teacher father of Alexander H. Stephens used a Friday afternoon exercise called learning manners. Pupils formed rows, bowed, curtsied, and exchanged salutations. They practiced introductions and commonplace chat, presenting companions and friends as they met in a staged social routine.
The vice president of the Confederacy praises simple drills as vital for raw country youths to shed awkwardness, shyness, and fear of appearing ridiculous. The remark comes in a discussion about practical training and social ease for young people.
Oscar Culver of Brooklyn was declared dead in eastern district hospital after pulse and breath ceased for minutes. Dr Henry Jaffer administered whisky and strychnine with artificial respiration, reviving him temporarily. Culver awoke at midnight and again later, but doctors warned recovery was unlikely as he suffers from consumption and inflammatory rheumatism. his wife was allowed brief visits as the case drew to night.
An account from St Nicholas recalls Captain Gridley at Manila Bay refusing early duty exemption, declaring his ship would fight. He marches to a cutter led by Olympia officers, the crew shouting Up ours as they row him away, his farewell marked by quiet pride.
A humorous dialogue contrasts a young lawyer and a second lawyer over Miss Goodcatch and her 900 acres, noting the claim as sufficient ground for an attachment. The piece, styled as Illustrated Bits, turns on fashion and identity, comparing masculine and feminine styling.
A barn design shows how a single worker can feed and care for livestock efficiently. The plan accommodates fourteen cows, twelve horses, with box stalls, and emphasizes on-farm feeding of grain and hay to reduce transport. The layout aims to return manure to the ground, improving farm sustainability.
A detailed description of barn layout features including a four foot silo chute with light windows, feed and milk rooms, mixing boxes for cows and horses, multiple bins, hay chutes, a central horse harness room, and a milk room with a separator. Emphasizes dust control, sanitation, durable cement floors, and flexible stall sizing for long or short cows, plus suggestions on foundation and phased construction.
Hens will not refuse laying if housing feeding and management are favorable. Provide comfortable housing, variety of grain such as corn oats and wheat, meat scraps, and green foods. Keep hens thrifty and vigorous to reduce winter egg famine and aim to mirror spring conditions as closely as possible.
The piece notes critics say nothing is created by pests and cites a Washington Agricultural Bureau figure of 15 million dollars in annual damage from rats and mice. It mentions rat catchers' skins worth about 1 million and furriers profiting, with estimates of a rat consuming bushels of corn yearly.
A Farm and Home correspondent notes a simple smokehouse can be made from a barrel with ends removed and mounted on a box or ground support. Meat is hung from top sticks, fire underneath, and the smokehouse yields practical results for small operations. An orchardist reports boosting yields by pruning, intercropping, and manuring across seasons, including large apple harvests after successive rotations.
Pedro's Estalia, the champion butter cow of the world weighing thirteen pounds in twelve months, died in an accident at the Missouri Agricultural College during term activities.
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