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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1926
Page
3
Theodore Roberts the veteran character actor once a film favorite has fallen from health and will not act again. He is unable to work on stage or screen after a recent collapse in St Louis ending a vaudeville tour and following the death of his wife who died in his presence.
After a week of extreme heat, Athena records high winds and dust from Tuesday afternoon through the night. A brief shower barely slows harvesting as farmers report widespread activity and a normal wheat yield despite the dry, hot spells.
If Senator Stanfield's bill is approved by the president it will trigger an overreduction of about 20 percent in taxes across 18 western Oregon counties. Douglas County faces the largest cut, exceeding 25 percent.
A mule shoer Pete Barring was kicked in the leg at the Jen sen blacksmith shop on Monday and taken to the hospital. The next day Mr Jensen received a badly bruised foot when a horse he was shoeing stepped on him.
Standard Pictures presents More Pay, Less Work by Peter B Kyne at the Standard tomorrow night. Kyne’s films typically please crowds and this one should. Sunday night brings The Trouble With Wives at Paramount. Wednesday night programs are temporarily halted and will resume after harvest.
Dr. R A Millikan of the California Institute of Technology described to the National Academy of Sciences in Madison Wisconsin a new form of rays stronger than ultra X rays and 1000 times the frequency of Ir They ionize equally at day or night and involve 10 000 000 volt variety The rays are unnamed and arise from atoms sliding between atoms under sun and space bombarding earth from all directions with high absorbing power
The article notes that nothing material is ever lost or destroyed, citing science and the Bible to claim Man’s immortality. It credits Lavoisier with proving that in chemical changes matter is conserved, a concept tied to energy conservation.
Classified items list a Bush & Lane piano from Portland Oregon at a deep discount and easy terms. Also advertised are work horses and mules from Weston Athena Pendleton with phone references, and beauty work by Miss Chapelle and Miss May Lanning in Oregon towns.
On July 8 1904 a severe rain and hail storm hit Pine Creek north of town with waters rising rapidly and debris carried by a cresting flood. The Fourth of July brought accidents including a man with a shattered hand from a cannon cracker and a horse race fall. Community notes cover travel authorizations, milling company offices, cattle and sheep clashes, harvest prospects, and local business moves.
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