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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1907
Page
2
A whimsical verse warns readers to prepare for fluctuating weather. It mocks meteorological certainty, urging folding linen dusters and fans for an unpredictable spring. The piece riffs on bewitching signs and changing forecasts, urging readiness for shifting seasons.
Lady Peggy admires a pink chiffon gown as she contemplates love for Lord Mandelthon and a minister’s social crusade. He guides her toward helping a poor, exhausted mother in Lambeth slums, revealing Peggy’s awakening to real sympathy beyond romance and fashion.
Bedouins rough and old fashioned in desert areas treat fever in slave captives by burying victims up to their necks in sand to use cool soil as a remedy. The practice lasts several days and, according to investigators, about 80 percent of prisoners die from this method. Medicines are nearly unknown among the tribes.
The Yonkers Statesman quips about statistics claiming women carry forty to sixty miles of hair on their heads and jokes that a boy earning ten cents might keep it for himself, reflecting a humorous local column tone.
Des Moines Register notes the Scholer home near Burlington is a rugged Swiss chalet style dwelling perched above the Mississippi. Born in Switzerland, Mr. Scholer built the house fifty three years ago to mirror Alpine design and preserve a Swiss atmosphere for visitors and his family. He died recently, leaving a picturesque legacy visible from Crapo Park and the river.
A long comic verse narrates St Peter at the Heavenly Gate as a couple approaches admission. The woman pleads for her smoking, swearing husband, arguing her own pious life justifies him entry, while Peter jokes about the well earned reward and the husband’s fate. The scene ends with Peter considering the man’s fate and the gate’s gatekeeper duties.
Readable fragments describe a sale of wines and produce with a cryptic biblical reference. It includes phrases about beauty cucumbers and a misquoted scripture about the first and last, attributed to Joseph Hert Emiley, suggesting a damaged or stylized historical note without clear event details.
An OCR fragment recounts how the potato migrated from Peru to Europe, noting early mentions by Spaniards in the 16th century, adoption in Italy and the Netherlands, and tentative introductions in England and Ireland. It cites Walter Raleigh and Virginia references, plus later public prejudice and stories of royal or philanthropic trials in France. The piece shifts to a local humorous item about High Back Wolf, an indigenous man with two wives, and ends with a satirical description from Arapahoe Bee and Louisville Courier-Journal.
A fragmented clipping blends a family praise for Larry Flaherty with a humorous shop scene about gloves for Jim. It also recalls early Massachussetts fashion laws and a quippish tale about a man recounting quarrels, illustrating community voices, humor, and local pride across generations.
A London critic notes the American male’s central role in social order while detailing the power of wives and daughters in society. It argues women, though educated, contribute little to serious literature, art, or science, and that most leading intellectual work remains done by men.
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