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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1910
Page
5
A Portland reporter recalls two Seattle boosters meeting in Portland with playful banter about a city scene. The Philadelphia Evening Post quotes their exchange ending with a dramatic exclamation about how things have changed since arrival.
The fragment mentions a Roman suffrage lecturer in May and a humorous exchange about sending a leg of mutton, with cryptic lines about a groom and a black, reflecting a fragmentary text from a Jewish Ledger style column.
The notice extols loss of appetite as a spring issue leading to fatigue and prostration. It recommends Hood's Sarsaparilla as the great constitutional remedy to purify blood, strengthen the system, and restore vigor. It mentions liquid form and Sarsataba tablets as available formats.
An assortment of fragmented ad phrases and names appears, including mentions of Pearl necklace requests, a lyre bird, sea eye salve, Allen's Foot-Mase, and various unrelated brand lines. The piece reads like garbled old classifieds with scattered product and person references.
A Pearson's Weekly discussion notes that many so called new inventions are repeats of ancient ideas. It cites Vitruvius on a Roman taximeter, early safety pins in Pompeii, prehistoric thimbles and combs, threaded needles from 5,000 years ago, Chinese combination locks, early natural gas illumination, and 500 B C shorthand, asserting ancients knew electricity and Nero described steam power two millennia before Watts.
A richly dressed pair of young women spot a man entering a room. One woman, Miss Kirkle, asserts recognition and questions him about memory. He shyly admits he is the former janitor from the apartment on 724 Street, confirming their acquaintance.
Purdie, an old servant in Sir Walter Scott's household, called the Waverley Novels “our books” and said reading them calms him. He told James Skene that when he cannot sleep, a few pages of the novels lull him to rest.
A farmer with five sons and two daughters is described as very lucky in a brief item from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The fragment notes political sentiment about Thompson versus another candidate and comments on appearance.
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune quotes a speaker chiding George for not chewing meals long enough. The exchange contrasts Philadelphia habits with Chicago, suggesting regional culinary pacing and social tone.
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