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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
2
A fragmentary verse scene portrays Miss Ann with straight black gown and two curls, observed by a curious crowd. Rumors swirl of love, lost chances, and a haunting ache as she hurries on while townsfolk plead for a suitor with a chorus of taunts and sympathy in New York press prose.
In a stormy night aboard a Santa Fe stage, four travelers share a tense, perilous journey. Bandits threaten, a hat lost on a cliff becomes a dramatic treasure moment, and a merchant confesses a secret stash of gold and jewelry tucked in a vest. The party escapes with moral reckoning and a surprising restitution.
A fragmentary caption contrasts tears with trust and secrecy. A traveler recalls pleasing sagacity in a gentleman’s conduct and a lady’s tears transforming into rare amniles, concluding with the woman sent home rejoicing.
Harper’s Magazine reporter describes Benguela’s slave handling where victims are paraded through official rooms, numbered disks placed on necks and cylinders kept as registers. Women and men endure similar fates as they move toward ships, reforms masking brutal contract labor.
Sailors hold varied superstitions about signs and tokens guiding fortunes at sea, from amulets in the keel to coin in the mast step, bottle christenings, blessed bells, and omens involving cats, whistling, rats, and figureshead lore, with old beliefs tied to ships and sailors. Also notes on an underground Tokyo railway project, twelve miles long, costing at least 6.625 million per mile, with 37.5 million capital and a 2.44 cent fare for dividends, plus plans to extend 60 miles of tracks.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Jean Anderson Abbott who at four and a half years old cannot recall her father's occupation when asked at school. A neighboring girl answers that her father is a Harvard history professor, inspiring Jean to claim his trade is a butter and egg merchant. The tale shifts to verse about child life and a note on phosphorescent wood in legends, ending with a teaser about will-o’-the-wisp.
A discussion of natural luminescence explains jack o lantern like lights from decaying bones and living fireflies. Fireflies emit from the abdomen and glow with regular flashes, while luminous beetles in the West Indies and South America can illuminate a room for reading.
Michael J. Murphy, a dock laborer, dropped a twenty five pound box of dynamite from a pier on East 14th Street. He twisted mid fall to cushion the blast with his back and landed safely. He joked it was the luckiest break of his life while a surgeon at Lebanon Hospital cautioned on injuries.
A long, entangled recovery case explores a 1823 slave inheritance in Hilton Maryland with initial $400 deposited in the Bank for Savings and later drawn. Lawyers Willem P. Hamilton Jr and Albert J. Graefee seek to divide a $6,000 pie among twenty-two heirs as administrators and successors contest the account in surrogate court. The World reports a complex chain of heirs, trustees, and attorney fees through 1901 and beyond.
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