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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1911
Page
5
An Ohio telephone manager unveils a compact system allowing cars to connect with any point of the overhead wire network using telescoping aluminum rods. The note cites vast wire totals and a year’s rise, while advertising Red Cross Ball Blue and a Confucian nine-point character list for personal conduct.
Free to Our Readers offers Murine Eye Remedies from Marine Eye Co Chicago with instruction and claims for proper use in eye trouble. Also commentary on crime forgiveness and a Brooklyn will distributing legacies at age sixty five with two grandchildren receiving at thirty five. Includes note on Dr Pierce Pleasant Pellets and a country boy’s skunk complaint story.
One of the commonest child complaints is nosebleed and remedies are simple. A small wad of white paper under the tongue or under the upper lip is usually sufficient to halt a typical nosebleed. Cotton pads dipped in water placed at the back of the neck are a standby for many mothers.
A London Punch note cites a Yorkshire paper urging Mr Atkinson to keep his word and tear apart the clique’s subterranean methods as it rides the high horse, using vivid metaphor to mock political intrigue and evasive tactics.
The article notes ancient stenographers in Rome, called otari, who transcribed speeches in the Senate and public arenas. It cites a passage in Suetonius showing Augustus anger over Caesar’s reported utterances as transmitted by these stenographers.
An Erie resident recounts relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for years of female troubles. After trying three doctors, she credits six bottles with restoring strength and health, praising the remedy and urging other women to seek its help at the Pinkham laboratory in Lynn, Massachusetts.
A Herald report notes a maid’s blunt insight on religious life and cites Rhode Island’s State Farm as housing state institutions including the prison and work house. Prisoners have reclaimed land, removed stones, improved a stream, and built walls.
A brief note recommends taking one Ayer’s Pill at bedtime for constipation biliousness dyspepsia and sick headaches. It claims laxative doses work better than cathartic doses and advises consulting a doctor. Produced by the Ayer Co. Lowell Massachusetts.
In a humorous talk Mark Twain recounts a family mystery about twins who were legally wrongfully buried. He describes a drowned brother with a mole on the left hand, and how officials mixed up the burial, leaving a sore, secret family embarrassment.
The carrier snail collects foreign objects on its back, cementing bits of coral, glass, and stones to its shell. It grows heavily until immobile, using camouflage to evade predators among tropical reefs. Some specimens show selective treasures, even a Japan coast find with a glass-roofed portable house.
A unique industry in Maule near Paris grows trees for umbrella handles and walking sticks. Nearly 600 acres host saplings of oak chestnut and maple. After a year, shoots are pruned to force branching then bark carved designs appear when stripped. By year three branches are bent into shapes for manufacturers.
In the poultry yard keep up the fight against lice dust hens especially those with broods cold rains kill chicks shelter during storms feed fowls to encourage exercise which boosts appetite digestion and general health. Avoid feeding with brine soaked meat scraps which cause bowel trouble. A Montana woman bought a watercolor set with saliva directions for moistening brushes. she wryly notes the saliva requirement. The cruiser Champion in dry dock after seven years in the Medway has a barnacle and weed buildup estimated at 40 tons removed from its hull.
Fragmentary OCR reads unclear names and phrases with no coherent event. No clear persons, places, dates, or actions emerge to summarize a complete news item.
A reader describes garden woes from ground moles ruining bulbs and a florist’s tip using moth balls in tracks to deter them. The second note discusses a scholarly conclusion that the oldest surviving map is a Byzantine church mosaic in Malta Palestine, about 1700 years old, claimed to depict part of the Holy Land.
A river on Cephalonia near Greece defies normal flow by moving inland from the sea and then vanishing into limestone rocks. Four inland entrances collect sea water to form this river, which disappears underground. The phenomenon, reported by Popular Mechanics, asks where the water goes after sinking.
A light exchange highlights a marriage dynamic with a humorous remark about always agreeing with a husband unless he is in the wrong. The brief vignette centers on a playful tension and mutual affection.
An ad extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a gentle fast laxative remedy for headaches colds indigestion pains and sour stomach. It urges buying the genuine California product with Coscia printed on the front of every package for authentic benefits.
Michael Donnelly, a 22 year old Irish immigrant in Cleveland during a smallpox quarantine, persuaded health officials to exempt a personal shamrock from destruction after officials ordered all personal effects burned.
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