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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
5
Julia Marlowe endorses Peruna, praising digestion benefits and nerve nourishment. Testimonial adds a California reader detailing six years of stomach trouble and relief after trying Peruna.
Fragmentary note edits show names Howard and Burton, references to Anaper at Chamin Leadville Colonia, and scattered lines about specter prices cyanide tests envelopes and wallaited safety. The passage includes dialogue about habits, narrow doors, a spring hat, and a quip on telling faults to a neighbor.
Advertised as an indispensable foot powder for healing, antiseptic relief, and comfort for tired feet. The piece touts Allen's Foot Eaise as superior to imitations and urges consumers to demand the genuine product. A stray Chicago News quote about watts and measures appears as a dated aside.
Idaho hog farming gains focus as farmers mix dairy and swine operations. Purebred stock from Poland China Duroc Jersey Chester White and Berkshire breeds enter southern Idaho. Alfalfa pasture with small grain rations plus milk improves hog growth. potatoes and sugar beets fed with grain boost weight gains. Irrigation enables high yields of wheat barley, supporting pork production. coastal packing plants promise steady demand and price, encouraging expansion.
Questions about irrigating a tract near Quincy Washington using well water and possibly a gasoline engine for pumping. Analysis notes water depth is substantial and pumping costs high. windmills common, engines used when wind is weak. pipes would improve viability for ten acres. Also mentions Edward Guerr incident with a horse over a railroad trestle in Ohio.
Washington State College reports on novelty secretaries and fruit crops. A Seattle correspondent asks about novelty celery. The station says these crops grow in eastern Washington with early hotbed starts. Thornber recommends Jonathan Rome Beatty Wegener apples for Arden soil. Plant spacing depends on irrigation. hexagonal plan if not irrigating. avoid crowding. vegetables may be grown near young trees for 3 to 5 years.
In Bremen Kansas a bank fire leads Treasury experts to estimate a quart of ashes sent for redemption could be worth about 4000 dollars, with a man betting he has seen one before. The dialogue includes dialect humor about Sundays in saloons and a palet shop worker, Vernon, puzzling locals.
A proverbially lively anecdote recalls Sheridan negotiating for a shot at ducks, offering half a sovereign and fleeing into the flock after a dozen fell. The scene unfolds amid jokes about house fires and insurance, with creditors and patent remedies named in a jumble of clippings from The Catholic Standard and Times and other notices.
Orville Ardup Ah faces repeated contact from a tireless bill collector. A caller unfolds a folded document and asserts persistence while Ardup Ah voices frustration after nine visits without payment.
A boulder with a high forehead muses on tornadoes in Oklahoma. It quips that if a recent twister had struck a few months earlier, the state constitution might have a provision abolishing tornadoes, noting that was about the only thing they ever looked for.
A collage of humorous fragments and misheard phrases from a Chicago Tribune humor column. Mentions iron ore mountains in several continents, a dubious hobnobber’s convention, and playful jabs at scholars and medicines. Contains odd spellings and invented words like Abotomious and facetious.
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows a playful scene at a bridge game where a player jokes about tasting milk to decide if it is sweet enough to feed a dog. A nearby question about etiquette elicits a humorous reply.
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