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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
5
A clever scene unfolds with a hesitant wooer as a door raps, a young woman and her companion improvise to evade interruptions, while a playful tension and muddled chatter reveal social mores of a submerged economy and imagined romance.
An ethical remedy praised by physicians and the Well Informed of the World as a valuable, whole‑some laxative for family use. The genuine product is Syrup of Figs and Senna, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by leading druggists.
Gardening and pest control tips include early dusting with paris green and pyrethum powder for cabbage worms, kerosene emulsion sprays, tobacco decoction for lice on trees and roses, and cautions on timing to avoid leaf curling. Also notes on road funding rhetoric, loco weed treatment with strychnine, loco poisoning in cattle, Southport Globe onions, disk plows guidance, tuberculosis milk trial in pigs, and European wheat scouting.
Document describes dump wagon operation with pivoted load, lever control from the driver's seat, and automatic dumping. It reviews tools like the feld drag, spring tooth harrow, and disk for soil finishing, plus 6x6 tech pieces bound by crown locts. Also discusses pacing horses and how limb soreness affects gait and action.
Oregon State Grange at Eugene adopts resolutions urging codified water law based on best practices from Wyoming Idaho and Canada. It calls for state grants, central water rights registry, measured ditch and stream data, surplus water access rules, appurtenance to land, 25 year power rights, and an efficient administration with expert input to draft a bill for the next session.
A Cheney letter asks about bacteria as an agricultural factor and soil poisoning by successive crops. The Washington State College reply notes some cultures showed value in labs and greenhouses but many commercial cultures fail to perform uniformly. Inoculated soil from old alfalfa fields provided stands, fertilizers tested only modestly in eastern Washington, but may aid soils as corrective agents. The theory of soil poisoning involves excess nutrients harming vegetation, countered by chemical fertilizers.
A foreigner asks how the boys observe the day and learns the last of them were killed last year. The new crop hasn’t come on yet as crowds gather at the ball park for the real celebration.
A collage of quotes and lampoons from contemporaries critiques about a prominent senator. Jests about age, honesty, and debt mix with spoof headlines and notices from Chicago and Philadelphia in a vivid newspaper snapshot.
A dialogue from the Chicago News features Little Lloyd asking if George Washington was married to England, citing a book that England is our mother country and Washington as the father of his country. Papa replies that such a marriage is not the case.
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