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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
3
The ad claims spring maladies arise from impure blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure that cleanses the blood and restores stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels, and skin. Also notes unrelated items about laws, marriages, and potato prices.
The Department of State received a description of a movable fire escape device by Wilhelm Campe of Baden-Baden. A wagon-mounted system features extendable platforms, ladders, safety bridges, and hinged gangways to move people and furniture from burning buildings. The unit folds compactly and can be deployed quickly, with possible uses in military observations and searchlights. Washington Star reports the apparatus may be exhibited in Washington.
An anecdote shows John Greenleaf Whittier avoiding overzealous admirers at his Amesbury home, with a presiding barrel sitter predicting his possible welcome. A Liverpool bazaar run by Father Bernard Vaughann mocks the notion that poverty stems from drink, arguing hunger drives the poor to misfortune.
A parade of reader letters extols Peruna for spring catarrh relief including Miss Dora Hayden of Washington DC and Mrs N P Lawler of Pittsburg Kansas. Other items note a boy's dirty feet leading to plans for an antiphlogistine factory from Denver mud and a jail sentence for adulterated meat glue in Oldham England.
A fragmented slice of a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page includes snippets about a train collision injuring Mr Slickon, references to an election and a disappointed wife, a humorous exchanges with a Mrs Winslow bonnet line, a counterfeit microbe joke, and an Allen’s Foot Fauve ad. The text shows gossip, political defeat, andads with dated phrasing and humor. The tone resembles a crowded page of humorous anecdotes and notices.
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