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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1912
Page
4
A scrambled page notes the Portland Free Employment Bureau, promotional blurbs for wool and Mohair milled goods, reindeer and yak meat notes for Alaska supply, and a list of assorted ads including blue laundry balls and grammar wit from George Ade. The items mix public notices, consumer tips, and cultural snippets with no single cohesive story.
Oregon agricultural notes warn dairymen of disease risks carried by milk and outline practical steps. Stockwell stresses clean handling from udder to bottle, proper milking, worker hygiene, and equipment sterilization to prevent typhoid and other infections. advocates cooling, aeration, and careful separation of cream for higher value products.
Sanitary requirements for producing milk that is clean would violate ethics of good citizenship. Let the producer, the consumers, and the lawmaker work out the problem now and for the future, by educating all concerned as to their duties.
Prof James Dryden of Oregon Agricultural College warns many poultry ranges fail to meet egg producers’ needs. A shelter from cold wind boosts comfort and egg yield. large temperature gaps hurt production. Main requirements: good ventilation, wind and storm protection, and space for scratching and exercise. activity drives a hen’s life and productivity.
A collage of stray topics from a 1915 San Diego exposition era page. It mentions wear, fashion phrases, a bat navigation note, influences on blind perception, and a Marine Eye Remedy ad. Also includes civic lines on property rights, a George Macdonald quote, a rodeo feature, and scattered home remedies and recipes. The tone mixes promotional blurbs with miscellaneous tips and advertisements.
A Marinette reader extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring tonic and blood purifier, saying it revived energy and health after illness. The ad promotes Hood's medicines in liquid and Sarsabs tab form and warns to insist on Hood's. Also mentions parchment origins and a penny gas-story from London Chronicle.
A woman recarpeting her living room dyed a dull blue rug to a rich burnished brown. She followed dye instructions and used boiling water, a cuff brush, and gloves to protect hands. After two days the rug looked fresh and the room gained harmony with the brown walls.
Practical advice covers cleaning fowls with salt to prevent slipping on fingers the choice of bacon with thin rind and firm fat a long handled buttonhook to clean tub lint drying mustard with milk to keep its look a day longer a salt on the tongue then water to cure headaches breakfast fruit and raw fruit nutrition emptying kettle before filling water to avoid tea taste from reused water brine ash over coals improves fire and painting windows with soda for paint removal.
Practical instructions cover washing flannels, ironing linen, making a stew jumper, and White House Pudding. Steps detail soap, borax, rinsing, wringing, and drying. ironing cautions on creasing and hemstitching. stew batter with egg, salt, baking powder. stale cake dessert with molasses, currants, citron, lemon, and nutmeg.
An Englishman seeks four coats of arms from Her alds college. Lacking ancestral deeds, he recalls escaping Ludgate prison by lowering himself from an upper window using a cord tied to King Lud’s statue. The officer declares this as sufficient lineage, declaring the man honorably descended from King Lud.
An advertisement touts a land and harbor investment in Grays Harbor with Aberdeen and Hoquiam, highlighting three transcontinental railroads and a deep water harbor offering lands near town at favorable prices. It promises proximity to navigable rivers and a thriving community, urging quick action and inviting inquiries to Washington Colonization Co. in Aberdeen.
A neighborhood Altoona Gazette item notes a church pew for sale with a view over nearly the entire congregation. The notice cites popular remedies like Hembins Wizard Oil and urges safety for families with a bowtie promotion. Additional quotes reference Fleet Street desires and a London Opinion muffled line about murder.
An old advertisement from Ayer’s Pills touts the product as a stimulant or tonic and notes its sixty year history in Lowell Massachusetts. It urges readers to consult a doctor if in doubt before using the medicine.
A country girl from Fintona Tyrone acted to avert disaster when a cart neared a level crossing as a passenger train approached. She ran along the rails waving a red petticoat, drawing the engine driver’s attention and causing the train to slow immediately. Elizabeth Marbury criticizes the shrewish woman type in a New York anecdote about a brash remark and overheard response.
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