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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
2
A whimsical piece from Weekly Bouquet describes a worm who nests through winter and awakens with golden wings. The tale contrasts crawling life with a butterfly’s ascent and ends with a moral about learning.
In the Smoky mountains Amaryl inspires Philip Armstron a talented artist who finds beauty in her. He completes a grand painting and asks for her hand. Mrs Dartmore reveals Amaryl has won Paris and London praise earning a $20,000 sale.
Mrs. Sherwood recites how Fitz-Greene Halleck defined poetry by a general’s tone. He told her that Morris when ordering his brigade to draw swords speaks prose, but when adding a willing slogan he speaks poetry.
From the Devil's Note Book a dramatic fragment notes a young woman near death crying for mercy and delay. Death returns years later as she pleads unsatisfied with life before the moral: there is no pleasing some people amid satirical captions from Smart Set and Philadelphia Press.
Paris aims to surpass Marseille as France’s premier port as decades of works near completion. The Seine docks, locks, and deepened channel enable vast shipments of building materials cereals and wine. In 1906 Paris exported nearly 13 million tons with record growth last year and projections show tonnage doubling after improvements.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas leads a campaign to submit a city council petition calling for an ordinance on horse tonnage. She seeks penalties for overloads to protect draft animals, motivates through economic stakes for teamsters and owners, and gathers signatures from teamsters and property owners. A Washington Star dialogue about political economy follows.
A youth asks for a good matte for a budding author and receives terse guidance on typing and moving ahead from a reader at Punkton's publishing house in Kansas City. The parrot in the tale adds a caution about repetition, though its impact remains light.
A collage of agricultural tips and curiosities on linseed meal butter quality and feeding amounts, corn meal effects on butter firmness, gluten meal softness, gate repair with a wheel, robins killed for food in the South, transplanting trees at night, brewery stock feed values, projected U.S. 1931 population and crop needs, and a note on a Malay Peninsula insect with a springing head projection.
Professor Schuster argues for official statement of prediction error in forecasts. He notes astronomers publish probable error and hopes meteorology will declare odds like 8 to 1 or 9 to 1 for rain tomorrow, improving reader understanding of forecast reliability.
A historical note describes a recipe for whitewash using lime wood ashes beef tallow salt glue and dry mineral pigments. It also discusses sheep pen bedding to absorb urine and keep straw dry, suggesting heavy bedding early in the season, and advises spraying fruit trees with lime sulfur and salt dormant to deter San Jose scale while acting as a fertilizer and promoting tree health.
Digest of farm topics covers manure as decomposed materials, risks of feeding bran to soil, and safety tips like carrying an iron weight with a strap in wagons to prevent runaway horses. Also notes demand for horseradish, public funds, celery yields, cream separator accident, Emperor William's horses, Alaska timber, Tennessee night riders, cattle losses, New Mexico farming gains, and a rare white Galloway bull.
A fragmented quote laments coercion for hush money, suggesting the speaker rejects paying and frames the act as cowardly or criminal. The garbled passage references the Houston Post, hinting at a newspaper source or context for the remark.
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