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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
5
The page mixes ad copy for Hood's Sarsaparilla praising its health benefits and a long list of unrelated clippings. It includes jokes, reader quips, and brief notices about stowaways, patent medicines, typewriters, and small humorous exchanges, reflecting a fragmentary historical newspaper segment.
An old ad touts Allen's Foot Mase powder to ease sore swollen smarting feet and sweating, claiming maker How shoes become easy. Sold by druggists and shoe stores with a free sample offer. The text also includes stray dialogue snippets and miscellaneous phrases from The New York Times.
A New York Sun report recounts thieves who stole over 1 000 woolen sample cards from hotel rooms and storage in Philadelphia and Chicago. The couple allegedly intended to sell the designs to cheaper mills while posing as wealthy clients. Investigations recovered two wooden packages at Broad Street Station and revealed the exploitation of high priced pattern samples by unscrupulous tailors.
An expedition led by Lieut Robertson and the narrator enters a dark Sho shone mountains canyon in Wyoming. They describe a narrow crack, a hundred foot wall, sulfurous gases, and a desolate pool that poisoned a porcupine and a mingpie, with a river carving a hidden eight mile reach.
A New York World feature previews a groundbreaking wireless luncheon at the Plaza with Frederick Townsend Martin presiding. A Taft to Poincare message will be broadcast to France, via Nora Blatch DeForest, as wireless phones link guests across the Atlantic. The Metropolit an tower race toward completion is highlighted, with plans describing radio sparkless outfits and miniature ocean table displays.
Dr. DeForest claims wireless telephone success by translating air vibrations into electrical signals and back at receivers. Admiral Evans and the Pacific fleet tested the system aboard battleships. In May 1908 DeForest sent messages from the Eiffel Tower to French wireless stations, and Italian navy gear showed promise. Mrs. DeForest, Cornell civil engineer and first woman elected to the American Society of Civil Engineers, helped build the Catskill system and champions equal rights while becoming a pioneer in wireless telephony.
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