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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1907
Page
2
A poem from the New York Herald recounts a timid speaker’s longing for Sylvia. He imagines bold acts to win her affection, then wavers, lamenting his craven heart and inability to dare. The verse contrasts vivid romantic imagery with a voice of hesitating desire.
Fred Blake schemes to win Miss Coverdale for Marley Hall while Jack Winter plans to marry Miss Carson. A web of wills and fortunes collapses when Blake marries Coverdale thinking her the heir, only to discover she is not Geoffrey Winter’s heir and Mary Coverdale appears as the true heiress. The twist ends with a new family arrangement and vows for the future.
An eclectic set of reflections contrasts hygiene with sentiment across everyday practices. It cites dining, drinking vessels, pipes, curtains, fires, and smoke, noting hygiene’s push for cleanliness and sterility against sentiment’s appreciation of tradition and atmosphere. It weaves in stray notes about a rapid-letter experiment and a rural dialect snippet before ending with a quirky line on charity as a cloak for odd acts.
Baxley recalls a talk with Sir William Gull on Nature’s cures. De Wolt Hopper jokes about words he cannot pronounce after a cold. Taft’s Philippines trip yields a humorous horse altitude report. A Kentucky judge faces temper and resignation. An Ohio author reminisces with Nesbit about a horse and a tablet on Main Street reflecting past lives.
A New York World tale claims Admiral Togo Landa, an Angora cat from Wellington apartments, leaped eighty feet, vaulted a six foot fence, and defeated rival Admiral Togo on a rooftop chase. The playful saga includes his rescue by Miss Helen Littlefield and a veterinary check showing no injuries.
Reports indicate Japan placed large orders in the United States for railroad supplies including 1,000,000 in value of rails and 316 bridges, plus 600 cars and 115 locomotives for Manchuria railroad development. The effort involves steel firms and a corps of inspectors to ensure exact specifications. Separately, public health notes warn about granular eyelid disease among immigrants, its spread, prevention, and hygiene measures.
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