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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1929
Page
2
A 1929 notice lists subscription choices for Athena Drees including one year one copy six months and three months options with pricing. The page shows dates and a reference to a price of $1.00 and a June 28 entry.
Analysis by Mr. Brigham highlights three Cs Craftsman ship Cooperation Coin as the moving force of the labor movement. He notes Portland’s Apprentice School and the Guild of Handicrafts show the best example of cooperative labor relations and training. Leaders like Gust Andersen and Ben Osborn symbolize trusted, public-backed figures solving industrial problems.
Oregon state chamber cites 232 new families arriving in the first five months of this year and 89 in the first two weeks of June. Average farm family spending power ranges from 1000 to 1500 dollars yearly, with May alone adding at least 100000 dollars in purchasing power and a yearly increment near 1 million dollars.
The Portland and Umatilla county paper offices note Melix Mitchell leaving the ranks. A printer and editor, he leaves an impression of kindness trustworthiness and masterful craftsmanship.
The piece reflects on Weston editors and a Port land paper, noting a transition in leadership and a debate over Washington state farm policy. It cites a Seattle poultry and egg man and an Olympia farmer as rising figures while arguing the tariff principle is humane but manipulated by industry to the detriment of agriculture.
The piece urges replacing coal smoke with smokeless heat to clear London fog effects and proposes Griffith remake Broken Blossoms under new conditions. It notes warm weather boosting a 6000 acre bean crop in the Athena Weston area with good moisture and farming methods. Hirickhoff Farm Products Co faring well.
A lively celebration at Wallawa Walla Legion features ix drum corps and brass bands. A feather collection is planned from the eagle tail to mark the event. The note also mentions a successful seven train robbery in California and peace in Mexico.
Henry Barrett and Sanford Stone plan the fourth annual horse show in Athena with a parade led by Fay LeGrow and W. R. Taylor. Meanwhile, exam results show 15 of 38 passing eighth grade tests, and local residents make the rounds with visits, travels, and incidents including a horse theft arrest involving Charles Miller.
The text explains that radio communication was not an invention or discovery but a theory known long before use. Many inventors pursued practical wireless systems, with Marconi ahead by a short margin. Electrical wire and wireless communication advanced in parallel before any success.
Old and new theories converge as humors once believed to come from heart and liver are now identified as hormones secreted from ductless glands. Scientists admit these hormones greatly influence a person’s disposition and health.
Popular Mechanics notes that hollow walls often insulate better against sound than solidly filled inner spaces. careful design is needed as many materials fail to deaden noise and can transmit sound under ordinary conditions.
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