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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
2
A fragmented 1910s style meditation links fashion reporting with moral exhortation. It tells of a weary teacher, a farmer’s wife, a bookkeeper and other women who endure through worry and work, and urges action and hope over delay. It also sketches dress details and a fashion moment focusing on a girl’s evolving palette of yellows and golds.
A survey of current dress styles notes grecian coiffure favored with opera costumes and dark satin gowns with lace trim. It highlights patent leather shoes, green and yellow color schemes, and accessories like a red English morocco bag with opera glasses. Also covered are schoolroom grooming tips, a shift toward neater personal presentation, and a feature on married women as breadwinners with social implications.
A writer debunks the myth that removing rattlesnake fangs makes them harmless. Fangs regrow within weeks, and even fangless snakes can deliver venom. Alcohol is not an antidote. Rattlers in the North are less deadly than larger southern diamondbacks, which inject more venom.
A narrator describes a train car conversation between Mrs Lamson and a new acquaintance. The talk centers on weather, rheumatism, daily burdens, and a wish to avoid extra travel. A separate note mentions King Haakon and Queen Maud passing through Copenhagen en route to Paris and King Frederick’s quip about kingship.
Sir Horace Plunkett tours the country urging farmer cooperatives in Ireland and the U S to improve markets and education. A new tobacco variety Uncle Sam Sumatra, grown in Connecticut from Sumatra seed, yields high wrapper quality with large leaves and strong 1000 pound per acre potential. Beet sugar values show 21 million for beets and 43 million for sugar from 1906 production. Tips on ripening green tomatoes and wintering cabbage outline storage methods and prices.
An inventor Otto Behnalts of Strassburg unveils an electric incubator for 50 100 or 200 eggs with automatic temperature and humidity control delivering about 90 percent hatch under normal conditions. A connected electric mother houses hatched chicks. The report also notes a Department of Agriculture seed germination bulletin describing a simple seed sprouter using porous clay, blotting paper, and glass cover. It cites Virginia fertilizer tests showing legume plowdown boosts yields with moderate fertilizer afterward.
Guidelines on guine fowl form and egg production grown in summer. Advice on cream spoilage and churning frequency. Instructions for spacing fruit trees and avoiding crowding. Tips for dark cool potato storage with ventilation. A recipe for a feed mix for sows including copperas sulfur and oil of men plus dosing guidance.
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