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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
4
Instructions explain crafting an Austrian top from wood with a pine handle 6% inches long and 3/4 inch thick. A 3/4 inch hole and 1/16 inch entry hole accompany a cord winding method to launch the top, using common broom handles or hardwood rounds.
The girls discuss a silly love charm using chestnuts to reveal affection and a friend mocks luck by invoking the idea that effort beats chance. The piece then recalls Ruth Choate the great lawyer who valued hard work and struggle and quips that one should not rely on chance for achievement.
A fragmentary column blends odd phrases about Eye Salve and a cryptic note on Baconian theory. It references Shakespeare and a humorous reply from a Mr Stormington Barnes about Bacon possibly crafting a tale to retaliate against Shakespeare for prior misdeeds.
A brief item notes a dental clinic named Painless Dentistry using a YouTube channel to raise awareness. The report mentions viewers and local engagement but provides few concrete details about dates or figures.
Fragmentary OCR verse lines show repeated phrases about saying and wishing to be a flower. The text references dray in the beds all day and indifference to motion. No clear event or identifiable entities are present.
A brief note explains converting a four wheeled cart into a hand propelled vehicle. Instructions cover removing the rear axle and replacing it with a crankstrapped axle. Wheels may be bought cheaply at a junk yard if a cart is not available.
A fragment discusses six million people laboring underground in mines and quarries, producing four billion in wealth yearly. It contrasts this vast labor force with a country that split from England to stand alone, and hints at social tensions between easygoing men and new, strict social orders.
An ad extols a laxative remedy using a desert spoon of Lump of Figs and Elixir of Senna to relieve headaches colds indigestion pains constipation and sour stomach. It claims the product is the world’s best family laxative and urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Co version with the company name on the package front.
The passage argues worry leads to hypochondria, describing a mentally but not physically ill person preoccupied with illness. It frames hypochondria as a morbid form of worry affecting men and women who feel ill with every indisposition.
An old fragment promotes Emerson quotes on living fully and contrasts a local moral exhortation with a marketing pitch for Pertier’s Eye Salve. The ad claims physicians use it and guarantees quality under government act, urging buyers not to be misled.
A description of crafting a wooden lever and crank from salvaged parts. It covers obtaining a rod, shaping a crank, and assembling levers with blocks, bolts, and cross pieces to create a pivot and handle for a wagon axle. The steps reference using a boat place rod and affixed blocks under the wagon for support.
A compact moral piece enumerating gifts from God shaping a boy’s life. It describes a clean body as a home for mind and soul, hands for helping others, feet for acts of love, lips for brave truths, ears for hearing virtue, and eyes for pursuing beauty and goodness. The text ends with a call to moral refinement as God’s fingerprint on nature.
Fragmentary text shows a teacher asking where a lesson begins and a boy named Tommy responds with a misheard word rod. The dialogue hints at a classroom confusion about start and end points and a recurring error marked by Tommy rubbing his tuck.
An article explains two main hay nutrients flesh forming protein and energy supplying carbohydrates and oils. It details protein’s role in building muscles and tissues, compares energy values across hay types, and provides digestible nutrient figures for alfalfa, cowpea, clover, redtop, timothy, and more.
Secretary Wilson highlights the economic benefits of painting farm buildings and equipment. The bulletin covers cost, purchase, care of brushes, mixing and applying paints including whitewash and calemine, and outlines safety and health precautions for workers handling lead paints turpentine and benzine.
Advice to prepare window boxes for next spring by burning soil to sterilize it. Use dry, burned soil under a sheet iron over a fire, fill a barrel, store in a dry place, then plant seeds next spring to deter weeds.
A fragment describes an automobile plow and plowing efficiency, noting how the device tills 12 acres daily. It references Congress funding for agricultural and experiment stations forty years ago and praises the progress made to aid farmers.
The piece argues that investing in liberal education for rural youths yields better returns than larger sums spent on land. It stresses education helps boys and girls compete and endure future challenges, favoring practical schooling over excessive land purchases, and highlights spring horse prices and farm asset decisions as related considerations.
A dense fog hides hazards up to 1000 feet with an Anchor line steamer collision cited as proof. Passengers heard echoes from cabin walls though the iceberg remained invisible. Additional notes tout eye remedies and assorted ads amid a miscellany of tidbits and an England dating notice.
A collage of captions and quips from old papers, including playful lines about management at a distance, foot care products, marriage and social humor, a medical claim about piles, a breed of horse show note, and a wary joke about light under a bushel. These items reflect period advertising style and social wit with brief, punchy statements.
An old advertisement urges mothers to use Ayer s Cherry Pectoral and Ayer s Pills for children s coughs and lazy liver. It emphasizes doctor consultation, no alcohol, and sugar coated pills for kids. The copy, aimed at households, promotes preparedness for illness and parental responsibility.
Waste from Southwark is ground to a powder and sold as manure. In St Ouen the powder is mixed with combustible substances to create a cheap fuel.
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