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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1907
Page
3
A collage of old ads and short excerpts including medical claims for deafness cures, ear tube surgery notes, catarrh remedies, and kidney pills. Also brief items on Rothschild history, a court joke, and various product pitches from early 20th century newspapers.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer piece Letitia Brown notes households stop using salt bags for dish cloths as salt moves to boxes and sugar bags rise in use. Mrs Brown mentions a servant washing bag marks for reuse as handkerchiefs, while Mr Brown contemplates their own housekeeping future.
The text cites Millais on rabbit swimming with head high and hind legs surfacing at each stroke. It also recounts unusual animal comebacks in burrows with ferrets foxes cats stoats and rabbits and rats. Millais notes hare strides of about four feet and rabbits two feet with leaps up to six seven feet and walls of five to six feet high.
A fragment from a humor column recalls Aunt Hepsy reacting with ecstasy to Ike's fiancée Maria. She jokes about recalling her name, jokes about a temporary last name, and the room laughs at the misremembered detail.
An elderly engineer, Mark All, arrived in London after years of wandering to prove that age does not end useful labor. He left Fleet Street on August 6, 1900, aiming to walk 100000 miles in seven years, with conditions including no begging or public exhibitions. He has traveled through much of Europe and plans a week in London before continuing to New Haven and Dieppe.
A witty exchange appears in the Baltimore American with a gloomy young lady and a practical suitor debating table pleasures and consumption, highlighting humor about dining and appetite. The brief dialogue reflects social tone and clever wordplay characteristic of the era.
An advertiser touts PaZO Ointment promising to cure bleeding or protruding piles within six to fourteen days or money back. The text also cites a London serial request and mentions George Eliot's Middlemarch as the longest novel.
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