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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
7
Purifying remedies, yeast recipes, preserves, and household tips fill this mixed feature. Hood's Sarsaparilla touted for blood purification while recipes describe pear preserves, yeast breads, and a versatile gas stove broiler attachment with practical cooking advice.
J L Radlock at Washington State College reports the Washington Berkshire Association gains temporary president E A Bryan and outlines plans to form a state group allied with the American Berkshire Congress. The drive aims to promote Berkshire hogs ahead of the Alaska Yukon exposition in Seattle with hopes of strong regional exhibits and state station support. Bryan announces officers and directors including Paul Clagstone Spokane secretary J H Smith and treasurer W D Goodrich with directors A M Stevens Ellensburg A A Bomerville Centralia Plenny Shepardson Castle Rock W W Shields Sprague D C Dilworth Spokane.
Federal Agriculture Department releases for free via Superintendent of Documents. Bulletins cover irrigation practices among Pacific coast fruit growers, irrigation canal structures, and annual irrigation and drainage investigations. Includes plans, prices, and reprint details, plus Yakima Valley irrigation notes and evaporative studies.
A collage of quips and snippets from a late 19th or early 20th century page features wry exchanges about dictation, misheard phrases, a pawnbroker joke, and satirical lines on society. It includes lines on philanthropy, a joke about a grand high killer maker, fatal health ads, and humorous exchanges about dialects, bread from peanut meal, and politics.
A garbled Chicago Tribune fragment discusses the phrase sacred cow and its corruption from wick ed cow. It notes a pupil with a large shoulder bump and mentions the strong jaws of a wasp capable of cutting through cells, presenting a jumble of topics from knowledge availability to insect power.
A shredded historical page fragment features quips about etiquette and technology. It includes garbled debate on kissing and escalation, a child telephony joke, and stray captions about piano lessons. A Philadelphia Telegraph anecdote describes a boy answering delayed after being asked multiple times.
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