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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1928
Page
5
Irwin Edman argues in Harper's that idleness in America is framed as a sin. Leisure spawns melodrama and moral self-improvement while night life and culture blur into noise. He notes people escape into parties and feign culture while spontaneity vanishes from genuine life.
A scene shows a friend receiving a call, with a playful misidentification as she answers. The conversation turns practical as she asks the caller to pick up salt mackerel on the way home, hinting at domestic routines and light humor.
The Bangkok Slam Daily Mail reports roaming vendors in Siam sell beans foods goods garments and materials at department store prices. Health figures indicate peddlers’ wares meet standards and prove beneficial to most Bangkok residents.
A pocket sundial is among curios in the Old Court house collection at Hampton Court. It features a hinged style with a movable pointer and a compass at the top. The back lists town names by numbers for telling time across countries.
An Indianapolis boy, six, was asked questions from an intelligence test book used by canvassing saleswomen. He puzzled over two queries and drew laughs with his replies. When asked what animal yields pork he said porcupine and when asked what bees yield he said stung.
A set of local sale notices lists Jersey milk cow hay bull calf and Jersey bull calf for sale. Listings include John Tompkins Helix Hamilton Player piano Henry Koepke Athena pasture by Ralph Allen Knapp and Claud Dickenson offering team work and plowing services with contact numbers and locations in Athena Oregon.
The article notes Stevenson’s winter gloom in Edinburgh and suggests cold may have influenced his blunder in The Master of Ballantrae. It cites his plea to translator Marcel Schowb to alter a line about a sword being thrust into frozen ground to avoid an exaggerated image.
The piece compares laughter to yeast in bread, a leaven that lightens life and makes it palatable. It urges readers not to fear smiling and to “pop” things up a little to brighten daily routines.
A reflective note on the saying one picture is worth a thousand words. The piece contrasts Chinese pictorial writing with ideographs and observes that pictures help memory and understanding for both children and adults across cultures.
An anxious bride questions the groom during the wedding, crying that he looks cold and no longer loves her. The groom pleads, asking what is wrong as she notes his repeated window gaze and growing unease.
Oregon licensed physician Dr. Mellenthin offers treatments for stomach liver and other ailments with notable patient examples from Marshfield Condon Empire Bonanza and more. Free consultation on this trip. patients urged to bring spouses for married women. address 224 Bradbury Bldg Los Angeles California.
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