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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
2
A fragmented piece examines gender roles in home life, etiquette, and dress. It discusses women managing households, entertaining guests, and maintaining appearances, with advice on cooking, cleaning, social visits, and fashion trends alongside medical and dietary tips.
A scattered compilation: home made negligees with lace and ribbons, delicate collars, and black spangled robes ideas. health tips and lotions. wage data for German female laborers. infant mortality statistics. a Cape Colony tragedy and a London auction of Grace Darling’s medal. profiles of women in Pennsylvania and Yale University expeditions.
A London Daily News piece argues that true peace is found only in London Town despite cows, dogs, poultry, motors, and nightingales. Dr. Robinson of Shoreditch cites country noise as worse, noting uproar from motor omnibuses and birds and calling London the lone place for rest from such clatter.
A collage of notes on dairy and butter industry, imports, and taxation in Japan and Canada. Mentions include oleomargarine in Syria, a Iowa inventor for butter packaging, dairy and poultry values in 1907, maple fields of Maine wild lands, and Canada-US trade. Ends with reflections on New York study and Lord Roberts’ table at Peshawar anniversary.
Thackeray favored Goldsmith and the “sweet lyric singers” Prior and Gay for humor and melody. He admired Pope and Milton’s greatness but found Milton unreadable and avoided grandiose “big bow wow” poetry. The passage contrasts his literary tastes with a caution about delayed gratitude.
A. J. Umholtz describes crafting a wooden harrow from oak in two wings and a middle section. The tool folds, clears trees and stumps, and avoids stitching the team, suited for orchards and rough terrain. The piece includes notes on cheese box imports and tree care methods, plus agronomy tips on humus, soil nitrogen, and apple grading practices.
The article discusses balancing rations with alfalfa or clover to offset corn’s soil effects, noting nitrogen cycling by plants. It covers horse condition indicators, how to trim trees to avoid decay, turning sawdust into fuel via steam pressing, and rapid growth of turnip seeds on peat soils.
The column warns buyers to avoid low grade nitrate of soda and adulterants like common salt or salt cake. It notes original 200 pound bags improve handling versus old 1 pound bags. It also shares a farmer’s method of watering horses to prevent overdrinking and bowel issues. Wood ashes are recommended for gardens and orchards, broadcast in quantities up to 100 bushels per acre on certain soils.
A drainage project twenty four and a quarter miles long will drain about 5000 acres of town lands toward Morena and Harrison Counties. The cost is estimated at 750000 dollars. The ditch will empty into the Missouri River just above Little Sioux, reclaiming swamp land to create valuable tare land in the state.
A home remedy advises mixing two parts sweet oil one part gum camphor one part turpentine with ten grains menthol and one teaspoonful tetrine per ounce. Administer a small drop into the roof of the mouth and nostrils twice daily.
Farmers advise planting orchard trees not too deep and completing hogging down corn before heavy snows. The method separates ears on seed corn to discard inferior ears, improving overall yield.
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