Athena park praised at farmers picnic in Oregon
Athena residents celebrated a new city park at a Saturday farmers picnic. The grove, purchased with a town effort, drew praise from Pendleton visitors and was cited by the West Oregonian as central to the day’s enjoyment. Citizens sold the adjacent tract for park use and plan homes on the remainder.
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New City
Pendleton
West Oregonian
Athena
Plains
Oregon
Athens
Hollow roadbeds with middle drainage praised by midwest advocate
A midwestern road promoter argues that roads should be hollowed with drainage in the middle to align with nature. He says wheel and hoof action hollow the center, and middle drainage yields dry roads, less grading, and less maintenance.
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Middle States
Fourth of July hunt prize offered for missing horses
A farmer near Athena Oregon offers a $10 reward for information leading to the recovery of two horses missing from his farm north of Athena. A brown filly three years old and a black yearling named Ally with a white hind foot are believed missing. Contact Oliver Dickenson in Athena for tips.
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Athena
Weston Oan
Oliver Dickenson
Oregon
The Kettledrum A Difficult Yet Distinct Instrument
Jessie K. MacDonald notes the kettledrum’s limited four note range and copper basin design.Tuning requires screws and parchment changes, often using paired drums for keynote and fourth below, demanding a skilled musician with a sensitive ear, steady hand, and nerve.
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Europe
Jessie K. MacDonald
Nicholas
Modern Royalty and Sneezing Folklore Across Cultures
The piece contrasts the failings of modern royalty with hopes for a virtuous king and notes sneezing folklore across cultures. It cites Cleveland Lender on the king’s impracticality and suggests royalty now teeters between comedy and farce. It then surveys customs in Jews, English, Brazilian settlers, Filipino, and Suffolk beliefs about sneezing and blessings.
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Cleveland
Brazil
London Sphere
The Water Clock and Ancient Timekeeping
The earliest clepsydra motion device was built by Teiang Hung in A D 126 using an orrery driven by water. In the sixth century a Chinese instrument used water discharge to indicate time, with a bird beak feeding a balance to show fractions of a day. Mercury later replaced water in clepsydras as technique evolved.
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Teiang Hung
China
Victim of Circumstances
A dialog describes an Englishman confined to his room as a victim of circumstances after shoes left outside his door were allegedly kicked into an area by a passerby. The exchange, marked by a coffee salesman and a hateslesman, centers on the incident and the notion of cultural custom.
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Chicago
Phinny Gets Cold Storage Hit In Shamrocks Win
Athene’s nervy pitcher won his own game by a two hit bid off Monroe and a crucial homer. La Brasche’s homer sparked the Shamrocks to a 6-6 tie late, then Athena pulled ahead with two runs in the eighth. Pitchers’ duel as La Brasche struck out 11 and Monroe seven. Booze and disorder noted at Saturday games. Shamrocks face Chicago Ladies at Weston tomorrow afternoon.
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Fort Walla Walla
la Brasche
Shamrocks
Athena
Monroe
McFarland
la Bragade
Phinny
Ronkea
Lienallen
Niles
Samuel
Boya
LaBrasche
Strauas
Booner
Labragche
RHE
Walla Walla
Milton
Holdman
Chicago
Weston Tomorow
Repairing Watches at Palace Drug Store
We repair all kinds of mine and complicated watches including repeaters chronographs chiming and cuckoo clocks at H. H. Bill jeweler Palace Drug Store.
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Try
H. H. Bill
Jeweler Palace Drug Store
Hadn't one of us better die
In a chill autumn morning at London Academy a mother and father quarrel over space at a crowded breakfast table. A small child asks solemnly if one of them should die, capturing a tense family scene and questioning endurance in a crowded household.
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London Academy
Johnny Seeks Help After Trouble Question
A brief fragment shows a teacher scolding Johnny for arithmetic mistakes and suggesting he ask his father for help. Johnny replies he wasn’t seeking trouble, implying a misunderstanding or miscommunication with the dad figure present.
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Johnny
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F.B. Borp
Pususuen
Pontomes A Athena
Congress
Cathena, Obe
National Monthly
Norman EB. Mack
Buffalo
N. Y
Democrata
Mack
National Democratic Committee
Ravt
Wm. Glyndon
Iowa
United States
Board of Parole
Glyndon
Grundy County
Hawks
Commercial Association
Panama
Sachs
Aed
Nawes
Dell Brothers
Scobvinxes
Phiny
Shamrocks Paste
Wey
Parker's
Ore
ST. Nichols Hotel
J. E, Froome, Prop
ST. Nichols
Tum-A-Lum Lumber CO
A. M. Johnson
K, T. Kidder
McArthur
City Meat Market
J. H. Stone
Main Street
J. I. Stone
American National Bank
Pendleton Savings Bank
Commercial National Bank of
T. J. Morris
W. L. Thompson
W.s
Badle
N. D. Sloan
T.G. Montgomery
Ass't
Parker-Stone
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