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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
4
Odd court dialogue features a judge questioning provocation as a prisoner claims strike over a bill. The exchange reveals a humorous, confused scene with witnesses and a comic misreading of legal terms. Oil and pencil manufacturing notes drift into unrelated topics alongside references to a Danell notory and police recruit programs.
Mrs M J Brownell of Manaton Wis testifies to relief from pale skin night sweats and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for a year. She praises the product’s effect on her health and urges others to seek guidance from the company, noting letters are read by a woman in strict confidence.
Fragmentary reminiscence recounts a famed man who spent vast wealth and devoted life to a cause. Neighbors watch as an old man delivers a mock elegy, praising a vanished life. A dramatic dressing room moment centers on choosing between cherished items and a city directory, ending with a driver’s urging to hurry.
A fragmented local scene shows a talking shopkeeper and a housewife at a market as a man jokes about selecting goods. The dialogue includes odd phrases and nonsensical product mentions. The text preserves period voice with casual street talk and unclear surrounding events.
A garbled text fragment from a Punch like piece references a boarding house, a dog howling mournfully, a passenger on a German steamship cured by a pancake with cranberry bottles, and scattered humorous lines about weddings, hotels, and scotch. The content is nonsensical and includes various old timey phrases and misprints.
Fragmented text depicts a chaotic mix of medical terms, remedies, and asserted cautions about substances. It mentions blood, nourishing elements, and claims of medical promotion, with references to windiclan and various ailments. The passage reads like a garbled historical note on health and remedy rhetoric.
An old farm advice piece warns against early spring grazing and promotes humane, careful feeding of cattle and hogs. It advocates spending more on grain and housing to keep animals healthier through late winter and early spring, and recommends tobacco wash or oil and carbonic acid mixtures to combat lice, with practical application methods.
A 19th century style note outlines spreading manure on meadow or pasture in late summer or fall. It advises harrowing, disking, and shallow plowing to incorporate manure, suggesting optional yearlong resting on idle land if immediate plowing is impractical. The practice aims to improve soil and prepare reseeding beds when erase or grass is growing.
In the illustrated guide a rabbit trap is shown with a wire door and trigger. The drawing explains the wire door lifted and turned, the trigger pushed forward, and the door fitted to the top before being nutted on. The trap shows the door loosened from the trigger and falling behind the rabbit as it enters the trap.
The readable portion describes a crude device with a top and bottom rest, a Baltic handle, a wire door, and a trigger mechanism to trap a rat. It includes notes about spaces, a carrot or apple, and a back gate. The text resembles an OCR fragment from a historical page.
A garbled historical passage discusses cattle, milk, and farming practices. It mentions removing openings, tightening crates, and the unknown outcomes of winter and spring, with unclear references to producers, systems, and potential costs. The fragment lacks coherent events or identifiable entities.
A long, mixed set of home tips on washing woolen blankets with cold water borax soap and slow drying, plus cleaning of quilts with gasoline or kerosene, and methods to refresh cotton blankets and linen. It also includes sewing and kitchen guidance from baking to carving, plus a panel on window curtain devices to keep drapes tidy.
A fragmented onward from old kitchen notes details clambake chowder with clam liquor, potatoes, salt pork, milk, crackers, and butter, plus a German potato salad recipe with bacon, onion, hot vinegar and water, served as a hearty utility guide. It also mentions food value notes and cleaning techniques for kitchenware.
A garbled excerpt shows a tale where a Darbar who just fathered a child is abruptly told he won a big lottery prize and retires, while a disruptive dialogue mentions telegraph bills and guaranteed repairs. The fragment hints at wealth, commerce, and dramatic reversal in Louisville area readings.
A fragment recounts a moment at Startiton Virginia where President Wilson paused his speech upon a boy shouting asks where it is. Wilson smiles and replies to the eager child, then a distant remark about a 1914 New York Times style cartoon comparison appears in the text.
A jumble of stray lines mentions Putnam Fadeless Dyes and fading goods, a London hall act, a professor’s curtain exit and an apology to management. Other items reference warts treatment, dynamite, a divorce, custody question, and a hydraulic valve gate built in Germany.
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