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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1910
Page
5
A John Burroughs quotation critiques longing for distant realms and urges appreciation of the current world as a marvelous, divine, inward experience. It compares life to an apple on a cosmic tree, bursting with life and potency beyond imagined realms.
Advertisement style note on Allen's Foot Tabs claiming instant relief for smarting swelling and sweating of feet with antiseptic properties. Mentions inclusion of anise and powder form, price 25c, available from LeRoy New York. Also includes unrelated fragments on match production and Harper's Weekly illustration notes about shaving and cutting blocks into matches.
Arizona presents grand scenery including the Grand Canyon and Chalcedony forest with thick trunks. In Yarmouth England a dog rescue unfolds as a second dog falls into a river and the captured animal spends the night at the police station. Lovers Leap bars sitting five minutes under a craggy tree. A pup price discussion reveals Uncle Bill asks two dollars per pup.
Slightly Modified Little Viola chews her thumb even during meals, mother’s remedies fail, and Viola jokes she’d hate to swallow it since she’d have a heaven of a time. Pettit's Eye Salve advertised as restoring normal conditions for diseased eyes. A mosquito proof steamer, the Jonathan Holt, arrives in the Mersey for Liverpool West Africa trade with copper gauze to block malaria mosquitoes. A Scraps exchange caption jokes about a noisy bass drum and trombone comparing it to a loud person.
A warning about loss of appetite and a careless attitude toward meals. Encourages using Hostetter's Bitters to restore appetite and prevent illness, noting indigestion costiveness and anemia as possible causes.
John Smith sustained multiple injuries after a fall on the collar stairs. He fractured limbs and ribs, damaged his nose and scalp, and sprained his ankle, with a shoulder out of joint. He only felt the pain after his wife questioned his condition.
The Deaf Times recounts two men seen talking on top of a omnibus. One asks for advice while confessing love to Mabel. He tries to propose but clumsy hands fail and Mabel lowers the gas, leaving whether she helped or hindered unclear, a mix of embarrassment and humor.
In Yonkers, a child named Ethel admits to taking a second piece of cake despite being told not to. Her mother questions the lapse as the neighbor notes understanding. The light exchange ends with a teaching moment about restraint.
A dialogue shows Ashley noting Lawyer Black will not accept non merchant tailor clients. Seymour questions the rule as odd. Ashley explains Black targets meat business connections via merchant tailors with daily new salts to try.
Gladys ends engagement with Jorkins as she recalls he was the star of her existence. A quip asks if he carries a pistol, noting if he is a shooting star Gladys should beware.
Private Muldoon was absent this morning at roll call. Sergeant Doolan scolds him to be honest about his absence next time his name is called.
A man from St. Louis states he loves green peas but cannot eat them. A Chicago diner asks why. The response: he cannot keep them on his knife.
Reverie restores color and force to tired thoughts after a hot day. It fertilizes memory, awakening sleeping germs and gathering materials for future talent. Reverie is the Sunday of thought, perhaps more fruitful than weekly labor.
A quirky mix of dialogue on trust and candy poison fears, a Napoleon era alarm clock with calendar features, a note on Russia’s eighty year marriage ban, Makart’s taciturnity at dinner, child obedience teaching, insect powers, a house fly wingbeat fact, and a German invention Rentnite touted as a celluloid substitute.
A humorous exchange about English slang reveals a duke’s urgent cable to attend a daughter’s London wedding. The dialogue hints at cross Atlantic expectations and paternal confusion over who must “come across” for the occasion.
A municipal drug store has opened in St Peters burg offering medicines at about 20 percent less than other pharmacies. The note expresses approval and a desire for similar stores elsewhere.
In a Welsh infant school lesson on handwriting the teacher used sign language to teach oblique horizontal and perpendicular guards for letters. A bishop preaching at the scene, noticing whispering pupils, held his hand upright as a warning. The pupils loudly shouted perpendicular in response, disrupting the service.
The Belgian sea front extends about 40 miles from Holland to France and is paved along nearly the full length forming a vast ocean boulevard. It stands as the kingdom's most productive public work, enhancing travel and commerce.
Fragmentary OCR text provides no clear people places or events. The readable bits mention scattered terms and initials with no coherent narrative or identifiable entities to summarize into a factual news item.
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