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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1913
Page
2
Local notes from Athena Oregon including advertising rates and postal details. The page references Seattle taxation, Washington politics, and national concerns with poems, editorials, and public notices. Mentions City Hall fire department call, Oregon osteopath ruling, and Ish Kabibble closing.
London Telegraph notes wedding customs from rosemary gifts to seal love, fear of leaving church by a different door, spur peal bells at banns, and the luck of dreaming of fairies before the ceremony in various regions of England.
The article recounts how poet Joaquin Miller adopted his name after a suggestion by Ina Coolbrith, preferring to identify with California. It also notes a Chicago stage anecdote where Albert Burridge and Theodore Thomas clash over stage whistle etiquette.
A collage of jokes and snippets from the era covers porch rockers psychic readings about houses, a shoe store sign gag, old time sandwich man, Florence wine parade, a French nobleman with rheumatism, misheard lines about marriage, domestic advice, and light humor from Chicago and Buffalo papers.
A Barnum & Bailey press rep, Tody Hamilton, tries to buy a two column ad from a Michigan weekly editor for Owosso shows. The editor refuses at 63 dollars, citing a note due for that amount and insisting the ad must run. Hamilton relents, paying the sum to secure the advertisement.
A collage of quotation on plagiarism including notes by Crane and Hammerton, then brief items on Prehistoric Belgium population estimates by Putot, origins of whist, Glasgow paving practices, and light quips from Boston Transcript. The readable segments present diverse small items without a single unified news lead.
Hellowe en pranke swept Athens Friday night from innocent frolics of younger youths in ghostly attire to property damage. Councilman N A Miller stood watch as vandals tore up Main street sidewalk before officers arrived and vanished. First National Bank entrance sullied with filth. Ed Kilgore fined for shooting offense, the only arrest. Hamp Booker of Weston and Cass Cannon of Athena plan to heat homes with new hot water systems this winter.
Notice states stock taken up at the Athens pound on November 2 1918 and to be sold November 11 1913 at 2 PM. identifies horses with weights and brands. Also provides multiple creditors notices in Umatilla County Oregon, appointing administrators York Dell and Stephen A Lowell and directing claims to be filed with attorneys in Athena and Pendleton within six months.
Notice announces executrix Rose Cornover offering for sale in Athens Oregon horses cattle wagon and farming implements with notes and time terms, then a summons in Umatilla County Circuit Court against Harry Brown by First National Bank of Athens for 826 dollars with 6 percent interest and court costs, published by Homer L Watts attorney.
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