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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1910
Page
5
The piece notes that harmonious sounds please the ear while discordant noises irritate. Sweet music and natural sounds soothe the listener. harsh noises like a rusty hinge or banging piano can irritate and, if prolonged, may foster nervousness.
A collage of brief items including a park scene with a toddler’s somersault, a note on Addison’s 1716 marriage to the dowager countess of Warwick, a tip for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Singapore rubber planting on waste land, an eye salve advert, a French woman who has slept 80 days, a quip on love being blind, and Bank of England discounting practices.
In a brisk aside, The Trouble cites Dawdly asking for a capable seller of stories, noting he would pay well for someone who can market them. The Philadelphia Inquirer references the exchange as a glimpse into Dawdly’s entrepreneurial mindset and demand for story sales.
A Somerset resident William Broome, ninety four, has lived his whole life in a single cottage in Stathe by the River Parrett. He remains active and has never taken medicine, with six living descendants. Nearby pages reference church ornaments, the Old Lambeth church, and a peddler's acre portrait legend.
An advertisement touts Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters as superior stomach aid for poor appetite indigestion dyspepsia and headaches. It claims thousands of proven cases and urges trying a bottle today while warning to refuse substitutes.
A man dining alone overheard four ladies chatter in a crowded restaurant. The din swelled with jokes about Polly, a calf, onions, and a kitchen of roasting and frying, ending with a suggestive boast of further lines. The exchange remains a humorous if ribald snapshot of lively table talk.
A humorous vignette features a traveling clock seller offering tiny wooden Swiss clocks to a cottage resident. The housewife jokes the clocks could be dangerous in summer because the woodtek mechanism may swell or fail.
A whimsical scene unfolds in a lunch room as a new patron orders plain steak plain potatoes and plain bread. A witty waitress retorts about plain everything including the water trees, while the boats? observer misses the moment as an apple dessert is mischievously served.
The fragment shows a witty exchange between Howard and Coward about control over ties and hair styling in marriage. It mentions selling ties and choosing hairstyle as leverage, framed as a light household squabble.
Beetle notes the old foot doctor owns a car and seems to profit from many centipede patients. Wille Worm teases that the doctor is nearly a relative, a second cousin named Booth. The quote hints at money influencing love and education in a breezy, ironic tone.
The fragmentary text references two wealthy individuals named Tom And and Jack It suggests a question about an invitation or meeting amid unclear context and missing details. The draft presents no clear event, dates, or entities to verify.
The piece argues for disciplined education to temper the mind for virtue and high good. It questions public vice, notes penitentiaries’ lack of appeal to self styled honest men, cites parental motive via a framed school certificate, and unveils a Wisconsin inventor's tool chest that converts into a work bench for manual training schools.
A man who asserted he knew what he was talking about is always justified in suspecting that you may harbor a reasonable doubt about his claims. The remark frames trust and doubt in matters of stated expertise and intent.
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