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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1913
Page
4
An old laboratory promotion claims a weeded purifying product named 8.8.8 from Swift Epocufic Co offers a vegetable alternative to minerals. It urges readers to request a free book on blood diseases and cautions against cheaper drugs.
A Mobile sermon on bar morals cites Colonel Byrne using an almanac to prove no moon on a murder night. The quip yields a $500 fee and a $400 moral-tax punchline about printing costs. Other items parody political reporting and an Alms for children remedy, ending with a Gladstone joke about horns and age.
A cited specialist claims a home recipe can destroy the dandruff germ in one to three applications, stop hair loss, and even revive growth after baldness. The mixture includes Bay Rum Lagona de Compaseo menthol crystals, mixed and applied nightly. A note adds perfuming helps blend, with a claim of restoring gray hair to its original color.
A veteran observer breaks down how grand opera salaries vanish in season costs. From $40,000 gross per American season at 40 performances to net under $400 weekly after living, agents, coaches, and travel are deducted, many stars face lean years before Europe offers any relief.
Article warns that widespread San Jose scale and bronze birch borer pests demand sprays and strict inspection. It notes historic shifts from carefree fruit gathering to required treatment with lead arsenate, paris green, cyanide and Bordeaux mixtures, urging timely pruning and burning of infested birch limbs to curb spread.
A Victorian style exchange jokes about choosing a spouse by age and finances. A Courier Journal quip mocks a man marrying on his deathbed for wealth. The piece notes Upper Barmah as home to the world's richest ruby mines since the 1600s.
The text advises selecting hogs with strong build and alert appearance, avoiding long-legged or plump hogs to maintain breeding quality. It urges farmers to adopt farm-management systems to improve hog industry profitability. It also notes choosing a cock that matures early, with bright comb, wattles, and scrappiness for earlier offspring.
A dinner of firemen heard a pithy toast about ladies' eyes kindling a flame that cannot be extinguished and no cure for their apprehension. Mrs Const mocks the half that doesn’t know how the other half lies, while her husband calls her words a fault.
A judge recalls a quip about Mazie Gayway saying she makes her husband pay a dollar for each kiss as she saves for a limousine. The exchange suggests she might have saved more if her plan had started earlier with Gayway.
A clipped exchange shows an animal lover puzzled by an unnamed thing. A practical friend suggests the possibility that it might be cats, reflecting humorous misremembered dialogue and casual banter.
From Both Sides describes steamers plying between England and Holland equipped with apparatus enabling lifeboats to be launched from either side of a vessel.
A Louisville reader and a Texas woman report relief from nervous weakness and displacement after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. They credit renewed energy and bladder relief to the tonic, noting improved daily work and health. The ad promotes confidential replies from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. backed by reader testimonials.
A damaged OCR fragment contrasts a wife and husband dialogue with a debate about Lister and his antiseptic dressing. The text references the Toronto Globe and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, noting reactions to his discovery and fame in terse, provocative lines.
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