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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
5
A Miss Helen Sauerbier recalls a Peruna remedy experience from September 1901 in Saint Joseph Michigan. She details catching a sudden cold, its catarrhal effects, loss of appetite, and mood before using Peruna. Within three days phlegm loosened and appetite returned.
An advertisement extols Kasparilla as a universal tonic aiding digestion and liver health with a money back guarantee. A humor piece follows about a keen observer judging a witness’s guilt. Jokes include a liver price quip and a mushroom eating rule in a Seattle Mapleine promotion with recipes.
An old advertisement promises a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease for sore swollen feet and helps with hard shoes. It claims to cure corns ingrown nails and bunions. A side note quotes a guest describing a man near the head of the table as a blood boiler, a writer of shocking stories on cruelty.
The article explains how poultry and egg prices track wheat and corn trends, urging farmers to weigh feeding costs against marketing grain. It includes a detailed experiment on Leghorn hen feed costs, estimating per-fowl yearly costs and egg returns, and discusses cheaper by products and insect forage. It also gives mushroom safety tips and fruit-growing guidance for Washington region.
A recipe outlines heating tomato juice then creaming butter with flour, adding salt and pepper, cooking five minutes. Butter a baking dish, layer unbeat eggs, cover with the hot mixture, top with bread crumbs, and brown in the oven about twenty minutes.
A vintage cake recipe outlines mixing two cups brown sugar with half cup butter and two eggs, add baking soda dissolved in a gill of boiling water, melt two squares of chocolate in a gill of water, then stir in two cups flour. Bake in a sheet and cover with white frosting when cooled. An alternate method bakes in layers with white frosting, flavoured with vanilla.
A fragmentary exchange hints at a haunted scene with a departed girl and an attendant spirit. The dialogue touches on thawing her out briefly and references to Mrs Winslow and a respectful mix-up about addressing Mr Michage as an old gentleman.
Fragmentary reminiscence of unusual phrases with names like Et Vitus Dance and references to Philadelphia hints battles and troutinn. The text includes dialogue about a race to decide who pays for dinner and a Chicago Tribune quotation, creating a scattered, puzzle like record of a clipped newspaper page.
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