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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1910
Page
5
A quirky collage notes bread's shifting value for children from fresh to stale and baked crisp, urging cautious feeding to prevent dental issues. It also recounts a local author seeking his new book at the library, with a librarian quip about release status, and a joke about a vacuum cleaner’s misadventure on a grandpa’s face.
Fort Wayne resident Miss Mabel F Dawkins reports three years of catarrh and blood disease. After trying many doctors and remedies, Hood's Sarsaparilla allegedly cured her after two bottles. She urges others to try Hood's, and mentions a chocolate tablet form called Sarsatabe.
In a reflective piece, observers question the fate of traditional cradles as hygiene trends favor antiseptic beds and sleep reforms. The discussion links sentimentality for rocking to artists and poets, imagining future songs about a gleaming modern cradle.
Mrs. Hetty Green plans retirement from active business and will transfer control of her estimated $50 million fortune to daughter Sylvia Wilks as health and age limit her efforts. Sylvia, married to Matthew Astor Wilks, has long been groomed to manage the wealth with Edward Green, the son, pursuing other ambitions. The transfer is expected within weeks as Green’s health declines.
A reflection on seeking forms for daily grace including literary works and moonlight rambles. The essay discusses books as spiritual repasts and questions a grace before Milton and Shakespeare. It also notes Dyak practices of burying wealth with the dead and the impact on widows when heirs die, leaving families penniless.
A poem warning that true failure lies in putting wealth, control, and work above character. It cites lacking self confidence, bullying, fear of admitting wrong, neglecting health and happiness, and ignoring neighbors and friends as marks of a failed life.
A compilation of disparate notes covers harpy eagles, London streets and trams, Canadian farmers, Paris Berlin Moscow street food, London theater electric lamps of 1878, Costa Rica finance, Chile wheat yield, U S wheat per acre, long travels of Newitt Baldwin to Verona church, Smyrna exports shifts, opium and carpet shipments, Mary Bruen teaching life, and Maurice Maeterlinck commentaries on public talk and drama Bluebird.
A Chicago Daily News item notes a playful quarrel as Willie asks what a bookworm is. The father explains a bookworm is someone who would rather read or eat a book, depending on interpretation, in a light domestic moment.
A fragmented OCR piece mixes moral counsel on keeping cheerful temper with a child’s spanking anecdote and a physician’s street accident report. It references Mrs Winslow’s Comfort and a humorous line about a devil inside a boy and later notes a doctor asking if anyone is hurt after a horse frightenings.
A historical blurb touts Pettit's Eye Salve with claims of a century of sales in drugstores. It links hiccups to poor digestion and stomach trouble, advising temporary cures like dissolved sugar, hot water sips, and gargling with tea water as remedies.
The reader asks whether clam digging falls under fed agriculture or another category. The fragment references a Prof and a dubious quote about virtue and salvation, seemingly from a historical or mixed text, raising questions about classification of clam digging activities in agricultural policy.
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