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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1913
Page
3
Numerous residents and visitors are noted in Walla Walla and Athena. Dr Watts of Weston and Dr Spoingle are among doctors noted in the city. Schools, millinery, real estate deals, and a charity carnival at the Athena opera house appear in local notices.
Local merchants arrange a week of Manion Claman Players plays with changing nightly shows. Merchants tickets offer free admission to the first hundred at 7:30 p.m. daily, with reserved seats for 250 additional patrons. The company brings new plays with special scenery and is praised by Pendleton papers. Beginning Monday Oct 6 the venue closes at 6 p.m. Saturdays. Mangrove Mercantile Co. Bitten by a dog. A two year old is bitten on the right face by a family dog. underwent surgery with anesthesia. The dog was killed days later. the child is recovering.
Carpeaux, the painter sculptor, sought to model Empress Eugenie. Napoleon III urged the commission, she initially refused, then posed for two hours. He produced a bust the Empress deemed pretty, turned away, and Carpeaux, angered, hurled it to the floor. The piece passed to Dr. Fournier and his son, who claim ownership after Eugenie rejected the sculpture.
Manchester Guardian recalls a 19th century incident with Henry Irving acting Othello alongside Miss Bateman. After a Saturday supper, Irving whispered a morbid line and Desdemona’s corpse produced a laugh from the audience. He reportedly never again broke his rule of seriousness on stage.
Excerpt discusses Lord Goschen’s struggles with legible handwriting and note taking in Parliament. A biographer notes his late father’s humorous claim that his poor writing hindered him, while a passage from India and the Indians describes workers urging bullocks with a song to speed mortar production, reflecting cultural contexts.
A Kansas City Journal item notes an Atchison woman and longtime schoolteacher who used a stern but novel approach with unruly children. She called her sons to a seat and proclaimed, I am surprised at, disgusted with, disappointed in and ashamed of you. The method aimed to curb misbehavior without harsh punishment.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a personal anecdote or sentence fragment referencing Miss Maymie and a Baltimore American source. No clear event, date, or actions are legible to establish a full news item.
A fragment notes a woman not keeping her husband’s name and references a divorce. The clipping implies social commentary on marriage naming, with a terse exchange about what the term means and suggests a divorce discussion.
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