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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
4
The fragment blends Harper's Weekly notes on henna in lower Egypt with legends naming the Wanderer as Carta Philus or Alasuerus. It trails into a cheap appliance tip for dust removal and ends with a moral urging to avoid repeating unkind words, promoting truthful speech.
The term mutt traces to mutton head a derisive ancient phrase for a stupid fellow akin to dune derhead and puddin head. An old publication notes Columbus taught a parcel of muttonheady that an egg might be polved on the smaller end.
A Tennessee story of Flynn and his coal black stallion Dusky Pete. At Grace meeting a local favorite doubted the outsider. Judge Mo Minames declared a dark horse would prevail, and Pete surged to win the race, giving rise to the term.
A Yonkers party tale describes a choking guest who was saved by sucking lemon halves. Citric acid reportedly melted the bone into gelatine within minutes. In Switzerland a fawn and a St Bernard form an unlikely bond, the dog guiding and guarding the young deer as it grows taller.
A city director laments the difficulty in recommending a beauty doctor to women guests. Hotel clerks echo the need for immediate beauty services, while many beauty specialists fail to produce trustworthy results. The director distributes ads to appease conscience and readers, noting customers will decide who to trust and bear the cost.
A British warship Ardeola sighted a large school of flying fish near the Canary Islands. Several fish flew aboard and were eaten by the crew as welcome additions to the mess. One specimen measured 19 inches, the largest recorded, with the Apollo catch never exceeding 20 inches. The captain fried the big fish for breakfast.
Family returns from work to a laundry mix up as two brothers spar over ownership of garments. The elder, a printer, claims a shirt by an ink spot while the younger, a lumber yard worker, retorts the garment must bear universal marks to be his. The fragment ends without resolution.
A housekeeper notes economical vegetarian soups to replace meat, detailing recipes for fresh garden pepper and onion soup, pepper paste with milk, brown onion soup with stock, and a lettuce rice soup. A farmer shares sheep stock tips from land improvement to winter lambing, culling, ram buying, and feed strategies using oats straw and roots for winter stamina.
A recipe for a chocolate sponge pudding with sugar, flour, baking powder, boiling water and vanillin. Bake in a moderate oven, cool, cut into two inch squares, and serve with a creamy chocolate topping made from milk sugar corn starch unsweetened chocolate and butter in a double boiler.
A recipe describes boiling cider sauce with sugar and butter then pouring over a pudding batter. It instructs preheating, not fully boiling, and serving with a fruit topping. The batter uses buttermilk lard flour and baking powder with a cherry or fruit filling in teacups steamed for an hour.
A dated recipe describes making rye bread with rye flour molasses salt shortening and boiling water. It instructs scalding the mixture adding yeast moistening with water and white flour, allowing rising overnight, then baking about forty five minutes for four large loaves.
A new tea table model converts into a tray with folding automatic legs and a box shaped tray measuring 27 by 17 inches and 84 inches high when legs are opened. Variants include mahogany with brass handles, satin wood, or inlaid styles with plated or sterling rims. The tray can hold a card board covered with green cloth.
Farmers seek replacement of aging orchards as timber buyers purchase ancient apple trees for tool candies. The writer recalls an 80 year old grandfather planted a seedling orchard and named a tree Bil's Apple, still bearing. Two historic trees yielded wood for a ceremonial gavel used by the descendant society, while a nearby pear orchard lies nearby.
Transcribed from the plantings by Harter describe seedlings as grafted from a 276 year old tree. Although young and in poor condition, the trees bear fruit of the same quality and appearance as the original Boston orchard, suggesting durable lineage and similar flavor.
The first season grapes grow freely and are pruned back in the next season to three or four eyes. After spring buds, keep the two strongest shoots as canes forming permanent arms, bearing upright shoots for future fruit. Pruning is best from December to March and should target fruit on new wood, not last year's growth.
On half an acre we grew warted Hubbard and Orange Marrow squash, market varieties, yielding over 560 matured specimens and netting $85. A note on grape cuttings advises planting in spring as the ground can be worked.
The Seed Laboratory examined imported forage plant seeds and found low vitality and stiffness in many lots. Analyses show germination rates as low as 7 percent for alsike clover and red clover in Canadian imports, with high weed content and prices far above market value for seed quality.
The report shows Massachusetts leading cranberry output with about 400 000 bushels annually. New Jersey follows with roughly 859 000 bushels and Wisconsin about 100 000 bushels.
A fragmented note describes cleaning velvet with a brush to restore a hat or gown. The handwriting hints at removing bald areas and improving fabric appearance, noting an army presence in the scene and the need for careful handling of the velvet.
Mrs William Phelps Dodge sues for divorce claiming the spirit of Dodge’s first wife haunted her. The Philadelphia decree follows an unusual, lengthy investigation of alleged supernatural interference. The bride, 18, wed Dodge, 48, in London after meeting at Sherry's election night 1909. she later returned to the United States, alleging cruel and inhuman treatment.
A New York Sun editorial argues that if every immigrant entering U.S. and Canadian ports over the next decade took up farming, the resulting production would still fall short of meeting the people’s needs.
The piece reflects on the value of restraint in speech and wit and features a Norfolk style remark about virtue in silence. It notes a bell tower in Therfield England being dismantled and integrated into a new church spire.
A compilation of quotes on thinking, prejudice, and manners. It contrasts ignorance with reason, cites lessons from Everybody’s Magazine and Montaigne, and extols the knowledge of courtesy as a doorway to social influence and proper conduct in public life.
The report states Activa Germ can double every half hour in favorable conditions, multiplying to 281 trillion germs in 24 hours in a forty-quart batch. Contaminated milk could reach over 7.5 billion germs per cubic centimeter after a day, per the government's weekly public health review.
A correspondent asks how to pronounce Chihuahua and is advised to say Chy hewa hews with a laugh. The note adds that an artistic delivery can work in most cases and mentions a decolleta remark used to good effect. Also references treachery in Kansas and widespread talking about principle in Emporia Gawatta.
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