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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1918
Page
2
A garbled OCR fragment mentions mules and months with unclear timing and names. It references three months and a year, but precise dates or events are not readable. The text lacks coherent context or identifiable persons or organizations to establish a definite news item.
Fragmentary wartime prose and letters reflecting on the Chateau-Thierry battle and a speaker from Dallas, Gertrude Roin, with political commentary about President Wilson and war aims. It mentions Umatilla County boys in France, Liberty Loan drives, and local calls for support. The piece blends poetry like lines about “Little Boy” with political analysis of unconditional surrender and peace terms.
A fragmented column blends satirical notes on bread prices and consumer goods with wartime sentiment. It references bread costs, pacifists, taxation on musical instruments, telephones, and German actions, alongside jokes about romance, women’s roles, and draft training. The piece captures home-front anxieties and jokes from Kansas City and national figures.
High steel and transport costs threaten to force the tow grade gold mines to cut production. The public has suffered sleepless nights amid claims of excessive output and looming shortages. Authorities have promised relief measures to ease the financial strain on households.
A discussion of the whippoorwill species detailing male singing behavior and ground resting tendencies, contrasted with the silent female, plus notes on a related bird. The piece then shifts to the 1917 epidemic record highlighting cholera outbreaks across Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas with mortality figures.
The Athens Press Olympia Oregon issues a publisher statement for October 1 1918. It lists F B Boyd as owner editor and publisher with offices in Athens Oregon. The sworn affidavit notes mortgagee Farmers Bank of Weston Oregon and F B Boyd as mortgagor with a notary public Jennie G Watts signing October 16 1018.
The Methodist and Episcopal churches announce that if no Spanish influenza cases arise by Sunday, worship will proceed with a church service. The Christian Church urges members to focus prayers on health and deeper devotion until they can meet again, signed Pastor B. B. Burton.
Notice states that the partnership between Ralph C. and others at a New York address is dissolved. Dated in Athens on October, the partners Omar Stephens and Gy Haenell are listed with continuing business details in the record.
An older ad touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine claiming it cures catarrh and blood issues with testimonials, urging readers to send for a sample and ordering offerings to be mailed to CHENZY & 60 in Toledo Ohio. A long political ticket lists Republican candidates for U S Senator, United States Senator, Congress, Governor, State Treasurer, Supreme Court Justice, Attorney General, State Superintendent, and Commissioner of Labor with county affiliations.
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