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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
2
A devotional meditation ties personal strain to faith as a worker prays for blessing without delaying, sensing peace when surrendering to God’s will, and finding strength renewed. The piece blends poetry, Civil War memory, and reflections on trust, patience, and mercy in daily labor.
A Washington Post piece extols women of leisure like Mabel Boardman and Mrs Taft for Red Cross leadership and musical, culinary, accounting, and artistic skills. It highlights Olga Converse as a premier dancer and notes Mrs James Bryce as a salad innovator and social influencer among diplomats.
The article recalls Dutch American life with memories of winter sports among Ditch children in Holland and New Netherland. Skating, sledding, and coasting are described as lifelong cultural habits tied to towns like Albany and New Amsterdam, plus a note on market and church travel by skates. It also discusses tea introduction to the West, noting Dutch origins and early European entry.
A verse exchange questions where the soul was before birth and if it shared the body’s fate. The speaker denies earthly or heavenly dwelling, asserts mutual future memory with the body, and asks the absent soul to accompany him in doubt as they journey together through life and death with Samuel Waddington.
A weary former baseball star recalls his rise to fame and a fateful game day that broke him. Once hailed for power and polish, he details a pivotal Utica Blues defeat, a hostile crowd, a brutal fall, and the slow slide to being canned. The tale blends nostalgia with a plea for mercy and forgiveness.
Health Record notes a viewpoint that at age thirty one should envision becoming an old man or woman by age five, asserting the mind fixes material reality through perpetual self-fulfilling thoughts, warning that such mental expectations shape life outcomes.
A humorous ballad recalls a recent soldier turning bold in the army. The singer boasts of charm, gallantry, and imagined rank as he marches with a lively chorus and mentions several fashionable women and companions eyeing his army life.
A Bookman writer extols a Paris style dining experience inside a street entrance hotel. A seasoned waiter serves pottage mussels moules mariniere and a sequence of French dishes from galantine Camembert and cafe Ma gran to peaches and stale bread. The piece lauds French gastronomy over American tastes and notes timeless culinary genius.
In a humorous exchange from a 19th or early 20th century style piece, two men argue over a mule purchase. One accuses the other of stealing the mule three weeks prior, claiming the animal is young and unfit. The other quips that time certainly flies in this hen country, reflecting local color.
A Yonkers Statesman style quip notes how neighbors alert to fried onions at supper while missing the strawberry and ice cream treats. The aside ends with a tongue in cheek jab about a woman with time to sew, hinting at domestic routines.
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