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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1904
Page
4
A description of handwork fashions includes flannel petticoats with blue threads, sachets, and cross stitch embroidery on crepe water. It also covers fashionable spring frocks and Russian cross-stitch trends. The piece ends with N. W. Mumford quoting $900 in fruit and berry sales from 1 acre 3 quarters near Freewater, noting high earning potential in diversified fruit crops.
An editor in a Wild West scene faces a furious man from the Wicked Desert who demands to know if he looks dead. The intruder threatens to print a fatal paragraph unless the editor makes the story true within five seconds. The altercation ends as the man departs before the choice is settled.
A Spokesman-Review report notes land sales around Milton and Freewater where two acres sold for $900. Readers are urged to assess the fruit growing venture's profitability after speaking with local growers in the Strawberries and Peaches vicinity.
In three packing houses at Milton and Freewater over 100 women and girls pack the prune crop earning an average of 1.50 per day. Wages range from 75c to 2.50 with some experienced packers reaching 3. Most earn 1.50. Farmers receive 24 of a cent per pound and say money is in prunes at these figures.
Wheat coming in along Athena’s tributaries sees teams hauling to warehouses while roads deteriorate under heavy loads. An array of patent medicines, drugstore ads and quack cures fills the page, touting Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, Herbine, Ballard's Snow Lotion, and Chamberlain's tablets, with testimonials from users like Mary-Sponge the pimplea and Mrs. M. Stroud.
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