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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1911
Page
3
A fragment notes cuff links fashioned from crochet buttons joined like dumbbell ends with a strong thread loop and buttonholed. The text then quotes “The New Victims” and a widow remarking on an aeroplane accident with bystanders injured.
A well known name, a professor of Greek, famed for self-appreciation, bought twelve collars. He marked the first with his full name and labeled the remaining eleven as Ditto, a detail cited in Everybody's Magazine.
The Gillespie School of Expression offers vocal physical and aesthetic culture with analysis and interpretive reading, rhetoric and oratory, life study and dramatic art. Classes run four hours daily Tuesday through Saturday with public Wednesdays. aims include individual growth, public recitals, and a refined social atmosphere.
A terrified rider in a hired motor shouts that the car is going too fast. The chauffeur responds with a grim joke that passengers are always injured, implying ongoing danger and risk in the ride.
The Atchison Globe notes that a truly reliable man needs little time to prove that virtue, yet his behavior is still closely watched by others whether he realizes it or not.
A San Francisco expert claims a widespread illness described as a queer disease is caused by large internal tape worms. He says sufferers mistake it for stomach trouble, with symptoms like ravenous hunger or food aversion, headaches, dizziness, and insomnia. He touts a treatment he says eliminates worms and rebuilds patients, inviting written inquiries to Owl Drug Co. San Francisco for free advice.
In Topeka a $25,000 gift founded by A B Whiting finances Mount Hope cemetery endowment for Washburn College YWCA and YMCA. The investment aims to yield well over a million dollars via lot sales, with land cost $16,000 and $9,000 left for investments. Other features include Topeka organizations promoting education through diverse courses and a new Portland Young Men's Christian Association booklet. The piece blends endowment news with educational updates and light quips.
A cemetery board led by Mr. Whiting governs perpetual improvements. Revenue from lot sales funds a perpetual care endowment with the college and Christian associations taking two thirds, the Young Women’s Christian association and the MCA receiving the next shares, workers paid and no dividends to others.
Brown county Kansas school board orders cyclone cellars in all schools. Teachers must lead pupils to refuge at twister signs. The drill becomes daily routine, replacing fire drills. Over $100000 will fund new brick schoolhouses with basements and fortified refuges after tornado damage history.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer discussion a married woman’s preference for the title Miss and the annoyance caused by the name Mia are explored. Readers weigh in on social etiquette, the pressure of names, and how girls want respect for their chosen status in 1920s culture.
A health message promotes cleansing the system with Syrup of Figs for laxative use. The ad touts a desert spoonful for adults and children, claims natural action that strengthens organs, and warns to buy only genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product with its name on the pack.
A Baltimore letter from Mrs L A Dorkean testifies that her fifteen year old daughter Alice was pale and ailing until using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports recovery after three hot days of treatment and urges others with female troubles to seek the medicine's aid, noting many similar letters received by the company in Lynn Massachusetts.
A chaotic tale from a French town centers on M Paul, a grocer, whose price on rats led to a boy seizing nine francs in the cellar and attic theft. The grocer scolds the boy for misappropriating what he claims were his own funds, highlighting a petty yet telling episode of village commerce.
A early 20th century-style column extols Mexico as rich in mining and agriculture, arguing it could rival Canada’s past perception and predicting a future major transformation. It notes deep mining issues, with ore becoming leaner below 8,000 feet, and mentions a luminous eye claim and an artful quotation about lost love.
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