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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
5
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows a salesman touting a china set described as the housekeeper's delight. The pitch highlights forty similar sets and many odd pieces, with replacement of any broken piece in half a day's notice without notifying the household. The customer agrees to purchase.
A skit blends a cheap hat joke between Mrs Newed and Mrs Oldwed with a line about not fooling a husband about costs. The excerpt also includes a reference to Hall’s Catarrh Cure, a Toledo business ad fragment, a joke about a bankrupt trust company and a Detroit Free Press quip about originality and melodrama.
A Boston Transcript excerpt features a Wealthy Stranger claiming to have earned all his money by writing while discussing a sleep farm in New Zealand. A milkman comments on the rain as the housekeeper notes the bottle, highlighting a wry exchange about fortune and memory.
Borax cleanses and purifies drains and sinks when mixed with hot water and used down clogged pipes, making them sanitary. Hot borax solution whitened bed clothes and clothes from sick rooms. Washing kitchen utensils with borax helps prevent contagion. Borax described as pure and harmless, a versatile household necessity. Local agents wanted.
A promotional ad touts Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a valued laxative. It claims gentle, natural action without debility or dose escalation, and notes physician approval and the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product sold by leading druggists.
A wide array of items spans politics science and culture. Notes cover Helen Hunt Jackson burial Evergreen Cemetery Colorado Springs pensions in Australia, Irish or Danish arts figures, aviation clubs in California, citizenship rules, French finance tax on absinthe, peat alcohol manufacturing, Philadelphia trade growth, Genoa steamship link, Indian women telegraph operators, Grover Cleveland death context, Amsterdam electric tramway, Arabian Nights origins, Great Eastern Railway safety measures, and a Vienna art visit by J Perpont Morgan with Countess Kieny and the Latner Zoo boars.
The Oregonian extols kale as a potent fall and winter forage boosting dairy yields. It cites experts and farmers from Banks to Corvallis, noting 40 tons per acre possible, practical rations of kale with vetch hay, and methods from March sowing to transplanting.
A fragmentary dialogue depicts a hobo asking a woman to aid a soldier in the unemployed army with a simple task. The woman hesitates but implies a willingness to help, while the traveler responds with a formal refusal to perform the requested task.
A garbled miscellany from a Chicago Tribune page includes fragmented dialogue and ad snippets. It features stray quotations about searching for honest men, a quip about a dancer, ads for Allen's Foot-Ease, and various discontinued conversations. The piece weaves humorous social exchanges with medicine ads and casual street talk, reflecting a chaotic early 20th century newspaper fragment.
Fragmented text from Philadelphia newspaper page mentions a “$2.00 trial bottle” and claims about cures for Bt Vitus Dance and Sevens. Includes references to Dr RH Kline and a quoted exchange about artistic temperament and appearance.
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