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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1911
Page
2
The Athena Press reports no empty dwellings in Athena Oregon with tenants in high demand as schools improve. It suggests some houses could be made habitable for revenue and comments on flour industry prospects and regional wheat trades amid a busy recruitment of agents and promotional solicitations.
Athena offers twelve hundred wool winter suit patterns with top workmanship. Prices start at 15 dollars, promising the best values for the money in town.
Conley the Tailor offers cleaning pressing and repairing of ladies suits and men’s wear. Customers can bring their own material to be made or altered at Malin Street Athena Oregon with quoted wadget prices before choosing other shops.
A tale of a gallant shipboard act where a young man rescues a Boston dame’s handbag containing thousands in cash and jewels and receives cigarettes for his perilous effort. The piece also touches on local investment, Taft’s political image, the Walla Walla fair, and alfalfa yields boosting regional pride.
A discussion on the unattainable ideal of perfectly spherical steel balls for bearings, notes industrial advances, and contrasts past and present capabilities in manufacturing ultra-precise spheres for automobiles and machinery. It highlights tolerances, materials, and the impact on wear, with a nod to evolving precision in modern production.
A colonial tale narrates Fonin away from home when news comes of his father's house burning. He asks if any of his hooks were saved, and the slave replies no but the fiddle was saved, highlighting a humorous twist in a period voice.
In a Maine seacoast town they fled for two weeks and found a native with wit. While on a lazy outing they used him as guide and fired at five birds, all dropping. A boastful remark followed about using another gun to do better.
An early morning duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr ends with Hamilton mortally wounded within seconds. The event unfolds with the seconds and a surgeon present as Hamilton collapses after Burr fires. Hamilton expresses that he did not intend to shoot Pendleton and dies later from his wounds.
Notice of private cash sale of real property in Athena Oregon under a 1911 county court order. Administrator George L Kidder will sell the southwest quarter of Section 5 Township 2 North Range 8 W M after September 10 1911 at the widow Roth Kidder’s home Pendleton Oregon.
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