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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1915
Page
4
A fragmented reader’s note reflects on youth, shoes, and social mockery. It includes a stray comic line about a mistaken marriage proposal via telephone and a quotation from George Eliot pondering life’s purpose. The piece evokes everyday struggles and a wry taste of literary wit from the Louisville Courier Journal.
The excerpt blends scattered reminiscences from various voices and eras. It mentions Charles Puller and Thomas Thompson, memory feats, and odd phrases about gender roles and daily life. A stray El Paso Herald note adds a small domestic vignette about Mona in a family of four brothers and a father’s admonition.
An English firm introduces a new steel alloy claimed to resist tarnish and rust in table cutlery. The material reportedly costs about double ordinary steel but retains polish indefinitely even with acid foods.
An obscure oil and vegetable infusion claim a cure for rheumatism and nerve pain. The advertisement touts a patent signal and electric light metaphor, promising rapid relief through a pure vegetable extract and tonic. The text is fragmentary and nonspecific about the inventor or location.
Fragmented notice from Lewiston to Astoria discusses waste testing and land sales offering improved farms in exchange for city property, with references to Astoria as a growing Oregon port. Also includes scattered old anecdotes and advertisements about eye remedy and emeralds, plus brief notes on aviation records and presidential war power.
A fragment from Uncle Eben humorously notes that talkers gain favor while others are dismissed as “disemasio tim,” reflecting a rural speech cadence and social teasing. The quip centers on who speaks and who is ignored in small community settings.
The article profiles a South American representative at an international finance congress in Washington and notes his banking leadership in Argentina. It lists wholesale and farm prices across Oregon and nearby markets, from wheat to wool, with price ranges and regional variations. It also mentions a shift in Klamath County pork supplies and a planned farmers field day by Multnomah Granges.
The census legends reveal quaint Indian beliefs on insanity tied to bile and possession with exorcism and diet to appease spirits. Remedies include nostril chants, mantras, and frog soup based medicines, while caste disputes led to excommunication and widespread social and service disruption.
A nameless anecdote places Gov. Nat Harris in a hotel lobby joke about finding a husband, recalling a theater scene where a wife discovers a friend’s search for a spouse. The piece also notes C D Jameson urging a Chinese weather bureau to curb floods and famine, citing Beechow rainfall, and introduces superconductivity research by Kamerlingh Onnes on near zero resistance metals.
A new department has been added to the Southwest Washing region introducing the display of bees at the fair. The addition aims to educate visitors about bee behavior pollination and farm sustainability with demonstrations and exhibits.
A fragmentary exchange shows a cheerful man and a gloomy counterpart debating the weather and a lack of baseball, circus, or election events in town. The brief dialogue captures a mood of weather as backdrop to local idle talk.
The Kansas City Star reports a Public Mind contributor proposes a simple burglar deterrent. Recognize the thief during attempted entry and inform him through newspapers that a double barreled public safety item awaits him next time.
The fragment discusses Norway’s advancement and Greece’s influence on higher culture and civilised living, with hints of democracy and manly virtue, then shifts to a plan to generate gas from coal in mines for electric power, and a partial job interview snippet about employing a daughter.
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