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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1903
Page
6
A farm family describes life after paying off the mortgage. They list how interest and hungry expenses consumed crops, butter, eggs, and poultry while drought and wet weather added to hardship. Now they feel relief, plan improvements, and look forward to better clothes and a windmill.
The article extols the eagle as symbol of liberty and muse of poets, recounting its legendary aerial feats and anecdotes. It references Victor Hugo’s praise of the bird as genius and storm spirit, drawing parallels to the struggles of genius and the eagle’s ascent.
The celebrated Civil War eagle Abe, adopted by the Eighth Wisconsin Infantry, served from 1861 through twenty seven battles and numerous skirmishes. After mustering out he toured at reunions, fairs, and anniversaries, aided fundraising, and saved the Capitol by sounding the alarm before dying on March 26, 1881. His mounted body rests in the War Museum at Madison, Wisconsin.
The sturgeon uses a telescopic mouth and sensitive tendrils to sense prey. It sucks sand through its gills to lift clams into its mouth and crushes their shells. It also plows the bottom to harvest mollusks and crustaceans as the population declines from overhunting for caviar and smoked sturgeon.
The article notes debate over restricting adult sturgeon catches to prevent supply increases. It mentions that smoked sturgeon may be produced from West Indian catfish and cites state laws restricting indiscriminate sturgeon slaughter.
Miss Lucy Reed of Danby Vermont has lived seventy six years in the Green Mountains village and for sixty five years in her blindness and deafness. Despite handicaps she sews patches quilts knits socks and crafts cigar-box wood boxes sold at fairs. The proceeds fund charity as she remains cheerful and fond of children.
A Volks Kalendars vignette shows a girl Eischen asking her mother about marriage and fearing becoming an old maid like Aunt Anna. The mother reassures while the daughter laments her fix in love and life.
Charcoal Eph remarks that many people in the world hold more hope of happiness than they have prospects of achieving it. He references Mistab Jackson in a reflective daily thought quoted by the Baltimore News.
A reading on frugality notes money should be spent on practical home needs such as kitchen hardware and tools for the head of the household, with a humorous remark about folding rolls in the parlor and time’s value.
The piece argues wealth and distinguished lineage do not guarantee success and may even impede effort. It notes many poor, illiterate individuals rise to influence while some sons of wealth falter. It asserts heredity influences ambition and warns against caste stratification, contrasting opinions from the New York Times and San Francisco Bulletin on language and education.
A historical reflection on English study in schools, arguing that Latin and Greek gave way to science but fail to provide general culture. It asserts English is a living, universal language and essential for clear thinking and expression, urging English to supply the humanitarian element in education.
The New York World outlines a treaty with Colombia and the French company guiding Panama Canal construction. It details costs totaling over 800 million dollars, exclusive US control, a 100 year lease, and a mix of sea level and lake sections including the Culebra Cut. It highlights engineering scale, modern ship sizes, and geopolitical arrangements with Britain.
Three hundred New York club women debated happiness for women. Speakers cited the honeymoon carriage moment, a great bargain after a bank rate cut, reading a club paper, perpetual anticipation, and a moonlit night as the happiest moments, leaving a man puzzled over how to trim his sails.
A Chicago judge rules artificial legs may count as compensation for a lost limb, noting progress in limb science aids mobility and earning power. The article recounts vivid tales of prosthetic wonders from early peg legs to modern limbs, including a frozen Dakotan saved by a maker’s craft and a Marquis Anglesea leg origin.
The article contrasts modern pitchers who endure two games weekly with legends like Radbourne Keefe and McGinnity who pitched daily. It notes how teams past and present manage arm wear to protect stars, suggesting two games a week is a recent trend adopted to preserve top pitchers' effectiveness and longevity.
Poetic fragment from an Atlanta Constitution verse describing nature’s restoration after winter. It juxtaposes blooming fields, bees, and river winds with a caution about exposing a boy to an electric fan.
The guide describes cleaning a chicken by removing pin feathers and hairs, skinning the head and feet after beading, washing, and cutting the flesh with bones left intact. Boil with water at a gentle simmer for hours until meat falls apart, then strain and add delicate dumplings like batterd ekes or egg barley dumplings.
The passage details dissolving yeast in warm water, mixing with milk and boiled water, adding salt sugar and whole wheat flour to form a batter. After beating and kneading, the dough rises three hours then is kneaded again and formed into loaves to rise before baking in a steady oven.
A recipe instructs heating butter in a large pan then adding four ounces of potatoes and six ounces of corned beef cut into small squares. Season with pepper and nutmeg, fry slowly til it forms an omelet shape, drain excess butter, and slide onto a long dish.
A collection of sermons stressing justice mercy and humility guided by Jesus teachings. Reverends Stewardson and Hillis of Brooklyn underscore enduring Christian values, heroism, and the moral duties of society amidst calls for expanded justice and faith.
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