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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1902
Page
6
The piece argues for Jewish empowerment and a strong response to antisemitism while praising Zionist aims for a homeland. It contrasts mistreatment in Russia and South Africa with the potential redemption through emigration and educated leadership. It also notes China’s foot binding decline and the pain of unbinding.
Dr Timothy Dwight recalls a time when students scorned wealth and pursued higher aims. He notes the nation grew wealthier and urban life flourished, yet money worship has become widespread and alarming, though he believes remnants of old spirit still guide judgments of men.
Wu Ting Fang discusses the fading practice of foot binding among Chinese and relates it to waist binding among Caucasians. He cites imperial edicts, origins in the Sung dynasty, and describes the two stage binding process from age five to eight, including daily tightening and resulting deformity.
A historical note explains a chit as a receipt used by native servants in Asia to ensure honesty. It records delivered goods and asks sign back, evolving into a promissory note or bond used for small obligations.
A historical note outlines the Pacific cable project detailing material needs such as 1989 tons of copper wire and 1260 tons of gutta percha, the four ships required, and the slow, measured process of paying out the cable. It describes buoying the end, splicing with the next section, and shore preparations with anchored wheels and lines for landfall.
Lord Rosebery argues nations require trained minds and independent thought to maintain global leadership. He praises the Anglo-Saxon as best suited to receive this training and believes it destined to dominate the earth through education, discipline, and national progress.
After the retirement of Mr. William Whitney, a financier argues that wealth and leisure do not guarantee happiness. He asserts a lifelong active mind, business growth, and continued involvement in finance suit a thriving man who seeks new challenges.
The article explains how an 8,000 mile Pacific submarine cable is landed and hauled ashore, with the land end larger than the submerged section. Once on land it is pulled to inland positions and secured, noting its unprecedented length and the global reach of submarine cables.
The Sunday Magazine recounts a Highland regiment salute to a bust of Miss Nightingale by Sir John Steell. Soldiers who had endured war watched as the sculpture was unveiled and burst into cheers shouting Miss Nightingale in a spontaneous tribute.
A Victorian era column surveys women's burdens of dress and upkeep, praising American women while noting the social expectations for Congress wives. It contrasts self-respect with tidiness and highlights sleeve fashions, carpet fastenings, and advice from Harper's about middle-aged style and virtue.
An illustration by Charles R. Knight reproduces a water color based on a mounted skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History. It portrays protorohippus as the oldest known ancestor, sixteen inches tall with four toes, illustrating how the horse evolved from a markedly different form. The article notes American evidence for horse ancestry is unusually complete, though the modern horse lineage disappeared in pleistocene times before humans arrived.
Public Health Journal notes a simple technique for cephalalgia facial neuralgia and odontalgia by lifting the hyoid or larynx for sixty to seventy seconds. Repeated attempts often needed, but a single trial sometimes suffices. Reporters observed near instantaneous relief in multiple tests. The item urges wider awareness of the method. Kaffirs own most of Natal’s 12 million acres.
The essay recounts John Muir’s early killings of rattlesnakes on the San Joaquin plain. He describes stalking, wounding, and stamping the creatures, then vows to kill no more except in self defense to be fair and charitable as the snakes themselves.
Derrignan, living in a crippled shanty beside a highway, saw a water main flood a cellar and drown his dozen hens. After delays and help from friends, he received twenty dollars. He bragged to neighbor Mrs. Cassidy that the city paid, then admitted he spent the money on twenty dollars worth of ducks.
A soap-maker and a banker attend a Wagner concert and debate career ambitions. The banker remarks that everyone wants to do something beyond their trade, while the soap-maker reveals his wish to be a banker, and Wagner is praised for other talents despite critics.
The population of Australia has increased by 19 percent in the past decade, reflecting steady growth across the nation. This rise is attributed to natural increase and immigration, with regional differences in growth rates.
The long standing site has hosted at least 1,173 burials marking Westminster Abbey as a historic resting place for notable individuals through its centuries old tradition.
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