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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1913
Page
4
The Christian Science Monitor notes that by 1913 federal fiscal policy may reshape the economy, ending the protection era. 1912 earnings of corporations rose to 3 billion dollars, up 6 percent since 1910, with a tax yield around 80 million.
The Semi-Weekly Aberdeen Herald reaches out to eastern readers to brief them on Grays Harbor country affairs, updates, and notable events affecting the coast.
President Wilson says banking and currency reform is the urgent next step after tariff changes. He argues a well designed law will boost workers and farmers, stabilize industry, and prevent depressions by ensuring a sound banking system.
A committee of wholesale grocers asks Representatives to cut the high sugar tariff, arguing imports exceed two thirds of use and an eighty percent duty raises prices by about two cents per pound. They claim the domestic industry costs consumers nearly 150 million yearly and note misplacements of beet factories raise costs. A Canadian report shows family budgets rising from 12.24 to 13.63 dollars weekly from 1910 to 1912, a dollar thirty seven more.
The capital features quirky street names such as Pass if You Can street Lost Child street Sad Indian street and Street of the Wood Owls reflecting local color and humor in nomenclature.
Professor Irving Waier argues that reliance on bonds for widows and orphans ignores inflation. He notes the dollar's value, not fixed interest, erodes purchasing power. The piece links elevated living costs to bond investment limitations and market unrest.
Miss Manette A Meyers has been appointed director of industrial education in New Mexico public schools. She previously taught domestic science and art in Albuquerque high schools for two years and is a Kansas Agricultural College graduate who completed a four year home economics program in 1910.
Spare the bride from danger as old shoes fly at weddings. Confetti flower petals and tissue paper favors replace rice. Niceties include petal heaps, small white bags, silver paper keepsakes, and cake boxes marked with the couple initials and wedding date.
A wedding scene stalls as a tray is passed along while the bride’s appearance is awaited, highlighting the tension of the moment and the slow pace before the ceremony begins.
A list of social reproaches aimed at women includes being narrow and concerned with welfare work outside the home. It targets joining culture clubs, not matching intellectual pace with husbands, crowding men from jobs, dressing fashionably, looking old fashioned, hunting bargains, spending husbands money, lacking humor, and not appreciating life’s priorities. The speaker laments the narrow path women must navigate between Scylla and Charybdis.
In Mexican villages rounded mud ovens heated early then left to cook food inside until dinner. The ovens serve general culinary use with pots placed inside after initial fire and coals brushed, showing flexible cooking practices.
Lawson Purdy argues that cities have sacrificed health and utility for height and appearance. He notes ruined light and air, scarce value from many lots, and urges American and Canadian practice to imitate German and English ordinances to restore practical urban planning.
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