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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1915
Page
4
The Missouri Herald announces subscription rates and warns subscribers who fail to receive issues to notify the Herald Office. It explains that not all agents are directly employed, but the paper bears no responsibility for nonpayment or delivery issues and asks holders of receipts to send them in so office receipts can be issued.
SATSOP April 29 Farmers from Chehalis County ship milk to the new cheese factory opened last Monday. Fifteen cheeses were produced on day one and output remains steady. The Batsop cheese factory company is incorporated for 2500 dollars with a 500 pound daily capacity. Homer Martin serves as president, W E Johnson as secretary, and Albert Smith as treasurer.
A Saturday Evening Post essay argues that public trust shifted from politics to big business about twenty years ago. It traces graft, railroad influence, and lobby power, noting reforms like ending rail rebates and reducing corruption. It concludes that conscience grows in business and politics remains imperfect but improving.
Editorial in the Spokane Spokesman Review argues the Republican progressives may return but only humbly. Poindexter is depicted as torn between old line critics and a rising Progressive faction while facing GOP backlash over his tariff vote.
The Netherlands home army included 1 543 officers 21 412 men and 152 guns with potential expansion to about 270 000 on war footing. Navy personnel numbered 11 164 with six old battleships nine second class cruisers four gunboats eight destroyers thirty three torpedo boats and five submarines. Largest guns were eleven and nine inch.
A reader from Ironton Ohio reports better health after eight months of using Vegeta vitamins. She states the remedy helped her work energy and recommends it to other women. Her daughter Helpea is also mentioned in connection with the testimonial.
The Grand Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa, founded in 1757 by Empress Maria Theresa, is among the most exclusive orders. In 1914 only three knights remained, including Emperor Francis Joseph, the Duke of Cumberland, and Prince Alphonse de Bourbon, with the eldest son of the holder entitled to free education at Austria’s military academy.
The Stewart Garage of Aberdeen sues Ellis Martin Montesano State Bank and Montesano Auto to recover possession of a automobile claimed as its property. In a separate action Iph Distler sues John Kleceymski and others to foreclose on a note and mortgage on Aberdeen property for 1250 dollars plus interest and costs.
Four separate fire alarms were reported in Hoquiam on April 29 with no or nominal damage. The incidents included a house at 407 Eklund Avenue Grays Harbor Steamship Company office on the Light Street dock Jack Cooper's henhouse on N Street and H W Bale's residence on Chenault Avenue.
G W Matson of Hoquiam wed Ruby I Little of Aberdeen in the county commissioners room with Rev. Mc Dermoth officiating. A license to wed was also granted to Chas Hyde and Julie McCoy of Hoquiam.
Montesano April 29 A suit for 150 dollars is brought by Vida Spencer against Carl Blomquist of Hoquiam. The claim lists 50 dollars in damages plus 25 dollars paid to bind a bargain and 75 dollars for one month’s rent on a house on Eleventh street that recently burned.
Frank Mosberg a hog tender living in Montesano is declared insane and ordered sent to Fort Steilacoom asylum. Once regarded as one of the best workers in the neighborhood he suddenly became violently ill with mental disorder.
Maritime report lists vessels in Grays Harbor awaiting charter and due to arrive. Ships include Golden Shore and S. Christensen headed to Sydney, Edw. R. West to Australia, Shasta and San Jacinto bound for San Francisco, and several others at mills and shipyards awaiting departures or shipments.
A young suitor asks to marry a daughter offering education health ambition and wealth but the father says times are hard. He proposes eloping to save costs and the father finally agrees the daughter is his. The piece lampoons wedding pressures and economic strain with a humorous twist.
In a playful exchange a college professor suggests vegetables may see and hear while growing. The dialogue expands to imagine plants conversing and exchanging thoughts, with a light joke about Jack and the Beanstalk.
A compact reflection on judging others from Lavater: beware excesive praise or harsh critique and avoid indifferent impartiality, as true discernment lies between extremes.
Wholesale figures in Aberdeen today show live chickens 10 to 16 cents per pound and dressed 18 to 20 cents. Cows at 6.5 cents, sheep 3.5 cents, hogs 7 cents. Dressed pork 9 to 11 cents, cow beef 9 to 11 cents, steer beef 12 to 13.5 cents, veal 12 to 14 cents, lamb 16 to 18 cents, mutton 12.5 to 14 cents per pound. Ham 17 to 19 cents, bacon 16 to 25 cents, lard 11.5 to 12.5 cents per pound.
Prices for flour coffee butter cheese eggs sugar potatoes onions and seasonable vegetables are listed with local and Yakima sources. Fruits include apples oranges lemons rhubarb and strawberries while greens and other produce show multiple per unit and per quantity deals. New turnips cucumbers wax beans and potatoes are noted with price ranges and stock expectations.
The article extols the dumb waiter for daily tasks from the cellar to upper floors noting energy saved and multiple trips avoided. It compares it to a linen chute and discusses impracticalities such as stairs and misplacement in some homes.
A dramatic exchange from Rocky Mountain News shows a stage manager pressing to hit the hero with a club in the last act while the villain laments delaying until after being called a ham.
Schedule shows eastbound trains 466 via Dupont and 424 via Point Defiance from Aberdeen to destinations Tacoma Seattle Portland with times. westbound trains 421 465 via Point Defiance to Aberdeen. Dupont connections 423 and a gasoline motor car service 551 552 between McCleary Elma and Aberdeen with listed departures and arrivals.
The timetable shows westbound and eastbound routes with departure and arrival times. Stops include Aberdeen Tacoma Seattle and Seattle to Aberdeen with listed times for each leg.
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