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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
7
A classified ad advertises price points for firearms including Remington single shot at 11 dollars and Stevens models ranging from 3 to 6 dollars. It also notes Winchesters and Marlins in all calibres offered at the lowest prices.
The New York theater community notes a shift away from blood and gore melodramas and off color productions. Nan Patterson’s run faced hostile receptions and district attorney scrutiny, signaling cleaner plays and rising public standards across the industry.
An Omaha inventor unveils a compact fire fighting appliance designed for small buildings. The portable fire shield sits on a wheel truck and carries a folding fireproof screen that can be collapsed for easy deployment in fires in low stores and dwellings.
A description outlines a compact portable shield mounted on a wheeled cart to block flames and shield rescuers at burning buildings. It explains how horses detach, the truck moves into place, and hand gear raises the shield for near-fire operations. Also notes Italy faces high postage rates spurring talks of reductions.
A buyer confronts a typewriter agent over a claimed strong model and reports dropping the machine from a window. The agent asserts truth of the claim, while the buyer faces the mishap and sends the machine to repair. The tale closes with social harmony tested by fashion envy among peers.
A simple inexpensive wholesome pudding recipe. Heat molasses, mix suet with flour salt cream of tartar soda cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in treacle suet and raisins add milk. Tie in a floured cloth and boil for three hours.
Peppers cut in rings with lettuce and French dressing form a simple salad. A chicken dish uses green peppers, parboiled five minutes, filled with a chicken and boiled rice mixture, baked in stock for half an hour. Various quotes follow about goodness and religious figures.
A collection of aphorisms on faith and conduct urging self examination and trust in God. The speaker warns against eloquence without truth and cynicism, notes the dangers of ego in religious life, and asserts that righteousness and divine blessing come from proper stewardship and faithfulness.
A Nashville Tennessee Episcopalian, I. J. Van Ness, states in this notice his belief that the duty to train the brain, hand, eye, and tongue makes one skillful at some task and condemns idleness in a busy world.
State Land Commissioner E W Ross faces a bitter dispute over five year school land leases with two bids 600 and 6000. The larger bidder claims rights to intervene while the commissioner argues for private sale. The dispute could cost the school fund over 5000 yearly. Palmer Hughes and Vance represented the opposing sides.
Boarding and day school for boys listed. For particulars apply to Brother Superior at P.O. Box 22 South Park Wash.
Henry M. Blackwell recalls a Chinese village episode with a talking machine used during railroad survey work between Hankow and Canton. A crowd gathered, tensions rose as the device sparked demand and a brief riot ensued, with rioters detained and three leaders suspended.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune clipping lists ages of prominent actresses led by Lillian Russell and includes Mme Gerster Kate Bateman Rose Coghlan and others with ages ranging from 2 to 69. The article notes public misperceptions about Miss Russell’s age due to lifelong stage exposure.
A simple boiled cream dressing recipe is given using sugar salt white pepper mustard vinegar cream or milk eggs and butter. Then a note on United States army ordinance experts regarding the sixteen inch gun from which some was exported being impractical as a weapon and to be abandoned. only one gun built so far at Sandy Hook and judged too costly despite capable performance.
Thin cream of tartar biscuit dough is rolled out and spread with butter and ripe strawberries rolled in sugar then rolled and steamed for 45 minutes. Serve hot with egg sauce or whipped cream. The piece notes patriotic sentiment boosting American flag production with over three million silk and bunting flags made annually.
Wash, pare, and cut potatoes into balls then boil with salt. Prepare white sauce, pour over marbles, add parsley, and serve. For sweet potato scones mash boiled sweet potatoes, mix with flour baking powder and salt, add milk to form dough, cut eight pieces, bake ten minutes.
Miss Ella Off of 1127 Linden St Indianapolis Indiana suffered a run down constitution for months. A physician failed to help but a druggist recommended Peruna and within weeks she felt revived appetite improved sleep restored and in two months fully recovered. She thanks Dr Hartman president of The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio. All correspondence kept confidential.
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