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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
6
The July 23 Austrian ultimatum demanded formal assurance of Serb restraint and regret for officer involvement, punishment for those aiding assassins, and rapid notification of compliance. Serbia agreed to a mixed inquiry but Austria treated the plan as excluding her from the commission, deeming Serbia's reply evasive and insincere.
Coins scarce in Paraguay with no metal coinage in circulation. The few Paraguayan coins remaining are held as curiosities by collectors and observers.
A reflective quotation notes that every small step in human progress costs pain and tears yet humanity achieves many blessings through enduring sacrifice, highlighting Bartol’s view on the cost of advancement.
Arctic residents learn of the European war after months of isolation. Captain A D Williams, Bob Smith, Jack Larson, and Ed Slater discover the conflict on return from the Novi river region. Others on Kuskokwim and Porcupine areas heard the news as Northwest Mounted Police and Nome mail runs extend to Herschel Island and Port Barrow.
The Corazzieri regiment, Italy's royal bodyguard, is described by the London Chronicle as the most imposing unit in Europe. Members reportedly stand at least six feet one inch, with many taller, and are famed for outstanding horsemanship and striking looks, largely drawn from peasantry.
Colonel R O Mackenzie recalls Mr Roebuck of Sheffield recounting a country house chat at the death of the Duke of Wellington. The gardener, mowing, asks who died and hears the duke has died, replying that he never heard of him. The tale underscores Roebuck's humor about Wellington.
A fragment lists the seven longest rivers and ponders their combined reach end to end, suggesting a grand measure of Earth's waterways. The text trails into a playful, incomplete line with misspelled phrasing and no clear conclusion.
A condensed remark traces the jury from ancient communities to modern courts, noting how crowds once decided guilt by popular applause before the panel narrowed to today’s jurors. The piece cites a New York American quote and adds a remark on gray hair and wisdom.
London has faced five plagues and epidemics including typhus and cholera along with multiple devastations. Paris endured eight sieges ten famines two plagues and a major fire leaving it repeatedly shattered. Rome suffered ten pestilences twice burned and six times driven to submission by starvation. Constantinople burned nine times and struck by four plagues and five sieges.
A playful reflection, likely from a literary source, notes a creature that seeks small rewards each day. It favors easy routes, stoops to pass through low doors, moves light obstacles, and avoids heavy barriers, discovering gladness in simple finds.
Earn dollar a dozen hosiery sales with no experience needed. Free sample dozen provided. Salary guaranteed. Agents wanted everywhere including Seattle for United Sales Company.
W. D. Lewis president of the Texas Farmers' Union questions why women seek political power. He argues motherhood and home offer greater moral influence than laws, warns against women entering Congress, and laments danger of a nation led by political agendas over family values.
A religious tract argues that God granted Eve to Adam as a divinely ordained partnership and warns that women's suffrage would alter this covenant. It cites four thousand years of progress and invokes Old Testament and Roman precedents to claim dangers in legalizing women's voting rights.
A garbled OCR excerpt mentions a professor and astronomy student. It contains broken phrases about a wife, monthly payments, and a cryptic dialogue. The passage is unclear but centers on an astronomy professor and a new star discovery context.
Edna Puffer, eighteen, who worked on a ranch and as a dike tender in Holland, was arrested in New Haven while traveling in male dress. She spoke of living as a man for five years and cited a Mexican ranch and Dutch dike work among her experiences.
Beach Director Bossert enforces a new rule requiring bathing skirts to extend at least three inches above the knee. The measure aims to curb immodesty on Atlantic City beaches and applies to all swimmers, with guards using a tape measure at beach headquarters to enforce compliance.
A fragmented, unclear passage discusses sincerity, truth, and character with references to nature and human deeds. It weaves images of hills and plains and questions what binds human virtues to actions, quoting Phillips Brooks in a teetering, abstract style.
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