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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1906
Page
7
A sermon style exhortation argues heartfelt prayer beats outward piety. It contrasts idle luck, laziness, and material ease with disciplined moral conduct and humble service. The piece urges consistent effort to do right and avoid self serving vanity.
The article reviews Angora goats as brush clearers and producers of mohair meat and hides. It notes annual increases near 60 percent, limited milk value, and potential pasture fertilization. It warns harvesting conflicts with timber value and stresses fencing and range management. It also includes a anecdote about Talleyrand and de Broglie.
A Brooklyn young man invites a girl to dinner in Manhattan and replies to the meeting spot with the American end of the bridge. A columnist notes the cost of maintaining a wife rivals auto repair, and comments that a clever woman hides her cleverness.
Football in Burmah known as chinlon is described as the national game. Players stand in a circle and kick a six inch rattans ball to keep it in the air. The goal is to retain possession while using any part except hands and toes. The style and skill of players often impress observers.
A Philadelphia Press brief records Cassidy and Casey joking about Adam and Eve being Chinese, then casually implying they were evicted and thus “Trish.” The playful exchange reflects ethnic stereotype humor common to the era.
A cluttered ad page touts Dr H H Kline cures for nervous diseases including St Vitus Dance and a free trial bottle offer. It sides with Hall's Catarrh Cure for catarrh and promotes generic tonics. A colander leans into a pickled onion recipe and home remedy instructions appear alongside testimonials.
Prepare a dressing of read crumbs one cupful and chopped parsley one tablespoonful. Trim fat from sirloin, spread dressing, roll and bake an hour. Serve with brown sauce. Mushrooms may be added. Also offers Allen's Foot-Ease sample claiming foot cure and shoe ease.
Instructions describe pickling oysters with vinegar white wine salt pepper mace and boiling liquor then cooling and storing in jars. A second note urges Mothers to use Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup during teething. A third line quotes the Czar lamenting mutinous conduct of a regiment he once honored.
A mender of rain sticks recalls a pattern in umbrella thefts. A customer asked for a crook handle on a heavy silk umbrella with a pearl studded grip. The repair man notes many umbrellas are altered to plain handles to avoid recognition.
An American engineer recounts the Jamaican worker issue at the Panama Canal project. The piece contrasts delays and a grim method of coercion using a foreman and a Jamaican laborer, with a dramatic interruption by a Georgian worker who weaponizes a crowbar to force progress.
In County Cavan a stone bears a caution about fording a river. The New York Tribune recalls a Kent England surveyors post saying If you can't read this you had better keep to the main road.
A Washington Star note quotes Far Pr im praising Josh's improving education while recounting a polite refusal to join Searmer Corporations. The exchange highlights professional boundaries and manners in a corporate context.
A brief quip from the Baltimore American jokes about a landlord heating a house with hot air. The line plays on a common complaint by turning it into a boastful remark.
Reports describe explosive rock compression in northern Tauern tunnel area with slabs capable of sudden, fatal ejection. Observers note San Francisco earthquake seismograph readings near Shanghai lasting over ninety minutes.
Cut one pound of cold cooked tripe into pieces with half the amount of cold boiled potatoes. Make a rich crema sauce with two tablespoons butter one and a half tablespoons flour and one and a half cups rich stock. Season with onion juice salt and cayenne, add the tripe and potato, toss in a brush until heated through and serve in a hot covered dish. Oysters may substitute for potatoes.
A fragment notes methods for preserving rhubarb in jars and adds futuristic claims about airships priced at $1000. It questions automobile installments, hints at a Burbank cantaloupe breakthrough, and ends with a simple steak cooking guide.
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