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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
3
Olympia reports potential voter disenfranchisement as lines at large precincts deter turnout. King County Republicans face a 200-name ballot with 700 registered voters, while five minute booth limits clash with 10 to 15 minute reading of second choice instructions.
The Washington Logged-Off Land Association executive committee plans a September 12 gathering in Everett to discuss association work. Delegates from Western Washington chambers, clubs, boards, and councils are invited. The meeting will tackle reducing blasting powder costs for stump clearing and potential bond-backed land-clearing legislation.
The Seattle cruiser Colorado will be detained at the navy yard for several weeks to undergo repairs after she struck the shore at Lip Lip Point Saturday morning. Divers completed a thorough hull inspection Sunday night.
Tan leather proves hard to clean at home yet can be restored with careful care. Lightly rub damp rag over gloves to remove dirt and restore color. For yellow shoes apply turpentine to a woolen rag then rub evenly and polish with a soft brush for a pew finish.
A Grenoble manufactory draws water from a reservoir 1600 feet up a mountain. Water descends a nearly one inch pipe and jetting upward can resist a sword as if hitting a brick wall. Jet velocity reaches about 100 yards per second, roughly one tenth the speed of a cannonball.
John H. Zirkle of Philippi states his sixty year old father suffered chronic diarrhoea until using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after seeing it advertised. One bottle cured him and he has been symptom free for eighteen months. He is now healthy and able to work like a younger man. Sold by Evans Drug Co.
The clipping reports a post office safe blast at Topp enish with theft of money and stamps, deaths of William H. Culver in Puyallup and Mrs. A. N. Brown in Tacoma, and a Valley fire causing heavy damage. It notes political figures opening the 1908 campaign in Everett, Tacoma property heirship, new Corbin Coal & Coke Company incorporation, forest burning permit resumption, Montane National Guard arrival with band, an attempted murder on a Seattle-Tacoma train, county exhibit funding, road improvements in Mwhalton, a Tacoma baby antitoxin case, Alaska expo appointment for Mrs. Hart, a Tacoma “baby burglar,” Tent dwelling poverty case in North Yakima, an Eastern capital plan for Grays Harbor steel, and the Voters Bureau of Washington incorporation.
Dr Watkins has an office in Crowther Wooding block at G and Heron Streets with hours 10 30 to 11 30 am 1 30 to 4 30 and 7 00 to 8 00 pm telephone 135. Zelaska Block Over Boston Store lists eye ear nose and throat practice at Koebler Block Aberdeen Washington with rooms 3 4 and 5 hours 9 to 12 am 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 pm.
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