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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1910
Page
8
The 1910 Indian census will record tribal data including population, family relations, and land allotments. It notes Navajos historically practice polygamy and that land grants favor larger families with more wives and children, affecting their stake and holdings on the reservation in Arizona and parts of New Mexico.
In northern Wisconsin a large lake hosts a floating sacred rock revered by the Chippewa as a monument to the Great Manita. Legends say the rock once served as the Great Spirit’s throne from which he ruled people, animals, and fish before moving to a new home as it wore away.
Paris officials consider armed permit plan amid crime, proposing allowables for respectable men to carry revolvers and daggers. M Honnorat urges prefects and mayors to issue permits, police to search suspects, and ban weapons or tools outside work hours to curb the apache threat.
Two concrete oil reservoirs under construction at San Luis Obispo claim to be the largest in the world with a capacity of 1,000,000 barrels each. Cost set at $500,000. Oil will be piped from Bakersfield Maricopa Coalinga and Midway wells to fill the tanks. After filling, gravity flow to the San Luis Obispo pumping station and then to tank steamers at Port Hartford.
Cape of Good Hope exports show ostrich feathers valued at 8 690 000 in a single year. The headline notes large shipments and the economic impact of feather trade from the region.
Readers learn simple tests to prove fabric authenticity. Cotton content can be spotted by burning a thread, linen by a wet finger test, and silk by pulling threads to reveal cotton adulteration. Fraudulent silks may use shellac to create stiffness but rot quickly.
This antique recipe describes making a lemon oatmeal drink for invalids. Combine a tablespoon of fine oatmeal with cold water to form a paste, add three pints of boiling water, boil to two pints, cool, strain to remove sediment, then mix in lemon juice and a little sugar. Serve hot or cold.
Instructions advise first dabbing with cold water and lifting the spill with a spoon to prevent spread. Use a cloth to contain the area then apply a weak oxalic acid solution and sponge quickly. If color changes, apply ammonia water.
Alcohol spirits of wine turpentine and ether will all remove tar. Apply with a small sponge to the affected area and wipe away gently for best results.
M. Schrameck, director of French penitentiaries and observer at a Washington congress, reports Americans keep prisoners well fed and housed and emphasize individual identity. He praises child rescue programs, playgrounds, and three meals a day while cautioning France on cost and cultural differences in applying American methods. He notes American excess humanity but calls for prevention over punishment.
Danish women celebrate the opening of Frauenburg, a five story women’s castle in Copenhagen funded entirely by women over forty years. The project, led by Frau Zahle, houses a 62 000 volume library, and eight women sit on the Copenhagen town council as emancipation progresses.
Archaeologists in Crete unearthed a clay disk from Phaestus dating 4000 years before Christ. The two sided disk bears 120 stamped figures showing early hieroglyphics used in Crete, indicating primitive typography centuries before Gutenberg.
A German inventor has devised a device to fell trees with minimal waste using a steel wire driven at high speed by an electric motor. The wire cuts through trunks by friction, enabling rapid tree felling.
Western distributors advertise a prize of twenty five hundred dollars free to Chehalis County residents and promote Aberdeen store at 119 E Heron St. The ad claims discounts of 50 to 100 dollars on standard piano makes compared with any other western dealer.
The Scientific American notes the U S navy is buying fuel oil by contract and building depots to resupply vessels. Oil offers higher evaporative efficiency, less labor, no ash handling, easier boiler control, reduced maintenance, and less smoke, aiding rapid power changes and stealth from shore.
The passage surveys Bucharest population and city layout, notes the Rue de Lille palace as Josephine's son Eugene de Beauharnais's residence, and references a Prussian envoy by the Seine. It then quotes light banter from London Opinion Harper's Bazar and Lippincott's reviews with quick vignettes of flirtatious banter.
City subscribers who do not receive the Herald by 6 p m on Mondays and Thursdays should notify the City Messenger Co at 5931 and a paper will be sent to the address immediately.
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