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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
7
The piece promotes Spectricity as a safe alternative to candles for Christmas trees. By using miniature electric lamps on ready made string sets, the entire tree lights with a simple switch. It claims no drafts, dripping wax, burned fingers, or fires and notes festive lamp shapes from Santa Claus to birds are available from electrical supply houses.
A selection of steamed and baked puddings with fruit and nut fillings. Nut and Fruit Pudding uses suet, raisins, cherries and walnuts steamed in a mold. Quick Plum Pudding blends apples, raisins, sugar and milk baked with eggs. Grandmother's Pudding combines milk, molasses, eggs and spices steamed six hours. Cracker Plum Pudding uses soda crackers and raisins with a layered bake. Also a quip from Real Evidence about a father and suitor.
A man tests initials at a department store causing comic confusions over Oh and O.K. in a Brooklyn Eagle item. Separate quips include an Irish pension claimant at Bull Run and a child sobbing while trying to imitate her mother’s handwriting, as reported by Philadelphia Ledger and Kansas City Journal.
A girl in class forged an excuse note while the school term ended. The teacher immediately suspected the handwriting did not belong to the mother and prompted questions. Dorothy refused to confess and was sent home with a note for her parents.
A speaker rejects myth of artistic temperament. He asserts being an ordinary man while a counterpoint praises his seemingly remarkable deeds. The dialogue touches on domestic life with a mention of an eleven year marriage.
A small town mayor questions a woman about her husband’s drunken abuse. The wife says he tried to beat her after drinking. The mayor asks the daughter if the father was drunk when the mother struck him. The girl answers he was under the kitchen table.
A lady at a stylish ball mistakes a stranger for her partner’s brother. Realizing the likeness, she apologizes. The exchange appears in the Dundee Advertiser as a brief humorous moment of social confusion.
Reginald asks Thora for marriage but she fears leaving her mother. Pa consents with a compromise to take Thora along, ending the vignette.
A courtroom quip has Judge noting a father fearing his son’s habit. Jones reveals the boy fights ten rounds daily with the alarm clock, sparking humor in the proceedings.
A light exchange between Mrs Youngwife and a new cook humorously explores whether lobster should be cooked and eaten raw. The Brooklyn Life panel delivers a witty back and forth with regional flavor.
Historic verse echoes American valor and freedom as the flag and its meanings are celebrated. The excerpt praises the flag as a symbol of home and hope, with celestial imagery and calls to enduring liberty under danger and conquest.
A. L. Paine sues John Gronow and others including Callie Gronow and Aberdeen Brewing Co to foreclose a 1910 mortgage for 3500 at 10 percent interest. Case seeks sale of land in Aberdeen Block 44 Benn’s Original Plat and a 10 foot alley right of way, with a deficiency judgment against Gronow and related parties. First publication Oct 31 1912. last publication Dec 12 1912.
A dense time card lists trains and connections among Portland Seattle Tacoma Aberdeen and Centralia with multiple train numbers and stopping times. It includes gasoline motor car service trains 351 and 352 and through Portland Coach to Canatie with Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and C M and P timetable details.
A fragmented list shows street intersections in North Aberdeen with boxed items marked by parentheses. It includes Thornton Sixth Streets Prospect Terrace Avenue Jefferson Sim Wilson Mill area and numerous cross streets such as Market Market Streets American Mill G Wishkah Heron Second and Fourth Streets plus others like River Hume and Cherry Dufty Streets.
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