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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1901
Page
10
Advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla as a permanent solution for various skin conditions described as tetter, milk crust, or salt rheum. Claims the remedy removes underlying humors, cures the worst cases, and asserts no equal for cutaneous eruptions. Also promotes Hood's Pills as the best cathartic.
No century starts on Wednesday Friday or Sunday. The weekday pattern repeats every 20 years. January and October share the same weekday start each year, as do April and July and September and December, with February March and November following the same rule.
A Kansas City Star clipping describes a wise Garnet girl who ties an apron when her steady arrives, blushes, and excuses herself with helping mamma. The item mentions Hamlin's Wizard Oil Co sending free song books and its oil stopping pain through a druggist.
The Hamburg American Line has announced its next large steamship will be constructed by Harland and Wolff of Belfast, Ireland, despite a substantial German government subsidy for ships built domestically.
A collage of ad copy and quips from early 20th century papers. Prominent mentions include Piso's Cure for throat and lung ailments, Hall's Catarrh Cure with endorsements by druggists, and Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething. Customer testimonials and light social humor punctuate the page.
A memorial tablet for Missouri State University student volunteers who died in the Spanish American War was placed in Academic Hall and will be unveiled with services. The note also covers Harvard College taxes, Siam princesses schooling in Bangkok, Missouri State University funding history, and a Kansas City superintendent's warning on cigarette smoking among boys.
A Brooklyn father, Louis Katz, sold his infant daughter for one dollar to Mrs. Rebecca Lowenwith who cared for the child after the mother died. Katz later reappeared, claimed the baby, and Lowenwith refused possession awaiting court action.
The article explains ovarian inflammation as dull throbbing pain with tenderness and heat, sometimes with shooting pains and swelling. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound from Lynn Massachusetts as a treatment and cites a testimonial from Mrs Anna Astor of Troy describing cure and system toning after use.
The British are the largest beer drinkers globally and consumption is rising. In 1900 the beer absorbed totaled 1,289,766,000 gallons, about 208,000,000 cubic feet, equivalent to a reservoir 2,000 feet long, 1,000 feet wide and 104 feet deep.
The three greatest shipping ports are New York Liverpool and Hamburg. Hamburg handles over 25000 vessels annually while Liverpool processes more than 41000 arrivals and departures.
The Minneapolis Journal notes that the bright child whose sayings appear in papers often has clever parents with writing skill. It adds that a truly bright child recognizes its own joke.
Captain Dreyfus, long resident near Geneva in Cologne, will leave Switzerland for Alsace where he was born. He intends a winter in the Riviera before settling in Alsace to devote himself to literature and scientific pursuits.
Six scholarships awarded by the Georgia School of Technology drew 560 applications indicating a shift among young white men in the South toward manual and mechanical careers. Georgia papers comment on this sentiment change with satisfaction. The piece notes prior prejudice against mechanical labor and ends with a reflective aphorism on wealth and honor.
A collage of light snippets from humorous exchanges and social banter appears as a mosaic of jokes and witticisms. Observed personalities include Maud Mamie Parke Lane and a parade of unnamed correspondents from papers like Harlem Life Puck Detroit Free Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
President Roosevelt received a handsome cane and several pieces of cloth manufactured in the Philippine islands. The gifts were presented by A. Abreu, a Filipino merchant traveling in the United States to study American mercantile methods.
A century old survey notes the Spanish royal kitchen with utensils valued near 75 500 dollars and aged furniture. Yet Persia’s shah has the world’s most valuable kitchen where pots and tableware are gold lined and gem encrusted. auction value could exceed 5 million dollars.
Elijah Bledsoe a colored man near Burgin Kentucky is believed to be the oldest man in America possibly over 120 years old. He is noted to have been married 13 times and has around fifty children scattered across the state.
Partial dispatch reports a windmill roof overhaul near Besancon uncovering a mummified pigeon with a wing quill bearing a dated missive. The note reads Darling, all well, but starving. P. P. G. The bird likely released as a homing pigeon in Paris during the siege.
A Sumner County Kansas man swore an affidavit alleging the defendant assaulted his dignity by calling him a lobster a pauper a scarecrow and an idiot, which he asserts as true in the sworn statement. The neighbor had been arrested for slander related to the dispute.
The general post office in London processes about forty tons of mail each day. The piece notes how a druggist may be nicknamed doctor as a lawyer is called judge, reflecting familiar titles in common usage.
Portland dealer John Poole offers bargains on buggies plows boilers engines windmills pumps and general machinery at the foot of Morrison Street. See them before buying for best value.
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