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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1909
Page
3
A historical plan describes a well lighted double corncrib with eight foot wings and a central driveway. It details a granary over the driveway, hip roof with cupolas, portable elevator chute, dog house extensions for light air and drying seed corn, and concrete foundation.
Eastern growers face a shift as Oregon apples in boxes outperform New York fruit in the East. The piece urges better thinning, improved color, and cooperative packing to defend markets and prevent Oregon from capturing the entire eastern market.
The article advises seed selection for corn seed by marking early ripening stalks and those with two or more perfect ears, then saving and reselecting the best ears for planting. It covers seed choices for potatoes beans squash cucumbers squash melons pumpkins beets turnips cabbage onions celery lettuce tomatoes and general seed patience. It also describes constructing a cistern filter from an oak barrel with gravel charcoal and sand layers and a paint finish for protection.
The article notes that commercial manure under dry conditions is less effective than stable manure. It warns that growing two or more crops requires substantial water because the first uses available moisture, while the second may rot without rich organic matter. It suggests one mature dairy farm can address these problems.
Fragment describes a sentry and Private Jones with a friend, an Alt exclamation, a bottle, and a punch. No clear names or location given.
The verse vignette recalls two aging men testing spryness by climbing a three foot high post and joking about age and memory. A second fragment shows a child’s playful mispronunciation at a household early greeting, ending with a light notice of wit and social formality.
A Louisville Courier Journal piece praises the theatrical plot with lofty language and stilted verse. The narrator sits through the villain's schemes awaiting act four when the hero triumphs and rogues meet deserved ends.
In a brief New York Herald exchange a caller asks for the architect behind a project and the respondent questions how to locate him while noting the house remains unfinished. The dialogue captures a simple inquiry about access to a designer.
Yonkers Statesman notes a poor match as Patrice denies marrying for money. The dialogue centers on questions of motive and personal fortune in a brief society item.
The Birmingham Age Herald notes a message of perseverance. It encourages readers to steady their pace through hardship and endure with quiet faith that fortune may yet smile tomorrow.
A collage of quips and snippets from various papers includes jokes on domestic life, weather attire, and social quirks. It gathers light humor about wives, weather, aging, and city life with brief, dated-feel captions and playful lines.
In a fragmentary reminiscence he recalls once backing Booth Ané and explains it jars him to support terscoth, a sawmill now.
An excerpt notes that the term winter derives from the root wad meaning to wet or moisten and that Aryan languages share a moisture concept behind the season. It traces equivalents in Sanskrit Urdu Gaelic and Germanic tongues showing moisture as the season’s origin.
A New York American summary argues most people eat too much and overburden digestion. It recommends lighter meals and periodic fasting to restore tone, noting the brain benefits from reduced intake and that overnutrition can cause as many maladies as undernutrition.
The piece notes a push for public ownership of highways with a proposal for Philadelphia to buy the right of way and adjacent property for a new parkway to Fairmount Park. It also reports Milwaukee County discussing acquiring titles to about twenty roads in townships for improvement and maintenance funded by taxes.
List of real and imaginary fire alarm box sites with street intersections and landmarks across Aberdeen and surrounding areas. Entries include Box numbers 4 through 41 with locations at Young and Thomas, B and Cleveland, Terrace and D, Burrows Dock, Hume and K, Boone and King, Wilson Bros Mill, EB Blade Mill, Market, American Mill, Heron and F, Fourth and G, Franklin School, Hume and H, Anderwon and Middleton, Heron and Broadway, Third and Broadway, Hart-Wood Lumber Mill, Western Cooperage, and Hume and Washington Streets.
Legal notice summons in Chehalis County Washington with plaintiff attorney Do W Hodgdon listed and last publication date March 4 1909.
C W Hodgdon sues F L Erwin Robert Durney and unknowns in Chehalis County Washington for 25.99 166 dollars plus penalties interest and costs on a 1908 city tax lien against Lot 7 Block 180 in Hoquiam. Defendants must appear within sixty days of December 24 1908 or face judgment foreclosing the lien. Address for service listed in Hoquiam Washington.
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