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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
6
Bowling proves more popular than ever in the 1907 08 season with widespread interest. The article notes the game’s limitless possibilities and the unusual formations that can appear, including tough splits and challenging shots.
A vintage bowling guide explains the hardest splits and how their breaks disrupt a bowler. It lists ten challenging splits from 5-7-9 to 2-5-10, detailing ball paths, pin caroms, and suggested strategies to convert or survive each frame. Includes notes on the psychological impact of breaks and the value of converting spares for consistency.
The article explains common bowling splits such as 4-7, 5-10 and the thin hits needed to convert them. It notes the geometry of the ball path from center alley to strike the 5 pin and then deflect to the 10 pin, and mentions a few bowlers who start from the left side to throw a crossover.
A London report says ambassador James Bryce plans retirement, to be followed by Sir Henry Howard as the new envoy to Washington. Also noted is acting Ecuadoran minister Luis Felipe Carbo returning to Washington, and H H Garriker of the Carnegie Museum returning from Costa Rica after five years gathering specimens. General Cyrus B Comstock donates $10,000 to the National Academy of Science for magnetism and related research. Raymond Smith Dugan, Amherst graduate eight years ago and now Princeton instructor, has discovered fifteen asteroids. Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough earns Roosevelt’s praise for supporting the denatured alcohol bill, with the president sending a commemorative pen.
A milkman George Canfield of Caulf ield New Jersey owns a horse that lounges on its back and lifts its hooves for shoeing using a hay bag as a pillow. Judge Sadler of Chicago adjourned court due to a basement liver and onions odor from a cook. A highwayman repaid Minneapolis man W A Ewen $65 with an apology for withholding a watch. Dr J S Halsey’s car killed a farmer’s rooster near Vineland New Jersey. the farmer’s wife joked about pot pie.
The piece notes 40,000 women Freemasons in France and reports the throne Charles X used to open Parliament was found in a Paris lumber room. It also lists an official appointment of M. Peyrinet as chief potato peeler at a national convalescent asylum and cites Petit Parisien readers voting on the death penalty, with over 1.45 million responses split 1,083,655 yes and 368,692 no.
New York City consumes 26 million matches daily with about 11 million given away by dealers. Real estate agents expect 3 800 families to arrive by May 1. Provident Loan Society lent 10 million last year. Hebrew immigrants in the city are declining. 109 000 were landed in the year ending last September, down from 187 000 the previous year.
The Atchison Globe recalls a bygone era with colorful phrases about a swaggering man with a turkey gobbler strut a woman who jokes about being crazy and not alone a man who calls a town a jumping off place and a girl whose quivering voice chills the tomb in memory of old fashion ed era remarks.
A miscellany of short anecdotes and legends recounts the Persian shah’s superstition about a beloved black cat and the clever wife who averts tragedy, a sea cave voyage near Shannon after a deceptive boatman warning, and the origin of the phrase to eat crow tied to a rude punishment.
An officer said nothing unusual occurred after a gun was laid aside, claiming only that he and Captain jlank dined together. The private conducted a war court the next day to determine the incident’s details.
Professor W. H. Pickering argues in Harper's Magazine that Mars hosts life intermediate between Earth and Moon life and that even favorable conditions would not guarantee civilization. He cautions against assuming civilization on Mars, noting humans would die if transported there.
In experiments by M. Plateau the Belgian zoologist, to see if color or odor pulls insects, a colorfully scented flower was placed before a perfect mirror. All insects went to the real flower, none to the reflection, showing attraction to the actual bloom.
An Oxford undergraduate in a public speaking class began with a memorized address but after two sentences his memory failed. He listed dead figures including Witt, Fox, and Gladstone before apologizing and saying he was feeling sick.
A cartoon caption shows a boy Freddy cleaned by a mother and father quarrel over a birthday verse. The father recalls the verse and the son jokes the dirt was caused by poetic license cited by the mother.
A humorous dialogue excerpt from the Boston Transcript features a couple debating a marriage proposal. The exchange contrasts blunt skepticism with hesitant acceptance as the man presses the idea despite incredulity.
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