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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1905
Page
7
A sermon style message urges readers to pursue meekness, kindness, and character over worldly pleasures. It warns against pride in doubt, Sunday labor, and alcohol at home, linking religious devotion to preparation for eternal life and moral reform.
Report notes power looms were successfully introduced into Magland. An improvement on the telescope was made by Pierre Guinaud and Fraunhofer of Bavaria. The third coalition against France formed by Austria England Russia and Sweden.
Venezuela opposes Bolivar. Saragossa cuts promenade trees for the poor amid cold. Rothschilds fund a 9 million franc loan at 4 percent. Canal work from Nouen to Paris advances. New Maghind endures extreme cold. France gears up for attack on Algiers.
Reports cover an engine on the New York Central traveling 16 miles in 11 minutes, Nebraska’s first territorial legislature in Omaha, Pierre Soule’s audience with the Queen of Spain, and the lynching of Ed ward Griffith after murdering Sonora County Treasurer. Others note London Joint Commission adjournment, Lincoln and Davis peace talk denials, and Fort Fisher’s capture with 72 guns and 2,000 prisoners.
A collage of quips and ads from 19th to early 20th century papers cites comedy dialogue, patent medicines, and vendors. Items reference Detroit Free Press lines on language, Laxative Bromo Quinine cures, Piso's Cure, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, Allen's Foot-Ease, Kline’s No Restorer, and theatrical jests from Puck and Philadelphia Ledger with local seller notes for land in Washington and Seattle.
A fragmented dialogue between figures titled Doctor and Slowpay discusses an unpaid bill. The exchange touches on employment as a means to settle the debt, with a cryptic signatory element linked to ERIE. The text resembles a clipped scene rather than a full article.
Gladstone in Parliament declares his formal retirement as Liberal leader. The report notes his long tenure and the effect on party leadership and policy direction.
A collage of 19th and early 20th century ads and quips including Hall's Catarrh Cure testimonials and guarantees, a joke about a counterant, PAZO OINTMENT promise, and a potato of wheat advertisement. Mentions Toledo druggists West & Truax and Walding etc.
A heavy snowstorm and cold snap halted train operations across the Northwest. Iver Bros. & Phillips, stationed in Pittsburg, reported liabilities of 5 million dollars. Seventeen burned to death in a Cottage fire at the Kankakee insane hospital. Ex Vice President Schuyler Colfax died at a Mankato railway station. Th Barnum offered 100 thousand dollars to exhibit Gen Grant medals, Vanderbilt bought and presented them to Mrs Grant.
An advertisement from John A. Salter Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin promises free samples of wheat and other farm seeds along with a catalog valued at £100 to any keen farmer. The offer includes a postal reply card to receive the materials.
February brings storms and cold across North America. Read tips on ventilation bathing diet sunshine clothing and Peruna use for colds catarrh bronchial trouble throat and lung issues with several testimonials from U S readers. The Hartman Sanitarium promotes Peruna and invites more endorsements.
A remark on the archaic forms The and Ye noting Ye’s mispronunciation as the and the thorn letter’s role in printing. It suggests longer study of women yields less understanding and links language quirks to broader misfits in writing.
A. W. Zeller of Avaneville Indiana writes of suffering boils that broke skin on multiple areas. He tried a product advertised at $8 and reports cure after three bottles with three years of relief and no further trouble.
A letter from London Nature reports a bamboo flowering in mid April that astonished locals and sparked fear of crop failure and unrest. The writer notes rare event history, explains gregarious blooming across plants, and mentions a Southern California bamboo that flowers yearly only at the crown.
In Paris on Rue Datnon a duke-like philanthropist places a halfpenny then a gold piece on the pavement to amuse a small crowd. An old lady pockets the coin after an hour, while an American places a twenty franc piece and bystanders react with laughter. A bent old man finally retrieves the prize as cheers erupt.
In a brief Philadelphia Ledger item, Mr Moley, newly accepted, asks when he may speak to the girl’s father. She replies that Pa will speak tomorrow if he does not speak to her tonight.
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