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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
8
New parcel post law starts January New York unit 717 to Buffalo unit 1162 in zone based rates. Packages must be sent by sender to post office weigh under eleven pounds and six feet max length, with 50 dollar insurance and 75 cent map guide. Fragile and egg shipments have special markings.
Chicago base explains a zone method for parcel post starting Jan 1. The country is divided into 3,500 units half a degree by half a degree. zones use circles of 50 150 300 600 1000 1400 and 1800 miles radii with rates from 6 to 12 cents per pound and a flat 1 ounce 1 cent for tiny packages.
Assistant Professor G W Pierce of Harvard physics proves a wireless telephone reaching 35 miles from Gloucester near Wresh Water Cove He communicates with the Warrard Wireless club for about fifteen minutes amid strong endorsement from John Hays Hammond Jr and a lab at the cove.
Sir George Birdwood, 80, Legion of Honor officer and former Bombay professor, shares maxims for a ripe old age. His guidance urges enjoying life, ignoring dietary tables, and resisting two eggs bread and butter daily as a path to living well rather than merely longer.
Russian secret police pursue a massive counterfeiting network with forged notes totaling about 250000 rubles. Four men including drummer Dumaievsky and merchant Semonyev are captured with passes of high quality. two more suspects were traced to France. The trio and others face severe interrogation but no factory leads have emerged yet.
A retrospective survey of 1912 highlights the presidential campaign, Roosevelt's assault on Taft, the Progressive split, Wilson's nomination and victory, the Titanic disaster, and major domestic events. It notes key deaths, policy changes, labor strife, and sports and world events shaping the year.
The essay argues truth need not be fixed in form, but can hover as a guiding spirit that fosters harmony. It likens translators to matchmakers praising veiled beauty and stoking desire for the original, while condemning a majority led by a few powerful men who mislead others.
Lord Chesterfield argues that each person has a natural bent toward a vocation and should follow it. He compares common sense to conscience guiding right and wrong and warns against fighting one’s nature, predicting success when pursuing one’s true calling.
A disjointed historical text fragment presents a dialogue about a person named Minneh and a doctor. The garbled lines reference a Troll India and Bertin Loleshed location, indicating miscellaneous handwritten notes.
A letter from a mechanic questions Peruna’s laxative change and asks about obtaining the old non laxative formula Ka tar no. The reply explains the shift to a laxative element in new Peruna and advertises Katarno and KA TAR NO from Columbus Ohio with a free booklet offer.
A pamphlet titled How to Pull STUMPS promises low cost stump land clearing with devices perfected. It requests owners of stump land to send their names to John A. Gorman at 1172 Western Ave Seattle for more details.
Capital and surplus reported at 300 006 point 0 percent. Transacting a general banking business with foreign and domestic exchange indicated.
A. L. Davenport as guardian petitions the Superior Court of Washington Chehalis County to authorize selling Benjamin Stone Roberts minor's interest in described lands in section 4 township 18 range 9 west Willamette meridian at private cash sale. Court fixes January 25 1913 10 a m at the courthouse to hear show cause from interested parties. Publication to run in the local newspaper for five weeks.
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