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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
2
A nostalgic reminiscence of a small country church with organ, choir and warm fellowship. The speaker recalls protracted meetings, Rock of Ages hymns, and neighborly care, ending with a wistful note for Roy Farrell Greene in Leslie's Weekly.
An 18 year old recounts marrying her grandfather’s friend in spring 1775. She recalls preparations on April 19 the day Lexington battlefield opened and villagers reacted to marching troops and a messenger report that Gov. Gage would send troops to destroy Concord supplies.
A French scientist claims phosphorescent bacteria can power decorative lighting using microbe lamps. The lamps use water salt and phosphates in bottle receptacles with colored shades to cast a downward glow from the ceiling, a soft moonlike illumination.
Revival of the Bosphorus bridge scheme now announced. The Bosphorus Railway Company will build a grand structure across the river within a year and dedicate it to Abdul Hamid with a junction linking European and Asiatic railways.
A narrator recalls shelter, a flanking attack, and Henry being wounded but alive as a rescue arrives. The mother’s voice announces Henry’s safe return and the grandfather’s wedding ceremony proceeds in dust and blood. Also observations on short women and a grand bridge with Italianate embellishments.
A visitor returning from Brazil claims the country is perpetually intoxicated by coffee. People drink it from waking to sleeping, at meals and beyond, even feeding babies. Effects include tremors, twitching eyelids, yellow dry skin, and chronic excitability surpassing whisky.
An Australian exploration party at Oodnadatta reports no rainfall for two years in the traversed region. The finding underscores severe drought conditions impacting local terrain and prospects for further travel investigations.
Within fifty years cultivated land on earth has expanded by 300 million acres. The text contrasts scientific observations with a social anecdote about a boy failing to entertain guests, noting parental or peer expectations during gatherings.
Dallas News notes a rise in myopia among Americans linked to workplace and classroom lighting. Experts urge left and overhead light to minimize shadows, with studies from Breslau to Philadelphia noting higher rates in poorer light and in desks with restricted sky views.
A veteran recalls a Memphis era of open gambling and a California gambler nicknamed Colonel Henry famed for poker skill. In a clubroom an argument led to a cut lip, later traced to a pricking ring on Henry’s finger with a tiny blade to pierce card backs, exposing a fraud scheme.
The article notes Henry confronted a stranger with a marked deck and an open ring blade. He struck the man and fled after being tossed from the clubs, with the blade incident cited as the key factor in his expulsion.
Andrew L. Henry of Ladoga Indiana has invented a pivot mounted clerk box for wagon mounted mail collection. The box slides on a bar to the collector who hooks it in reach, pulls out items and returns the box to post. This enables all weather rural delivery without leaving the wagon.
A Boston man with a glass eye entertains at a Manhattan hotel telling how his prop eye provokes jokes at a dinner and a golf lesson. The anecdote traces the eye’s reactions in a stag dinner a poker game and a golf lesson ending with a punchline about keeping the eye on the ball.
The article surveys the Bardo Museum near Tunis opened in 1888, rich in mosaics and Punic lamps. It notes a railway to Carthage, the bey’s summer palace, and recent excavations near Carthage yielding three statues including a possible Ceres.
A Philadelphia Record item presents a philosophic summer girl remark about life without men. She says life would resemble one long visit to the sea shore, reflecting light commentary on gender and existence.
A Missouri nursery near Mexico lists fifty thousand young fruit trees pruned and cultivated to perfection. The item comments on domestic life noting a lamp in the parlor and a wife describing it as cozy while implying high gas bills due to the husband’s spending.
Brown County Indiana still confines its criminals in a log cabin jail dating to 1837 with a rebuild after a 1870 fire. The structure appears fragile but is unusually sturdy with three log walls and vertical middle ties. only window bars have yielded to breakage.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recalls a West Virginia mountaineer explaining moonshine. He describes making liquor from cornmeal, water, ivy or laurel, and shaving soap for a head, calling it the finest whisky seen, and hinting at nearby scrapes when men had days off.
Rivers laments to Brooks that he quit smoking leaving him with no one to receive the cheap cigars his landlady hands him upon paying rent. The exchange captures a small domestic moment clipped for a humor piece.
A saying warns against trusting others by reputation, noting that one may praise a neighbor to others while not trusting the person themselves. The line emphasizes caution in sharing endorsements and implies duplicity or distrust in social recommendations.
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