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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1906
Page
7
A collage of seaside humor and rural chatter mocks social mores with lines about a foreman’s breakfast talk, a wife learning of a suitor, and a blast joke. It riffles through misheard phrases, fox hunting quips, and a wry note about Nansen’s political posting versus polar travel.
A contract closes to build a 146 mile Spokane to Moscow line using Westinghouse single phase AC with power from Washington Water Power. The system includes 50 000 volt traction, 15 substations, and multiple unit control for passenger and freight service totaling near 1 million dollars.
The article explains a method that avoids wasting bodily fluids like cathartics do. It asserts no internal greasing as with Castor Oil or Glycerine. It states the approach stimulates bowel muscles to work naturally and comfortably, strengthening them for the future through exercise.
Briefs mix a novel gas death query at a hotel with era ads for cures and dainty household quips. Items include a man asking how many feet of gas kill a person and a request to bill executors, followed by moralistic patent medicine pitches and light verse.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an incurable catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio props and F J Cheney personally credible. Walding Kinnan Marvin West Tavax Wholesale Dropsists Toledo endorse. Cure taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills promote health.
A brief note from the Somerville Journal recalls a birthday gift exchange in Chelsea. Alice-Genevieve reports a young man sent a locket marked with the initial J, described as a lovely token. Maude confirms the gift and the initials.
A city school faced a scare when a class monitor, after stealing his father’s revolver, brandished the pistol to coerce students into line. The principal investigated, disciplined the monitoring pupil, though the action was taken with good intentions to assist the teacher.
Translation of a Shanghai issued circular urging Chinese boycott of American goods. The text catalogues monthly themes of hardship, labor unrest, prisons, and protests, concluding with a call to oppose America and avoid American products. It references American unions and the Boxer era as contrast.
A collection of brief excerpts from various sources including Harper's Weekly and the Cleveland Leader. Items reference Tennyson and his long hair poems, a plum preserving recipe, a cartoonish death wish about art, a public institution joke, a government clerk quip on salaries, Russian rail plans under Bering Strait, and a nod to Mark Twain.
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