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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
6
In a Lent season whim, Dan Cupid hosts guests at home with tea and heart shaped sandwiches. He distributes folded kerchiefs to each guest and declares a cure for unhappy marriages by binding eyes and letting love guide the rest.
A daughter torn by love and shame learns her father is innocent of the bank defalcation. After a confession, she forgives him as her fiancé Jack arrives to claim her, and the family reunion ends with a hopeful, quiet reconciliation.
A wholesale dealer explains excelsior is an American made packing and upholstery fiber not from shavings. About 35,000 to 40,000 tons are produced annually from basswood and poplar logs cut into eighteen inch lengths, seasoned, then milled into varying fiber fineness. Export markets include Central America, the West Indies, and England with several thousand tons shipped yearly.
The massive Empress Tree Paulownia imperialis grows in Independence Square Philadelphia. If eleven feet in girth, it ranks among the largest in America and was a gift from Robert Burst, a famed nurseryman, sent about fifty years ago. The wood is in high demand in Japan.
Mrs Bonney Six asks about motherless children and work is said to be unavailable for them. A harness dealer calls his storeroom a bridle chamber in this vignette from Brooklyn Life.
A historical recap by Pinkerton cites Reno brothers, James and Younger bands as early train robbers. The piece traces postwar versus modern methods noting dynamite replaces sledge hammers, and recounts several spectacular raids near Chicago, Cortland, Wickliffe, Hugo, Columbus including a fatal shooting.
An account of Marcus Daly, the Anaconda copper magnate, detailing his humble Irish origins, early work as a potato digger in California, and how those early days paved the path to his later wealth in mining, hotels, rail, and horses. The piece also criticizes a gendered misstep in a separate remark about social roles.
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