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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1903
Page
6
A simple low cost smokehouse craft uses a dry goods or piano box with a hinged door for loading meat. A dug trench and stove pipe from a tin kettle channel smoke through the box using corn cob fires for efficient curing.
Agricultural notes discuss strawberry mulch benefits for overwinter protection and soil relief, plus methods for applying mulch early after frost. Other sections recount a humorous fencing damages tale, turnips and carrots as winter cattle feed, and incubator handling with hatch rates from 50 to 98 percent based on management.
A collection of farm notes covers incubator care moisture testing and egg handling. Advice includes cool dry storage, daily turning, avoiding extremes, and using a south facing brooder. Also includes feeding damaged corn fodder and barbed wire tightening methods and creamery do’s and farm husbandry tips.
A sermonlike tract argues for humility and faith as keys to true genius and public power. It contrasts genuine devotion with mere show, warns against covetousness, and urges consistent prayer, secrecy, and sincere piety over worldly success.
Vancouver street railway workers join a new profit sharing scheme as one third of distributable profits, after 4 percent to ordinary shareholders, is split among employees. Manager Buntzen explains expected yearly individual shares around 50 dollars rising to 100 in five years. The firm maintains union wages and added benefits while pursuing this cooperative experiment.
A Chicago Tribune snippet recounts an exchange where a woman asks why the machine is referred to as she. The platform man answers that the device is a mail snatcher, prompting the passenger to retract her head.
Karl Kiesewetter, credited with inventing the Swedish safety match, died in Roumania at over ninety years of age. He retired from the Jonkoping factories forty years ago with substantial money but squandered it in railroad speculation.
A school joke notes Little Bernard’s answer when asked for the U S southern boundary. He blurts out cotton, reflecting a humorous misread of the topic and the era’s language.
A fragment frames social vanity with a girl in a green veil drawing attention for style and shoes. It shifts to a future where value is measured by tax receipts rather than appearance, predicting a millennium of transparent personal worth.
A movement plans a Chicago centennial exposition to rival Philadelphia 1876 as the city traces its rapid rise from Fort Dearborn’s founding to a population near a million. The item recounts Fort Dearborn’s history, early settlers, and the 1808 fort construction led by Capt. John Whistler, with details of 1804 to 1808 events and clashes with Native tribes.
The article recalls Chicago's early site with a log fort and a river marsh, the 1812 Fort Dearborn massacre amid War of 1812 hostilities, and the town's slow growth. It outlines postwar incorporation in 1833, the Illinois Michigan Canal, and the 1871 Great Fire that destroyed 20,000 buildings and left 100,000 homeless, yet spurred Chicago's dramatic rebound as a leading city.
English newspaper man Thomas J Minnick sought sensational status by locking himself in a Belgian madhouse. Doctors dosed him with vomiting powders starved him on sour herbs and water denied sleep and claimed a brain tumor explained his illness. He disclosed his identity during chloroform prep and was taken to the police as an impostor seeking charity.
Maine features a catalog of place names including Cupsuptac Pohenne gamook Sagadahoc Chimmenticook Chimpasaoc Chinquassabamtook Ess quilsagook Schoodic Umsaskis Ripo genis Wassatoquoit Matagomon Pan gokomook Wallagosquegamook Moosetocmaguntic Apmonjenegamook Wetokenebacook Sysladobsis Millen kikuk Cosbosecontic Umbazookskus Damariscotta Notch Pemadu mook highlighting historic and Indigenous roots in geography.
The steady exodus of Scandinavian emigrants to the United States continues as hard times at home and stricter conscription laws push people abroad. Prospects of prosperity in America fuel the widespread movement beyond twenty years.
One half of imports into the country are materials for manufacture. After age forty people are said to be too proud to speak to acquaintances and do not deny it, fearing their eyesight failing will be discovered.
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