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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1908
Page
6
The Yukon river natives hold a festival of the dead before Christmas with lamp burning rites in the village clubhouse. Offerings of food and water travel to spirits, guards of lamps ensure ghosts reach the feast, and songs, dances, and grave rituals mark the end.
The Tumbo, a desert plant from Portuguese West Africa to Damaraland, grows mostly underground with a two foot trunk and a massive fourteen foot circumference. It bears six foot long forked leaves that resemble octopus tentacles and scarlet cone flowers atop the crown. It thrives in extreme aridity and sea fogs, described as a remarkable plant novelty by the New York Botanic Garden.
An Englishman a Frenchman and a German discuss identity aboard an ocean liner. The Frenchman would be English if not French. The Englishman would still wish to be English if not English. The German would wish not to be German if not German.
A humor note claims yawns spread when one man delays yawning, prompting others to yawn. The writer mentions a colleague who can induce yawns in a railway carriage by taking his time, a boast treated as playful belief.
Two visitors discuss ruins and guests leaving a London hotel after one pays his bill in a brief exchange noted in London Answers. The dialogue focuses on what counts as the ruins and who counts as the first or second visitor in a casual hotel setting.
A Louisville Courier-Journal quotation shows a gambler choosing perseverance in horse racing. He repeats his grief from years of ponies, then explains he still pursues racing because he believes tomorrow holds a good outcome.
Farmers in the north central states face crop losses from a cold wet season. Tiling costs run 12 to 16 dollars per acre, but drainage is a permanent improvement that later yields larger crops, especially in wet years, and pays for itself through increased yields. Partial drainage is common on larger farms.
Promote Chamberlain's Salve as best for fever sores and chronic sores and for chapped hands burns and skin diseases. Sold at Evans Drug Co.
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