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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1903
Page
6
A nostalgic ode by Joseph Rodman Drake extols the American flag. It celebrates the flag as a symbol of freedom, victory, and national hope, portraying it as a celestial banner guiding warriors and sailors. It invokes imagery of stars, colors, and battle’s toll in patriotic tone.
A quarrel over fireworks ends with the Norris family near by kindness from Robbie and his siblings. Robbie visits Mr Norris with flowers and two firecrackers, then the coachman delivers a generous basket of treats. The island fireworks night inspires joy and gratitude from all.
A Kansas statute now bans the consumption of snakes lizards scorpions centipedes tarantulas and other reptiles reinforcing dietary restrictions and animal welfare rules across the state.
John Collins describes a large Arizona goat operation begun from a failed silver venture. He notes crossbreeding with Angora goats, value of hair for plush and shawls, canned goat meat for foreign markets, and goat milk touted as a tuberculosis and consumptive remedy. He explains selling goats on the hoof and the challenges of driving stock to Tucson.
The passage portrays the loco poka as a hardy, crazy animal that stamps through towns in a herd when one moves. It suggests they obey a leader, run until ready to stop, and that many might follow a single stampede. They are used for packing kid meat to Tucson aside from this function.
The Lartford Times explains woolen flannel clothing advantages for athletes and the general public. Wool’s non conductance to heat and moisture evaporation keep the body cool by dispersing surplus heat, debunking the idea wool is only for cold weather.
In a Washington department of agriculture exhibit hidden in an obscure corner an array of unusual tribal foods is shown. Items include bread from roasted plant loaves and juniper berries, cakes from bulbs, wild turnips of prairie tribes, mesquite bean dishes, soap berries, copper colored California aborigines eating salt grass seeds, Digger Indians collecting pinones from pine trees, sweet gum as sugar, and Arizona gourds seeds.
A Youth's Companion writer notes the recent issue of light weight volumes from English presses and some American books. The esparto glass fiber paper reduces weight by thirty to forty percent compared with older volumes of the same size, compromising surface smoothness but easing bulk. The article closes with a philosophical line about the world being a ring on which men cut their eye teeth.
A New York City reader describes severe ovarian pain and fatigue from standing at work. She reports rapid improvement after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and urges other young women to try it to avoid costly doctors.
The West Side laundry manager says family washermen now visit homes for days weekly to wash and iron linen, citing faster work and male preference for in-home shirt care. He notes differences in speed, method, and the use of machines, with Chinaman shirt washing contrasted and labor varied by employer.
An English experimenter finds that storing coal under sea water preserves heat and reduces loss. He notes Monmouthshire steam coal submerged for two months loses less than one percent of heating power, while surface storage may incur up to fifty percent loss.
A witty exchange from Town and Country features Opdyke arguing against convincing a woman and Depeyster noting the pleasure it gives the woman, highlighting playful gender banter.
A. R. Miller weighed a small ant and a dead grasshopper and found the grasshopper weighed sixty times the ant. The ant’s pulling force equaled a man weighing 150 pounds dragging 4.5 tons or a 1,200 pound horse pulling 36 tons.
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