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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
7
Captain Tom Falls, veteran secret service chief of Indiana, speaks of dream enabled arrests. He cites two cases where dreams warned or guided him, including waking a sleeping suspect who feared the vision of the dreamer and a woman who identified the culprit in a dream.
Police investigate a ghost sighting at a graveyard behind a Sixth Avenue department store on Eighteenth Street in New York. A loose vault slab and a crutch were found, and store workers report a long grey whiskered figure slipping over the wall. Investigators suspect an elderly derelict using the vault shelter at night.
A 1908 promotional model plan for a modern colonial house by J H Daverman and Son of Grand Rapids Michigan highlights a pretty exterior and homelike interior. The first and second stories feature sided exteriors with shingled gables and roof and natural hard wood trim on the first floor with pine on the second. With favorable material and labor costs the house should not exceed 8200 dollars.
Editorial excerpts from the Eclectic Medical Review discuss Unicorn root Helonias and Golden Seal root as key ingredients in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. They claim uterine strengthening and general tonic effects for women, noting indications such as back pain, weak reproductive organs, and menstrual disorders.
An eastern educator argues against limiting birth among the poor while praising poverty as potentially building character. He contends that poverty is not hereditary and can foster self denial and thrift, citing Garfield and other notable figures to claim the poor have shaped history and progress. The piece asserts no danger to the republic from poor parentage.
A lawyer asks a psychiatrist to judge a prisoner's sanity. The expert admits accuracy depends on who hires him and how much they pay, noting both sides seek his testimony while he weighs the stakes amid March’s shifting moods.
Dialog from a vintage column shows a quip about marriage prospects and social norms. Edith jokes about nerve and Maud replies that she lacks the face for marriage to a rich husband. Officers safe banter touches on discipline and fear of authority.
The Vanginot compressed air respirator offers an hour to an hour and a quarter of use with a battery of air accumulators, an indicating reducing gauge, and a helmet mask. A whistle alerts when air is near exhaustion and the system seals the face for air tightness. In related notes, experiments show visibility ranges for lights and a winter railway between Cronstadt and Oranienbaum.
The axle light system powers trains on the Santa Fe with storage batteries charged by axle-generated electricity. Each car, excluding the locomotive, produces about 6000 candlepower of illumination, with locomotive headlights sharing the same source.
The World’s Railways breaks down track mileage by continent. North America shows about 225000 miles, Europe 190000 miles, Asia 52000, Africa 17000, and Australia/Oceania 17500.
John Landers gives notice that 121 logs stranded on his ranch described as sea 4 of section 27 township 19 north range 9 west will be sold on July 15 1908 at 10 a.m. to pay damages unless owners appear and remove logs. Logs listed by brands include 35 W Circle F Bear-foot O K F 11 U L 15 Diamond SB W Diamond B MB. First publication June 25 1908. Last publication July 16 1908.
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