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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1914
Page
5
In a Scrap Book tale Hans Bruder plans to skip a concert and sends a nonplayer substitute to puff cheeks and move the slide. The substitute fails, causing deadly silence during the overture while the other trombone player also uses a standin, leaving the orchestra puzzled.
A speaker imagines a box large enough to hold all smiles to cheer the world and a separate box for every frown. They would lock away the frowns in the deep sea with a giant, scattering smiles across land and sea to lift careworn people for many days.
A rural Irish agricultural show faced protests over fairness in a best turned out donkey and cart contest. To address bias toward wealthier owners, the placard next year stated that all legal and medical donkeys were excluded from the competition.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Kant avoided garters but kept stockings with loops and hip born windlasses. De Quincey relished studying the odd device likened to an angler reel, watching Kant "pay out the cable" and haul in the slack as a strange self care habit.
Joseph Pennell recounts Whistler as a student copying the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. He notes Whistler praised his own copy and wondered what would be done with the original painting now that the copy exists.
A Brooklyn visit reveals Thomas Edison drawing an engine for a seven year old. Edison adds fanciful extra parts but the boy criticizes, saying engines have changed since his time. The tale shows a young perspective on progress from a child.
A colored man brings his wife to a dentist for a tooth extraction. The dentist offers gas to ease the pain. The man expresses concern and asks if a milder option than gas could be used, suggesting gasoline instead.
A London stockbroker in his office receives a call about a new invention enabling him to see through a telephone wire. He envisions vast wealth from government contracts and foreign rights, but the dream vanishes as the caller vanishes and the vision fades, leaving him disillusioned.
A Tolstoy quotation asserts that everyone bears individual burdens and faults, and no one stands alone. It urges mutual support through consolation, advice, and warnings to help one another.
A Saturday Evening Post anecdote recalls President Wilson driving past a boy and both share a humorous moment. The boy makes a face at the president, who responds by returning the gesture, reflecting a light human side of the leader.
In America on a debut night as Douglass Stewart Sothern faced a hostile audience. He stepped from his role and told the crowd he would go home to learn acting if they would allow him to finish the performance.
A reminiscence recalls Mansfield in a Boston theater scene after Tom Maguire's death. John Stetson, described as the Mr. Malaprop of his era, managed the show and reacted with profane emphasis to a Macedonian plea for help. He swore, lurched forward, and later boasted he was a modest parody next to Mansfield.
Charles Lamb tells of a chronic stumbler who complains at whist for lacking trumps. Companions fix the cards so he receives all thirteen trumps, hoping for praise. He mutters that he has trumps but no other cards, revealing his misfortune rather than satisfaction.
In a spring 1793 convention, Robespierre defined liberty as the right to use one’s faculties with justice and lawful limits. The text contrasts his view with modern trends, noting a global move toward regulation as a public good, as voiced by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University.
Dr George Haven Putnam recalls a Yonkers childhood encounter with Washington Irving and a legendary blessing by General Washington. The boy Washington was told not to look for the place his head touched because Irving wore a wig and hid the actual spot.
London Lancet reports Dr Heaton C. Howard of London endorses potato juice as a remedy for sprains lumbago gout rheumatism and bruises. He cites cases where pain eased quickly with first applications and fluids absorbed in days. Juice used as ointment liniment or plaster is prepared by squeezing raw potatoes removing starch and nitrogen then boiling to five times strength and preserving with glycerin.
The article recalls how Sargent cheers when a painting is finished and ready to part with it. A royal visitor asked how he could part with them. Sargent replied he is like a hen that has laid an egg urging its removal to start a new work.
A brief quip contrasts a bachelor with marriage, noting his apparent knowledge of women despite not marrying. The line reflects a witty exchange cited by the New York Times.
Practical Health Hint links liver sluggishness to low spirits and anxiety. It notes that melancholia and hypochondriasis can accompany liver derangement, with irritability as a common sign. Advice includes fasting briefly, exercise, and a saline laxative, urging consult to physician if cheerfulness does not return in a few days.
The article outlines turning cheap poultry into cash by hatcheries and selling broilers to hotels and clubs. It advises two incubators, healthy hens, clean eggs, proper storage, and balanced diets. It promotes uniformity in stock, careful selection, and letting chickens range freely for best returns.
A circular bed uses a central clematis planted in the middle with low training on wires one foot apart and fifteen inches high, radiating outward while blue clematis mingles with pink gladioli. A flat bed sews a carpet of sweet alyssum with Little Gem white and Lilac Queen as dappled accents.
A simple garden tip explains covering transplanted plants with inverted flower pots during peak sun to protect foliage and retain soil moisture. The note adds a quirky aside about the Iron Duke Wellington’s birthday with dating disputes and Queen Victoria’s preference for May 1.
A verse by William Watson decries pride in science and art as hollow when society suffers. It warns deserts of civilization arise to conquer while minds remain starved and the foe dwells within. The poem calls for reflection on inner decay and moral responsibility.
General Grant directs the officer who spoke with the woman to administer the oath to Sam and ensure he receives ample provisions. A rickety carriage with soldiers carries the food through Union lines as Sam, eager for supper, drives the two mules at a quicker pace.
A Chicago resident, A. F. Meissner, spent five years converting a 50 by 125 foot yard into a fairy garden. The design features a crescent island with a summer house, a pond with real fish, a miniature waterfall, willow borders, rustic bridges, and a twelve foot cliff with a skylight glass waterfall.
A fragment from London Tit-Bits shows a woman browsing mourning shops and chatting about the future and the chance of loss, framed in a brisk, humorous tone. The scene captures social habits and streetwise wit of the era.
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