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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1913
Page
5
Tomatoes are praised as summer fruit used as vegetables. Includes panned tomatoes with butter and toast, macaroni tomato bake, tomato hash, and baked tomatoes with mushrooms and cheese. Each dish uses butter, salt, pepper, and breadcrumbs, with steps to bake to a golden finish.
In a courtroom style exchange the bride recounts losing self possession as her father gave her away to Charlie. The judge remarks on the moment during the wedding.
A 1910s style health tips list urges boys to brush teeth at bedtime and wash hands before meals to avoid sickness. It warns against wearing leaky boots, eating fat on plates, sharing pencils, flinging caps in dusty areas, reading by firelight, and neglecting good nerve development for muscular growth.
A London Tatler sketch traces the history of laundering from the twelfth century onward. It notes laundresses as rare, dyes masking stains, and nobles avoiding washing delicate fabrics while coarse garments were kept unwashed to prevent shrinkage.
The London Telegraph notes global witchcraft fears through hair and nail materials. It cites Greece and other regions where enemies obtain clippings to charm or curse, with hair theft causing dread of harm or death among Australian native girls.
Poem fragment echoing Novalis on night’s enduring reign and holy sleep. It contrasts earthly toil with nocturnal calm and suggests sleep’s mystic power over desire, beauty, and the soul, as night casts a protective, guiding influence over the human heart.
The notes cover using pure castor oil to remove warts, timing for sweet corn planting, soap oil sprays for plant lice, and estimates of chinch bug losses. Tips discuss dust on rosebushes, precautions with new strawberry vines, tomato presence near cucumbers to deter squash bugs, and foreign hat imports. Additional items advise two to three piglets with sows, poinsettia dormancy, milkweed cautions, ventilation for horses, and egg preservation experiments.
A Bordeaux vineyard owner sprayed lime copper sulphate and water on vines to deter theft by coloring the fruit. The grapes appeared poisoned to schoolboys who left them alone. Later the spray proved effective against fungous pests, and the practice spread globally.
The author argues against harsh parental discipline and advocates rewarding effort with cordial appreciation. Aimed at improving responsiveness and empathy, the piece notes that appreciation benefits both recipients and givers, especially youth and older people who crave merit-based praise.
Readers learn to press moth balls into cucumber and melon hills to deter striped beetles. A western merchant touted a prize for bringing the largest family. a man came with thirteen children. June set records. frost and extreme heat were reported. An eastern journal notes a bantam rooster sitting on eggs after a mate’s desertion. A Washington bulletin covers sackbrood in bees, with copies at 5 cents. Electric shock resilience varies, shown by a Nekoosa youth surviving 33 000 volts. Mud turtles lay eggs in sunlit sand, and snapping turtle eggs are white and parchment-like. Pear blight harms apples and pears. eradicating requires cutting infected twigs well below the infection and sterilizing tools with corrosive sublimate solution.
A late issue reports a man who bought a run down eastern farm with no experience. His first year cost about $2500 and he sold the farm for what he paid. The article urges would be back to the land movers to rent a farm for a year or two instead of buying to gain experience with less risk.
Railroads through Washington and Oregon offer cash prizes and agricultural implements to encourage corn cultivation in tributary communities. Seed provided by railways is used in contests with exhibits to be held in December at Colfax Washington and Pendleton Oregon. Yields range from 40 to 90 bushels in Yakima Willamette Valley and Walla Walla Touchet valleys. Railroads expect corn to become a leading locally grown crop in years ahead.
A Washington Star quote praises the Declaration of Independence as a wonderful and able document. The patriotic citizen lauds its quality while a legal expert notes no one received payment for drafting it.
A fortune teller asks a woman about her future husband but she seeks news of her current husband's whereabouts when he is away. The exchange illustrates a domestic curiosity captured in a Philadelphia Press humor snippet.
Dustin Stax answers that wealth shapes his view of the world. He says a person speaks only from personal knowledge and confesses the fortune he has amassed makes the world seem better to him than before.
An irate customer berates a taxidermist over a partridge mount whose feathers shed. The perplexed proprietor retorts that the bird’s lifelike display causes its feathers to molt in season, a quip that underscores the naturalism of the workmanship.
A witty remark frames a father deciding on a boarding school for his son who asks pointed questions. The exchange notes the boy's curiosity about mortality by asking whether a shoe maker could breathe his last.
Eastbound timetable shows Aberdeen departure at 8 05 a m and 11 15 p m with arrivals at Aberdeen 6 00 a m and 2 15 p m Portland 6 45 a m and 2 00 p m Seattle 6 15 a m and 3 15 p m Adjusted times reflect two daily services between Aberdeen Portland and Seattle
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