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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1903
Page
6
A health column describes home treatments for coughs headaches and night sweats. It recommends inhaling perfume to quell coughing, a camphor wrapped pepper bandage for headaches, and various uses of Ichthyol for pulmonary tuberculosis with claims of relief and improved appetite.
The piece notes strong support for a Theodore Roosevelt for president and Ulysses S. Grant for vice president ticket with favorable reaction in Republican papers. It adds biographical details about Grant’s son in law and Harvard Columbia credentials, then recounts a domestic anecdote of a boy stealing and returning silverware from a well, ending with a humorous request for a drumstick.
A bank of England scale is described as exceedingly precise. It weighs a speck of dust accurately and can handle any metal load up to four hundred pounds. A postage stamp on the scale moves the indicator along a semicircular arc by six inches.
The United States post office department issued domestic money orders totaling over 813,800,000 and foreign ones near 23,000,000. Most international remittances came from immigrants to relatives abroad. The piece also notes honest labor as a remedy for bad luck.
The Creek nation divides into twenty five towns each led by a king whose duties are paternal caring for the sick poor and advising on local interests. Kings are elected for two year terms no salary exists and elections sometimes involve boodling with town kings wielding influence for a price. Nero Drew is noted as a long serving king in the Creek country with others featuring long tenures.
A matron argues men should not handle marketing citing waste and excess while women excel at planning dinners. The text then critiques police crime control in London, noting swift punishment and few murders in 1901 despite a large population.
A dealer in stock quotations notes that apparel proclaims the man while a casual observer concedes an honest heart may hide beneath a formal hat. The wedding gifts include pieces of china whose use the groom cannot name.
A collage of humorous exchanges and wry observations from newspapers and magazines. Jests range from domestic squabbles and courtship chatter to office banter and social foibles, featuring lines about marriage, music, clocks, and double lives.
A London Telegraph item reports Roman Pope Julius II celebration births in Rome totaling ninety three babies, with triplets Romulus Remus and Roma. It then notes Berlin mothers producing many offspring, listing women aged 40 to 43 with twenty-one to twenty eight children and 240 Berlin women with thirteen to twenty children.
The article describes an inflatable life preserver by Wiley P. Tibbets of Toledo Ohio. The device uses a spiral tube worn under clothing with a jacket support and inflates through a mouthpiece. It promises unobtrusive comfort and quick inflation for passenger security at sea.
The article notes a battleship cost of 1 575 022 76 for the Org a the most expensive in the US Navy while Harvard values its buildings and land at 5 800 000. It remarks on wealth and finance with Morgan and stock implications, and adds lines from the Philadelphia Press about patience and housing.
Public sermon remarks critique religious and social norms with sharp lines on salvation, legislation, wealth, and church power. Wry cautions on greed, liberal opinion, and worldly success frame a moral warning about living true to faith and duty.
An old Indian peasant finds a heavy black ball that proves to be solid gold. Legends say Akbar melted treasure into cannon balls, and Persian royal chambers hold two ancient gold globes. The story ties to a vanished hoard and a curious royal past, as noted in the Loudon Chronicle.
A dialogue reveals a girl mistaking Brokerleigh for being connected to a bucket shop and pails. The rumor suggests regional talk about his business, while a witty aside notes a motor in the road holds more value than many stuck days in the mud.
Wis Eminence Cardinal Vaughan archbishop of Westminster died after a long illness of heart disease and dropsy. He led the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales succeeding Newman and Manning, born in Gloucester in 1832 and educated at Stoneyhurst and in Rome. He was famed for aid to the poor in Salford and his warm ties to King Edward and Americans.
Dr. Charles Amezella of Mexico City tells a Washington Post reporter that Mexico rapidly Americanizes inspired by the United States and Diaz’s leadership. He praises Washington’s beauty and autumn days, foresees progress and a glorious destiny for Mexico.
A persistent late girl faces fines on half her weekly allowance but remains unmoved. Her mother then offers a new hat to be worn the following Sunday for timeliness, ending the trouble with the music lesson.
A Philadelphia Ledger piece notes fashionably evolving town slang from malaria to chills and fever. It contrasts perceptions of appearance with a Philadelphia Press remark about a married woman's waistline and a mother’s absence leaving a question from every child: where is mother.
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