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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1911
Page
2
Miss Roma Jameson returns from Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Hart come back from British Columbia motor trip. Real estate dealings closed by R. H. Fleet from Montesano. Kensal visits Tacoma for business. Local births and visits noted among residents and visitors.
J. J. Kaufman remains confined with a severe case of mumps. W. C. Pascoe returns from a business trip in San Francisco aboard the steamer Centralia. Mrs. R. H. Fleet and two Montesano children come home from four months in Long Beach California aboard the Centralia. Captain Peter Wilson in critical condition at St Josephs hospital after paralysis. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Patterson and Mrs. R. Blackburn of Edmonton Alberta return from Puget Sound motor trip. Rev. Father Gribben, St Josephs hospital chaplain, back from four months in New York and Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Suemnicht of Olympia visit Aberdeen en route home from the beach. Suemnicht formerly a merchant tailor in Aberdeen and greets old friends.
Preparations are nearly complete for the twenty fifth annual Washington State Press Association session to be held Thursday Friday and Saturday in Aberdeen and Hoquiam. Banquets honor visiting newspaper people in each city with a Pacific Beach closing dinner and Chehalis county newspapermen social dance. The beach event features Quinsault Indian surf riding exhibitions for lingering visitors.
A successful season ends at the Boys' Camp on South Beach with younger boys affected by the closing. Those seeking camp training must send their boys this week. The Hoquiam group will depart for home Thursday.
The article surveys foreign small coinage such as the farthing sou centime and cen timi, noting their use and values. It also references U S considerations for a half or five cent fractional piece, and recalls that a five cent piece was once the smallest coin in much of the West per the New York Herald.
Professor Albert S. Cook of Yale notes the King James Bible preserves many common words and phrases such as highways and hedges clear as crystal and weighed in the balance. He compares word counts, citing about 6000 words in the Authorized Version versus Milton 138000 and Shakespeare 21000.
More than 500 people attended the Odd Fellows annual picnic at Pacific beach on Saturday. The event featured a baseball game between married and single men as the day’s highlight.
Reader asks how to kill insects gathering under dead bark portions of trees. The note discusses bark, sunlight, and road funding debates, with remarks on farming, land ownership, and poultry breeding research from the Maine Experiment Station. It references Ohio legislature and cow ear placement as humorous aside.
An Austrian couple, Frank Koszen woski and Rosie Big, were arrested Saturday evening by Officer Ellis and are held at police headquarters awaiting a United States immigration officer to take them to Tacoma for deportation examination. Miss Big, a domestic at the Cody rooming house, was accused of diamond theft from a guest but discharged for lack of evidence.
Hamilton and Wells offer painting and paper hanging and kal fe mining services. They invite estimates for work and list their phone as 5791 and address at 25th and Sumner.
A circular diamond saw used in France cuts stone with 200 diamonds in the edge for hard stones at 300 rpm, advancing about one foot per revolution. Soft stones use steel teeth with diamonds every five teeth, at twelve rpm, advancing a yard per minute. The machine dresses stone on all sides at one-eighth to one-tenth the cost of hand labor.
Chinese music reads right to left like characters and uses a different scale from Western music. It sounds discordant to Western ears yet has a pretty cadence that draws interest despite frequent discords. Burtons marriage to the heiress is blocked until debts are paid, he cannot settle debts without her marriage.
A general manager assigns a chemist to study waste from timber and steel. Within less than a year salvage profits exceed 500000 dollars, transforming earlier ridicule into reliance as dividends rise. The report emphasizes industrial innovation driven by scientific methods.
At Whangarei New Zealand Jones brothers hosted a horse event where a cleric Rev Jasper Calder rode the weary Lively Kitty after two failed attempts. The horse jolted but Calder stayed seated as the animal exhausted itself.
In Graubunden canton Engadine resorts voters opposed a car ban. Eleven votes against the measure and only Ee opening the roads to motor traffic, but a conference of all Swiss cantons will discuss the matter. It is unlikely motors will be allowed in the Engadin.
Poem by John E. Dolsen argues that unrest in humans drives ambition and the quest to understand infinity. It claims struggle shapes laws of nature and finally reveals humanity as part of God, with discontent as the motive force behind aspiration.
A noiseless dustless road surface, cheaper than standard asphalt, can be made from residual petroleum after kerosene gasolene and paraffin removal. Demonstrated in Evanston Illinois, the city buys road oil at 8 cents a gallon delivered by tank cars. Average application is a quarter gallon per square yard with a crew of eight workers. foreman earns 3 dollars daily and seven laborers 2 dollars each.
A near Topeka dirt road west of the city stays drivable after rain or snow due to regular road dragging. The process eliminates deep mud and ruts, with quick drainage and rapid drying. One dedicated man organized neighbors to fund monthly dragging, showing such roads can exist in many Kansas neighborhoods.
A split log drag will make the road impervious to water if used in wet weather and not too sharp.
A farmer laments eight miles of muddy roads to town, while a business man suggests moving the farm four miles closer by building better roads. The piece cites The Conservation of Water arguing rivers move more soil than any land project. It also critiquizes Manchester barber culture and cleanliness in shops with humorous anecdotes.
Shafted by crude OCR text, the item notes a heavy toll in bullfighting with many injuries and fatalities. It cites twelve bullfighters and hundreds of animals involved, signaling an unprecedented period in the national sport's history.
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