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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
6
An illustrated guide explains attaching a washing machine to a windmill. Instructions cover wheel setup, pulleys, belts, and countermeasures to prevent slipping, plus a wash house and stove details.
Farmers are advised to test seed corn before planting. A sand-and-water germination test using 50 to 100 kernels predicts vitality, aiming for about 95 percent sprouted in 10 to 14 days. Corn with lower germination may yield poor results.
Guidance on stable maintenance suggests annual or biannual whitewashing, daily use of land plaster in manure gutters, thorough airing before milking, sprinkling floors in hot weather, avoiding dusty feeds, and prefeeding sprinkling if fodder is dusty. It recommends separate dairy spaces, no cellar below or storage above, and well ventilated, lighted, drained stables with tight floors and walls and plain construction.
The recipe outlines a potato chowder with onion ham fat and parsley simmered with water then finished with a milk sauce. It also details pork tenderloins prepared either fried or broiled with buttered, hot serving and a simple gravy enriched with flour and milk. A hint of Worcestershire sauce may be added.
Recipes describe serving tips for baked potatoes with towels, rich cheeses for sandwiches, a vanilla mango blanc mold with dates, date mush, and a cream based supper menu. Dishes include cream of corn soup veal mashed potatoes spinach lettuce pudding lemon coffee and a fruit salad with grapes pineapple orange and pecans with French dressing.
A 17 year old boy Frank Parker dangled inside a world of hot jets and glass prisms atop the Drury Lane gasolier. He knocked loose prisms nearly dropped into the pit. The head light man ventured through the garret to pull him to safety as flames and fumes surged above.
Sir Charles Napier suppresses the burning of widows after protests from priests. He declares that his nation will hang anyone involved in a widow burning and confiscate their property, insisting on acting according to national custom.
A humorous exchange has a lady lecturer insisting she loves all creatures including a family of pet toads. A small boy asks if flies are animals, challenging her view with a simple question.
London papers link the recent depression in British shipbuilding to the prior boom of 1901. The text notes cowhide yields about thirty five pounds of leather per cow and eighteen pounds per horse, reflecting discussions of production in the era.
The article discusses common colds and their stubborn persistence. It favors opiates like chlorodyne, Dover's powder, menthol snuff, and even cubed cigarettes for relief, and stresses prevention through warmth, dry feet, robust fat-rich diet, cod liver oil emulsions, and a fortified constitution to reduce future infections. It cites London Chronicle and New Orleans Times-Democrat in discussing urban versus rural walking speeds and the effects of excitement on pace.
A thinker notes that city miles feel shorter than country miles due to psychological factors and faster traversal. He observes urban scenes quicken perception, while rural stretches seem longer, yet the city mile is completed in about two thirds the time of the country mile.
The Mikado, newly out of retirement, personally questioned two privates via his aide-de-camp about barrack life and homesickness. Soldiers replied they were happy and duty-bound to honor their sovereign. Earlier, he greeted elderly supporters at Shirai shi station and sent gifts through the governor.
A six year old Harlem girl, Elsie, amuses relatives by remarking on a son’s presence and noting a “calamity of girls” in her home. The anecdote recounted by a visiting relative highlights the child’s playful wit and family dynamics.
In Scotland a belief ties fortune to the first caller on New Year. lovers timed entrances at midnight as bells struck. Edinburgh streets filled with jovial youths from midnight to morning as the year began, noted amid reflections on beet sugar as a major product and a quip about lifelong folly.
A critique of accident insurance where experts calculate injury values using complex tables. The piece traces methods back to Teutons and Phoenicians, noting modern payouts for limb loss or wounds and comparing past shillings to current dollars, with emphasis on profit in statistical risk.
The article outlines the global history of papermaking from China’s mulberry bast origins to spread across Asia, the Arabs, Europe, and Germany in the twelfth century. It notes the East’s simple crude process with fibers torn by hand and pulp pressed in primitive contrivances, as shown in the illustrated example.
The London Chronicle notes the unresolved question of ghostly reality. Dr. Oliver Lodge and the Society for Psychical Research question what defines a ghost and whether manifestations possess objective presence that would convince a million onlookers.
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