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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1912
Page
6
In summer city engineers face dust on macadam streets from oil bound traffic mats. Emulsions form when rain, clay, and bitumen mix, turning into muddy slicks after showers. Remedies are costly and impractical, making greasy mud a recurring wet weather nuisance. France’s good road program improved transport and rural life, reducing regional costs.
France maintains a centralized road system with a national bureau of roads and bridges that supervises all highways. The system, started by Napoleon, includes a road education school for engineers and inspectors employed by the bureau.
Mobile county Alabama moves to surface 100000 yards of road using chert clay gravel and oyster shells in a public works project aimed at improving rural links and accessibility.
The speaker argues good roads will raise living standards and create an ideal country. He notes past poverty as the excuse in earlier times and calls for statewide uniform road laws with state regulation to guide local road officials and improve use of local materials.
In a dialogue from the Catholic Standard and Times, Towne and Browne debate Goodley’s unpopularity. Browne complains he shadierly hints at Jones’s happiness masking drunkenness, while Towne questions why Goodley is disliked despite not speaking ill of others.
After the international masters tournament won by the Russian champion, A K Rubinstein of Lodz challenged Dr Emmanuel Lasker to a world championship match. Lasker had recently broken negotiations with Jose Capablanca over perceived slights. Rubinstein's strong international record promises universal interest.
The item notes John Paul Jones of Cornell excels in mile running and sports in baseball, champion Frank Gotch’s near perfect record with nine losses in 227 matches, Manager Johnny McGraw praising Schaefer as the fastest in baseball, a claim about De Tore, and the temper of old prize ring rules with toe to toe fighting, plus Johnny Kilbane teaching Tommy Kilbane boxing as rivals become friends.
A public health catechism from Indiana and pasted in Asheville spelling books warns that flies breed in manure and filth and spread typhoid fever, consumption and cholera infantum. It urges sanitation, keeping premises clean, prompt manure disposal, and screening to keep flies out.
The article warns that millions of summer germs are spread by flies and urges keeping flies away from the child and his food to prevent illness and danger.
Reminder to screen doors and windows of the home with emphasis on kitchens and pantries. If unable to screen, protect food especially milk to prevent rapid germ growth. Authorities urge cleanliness to avoid filth and flies.
Isabel Woodman Waitt urges readers in Coos County Democrat to join a fly swatting movement. She links hygiene to health wealth and warns of disease from flies while praising the famous Channel crossing by a woman flyer. The piece promotes home cleanliness and pest control as a seasonal duty for families and children.
An enlarged image of a housefly warns it spreads typhoid and other germs, urging readers to swat the fly. The ad promotes "The Best Fly Poison" a solution of eight teaspoonfuls of formalin to a quart of sweet milk and water, noting it is not fatal to humans and describing a bottle invert method for application.
Instructions emphasize using fresh and pure drugs and chemicals to kill flies. Cautions that poor quality products may lead to unsatisfactory results.
In eastern Kentucky, the wedding day starts with Bud Hightower packing a shoe with slugs and nails for moonshine gear. Sim Beesley jokes the plan, thinking it will scar Snipe Tolliver’s face instead of the groom, as Bud adds a railway spike to the makeshift weapon.
An excerpt from the Saturday Evening Post recounts a Mexico City moment with President Francis J. Madero and Secretary of State Abraham Gonzalez. Madero jokes about size, Gonzalez replies that standing on wisdom would make everyone dwarfs, and Madero notes not to stand on courtesy at the same time.
A compilation of witty and pointed French reflections on women, beauty, aging, and social norms. Authors cited include Saint Evremond Pascal Ricard Hugo Beaumanoir and others, noting opinions on marriage fashion and feminine behavior.
A vintage ad claims lightning deaths are rare and promotes Electric Bitters as a cure for liver and stomach troubles. It cites Robert Madsen of West Burlington Indiana who allegedly recovered after doctors gave up, labeling the product the best stomach liver nerve and kidney remedy and blood purifier. A 50 cent price is listed.
Ashland Kentucky woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health after years of female and kidney trouble. A Camden New Jersey resident also says the remedy cured displacement and fatigue, with testimonials urging others to seek guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
A health claim touts Dr King's New Life Pills to curb constipation and biliousness. The ad promises to prevent indigestion jaundice and gall stones by regulating liver stomach and bowels with a 25 cent price at druggists.
Henry Grabow of South Aberdeen Hotel in Aberdeen Washington testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his kidney pains back and loins and restored kidney strength after other remedies failed. He credits continued use with freeing him from symptoms and recommends them to others. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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