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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
6
Casper Schenck quotes a nautical poem sung by the bosn Pipes as the ship nears home. The tale recounts orders to depart and the bosn leading a chorus with the crew in a celebratory ring as the anchor lifts for home.
A Confederate veteran moves from memory to Mary Jane as a one armed clerk recalls losing an arm at Richmond. On the Tombigbee he shares his story with Jennie the child, revealing love letters, war memories, and life after battle aboard Captain Ramsey’s boat.
A New York Tribune account describes women of Saint Pierre in vivid empire gowns and silk outfits, their bold color love, stately carriage, and roles from fruit carriers to educated, music loving mantles. It notes distinct white and native social spheres with limited mingling.
A well dressed Southern woman boarded a Birmingham to Washington Pullman car with a valid coupon and ticket, insisting she ride through to Washington on the North bound train. Officials relented after a tense stand, attaching the lone passenger car to the through train. The woman’s name was not released.
The article contrasts the Mont Pelee and La Soufriere disasters with Pompeii, noting ancient rescue efforts and excavations. It describes Pompeii’s ruins, key structures, and artworks, and compares the human toll and enduring legacies of both eruptions, including a curious Luneburg pig monument and US cotton export figures in China.
Japanese authorities expose a long standing illegal practice using human heads for medicine. Police recover intact and buried heads along with snakes tortoises and frogs used in charring for sale under disguising names. A Osaka family, including wife of Hanamoto Kakichi, is arrested after a February search and confession.
The records show annual book issues in Germany with figures for 1895 1894 1897 1898 1899 and 1900. The numbers range from 23 067 in 1895 to 23 792 in 1900. The sentence about a poor player wearing a baseball suit appears as an unrelated comment.
The piece contrasts German and American labor, arguing Germany shapes workers through government control while the United States relies on internal discipline. It asserts German workers lack ambition and religion, hindering advancement, while American industry uses electricity and steam to boost speed and efficiency, yielding lower costs and faster production.
In New York a proposed anti-daisy bill would classify the daisy among pests like wild carrot and thistle and empower tax assessors to dig up such weeds on farms at farmer expense. A city and country assemblyman clash over its value, debating beauty versus crop protection amid poet quips and hay prices.
A series of moral aphorisms urges vigilance in faith and conduct. It denounces indorsement ambiguity, extols education and salvation, warns that the saloon harms souls, and stresses active church life, forgiveness, and worldly integrity.
Those living among trees learn to identify species in winter by bark and habit, but these can mislead. Leaves flowers and fruit, plus winter buds leaf scars and twig color and shape, provide more reliable cues for identification when leaves are absent.
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