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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
6
A youthful narrator rests amid fields and sky as nature and a holiday mood inspire dreaming. The poem contrasts the ease of loafing with the value of work and the longing to soar like a falcon or a catbird in the haw. The seasonal imagery emphasizes a single carefreeday reverie and the annual respite from labor.
In a Chicago Times-Herald piece a quarrelsome married pair, John and Mrs Trumbull, endure a tense rift fueled by control and fear. A burglary at a neighbor’s home forces John to prove his usefulness, rekindling affection as he protects his wife and their child, ending with a humorous, if brief, happy note.
A historical survey praises the Chicago drainage canal the Erie enlargement and the Nicaragua canal as the era defining hydraulic feats. It cites costs, capacities, and expected economic gains, detailing locks, sluice gates, and earthworks and notes the immense political and national prestige tied to these ventures.
In Markneukirchen Saxony the entire town and surrounding villages with about 15 000 people rely exclusively on violin production. Every age group participates in crafting parts of the instrument from small children to elders.
A moral reflection notes that an honest man rarely rises at 4 am to face temptation while acknowledging some women may be near sighted yet endure what is proceeding.
The article outlines New York State plans to spend 60 million dollars widening and deepening the Erie Canal and modernizing locks to compete with railroads. It notes projected tonnage, costs, and travel times, plus the need for harbors, labor, and sanitary measures and mentions defensive works and fortifications for wartime protection.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat tale claims a plantation on the Mississippi River housed the costliest rabbit, valued at $1,250 after Italian workers chased a single fugitive and faced $5 payroll deductions. The foreman warned workers to deter rabbit hunts, ending the practice on that plantation.
The Procurator of the Holy Synod reports a new sect in Yakutsk Eastern Siberia founded by peasant Filip Likhacheff exiled from Uftimskaya. Its MS My Profession preaches Judas as the first Christ disciple, God alone worthy of reverence, distrust of secular or ecclesiastical authority, state and church figures as devilish, property and family ties as sins, with Likhacheff admitting authorship. The movement spreads among workers, notably Skoptzis exiled from European Russia.
A woman notices a man carefully hides a folded note in a drawer and reads the message To bet you a new hat your curiosity will not permit you to let this alone. She faces a moral dilemma about claiming the hat without exposing herself.
Describes workers in Japan wearing only a narrow loin scarf and straw sandals. In cold or rainy periods they don a loose straw mantle over the shoulders and a large crude hat for protection.
The plague devastated Canton in 1804, killing about 80 000 of its one million residents. The note suggests poverty and scarce pleasures amid the crisis, reflecting harsh urban conditions.
The London Spectator argues that the grand manner has faded with democracy yet hints at a revival shaped by modern sensibilities. It notes the era’s wealth and leisure once defined gentility, laments its mockery, and calls for a renewed but purge version that blends liberal culture with contemporary seriousness.
A compilation of curious statistics and historic notes. The text lists fingerprint improbabilities, boot stitching counts, a vast San Diego lemon grove, a 1800s inheritance of acreage, Congress bill totals, Table Mountain details, Cairo wedding customs, a tree-bark rail in British Columbia, and Vesuvius Pompeii excavations with grand frescoes and villa peristyles.
A belligerent Archdeacon, Canon Bellairs of England, who died recently, was an old foe of Archdeacon Denison. A former school inspector before 1870, his district included East Brent. He opposed government school inspection, taught children ridicules, and warned his brother clergyman would place Bellairs in a village horse pond if he returned to Somerset.
A Baltimore American report depicts a revolutionary leader fleeing a pursuing band. A private asks why the leader runs, recalling his vow to die in the last ditch. The commander replies the last ditch is far off, forcing a rapid retreat as the group fights time.
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