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Witty exchanges about fashion and manners appear in a compact humor set. Remarks on Bromley’s wealth push button chasers, wives, ministers, and travel skewered with light satire.
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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1903
Page
7
Witty exchanges about fashion and manners appear in a compact humor set. Remarks on Bromley’s wealth push button chasers, wives, ministers, and travel skewered with light satire.
William De Wit outlines Bowdoin College inspired education aims emphasizing health, practical reading, utility arithmetic, observation based geography, and history through biography. He argues for merit based promotion and capable teachers, praising public high schools and predicting higher wages for women as they enter outdoor work and improve business conditions.
The essay by Bishop Henry C. Potter argues most hardships come from self made conditions in America. He contends labor organizations have alienated sympathy and stresses that communities consist of workers and capitalists amid conflicts. He warns organized labor could be driven from New York if individual freedom is eroded.
Mr M Mangasarian discusses wage gaps arguing women are novices in outdoor work and prefer temporary jobs aiming for marriage. He cites lack of business judgment and weaker nerves as factors hindering steady, long term labor as compared with men.
An advice piece by Helen Oldfield favoring love matches over mercenary unions. It cautions against deep, headless passion and urges waiting to know a partner well, warns that money can’t buy lasting happiness, and stresses shared values and mutual respect as keys to a good marriage.
Rev Dr Donald S Mackay of New York argues more thoughtful men attend church today than a decade ago while proportionately fewer leisure and society women attend. He says orchestras and ritual attract the curious and should be avoided, and preaching remains the cure for the oppressed. He warns men who skip church contribute to communal degradation.
Stage technologies show a device created by Henry Miller to generate artificial applause. Miller tested the invention while acting in Richard Harding Davis Taming of Helen in St. Louis, using a backdrop of stage effects to enhance the final act in a theater setting.
Disjointed clippings compare a mechanical applause device with 700 year old skull surgery. An inventor Mr. Miller quells machine noise while ancient trephination in America Europe and the South Seas is described as crude but creditable. A Philadelphia joke ends the fragment.
On a moonlit June night in 1902 Charles Moore and Charles JF McWinn discuss the White House’s design. They contrast its grounds and views with Versailles while the President and guests glow under dim cigars and fireflies. An architect confirms no comparable modern house matches its class.
A witty remark notes that a man deserves his comeuppance when he marries a woman who has more sense and keeps him in check, never letting him forget it. The line plays on gendered humor about marital dynamics and shared wit.
Pensacola records show Alabama 64.8 percent hits from 49,888 pounds fired at 1000 yards while ship steamed ten knots. Indiana 60 percent of 42,900 pounds. Illinois 58.5 percent of 47,720 pounds. Also then notes conscripts outlawed in Alsace Lorraine, Hall's Catarrh Cure ad claims, and a joke on autos beating Europeans.
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