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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1906
Page
3
Seattle June 23 The executive committee unanimously selects the university campus as the exposition site. A special trustees meeting Monday will confirm the choice. No liquor will be sold on or near university grounds under state law.
Red Wing Minnesota resident William Bates, a clam fisherman, reports finding a giant fresh water pearl in a clam shell. Valued between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars, it measures about a marble in size and weighs eighty five grains with a fine lustre.
The steamer Tremont arrived with Ara Milala a Filipino passenger bound to Washington on a Filipino political mission. Also aboard were two jiu jitsu experts recently engaged by Yale University.
Ninety Washington pioneers gathered at Madison Park for the Washington Pioneer Association 1906 reunion. President J. A. Kuhn led thin formal session as officers reported a year of dues totaling 221 dollars in collections of 709.26 with 246.93 expended. Trustees said affairs were flourishing and discussed seeking public support to preserve state history including commemorating the Exact landing at Alki Point in 1851. Rev. George F. Whitworth to serve as president next year. L. S. Rowe and Edgar Bryan re-elected treasurer and secretary with a new board of trustees named.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw and U S Senator Elkins spoke at the West Virginia Bankers Association closing session in Elkins. The banquet at Senator Elkins home capped the event as Elkins urged income and inheritance tax reform and distribution of wealth.
Odessa reports eleven top garrisons refuse police duties amid street disturbances. Government shelved mobilization plans for 700000 Cossacks, fearing civil war. Mutinous troops are being moved to trouble spots. Azovsky notes 8000 miners applauding a revolutionary march. Kharkoff letters forecast widespread southern revolution within a month.
The directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society voted unanimously to adopt an amended charter that provides for mutualization of the society.
A compilation of South Dakota and Minnesota law questions covers property exemptions, boundary agreements, wills with trusts, and the Postmaster General's authority. It clarifies rights to ditch land, enforce boundary lines by agreement, spousal trusts, and the right of way for mail carriers on roads.
An essay notes skulls tied to murders at Bettiscombe Dorset and Burton Agnes Hall near Bridlington. It recounts legends of murdered heiresses at Tunstead Derbyshire and a head haunting at Wardley Hall near Manchester. Noted further are Tinton Sumpner manor hauntings described in Gentleman’s Magazine 1872.
Workmen in a room uncover a small skull beneath the floor in 1797 described as possibly a monkey. No formal inquiry or professional opinion was pursued to determine the skulls real nature.
The fragment recounts legends of Scotland’s crown jewels, hidden during the Stuart era to avoid English seizure. A nurselike rescue by Christian Fletcher enabled the relics to depart Dunottar, later reappearing in Edinburgh’s crown room after a century-long disappearance.
A physician argues the paper handkerchiefs are here to stay unlike the costly linen version, noting their germ destruction by burning and their Japanese origin. The column blends this with brief, unrelated clippings on Kaiser Wilhelm, Mohammed ben Assan, and a humorous remark about wealth and smarts.
Dr Smits office at Aberdeen General Hospital lists hours 10 to 12 am 2 to 4 pm and 7 to 9 pm with phone 614. The Crowther Wooding block corner of G and Heron Streets contains another office with hours 10:30 to 11:30 am 1:80 to 4:30 and 7 to 8 pm and phone 135.
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