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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1902
Page
6
A magazine instructs readers to craft a blow gun from heavy wrapping paper. Build a four to five foot spiral tube by pasting strips and rolling evenly, aiming for a straight projectile. The piece ends with a Sunday school joke about Job.
A humorous exchange features a preacher denying marriage in heaven and a child’s quip about divine attendance. A hotel parlor moment shows a boy explaining his mother is "only one third mine" after meeting his twin sisters, illustrating playful misinterpretations of family ties.
A mother asks her 4 year old daughter what she would wish if granted one wish. The child replies she would wish to have everything she wanted, revealing a mischievous, scheming core in a playful exchange.
Pianist Paderewski stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Reginald De Koven in Washington. De Koven recalls once Paderewski played at his home in New York for nothing, asserting he has done much for him. The anecdote highlights the pianist’s generosity toward a longtime host.
A historical excerpt describes crafting a blowgun from rolled paper with dried paste and string, making darts from sealing wax and carpet tacks with worsted, and testing accuracy using a bullseye target. It also includes a brief moral note on a girl’s duties and a vignette about Paderewski’s surprise musicale visiting a friend.
The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette notes Anopheles mosquitoes are drawn to dark colors and repelled by white. In experiments indoors bright windows and color coded boxes show dark-blue and other hues attract or deter insects, with yellow walls suggested to reduce bites.
In a breezy exchange Miss Antigue is questioned about a past while Miss Cutting denies fifteen years of issues, highlighting a public dispute over rumors and personal history.
A clipped reflection warns that a wife should not wait for a husband’s death to grieve generosity. It argues tears are more meaningful when a man still struggles. It adds that familiarity breeds contempt and urges quick discovery before long marriage ends in death.
A Washington resident faced emergency police dispatch delays due to Central’s nickel rule. He pleaded burglars were in his home at 2 a.m., but had no nickel to place in the slot, forcing him to seek the chief operator before police arrived. The tale ends with a vowed grudge against the telephone company. The article then contrasts three tomahawk types: English, French, and Spanish, noting their use among various Native American tribes.
Before Columbian contact Indians used stone axes found in mounds and fields. After whites arrived they adopted iron tomahawks from traders, later manufactured in Europe for trade. With firearms, metal tomahawks declined by 1754, making European versions rare and valuable. Three distinct designs illustrate the period.
A Harper's Weekly essay argues women seek romance and novelty in fiction. It claims women are nurtured by books from birth, viewing life as romance, while men read for escape from business realities. It suggests women expect happy endings and lifelong habit of reading.
Albany native William Loeb Jr born October 9 1866 rose from poverty leaving school at 12 to support his family. He learned shorthand and built a career in stenography politics and state offices before serving as private secretary to Vice President Roosevelt and later taking a White House assistant secretary role.
A Kerry man angling for quick cash tried to pawn two kittens to a Protestant clergyman. After a failed bid with Conn endorsing the litter as sound Protestant kittens the man returned home. A week later the idea shifts to the parish priest who buys the kittens after a quip about eyes being opened.
Maude argues the partner truly loved him as she sacrificed a $15 weekly salary to marry. He accepts a $10 wage now. The suggestion is to leave a widow life insurance to seed Hope May Take Root Again in her heart.
The New York Sun notes Melbourne as once the largest Australian city with a booming gold economy. It compares Melbourne to Chicago and San Francisco and cites population changes and mining decline. It predicts Sydney will surpass Melbourne as Victoria’s riches shift and urban growth favors the rival city.
A long stalled Guanajuato opera house once valued at 1 250 000 dollars remains unused after an insult to President Diaz and a history of political feuding. The piece suggests Diaz and Gonzales clashed over governance, a new Gonzales builder funded the theater, and Diaz may finally open it amid renewed Mexican progress with possible American influence shaping events.
A brief cartoon caption from the Chicago American features a speaker scolding about missing license tags and joking that the owner might be a tax dodger, reflecting humor on tax compliance.
Across the Texas prairies a humble plant turns its leaves and flowers to the north under all weather. A traveler without a star or compass could rely on this plant as an unfailing monitor, guiding his path with certainty and no misdirection.
The famine in Russia's interior coincides with a drop in humidity caused largely by widespread forest destruction. The analysis links environmental change to agricultural failure across affected regions and notes the broader impact on grain supplies and rural livelihoods.
Reports from German New Guinea claim large stores of gutta percha suitable for cable use have been found, with global interest rising as nations eye cultivation and tapping methods that spare the trees. A tapping method could dramatically raise supply and wealth for island territories.
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