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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1917
Page
2
Aberdeen items report residents traveling to Salem Amity Helena and Seattle over the weekend. local clubs meetings sales and entertainments scattered through town with social events, arrivals, departures, and civic notes.
Wishkah Circle Women of Woodcraft elected Mary Crawford Leona Vammen Lu la Smith Ida Michaels Mary Heyer and Anna Louck as delegates to the district convention. Alternates named include Lucy Hite Julia Carter Julia Rosenberg Mirna Sara zin Maud Simmons Elizabeth Cooper and Violet Wyandeare for the Hoquiam meeting.
The New York Sun article explains how paring and soaking potatoes before boiling wastes nutrients. It notes peeling before cooking increases protein and mineral loss, while cooking with skins on or by baking or steaming minimizes waste.
Eight years ago a twelve year old in Cleveland started a garden for vegetables and flowers. Her flowers earned 18.45 the first year and rose to 285.63 last year. She says the garden lets her buy books clothes and savings with a smile and pride.
The Battle of Dorking is an imagined 19th century scenario by Sir George T Chesny. Written after the Franco Prussian War it warned of invasion and depicted a German victory on English soil. The vivid tale unsettled English readers while German forces were in France.
A New York woman recalls a voyage abroad where the captain explains windward and leeward. His blunt line clarifies the terms as she admits her earlier confusion. The anecdote ends with the captain’s blunt joke about standing to the lee ward.
A Youth's Companion piece contrasts boys and girls through playful and pointed traits. It notes boys enjoy rough games like stoning a cat while girls seek violets and privacy in drawers. It claims differences in curiosity, spending, and sharing, with girls seen as more discreet about borrowed items.
A Philadelphia North American reader describes a tenant who wallpapered around every picture to cover old paper after the landlord failed to provide new paper. She pays rent and gives notice she will move next month, leaving a grimy square behind.
A stylish tennis skirt praised for its dual striped and plaid design. The garment features an apple tree green and white color scheme and a girdle hip arrangement with practical pockets, aligning with Mme Fashion's decree.
English landscape painter Peter de Wint tested a rich patron who boasted of liking sold works. The man arrived late, lamenting he could not buy the two sold pieces. De Wint revealed he had kept the tickets on those exact pictures for him, exposing the patron’s pretense.
A father counsels his son on building an old age income through steady saving. If $250 yearly is invested at 6 percent, the principal grows yearly, yielding $1 after two years, $65 after five, $148 after nine, and $550 in the following year. By year twenty, capital nears $10,000 producing about $600 annually.
A fragmentary note recalls a banter about steady dripping wearing stone and how pouring glassfuls into a man would twist his stomach, capturing a rustic debate on cause and effect in a quirky exchange.
A concise reflection on human interdependence comparing unity to cooperative parts of the body. Marcus Aurelius emphasizes mutual support and collective functionality as a guiding principle.
Small Woman, widow of the famed Native American leader Sitting Bull, died at eighty at the Fort Berthold reservation North Dakota after suffering burns from a cabin fire at Lucky Mound. She escaped uninjured while saving a cherished blanket.
Workers at a Shamokin Pennsylvania colliery refused to work after a pet mule was moved to a different shift. The strike halted operations as management sought to return the animal to the original unit.
National Geographic Society Bulletin recounts the Servian legend of Marko Kralevitch king's son of Prilep. It details the prophecy, Marko's turbulent life from prince to mercenary, and the final act of dying amid a Christian battle without striking a blow.
Federal Bureau of Navigation estimates show 1,149 merchant vessels sunk in 1916, totaling about 2.03 million tons. Britain built 510 ships, the US 1,213. other nations 782. Japan and Germany outputs are noted with varied figures, Lloyd’s cites 48.683 million tons in global merchant tonnage.
The Louis H. Eisenlohr copper box placed in the Ashburnham town vault in 1915 is to be opened on the second Saturday in September 2015. An engraved invitation invites the unborn U S president, New York Times editors, Governor and MA officials to attend the ceremony supervised by Cushing Academy. The box contains messages and 1915 records. Another 100 year box lies under an elm planted by Eisenlohr.
The Pennsylvania State College experiment station notes that a grain mix of cornmeal four parts wheat middlings three parts and tankage one part yields excellent results. Adding skim milk increases gains and allows more cornmeal. Alternative mixes include cornmeal eight parts with tankage one part or skim milk three parts with corn meal one part. If possible, use pasture crops and feed two to four pounds of grain per hundred pounds live weight daily in addition to pasture. Feed twice daily to appetite with no waste.
The Ohio experiment station reports clover in a three year rotation boosts corn yields. On unfertilized land 3 year rotation yields 6.2 bushels more per acre than 5 year rotation. on manured land the advantage is 8.4 bushels. The station attributes gains to clover replacing a longer interval between clover crops.
The California experiment station tested milk producing capacity of goats. A two year old pure Toggenburg yielded 2155 pounds of milk in one year and 72.8 pounds of butter fat, about one sixth the output of a first class cow and more than twice an ordinary milk goat. Feed cost per pound of milk ran ninety percent of dairy cows in the herd.
An English commercial traveler regrets not leaving his heavy overcoat in a railway cloakroom on a warm day. A friend explains the thrift of pawning the coat for a shilling, with ticket costs and interest totaling a penny, a saving in hard times.
The season for winter sports is here with skating praised as a healthful outdoor activity for boys, girls, and many adults. It improves movement grace and engages all muscles, but should avoid overexertion to preserve the sport’s benefits.
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