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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1903
Page
6
A candy maker notes prank candy ideas to please youths who enjoy explosive cigars. Tricks include hard candy tooth with gold crown, bone button in candy, candy shoe button, cork in caramel, and cherry filled with red pepper. The industry fears san ity experts may curb such jokes.
A miscellany of folklore and curious practices. Bertha Friga myth explains cowslip sprung spring, while Russian passport rules hinder travel. games like Pin Point and Pine Stick Pin entertain with simple toys and household objects.
A playful game setup details players using a basket as the starting point and a book as the goal. Each participant wears a clean pin and has three minutes to grab apples or trophies from the basket, spear them on the pin, and run to the goal. The winner is the one who lands the most apples at the goal in three minutes.
A collection of short humorous vignettes about children. Willie slips on sleet and cries after stepping on the ice. Wesley boasts of growing. Julia asks Santa for a shoot gun to fetch money from cattle. Abe defends the class with a joke about his teacher. James recalls Hugh using a mild mispronunciation.
Lieutenant Commander C. H. Harlow signs a contract with Perth Amboy Shipbuilding for the ship Young America to educate 250 young men. The 3,000 ton, 276 foot vessel will be a full rigged ship with steam power and multiple decks. It will cruise worldwide, offering a four year course with naval discipline and extensive seamanship training, under Navy officers and a 25 member instructor corps. Rear Admiral S. B. Luce chairs the board of trustees.
Engineers use dynamite to cut bar iron to length in mines, replacing saws and chisels. The dexterity shown with powerful explosives highlights their varied applications in mining work. The remark ends with a comment on poverty and folly.
Carroll D. Wright argues the labor problem cannot be solved because life itself must be solved first. He asserts industrial conditions can improve with intelligent fair treatment, while urging caution in romance and advising women to avoid unsuitable men to prevent misery from debased character.
Senator Beveridge argues there are three trust evils water ing of stocks unjust price hikes and wage suppression. He calls for publicity as a remedy and favors gradual national corporate control as industry evolves. He urges moderation in regulating 80 million Americans and warns against instantaneous ironclad controls.
The piece satirically notes that practical advice on selecting a husband falls short as love shapes perception. It lists common vows like avoiding widowers or poor men and wanting tall distinguished suitors, revealing how romantic notions distort true choices.
The essay compares a train engineer's control to a merchant manager's authority in large firms versus small businesses. It argues that small business owners bear full burdens, balance many duties, and must remain calm, practical, and resourceful under pressure to succeed.
The Winnie Davis memorial hall, a dormitory for children or grandchildren of Confederate veterans, advances at the State Normal School in Athens Georgia. Daughters of the Confederacy had raised about sixty thousand dollars with a grant from the Southern Educational Congress nearly covering the remaining four thousand five hundred. Mrs Jefferson Davis praised the effort as a fitting tribute to her daughter.
The era of American industry reaches Persia as sewing machines and harvesting machines appear in Palestine and Assyrian grain fields. The technology spreads from Ruth’s era to modern livelihoods, signaling economic and social change driven by American manufacturing.
A historical portrait notes Roosevelt as the most wounded U S president with fifteen injuries since manhood. Bruises from football, broken ribs from ranching, a shoulder bone from a Bad Lands fall, bear and steer encounters, climbing mountain lion dangers, Cuban campaign hand wound, a trolley accident, leg abscess surgery, and recent injuries from friend General Leonard Wood in swordplay and stick fighting at the White House.
The New York World asserts Western gifts reshape the Orient, with sewing machines in Persia and bicycles threatening rulers and seraglios. It argues progress for Oriental women follows, from hats and typewriters to broader moral uplift and emancipation.
A sixteenth century Wednesbury resident left funds to provide three gowns and three coats annually on St. Thomas day. The bequest aims to support a local recipient, with ongoing maintenance of the charitable provision and related conditions.
The fund originally valued for funerals has grown to $30,000. Charity administrators now supply 200 gowns and 60 coats instead of the planned three gowns and coats. A London trip prompts a clergyman to wire home, asking for a Christmas text to decorate the parish gallery. his wife replies with a witty two line message.
A centrifugal olive oil extraction method like sugar refineries promises huge savings for California olive growers. Lord Curzon serves as the twenty seventh governor of India.
The ad touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and cure for all humors and eruptions. It claims unique effectiveness and low cost with testimonial from Susie A. Hairston who regains sight after eight bottles.
A fragment discusses a fern species in Australia that grows horn like deer antlers and more broadly notes fern propagation under a magnifying glass where spores appear as tiny atoms. It cites Shakespeare’s line on fern seed as a metaphor for unseen reproduction and mentions other varied curiosities in plant growth.
An advertisement promises a permanent cure for fits and nervousness using Dr Klime's Great Nerve Aart with a free trial bottle offer. It lists B H Evins Ltd in Philadelphia as the address and claims immediate results after the first day. The piece also contains unrelated snippets about anarchists and Americanization.
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