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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
2
The board of control clarifies payment rules by restricting cash or personal check vouchering and requiring a single warrant for collections. Going forward bills above 25 dollars must be sent directly to the board from the service provider, with receipts recorded as sub vouchers.
The Kalamazoo Improvement League led by Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane demonstrated hand street cleaning using Col. Waring’s system. Women inspectors faced excuses but the city adopted the method saving costs and reducing dust and disease, with galvanized cans and Junior Civic Leagues promoting tidier streets.
A quip attributed to Meggendorter Blatter laments being wrong about wireless telegraphy while a motorist proclaims lasting faith in the technology.
At the American Football Association meeting in San Francisco plans were laid to import a coach from an eastern "hig four" college to train California high schools in the revised game. William Reid, ex Harvard coach, leads the campaign to keep Rugby out of coast schools and replace it with the updated intercollegiate style. California UC and Stanford have played Rugby for three years, now facing efforts to substitute the revised game in high schools.
A McNamara style sketch describes Paraguay and its capital Asuncion. It notes mixed Spanish Guarani heritage, gentle yet indolent traits, Catholicism, aristocratic families, and women selling wares in the streets. The piece cites poverty, weak currency, and scarce gold entering the republic.
The article explains methods to destroy gunpowder dynamite and other nitroglycerin explosives, advising water immersion or controlled burning with fuses and avoiding water immersion for nitroglycerin explosives. It notes dangers of simultaneous explosions and cautions on handling frozen dynamite and ammonium nitrate devices.
The guide explains patient hair care for the ill, detailing steps to disentangle snarls from below, part and separate hair, and comb from ends to roots. It recommends securing hair gently, braiding in bed, and avoiding tight pulls to prevent soreness.
A New York inventor develops a scalp sprayer using an atomizer ring and compressible bulb. Pressing the bulb sprays tonic or perfume through a perforated tube into the hair and scalp, avoiding drips on clothing or walls and saving tonic.
A humorous Meggendorfer Blatter caption notes a wife singing off key and accompanying herself, prompting the joke about the accompanist being out of tune. The cartoon scene centers on self accompaniment and marital interplay in a light satirical tone.
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet recalls the discomfort of sheet iron clothing in the middle ages and quips that a man might still end up with a permanent crease in his trousers.
An anxious passenger asks if a craft will have a dog boat and is told it is a cathoat in a fragmentary Life article. The piece hints at a broader meditation on artificial evils and the wart of thought seeking remedy.
A catalog of fire alarm boxes includes numbered intersections and buildings such as No 4 North Aberdeen and No 5 B and Cleveland Avenue along with City Hall High School and several streets. An annotation notes that boxes marked with an imaginary symbol are not real.
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