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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1914
Page
3
Mrs Caroline Wiley and daughter visit Seattle while Mr and Mrs George Aggers of Tacoma travel to the city. Numerous residents and guests, including W D Crow and C A Pennington, come and go for business and leisure across Aberdeen, Seattle, Tacoma, and nearby towns with several marriages, travels, and community notes.
Rachael Marshall presents The Traffic a dramatic exposé on the white slave trade at the Grand Theater on May 19. The work praised by Illinois Lt. Gov Barrett O Hara Hull House founder Gertrude Britten and Chicago police Maj Funkhouser for its bold truth and warning about commercialized vice.
By arrangements in advance you can obtain 3 per cent money to buy build or improve farm or city property. T. E. Fenlon, Hotel Lincoln. 63-21.
Demonstrator of hypnotism and psychic phenomena to perform at the Grand Theatre on May 16 and 17 assisted by Dr. Clara Ferris. Two hours of science mystery education with hypnotism praised as a practical science for daily life and a catalyst for personal growth across professions.
Edgar Lucien Larkin argues in the New York American that current schooling tortures minds and fails to teach nature’s laws. He calls for individualized instruction and expertise in child psychology to overcome vast mountains of ignorance.
A humorous portrait of Girlville a small hamlet on the road to Matrimony noting its bucolic roots modernized by city colors. The town now flaunts cheap display traits and self governance replacing elders with ragtime fiction silk stockings velvet slippers and a spoon factory. An attempt to rename to Chatterfield was rejected.
Instructions on how a married woman should sign letters. Do not use only a first name when the recipient may not know marital status. If married, sign Christian and surname, and add the husband’s name with the prefix Mrs in a lower corner.
Board and rooms rates listed for Columbia Hotel at 912 KE Heron St. Includes weekly rates for single and double rooms, meals, and baggage storage. Rates shown include four dollar weekly board, twenty five cent per night for rooms, and sixty to seventy five cent charges for doubles. Free baggage storage offered for patrons while out of town.
The piece ranks macaroni as a high energy food noting it delivers about 1650 calories per pound while lean steak offers 950. It cites macaroni priced at 10 to 15 cents per pound and only 7 to 10 percent moisture lost versus steak with 70 to 75 percent waste moisture. It contrasts macaroni with common vegetables listing potatoes 3565 calories and other produce with lower energy values.
A witty line contrasts a man’s claim of success due to his wife with the twist that she divorces him. The joke notes that he hustled to pay alimony, yet built the business success now seen. The quip highlights resilience and irony in personal finance.
Phillips the chiropodist is a graduate who offers foot treatment for health with emphasis on relieving tired feet that cause nervousness and other ills. See Dr. Phillip Cody for treatment if feet bother you.
Miss Eleanor T. Davies makes eleven aerophone trips over the English Channel. Catherine Delham of Philadelphia has not missed a Sunday school session in ten years. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt plans a United States, Australia, Russia and England tour opening in New York in October. Lady Shelty Douglas uses stage earnings to educate her two sons as Lorna Leslie. Fanny Crosby, blind hymn writer, is ninety four and has authored over 6,000 hymns and has been blind since infancy. Between 1847 and 1858 she taught English grammar and American history at the New York Institute for the Blind.
A collage of jokes and quips from multiple newspapers, mocking social trends and public figures. It mixes light satire about marriage, suffragettes, a shoe law and a satirical jab at a U S minister posting to Guatemala.
A collection of witty lines referencing box scores newspaper names and seafaring terms. The snippets touch on scorekeeping pranks swatting the spitter and a toast to ships named Resolute Defiance and Vanitie. This playful reminder contrasts old press art with modern costs and competition.
A collection of witty quips on public figures and leaders. Governor Goethals is called boss in one remark, Caruso commands 3000 dollar nightly influence, Carnegie’s peace pushes hint at naval plans, Edison’s holiday joy is questioned, and a pointed note on Mr. Edison’s cleverness.
Across the seas 1 200 merchant ships now carry wireless telegraphy as Ecuador plans seven wireless stations and three armed ships. Clifden tests claim 145 words per minute and airmen aloft can relay with observers on the ground.
A compact survey notes that present day jokes center on clothes while gowns and hats spark sensations and fears. The era’s striking dressmaker creations provoke attention and defy future style rumors.
CluReading reveals a series of threats directed at a husband by a peddler and others over a dispute. The text mentions intimidation and demands, with the tone of coercion and retaliation implied. Further readable details are fragmentary.
A fragmented line notes a man who assists others but avoids exposing himself or shame, echoing a sentiment about Henry Ward Beecher.
A New York Tribune excerpt reports: the forty to forty five year old American business man now has a lean straight physique with fuller chest and narrower hips. Open air and exercise drive the shift from the old era’s fat stomachs and portly figures to sport and motoring shaping the modern professional. The tailor notes a four inch chest increase and an eighteen inch reduction in girth since 1890.
Mrs. Rogers compares a horse's lack of knowledge of its fate while harnessed to her husband's weary response to shopping trips. The London Mail quote frames a contrast between unseen purpose and human patience amid daily chores.
Dr. Stanley Coulter recalls a Cornell student lightheartedly saying he need not speak many words as Coulter was already well known. Coulter admits he never understood what the student meant as quoted by the Indianapolis News.
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