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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
6
Poem laments lost days of youth and virtue praising old girls old boys and the tender love from mothers. The speaker recalls pastoral scenes and simple virtues, ending with wistful yearning for the good old times.
A tense departure shadows a once close friendship between two young people. The narrator recalls a strained final meeting as rumors and social pressures swirl, leaving unanswered questions about the future of their relationship and the unspoken distance between them.
A woman rereads a pile of mementos and letters after learning the man she admired has married another. She discovers a late note promising a visit that afternoon and recalls their past, ending with unresolved feelings and a faded romance.
A woman discovers a century old letter in a dictionary slip that exposes a buried confession of love. She grapples with why a living story was entrusted to a dead tongue and sorrows over unread words. The Philadelphia Item notes the dramatic moment.
A curious wartime anecdote links Gen. Gallifet then aide to Napoleon III to a famed carp poaching incident. He secretly fished the imperial pond, hauled the fish through a window, toppled a globe and vase, hid the carp in bed, and faced the Emperor who later smiled at the mishap.
The armless Belgian artist Charles Francis Felu has died at age about seventy. He learned to pluck flowers with his feet as a child, used his toes to hold his palette and apply brushes in painting, and managed utensils with his feet throughout life.
A Philadelphia stationer offered a beggar two lead pencils at 5 cents each and promised easy resale. The beggar agreed to buy for 10 cents claiming the stationer had written a promise he could not back out on. The tale ends with the stationer planning to try similar tactics.
Mrs. John Semimerroh, 28, of a Lyndhurst area farm, sacrificed her life to save her 6-year-old son on the Long Island Railroad near Babylon. The mother pushed the boy from the tracks just as an oncoming express struck her, saving him but dying instantly. The incident followed a boarding-house scene of warmth and communal care among residents.
As a train sped along, Mrs Somme rroh died trying to shield a boy from disaster. Engineer Forbell halted the locomotive and, with crew at her side, searched for the boy. They found him unconscious but alive, carried him to a car, and rushed to Long Island City where an ambulance waited.
Miss Ida Davis, daughter of Josiah W. P. Davis of Redding California, is deeded to Rudolph Ott as if a piece of real estate. She is paired with fifteen mining claims and failure to deliver them or the chromo could forfeit $10,000. The principals treat it as business. the girl remains silent as the outcome looms.
A writer on women’s occupations links boarding houses to social permanence via the breast impulse and comforts like mustard plaster gruel and warm stoves. The New York Commercial Advertiser counters that such comforts are valued but not the sole or main reasons boarders stay.
The text remarks that constant table talk can erode mental energy after about ten years of boarding. It suggests that like any good thing, excessive repetition wears down the mind.
A former lightning jerker recalls how telegraph operators form vivid mental pictures of colleagues unseen by sight. He narrates meeting C D in Pittsburg and discovering the real person differed greatly from his imagined 20 year old, with a jovial face and mustache. The moment ended their prior banter and left him humbled.
A Memphis Scimitar note says a boy’s etiquette may not fit polite society yet serves his aim. Two chubby lads walk with a stranger who introduces them. Ned Bright and Tom Brown meet, exchange greetings, and then wrestle in the dust in friendly play.
A wry saying notes a clever person avoids serving oleomargarine before a country guest woman. It also remarks on how a boy feels superior when another boy earns a scolding.
Pere Scheil announces a Babylonian deluge fragment from Sippara dated to Ammin-zaduga around 2140 B C. The tablet suggests a pre Moses poetic deluge, with a Sippara edition and multiple versions from Surippak, Berosus, and Smith. The find confirms widespread ancient familiarity with the flood tale across Mesopotamia and neighboring regions.
Ainslee's Magazine notes Pacific islands offer a wide range of crops from Argentina wheat to Guiana pepper. The writer surveys what grows there, highlighting diverse yields and exotic products encountered across the Orient islands.
Polish inventor Joan Curzon built a complete working watch in eight hours from scraps sent by the Czar including copper nails wood chippings glass and cribbage pegs. The china case housed workings that kept good time needing winding only every few days. The Czar honored him with distinctions and a pension. the watch remains in a Russian family.
Observers in Mexico claim the Mexican laborer shows remarkable independence. The tropics peon works mainly for plantation owners as a matter of accommodation, seeking advance funds for fiestas before months of toil. He requires little beyond food, a hut, and cotton cloth, with ample land and resources for subsistence.
A Philadelphia pawnbroker, suffering from a severe illness, fears death and gloomily tells his assistant he would prefer to be wrapped and placed on a shelf with a tag. The story, mirroring a common town sentiment, circulates as a characteristic local anecdote.
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