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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1903
Page
4
The Aberdeen Herald touts the paper as the oldest on Grays Harbor with a large Chehalis County circulation. It lists subscription rates and discounts for advance payments and warns that advertising contracts may be voided if the circulation claim is not absolutely true.
The Milwaukee News accuses the Charles Emory Smith era of post office reforms of masking corruption and frauds. It claims second class mailing privileges were misused and that high officials knew and hid the schemes. The piece links postal loot in Cuba to domestic plunder and questions the reform agenda.
The exchange notes Western Investments asking where Colorado hustlers should relocate to on the Coast. Seattle and Washington cities are offered as hustling hubs. The text also covers Trustee Baer’s Interstate Commerce Commission testimony on coal price rigidity and profits.
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor argues for organizing employers as well as workers. He says joint organization could reduce friction, prevent conflicts, and improve business by aligning demands between labor and management. He cautions against alarm over rising demands.
The Cleveland presidency push collapses after quick initial buzz in elite editorials and scattered echoes in provincial papers. The literary bureau wanes and the supposed popular uprising for four more years of Grover Cleveland sinks into a dull retreat.
City council chamber hosts the Glorious Fourth committee meeting. N G Kaufman reports 300 subscribed with potential to raise 1000 more for a celebratory program. Multiple subcommittees are formed including Executive and Finance, Decorations, Parade, Sports, Advertising, Transportation, Exercises, Reception, and Music with designated chairmen and members.
The Aberdeen post office advertises nine uncalled letters for the week ending May 19 1903 including Aris Lambert Allen D Hloomuist Charley Carlson Lina English J KR 3 Hopkins Albert Jordan M Lammey Ernest Morrison G L Newcomb H H Price Jack Seiderl Ira Swanson William Utterback Duglass Wallace John. Also ads for R P Campset and Standard Furniture Co with a furniture catalogue offer and a cough remedy promotion in the issue of The Semi-Weekly Herald priced at $1.50 annually.
The Amateur Dramatic Club presents the domestic comedy An Unequal Match directed by Mortimer Martini. Cast features Matel McKinlay Minnie Jones Alle G Quackenbush Ray Shields Phil S Locke George Nye Harry Weatherwax Fred Hart. Plot follows Armcliffe and Hester as social expectations clash with love and disguise.
At the chamber of commerce meeting E B Benn reported waivers for the Montesano outlet right of way are satisfactory and the committee will seek county approval on June 1. The shed over the Hepsinger log near the depot will cost 80 dollars with Carter to build it. A tracing bill of five dollars was sent to the county.
Mr HU P Burbage, a Greenville law student, suffered a four to five year cough that alarmed him he might have consumption. He tried Chamberlains Cough Remedy after seeing an advertisement and reports a remarkable change after using two bottles of the twenty five cent size resulting in permanent cure. Sold by all druggists.
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