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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1913
Page
8
A string of comic exchanges and anecdotes from a period column. A street car conductor named Johnson misreads a bell signal as praise and complies. A tramp tells a flood tale to a skeptical lady. A matrimonial agency gag hinges on a hammock. A love letter joke ends with page numbers signaling devotion.
A compact guide to three salad preparations using peas English walnuts and coconut. Normandy salad blends simmered peas with mint and walnuts on lettuce with mayonnaise. Cocoanut salad mixes grated coconut with peas and mayonnaise. Oyster salad uses oysters celery and mayonnaise garnished with celery tops.
The poem describes a woman whose beauty blends night and light in her eyes and face. A calm, eloquent brow and serene thoughts reveal a pure heart and innocent love, reflecting a mind at peace with all below.
A collection of quick games and moral tales for children including Conundrums on animals and a parable set titled The Nightingale and the Peacock. It presents light wordplay and social rounds with playful forfeits and storytelling challenges.
Governor William Sulzer urges labor to obey the law in its fight for fair conditions and progress. He emphasizes that no person or group is above the law and that both capital and labor must respect lawful authority.
A brief dialogue fragment shows a question about whether jam is desired, asking if it should be served at the supper table or in trolley cars. The exchange hints at social customs or manners in everyday life.
The verse opens with a stormy sky and rugged coast as the speaker resolves not to tempt the sea. A panther clings to a limb while the son’s whelps play, and a ship crosses safely. Hunters return from a chase as an earthquake swallows a rock-bound town.
A brief comic exchange shows a dare challenge stirring momentary tension between a man and a woman inside the New York Sun office. The scene captures a snap judgment moment in a lively newsroom setting.
Mrs. Jane C. Rich of New York celebrates her 100th birthday. Mme. Mathilde Cottrelly, still active, was a Berlin child actress fifty years ago. Miss Jennie Sloan, a blind St. Louis resident, sent a special broom to the White House. Mrs. F E Harriman offers three medals annually for railway safety innovations. Mile. Helene Dutrieu is the first woman aviator awarded the Legion of Honor and remains a leading figure. Miss Ethel Sargent becomes president of the British botanical section, researching monocot seedling anatomy.
Oliver Onions emerges as a gifted English realist fiction writer. Edwin Lutyens, newly elected associate of the Royal Academy, is a London native and renowned architect. Joseph Limburg, praised for daring sculpture, spurned designing a national German monument to Heine and rose to fame at twenty three with the Violin Player in Berlin.
A string of newspaper quips comments on cubist and futurist art. The Cleveland Plain Dealer mocks future themes while the New York World accuses young designers of copying cubists. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes a nationwide exhibit and links it to Congress banning absinthe imports.
The text notes 800,000 women employed in national industries and US lime production valued at 14 million dollars yearly. It cites a grim record of 30,000 industrial deaths and 500,000 serious injuries annually, plus French mill liners earning 3 to 7 cents per hour. It also mentions 735 US coal mines producing over two hundred thousand tons annually.
Science Siftings reports a French scientist has perfected a microscope using X rays. An English engineer distills nearly seven gallons of oil from a ton of common seaweed. Dr G F Sammis of Brooklyn finds ether can be used hypodermically. Foettinger introduces a ship propulsion steam turbine driving a water turbine on the propeller shaft.
The report notes that twenty six U S states require automatic couplers and brakes on trains. A roundhouse near Chicago can house fifty eight engines. The London and Northwestern railway reports success from a grievance hearer office set up to address employee grievances.
The Simplified Spelling Board releases a new rule set while critics argue the old spelling was just as easy. The Kansas City Star notes examples like money spelled mony. The Cleveland Plain Dealer points out broader ease differences in spelling reforms.
The column mix showcases witty quips about ship Shamrock vessels and a June wedding superstition. It notes a dreamlike Pyrenean desert feature with lakes and a Noah’s ark ring, linking local tradition to a modern newspaper page.
A compact reflection on how nations birth great minds and the ease of public reception. It argues that adapting a work to human nature matters more than social status and that enduring beauty versus temporary charm define artistic merit. Quoted insight from Joubert emphasizes fixed rules and the limits of novelty.
The timetable shows departures and arrivals among Aberdeen Tacoma and Seattle. It lists outbound times from Aberdeen at 8:50 arriving Tacoma 12:40 and Seattle 2:00, returning trips depart Seattle at 9:45 and reach Aberdeen by 12:30 with further legs to Tacoma and Seattle before final Aberdeen arrival at 9:35.
A detailed bulk timetable lists eastbound and westbound service from Aberdeen with arrival and departure times to Portland and Seattle. It includes Train Nos 366 334 324 321 365 332 351 and 352, various stops, and through Portland coach connections to Centralia.
A compact quotation by François Rabelais on opportunity. The line notes that opportunity remains elusive after passing and cannot be recalled, describing it as bald at the back and lacking any handle to grab.
First Street near Broadway lists Sunday school at 10 and church service at 11 with a Wednesday evening service at 8. Reading room at Finch building No 331 is open daily 1 30 to 6 except Sundays. Publisher notes missed Herald delivery by 6 p m Tuesday and Friday by calling City Messenger Co at phone 72.
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