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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1911
Page
7
An editorial urges creating and expanding school gardens to keep boys off streets, arguing gardens blend play and work, teach usefulness, and build character. It notes current education favors college paths over mass schooling and suggests neighbors, families, and schools collaborate to start summer garden projects.
Winter baseball notes discuss Harry Lordie captaining the Chicago Americans and Patsy Flaherty getting a southbound chance with Brooklyn. Jiggs Donohue eyes a return, Cy Young may pitch weekly, and minor leagues report growth to 53 leagues with over 10,000 players. A farming accident case and a veterinary fix are described. Heavy moisture across the Mississippi valley promises wheat crops and irrigation water in arid regions.
The article notes a Philadelphia public playground named Happy Hollow donated by Mr and Mrs KE W Clark Jr to the Playgrounds association. It features wading pools and a playhouse, valued at over $100,000, and is to be forever used for play and kept open to the public.
An article in the Agricultural Southwest questions whether buying exchanges can supplant jobbing houses and wholesale establishments. It argues exchanges would not improve distribution, since manufacturers cannot supervise scattered depots and exchanges cannot stock across key points. It also notes some stores pool purchasing, but maintains the traditional system from manufacturer to jobber to retailer remains more economical and established.
A brief item notes the proverb live up in nature with the early worm falling to the first bird as a simple example of predation. The line hints at a favored position for early risers in a cycle of life and survival.
The ad lists dental prices with gold crowns at five dollars and gold inlays at three dollars, plus platinum and cement fillings from fifty cents up, published opposite Hayes and Hayes Bank in Aberdeen, Washington.
Mayor William S Jordan of Jacksonville Florida urges a city ordinance requiring washers to register with the city recorder as a sanitary measure to prevent disease and protect clothing from loss. The plan targets public health and consumer protection in home laundering.
H B Hinton files a tax lien foreclosure suit against Mary Ann Chamberlain and unknown claimants for Lot 12 in Block 82 Westport Peach Chehalis County Washington. The certificate of delinquency 3818 totals the 1905 1907 taxes plus 15 percent interest and costs, with a May 4 1911 first publication and June 8 1911 last publication.
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