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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1898
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a ballonist and figures about tonnage and a pit, with stray references to places like Oregon and Baker. The text is garbled and hard to parse, but hints at a public notice or report involving scientific or technical details and possible measurements.
A lyrical piece describes stars blinking at night and children dreaming by day. It contrasts nighttime light with daylight rest, then follows the sunlit growth of plants and the frosty world of Jack Frost. The poem ends with children praying and sleeping as the Dream man arrives.
In a Mexican garrison an accused Private Santiago Moreno faces a court martial and death by firing squad for manslaughter. Aiding his doomed fate, his sweetheart Panchita and a priest try to change the plan, but at dawn on the plains of San Geronimo the sentence is carried out with a deadly volley. The next evening Moreno returns, pale and grief-stricken, cradling a woman's dead body in his arms.
An article discusses The Steerage of To day by H H Whitmarsh noting class tensions aboard a steamer with crude slang and xenophobic remarks. The piece also reports on steel measuring tapes used in bridge and railroad work, noting lengths from three to 1600 feet and joining of two 1000-foot tapes for long measurements.
The article notes early printers used single sided pages and pasted two blanks to mimic a leaf. It also states a curious claim that sea salt could cover 7,000 square miles of land to a depth of one mile.
A pasted miscellany includes an open letter defending the Castoria trademark by Samuel Pitcher, M.D., a bogus health claim about comet temperatures, a Toledo dealer affidavit for Hall's Catarrh Cure, and assorted antiquated snippets about pirates, geography, and ancient customs.
A period of life changes is described with hot flashes and nervous symptoms. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is promoted as relief. Mrs DeL la Watson of Cincinnati testifies the remedy offered life relief during the change of life.
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