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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1913
Page
2
Local dry goods house in Aberdeen urges buyers to take advantage of summer discounts on blankets comforts sheets and spreads. New stock includes silkeline and sateen comforters wool blankets and cotton blankets with prices from 85 cents to $9.50 and emphasis on fresh goods and starch-free fabrics.
A discussion on not using full productive powers and the need to view wages as a remunerative investment. It questions reducing wages before improving leadership and methods and urges manufacturers to enhance efficiency by valuing workers’ reasoning and energy. The democratic call asks firms to examine management, equipment, and arrangements before cutting pay.
Thirteen Montesano high school seniors graduated Friday evening May 23 at the M E church. Professor Lee Emmerson Bassett of the University of Washington delivered the address titled Following False Fires, with a musical program by students.
Elma May 26. Strubel and Lancey announce a new motor truck for heavy hauling. The four cylinder, 30 horsepower vehicle can reach 15 miles per hour and haul over two tons on ordinary roads without trouble.
Sanbury man John Supsic hails the pills as the best he ever used for constipation indigestion and liver complaints. The advertisement promises prompt relief and healthier bowels with a 25 cent price and broad druggist recommendation.
The Congregational church women host a Saturday reception May 31 at 406 KE First street for Miss Minnie Mills returning to Smyrna Turkey after fifteen years in Educational Mission service. Proceeds from the reception and lace and gauze sales go to fund new school buildings in Smyrna.
The Chehalis County Pioneer Association opens membership at J. W. Himes office in Elma from June 2 to June 26 for those wishing to join and attend the basket dinner on June 27 in Elma. Mrs. Clara Belle French serves as secretary.
Hundreds of children and families in Grays Harbor can join the new cooperative piano clubs. Fifty five members may share in savings from the plan and coupons including two-for-one offers. The program aims to bring music and refinement into homes across the region.
The old British convict ship Success is touring as a museum guided by Captains D A Smith and E W Nottingham. Built nearly a century ago, its infamous voyage from England to Australia saw many prisoners die in cramped, foul cells during six month trips, a tale remembered with stark impact.
The excerpt invokes a fertile shore scene with blooming fields and nesting swallows as the sea lies calm and distant. A sailor, born by altars, is urged to venture fearlessly toward the Ionian bounds, guided by Priapus and the sea’s stability.
A homemaker shares methods for sour cream scones tea cakes and variations. Instructions cover mixing with eggs sour cream and flour shaping in rounds or triangles and baking in a hot oven with butter and milk brushed tops. Also includes raisin enriched English tea scones and serving tips.
A collage of gender remarks from George Eliot Friedrich von Schiller Mme Necker Saint-Evre mond and Joseph Addison, plus a President Wilson quip about a statistician and a Hawaiian sugar planter joke. The excerpt pairs social commentary with humor in a compact reading piece.
A verse extols a cheerful man who faces hardship with a smile and cheerful resolve. It describes his ability to brighten others, tackle work playfully, and endure fear without faltering, contrasting with pessimists. The piece closes referencing the Buffalo Express.
In a light dialogue, Dad Bill Payne recalls his math skill and discusses tracks forming an angle. A sidetrack meeting a main track sparks a joke about a wreck creating a rectangle as a pun on rec tangle.
Madeline Bridges writes of a woman whose repeated smiles and laughter reveal a subtle shift in love. The speaker notices Her ways as strange yet finds the emotion grows into shared affection, ending with tears that mirror the longing and release of an intimate bond.
Jonah notes a potential disagreement with the whale as it swallows him. The whale doubts the dispute will trouble theologians once they discuss the incident.
A playful exchange features a mother scolding a small boy for coarse language and the boy cheekily replying that such language was heard on the day he was born. The dialogue captures lighthearted streetwise charm from the era.
The Vance Lumber Company has purchased the Einfield homestead on Fords Prairie and will establish a logging camp there soon. It owns substantial timber in the area and plans to log it, shipping most of it to the Harbor on the Milwaukee. The Herald is Chehalis County’s most read paper.
In Monte sano May 26 D W Fleet earned the Post-Intelligencer medal at the nineteenth annual trap shooting tournament of the State Sportsmen Association held in Wenatchee. Fleet broke all 25 targets for the highest possible score and adds to a longstanding record as a skilled marksman and sportsman.
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