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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
3
The Apache National Forest supervisor in Springerville Arizona issues a precautions letter for forest resource users as camping season approaches. It urges careful campfires with pits, full extinguishment, mindful matches and cigarette stubs, and to avoid discarding burning items in the forest.
Quote attributed to Gladstone about idleness lacking a place in creation.
A vivid account from St. Nicholas describes a rail mill in action. A glowing ingot travels on a transfer car through four stands and a three high mill, being squeezed and reformed until it becomes a rail. The process ends with five saws cutting the heated metal into four ten yard rails.
A Philadelphia Press interpretation notes that a pacific blockade is a paradox in international law. It describes blockades of foreign ports during peace as acts of war in restraint or reprisal, though without immediate waging of war.
Chair man James Bowes announces the Splash committee will lift the lid on July 4 with land and water sports auto and motorcycle races airship flights a parade and a phytotenic display in the evening Police promise orderly fun for several thousand attendees and raffles for two cars at $1 each aim to fund the event with proceeds supporting the big celebration.
The Colosseum dates to AD 72 eight years after its start under Vespasian and Titus. Architect Gaudentius is linked, and Christian martyrs including St Ignatius of Antioch suffered there. Ninety thousand spectators could view games from arches once used for tickets while thousands of animals were slaughtered in Hadrian era celebrations.
A health warning describes prussic acid and cyanide dangers with instant fatality from inhalation or ingestion. It notes the lethal potential of mixtures and common reagents, and recounts an acid factory fire where five men perished hours after saving the building.
A Manchester Guardian correspondent notes on a fellow passenger reading a popular medical work in parts. The doctor claims the first part will cause nineteen cases of imaginary appendicitis and predicts bronchitis and Bright's disease will appear as part two is issued, with more mild ailments to follow.
The Baltimore American notes the irony that Elizabeth Browning lies apart from her husband Robert Browning who rests in Westminster Abbey. It recalls Browning’s Venice burial and her final rest in Florence with a nod to Epictetus.
In a humorous piece from the Saturday Evening Post, Irvin Cobb describes the typical Berlin diner with satiric detail. He notes multiple meals and snacks, including coffee and pastries, theater breaks to build appetite, and lengthy suppers with beer and sausage, while poking fun at the Westphalia ham and restaurant charges.
A sailor with a long red beard in Billy Emerson's heyday claimed he could sing and sought work. He swapped places with Emerson at a saloon piano and astonished the crowd with Sally In Our Alley sung by Tom Dixon, revealing the sailor was the famed minstrel tenor.
A brief antiquarian note questions Polybius in citing Hannibal wearing a wig. It suggests wigs emerged around the early emperors with Otho described as using a leather scalp and hair sacks. A garbled exchange adds a comic aside on mistaken recipes and cleaning velvet.
A landlord in Nor Bersted near Chichester created a stamp filled room as a jubilee celebration. The room uses two million stamps pasted on every surface with 1 million more in festoons and a 60 000 stamp bundle hanging. Figures like Queen Victoria and the Eiffel Tower appear in stamp form.
A playful Detroit Times snippet describes a guest asking for a cup of tea with both green and black leaves, no milk, and a humorous call for half and half. The piece closes with poetic lines about the sky and a Browning quote.
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