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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1899
Page
6
A speaker recalls a dream of trouble and struggle under a white employer. The tale centers on dancing, fear, and a fiddle that breaks as a warning of hardship, with singing, preaching, and prayer delaying the inevitable night. Strong labor and racial tensions frame the scene.
Harold Western, recovering from typhoid, forms a bond with Nurse Dimple Wade during his convalescence. He confesses affection while Violet Grant, a fellow patient, shines in the sunlight of a June veranda. Wade faces temptation between career ease and true love as Violet and Harold’s feelings grow.
A Chinese girl named Bo Yen, traveling with her mother Lam Sheng and father Chu Moy Yen, wowed passengers on a San Francisco to New York express with her quaint dress and graceful bearing. Mrs Yen, educated and English speaking, is from Hongkong. Bo, age unspecified, spoke little English but charmed all aboard with a sweet smile. They wore matching ornate silk outfits with fine embroidery. Bo wore a velvet circlet with pearl pendants and turquoise earrings, while Mrs Yen wore turquoise crescent earrings and white silk slippers.
At a county fair professor Frank Rees of Columbian University was overheard by attendees as a performer who tells fortunes from the stars at fifty cents a fee and reportedly makes almanacs with spring medicine advice earning up to fifty dollars from druggists, prompting his abrupt departure as noted by the Philadelphia Post.
A travel-hunting flatterer of noble status is thwarted by a wary host. An English gentleman, entering a theater, is misdirected by an usher who greets him with a pompous line. The man responds with a polite correction, calling himself a viscount.
In cog mines, liquefied carbonic acid is loaded into steel cylinders and released to extinguish large fires. The method uses newly demonstrated effectiveness in suppressing substantial mine blazes.
A Washington letter details attempts to defraud the U S Treasury via the redemption division with charred half notes and forged affidavits. An Alabama doctor and a Chicago traveler are traced, arrests follow, and a $25 profit proves the fraud’s folly. Also a primer lists explosives by relative power, noting gunpowder at the bottom of the scale.
Readers see frequent notes of new explosives claimed to surpass all prior compounds. The article discusses how press reports exaggerate deadly potential and cites Professor So-and-So as a frequent example of these sensational claims.
A fragmented excerpt reflects on friendship and guilt with odd wording. It mentions a literary man and quotes a line about not knowing poverty. A bizarre fact claims 4 061 muscles in a moth’s body, illustrating a surreal journalistic scatter of thoughts.
Miss Caroline Hazard, newly inaugurated president of Wellesley College, is not a college graduate though she has strong social and educational connections. Daughter of Rowland Hazard of Peacedale, she gained semi collegiate privileges at Brown University and has delivered lectures at various institutions. She is known for historical papers and literary work.
An Illinois inventor patented a canteen filter for soldiers. It fits inside the canteen and allows water to be filtered if time permits, or filled first then filtered later. The inventor claims it could cut climatic disease danger by about half.
A French expedition recounts a Yakoma slave’s sorrowful tale. He asks his father Dembassi in Ubanqui to convey that he, now a man, endures his fate with some patience yet longs for home and kin. He was sold eight times twelve moons ago to the Sango chief’s creditor and finally ends his transit fifty moons ago.
A reflective line on women and ideals, noting that a woman keeps personal grooming routines despite marital treatment. It argues against simplistic notions of women's nature, highlighting agency and varying responses to unequal treatment.
The text notes railroads expanding service and lowering rates, highlighting faster routes and enhanced travel for the middle class. It mentions new sleeping cars and tourist options on fast mail trains, improving comfort and appeal for travelers now able to afford better rail journeys.
An early 20th century readers ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming it cures catarrh by purifying blood and boosting natural defenses. It asserts testimonials support efficacy and mentions price and pharmacy endorsements.
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